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Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist by Donald P. Ryan 9780061732836
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061732836Author Donald P. RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 230g -
Magnus Maximus: The Neglected Roman Emperor and his British Legacy by Maxwell Craven
RRP: £25.00£16.43This is an in-depth re-assessment of the life of Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor ruling in the west from 383 to 388, drawn from Classical sources and archaeology, which provides a very different impression of his life to the one created by the post-Roman... -
Sparta: Beyond the Mirage by Anton Powell
RRP: £25.00£23.78The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks... -
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (World of Art) by T. H. Carpenter
RRP: £16.99£11.94The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources - vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone - often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or... -
How Compassion Made Us Human: An Archaeology of Stone Age Sentiment by Penny Spikins 9781781593103
RRP: £19.99£14.68Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant in today's competitive societies. However, in this volume Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart of what makes us... -
The Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome: A Guide to the Classical Pantheon by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £30.00£20.40The essential illustrated guide to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome, vividly retelling their stories and exploring their origins. Who were the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome? What did they mean to the people who... -
The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles by Robert Knapp
RRP: £12.99£9.09Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world became susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging exploration of... -
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
£19.04A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy "A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won't see Cleopatra the same way again."-Publishers Weekly "Where Prose really... -
Rome and the Third Macedonian War by Paul J. Burton
RRP: £30.99£19.99This is the first full-length study of the final war between Rome and the ancient Macedonian monarchy and its last king, Perseus. The Roman victory at the Battle of Pydna in June 168 BC was followed by the abolition of the kingdom of Macedon - the cradle... -
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx by Dr. Jerry Toner
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The Times Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before... -
Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines: Translated with introduction and notes by Richard Bett 9780198712701
£76.20Against Those in the Disciplines (Pros Mathematikous, also known by the abbreviated title M 1-6) deals with six specialized fields of study: grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, and music. In sceptical fashion, it questions the credentials... -
The Last Greek by Christian Cameron
RRP: £9.99£6.80Few writers are better at conjuring up a vision of Ancient Greece' THE TIMES* * * * * * *210BCE.The most powerful empires in the world brawl over the spoils of a declawed Greece.Philopoemen has a vision to end the chaos and anarchy that consumes his... -
The Gospel of Domitilla: Did the emperor's niece write Luke? by S.P. Laurie 9781912029679
£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912029679Author S.P. LaurieFormat PaperbackImprint HypostasisPublisher Hypostasis -
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction by Eric H. Cline
RRP: £8.99£6.45Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has given rise to countless scholarly articles and... -
Nubia: Lost Civilizations by Sarah Schellinger 9781789146592
RRP: £18.00£12.96Nubia, the often overlooked southern neighbour of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians' religious, social, economic and cultural histories, from their nomadic origins during the... -
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' David Wengrow'Utterly original' Paul StrathernWhen it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and... -
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs 9781838950514
RRP: £20.00£18.02'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' David Wengrow'Utterly original' Paul StrathernWhen it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE by Margreet L. Steiner
£41.09This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Levant as used here is a historical... -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: £16.99£13.65A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents... -
Greek Homosexuality: with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson by Sir Kenneth J. Dover
RRP: £34.99£30.94Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient... -
Saviour of Rome: (Gaius Valerius Verrens 7) by Douglas Jackson
RRP: £10.99£7.77A gripping and breath-taking novel of Roman adventure from bestselling author Douglas Jackson. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane.Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens! "Spellbinding" - 5 STARS"I didn't want to come to the end, some... -
Athens: City of Wisdom Bruce Clark 9781788548144
RRP: £25.00£22.79A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul... -
Rome and the Mediterranean: The History of Rome from its Foundation by Livy 9780140443189
RRP: £16.99£12.28Books XXXI to XLV cover the years from 201 b.c. to 167 b.c., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean.About the AuthorTitus Livius (59BC-AD17) began working on his History of Rome at the age of 30 and continued for over 40 years until his death. ... -
Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: Essay on the Constitutive Imagination by Paul Veyne 9780226854342
RRP: £23.00£22.13"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is built up and changes over the centuries. . . . The... -
The Invention of God by Thomas Romer 9780674504974
RRP: £35.95£29.36Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Roemer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms-Yhwh, God, or Allah-by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period... -
The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136: The last Jewish revolt against Imperial Rome Lindsay Powell 9781472817983
RRP: £16.99£12.28In AD 132, Shim'on Ben Koseba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Shim'on Bar Kokhba ('Son of a Star'), led the people of Judaea in open rebellion, aiming to establish their own independent Jewish state and to liberate Jerusalem from the... -
Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History by Francesca Romana Berno
RRP: £98.00£88.71In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
RRP: £34.99£28.78This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the... -
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.99£8.56Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble man was put to death in... -
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by Martin Goodman
RRP: £18.99£13.61In Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, Martin Goodman explores the history of a titanic struggle whose repercussions are still felt today. In 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of... -
De Rerum Natura: Bk.1 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780862920760
£32.28This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time the... -
The Gladiators: History's Most Deadly Sport by Fik Meijer 9780312364021
RRP: £12.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312364021Author Fik MeijerFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363g -
When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen
RRP: £14.99£13.03A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one of the world's leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's... -
The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist by Margaret C. Jones 9781350293953
RRP: £15.99£14.28In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated... -
Roman History, Volume II by Appian
RRP: £24.95£23.39Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction... -
The Art of the Roman Empire: AD 100-450 by Jas Elsner 9780198768630
RRP: £23.49£17.01The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the... -
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £17.50£13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756771Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld 9780520397392
RRP: £25.00£19.59Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away,... -
Rudens by Titus Maccius Plautus 9780862920630
£26.43This title contains the full text of Plautus's Rudens, supplemented with an Introduction, extensive vocabulary and detailed textual notes.Book InformationISBN 9780862920630Author Titus Maccius PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bristol... -
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £24.99£22.07The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient...