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The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice by Marcia Williams 9781406354553
RRP: £8.99£6.55With her signature comic-strip style, Marcia WIlliams takes us behind the scenes at some of ancient Rome's most famous moments.Meet Dormeo: gladiator, dormouse, berry-nibbler, and guide to ancient Rome. He'll take you on a tour of Rome's most famous... -
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
RRP: £38.00£30.41A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to... -
The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
RRP: £20.00£15.04The world of the Roman Republic and Empire is still very much with us, alive and a key companion as we negotiate the trials and tribulations of modern life. We don't just walk in the footsteps of Romans great and small; we walk side by side with them.At... -
A New History of Early Christianity by Charles Freeman
RRP: £12.99£11.46This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early... -
Greek and Roman Political Ideas: A Pelican Introduction by Melissa Lane
RRP: £10.99£7.77Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans?How should we exercise power?Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where... -
The Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity by Edward J. Watts
RRP: £25.00£19.59A compelling history of radical transformation in the fourth-century--when Christianity decimated the practices of traditional pagan religion in the Roman Empire.The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the... -
The Greeks: Lost Civilizations by Philip Matyszak 9781780239002
RRP: £18.00£12.96This is ancient Greece - but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East, and that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas. This book tells the story of the Greeks outside... -
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca 9780486811246
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486811246Author Lucius SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Celtic Wales by Miranda Aldhouse-Green 9781786830425
RRP: £11.99£9.00Celtic Wales is about the beginnings of Wales and how the period from the Iron Age to medieval times helped shape and define the modern nation of Wales. Early Wales has a spectacular archaeological, literary and mythical heritage. This book uses... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: £14.99£11.44Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous-and massive-Lives, including politicians... -
The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human by Julia Kindt 9781009411387
RRP: £25.00£18.02What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our... -
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom by James Romm
RRP: £29.00£18.31From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes-and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit... -
Myths of Enki, The Crafty God by Samuel Noah Kramer 9781725282896
RRP: £28.00£20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725282896Author Samuel Noah KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons
RRP: £9.99£5.96How an ancient rubbish dump has given us a unique view of life 2,000 years agoIn 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a mound south of Cairo. Ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £24.95£23.39Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
RRP: £42.00£33.44Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up... -
The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC by J. G. Manning
£36.01The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs... -
Ancient Battle Formations by Justin Swanton 9781526740069
RRP: £25.00£18.02Justin Swanton examines the principal battle-winning formations of the Ancient world, determining their composition, function and efficacy. An introductory chapter looks at the fundamental components of the principal battle formations of heavy and light... -
Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson
RRP: £29.99£24.56Nefertiti's current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was actively written out of history soon after her own death. This book explores what we can reconstruct of the life of the... -
Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
RRP: £24.00£21.18This best-selling translation of Hesiod's the Theogony, the Works and Days, and the Shield has been updated into the most indispensable edition yet for students of Greek mythology and literature.Next to the works of Homer, Hesiod's poems are foundational... -
Wroxeter: Life & Death of a Roman City by Roger White 9780752414096
RRP: £17.99£13.64The 'Old Work', the largest fragment of a Roman civilian building still standing in Britain, is a spectacular landmark which points to the site of Wroxeter Roman City, between medieval Shrewsbury and modern Telford. In its prime the city was the fourth... -
Hesiod: The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780472081615
£18.05Epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian.About the AuthorRichmond Lattimore (1906-1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.ReviewsRichmond Lattimore is a fine translator of... -
The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist by Niall Sharples
RRP: £35.00£32.23This book explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist. It reports in detail on the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. There is important evidence for craft activity, such as bone... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2021-2023 Simon Allcock (Head of Classics & Humanities, Wellington College, UK) 9781350060425
RRP: £29.99£27.25PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect. An errata slip has been included. ----- ... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume Iv: Sophists by Glenn W. Most
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Long Barrows of the Cotswolds and Surrounding Areas by Tim Darvill 9780752429076
RRP: £25.00£13.49Long barrows with their massive tapering mounds and hidden burial chambers, bear witness to the architectural proficiency of our ancestors. Built by early farming communities between 4000 and 3000 BC, they form part of Western Europe's earliest surviving... -
Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine by Caroline Cheung 9780691243009
RRP: £45.00£38.39The story of the Roman Empire’s enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possibleThe average resident of ancient Rome drank two-hundred-and-fifty liters of wine a year, almost a bottle a day,... -
The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids Bill Manley 9780500298077
RRP: £12.99£8.60A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching of Ptahhatp, composed two millennia before the birth of Plato, is the oldest surviving statement of... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld Sandro Vannini 9783836571463
RRP: £50.00£38.12Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed... -
Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation: An Introduction to Iconology, Semiotics and Image Studies in Classical Art History by Katharina Lorenz
RRP: £23.99£20.77When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic... -
Rome's Italian Wars: Books 6-10 by Livy
RRP: £12.99£9.09'People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.' So Livy characterizes Papirius Cursor, one of Rome's famous generals in the fourth century BC. In Books 6 to 10 of his monumental... -
Cicero, Pro Cluentio: A Selection Matthew Barr (Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, UK) 9781350060340
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Pro Cluentio, sections 1-7 and 10-11, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 27-32 and 35-37, giving full Latin text,... -
The Perdiccas Years, 323 320 BC by Hughes, Tristan 9781526775115
RRP: £25.00£18.62At around 4.00pm 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Surrounding the king's deathbed were his highest subordinates: young,... -
Zama 202 BC: Scipio crushes Hannibal in North Africa Mir Bahmanyar 9781472814210
RRP: £16.99£14.10The battle of Zama, fought across North Africa around 202 BC, was the final large-scale clash of arms between the world's two greatest western powers of the time - Carthage and Rome. The engagement ended the Second Punic War, waged from 218 until 201 BC... -
The Life of Alexander the Great Plutarch 9780812971330
RRP: £9.99£7.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971330Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by Polly Low
RRP: £29.99£26.34Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted... -
Homer: The Odyssey by Jasper Griffin
RRP: £19.99£17.13This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be introduced to the world in that the Odyssey was produced, to the text itself and to its origins in oral... -
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David
RRP: £16.99£12.28The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into their religious beliefs and practices, from 5000 BC to the 4th century AD,... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard 9780520277168
RRP: £25.00£19.07What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing...