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Achilles the Hero: Epic and Legendary Leaders by Eirene Allen, PhD
RRP: £6.99£5.31With a new introduction, this life of the warrior leader Achilles focuses on the ten-year siege of Troy, but also gathers accounts of the early life of Achilles as portrayed by authors from classical times through to late Antiquity and the modern era. It... -
Hesiod: The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780472081615
£17.73Epic 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 First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art by Michel Lorblanchet
RRP: £19.95£13.00Where do we find the world's very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creating art? Prehistorians have been asking these questions... -
Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction by Penelope Wilson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years; used as monumental art, as a means of identifying Egyptianness, and for... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2021-2023 by Simon Allcock
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. ----- ... -
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185 by John Carr 9781526702296
£27.65The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with the extremely able Alexios I, and unable now to count on help from the West,... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld by 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... -
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson 9780500288160
RRP: £24.95£17.35Beginning with the stories of three great decipherments - Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Linear B and Mayan glyphs - Lost Languages moves on to dissect the most well-known and enigmatic undeciphered scripts from around the world. These include the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus by Carolyn Dewald
RRP: £30.99£28.78Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century... -
Cicero, Pro Cluentio: A Selection by Matthew Barr
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,... -
Before Atlantis: 20 Million Years of Human and Pre-Human Cultures by Frank Joseph 9781591431572
RRP: £16.99£11.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity by Maia Kotrosits
RRP: £26.00£24.85Our lives are filled with objects-ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a... -
Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion by Thomas Nail
RRP: £21.99£17.97The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the last 40 yearsThomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive... -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £16.99£13.81Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the... -
Homer: The Odyssey by Jasper Griffin
RRP: £19.99£18.09This 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... -
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... -
Herodotus and the Question Why by Christopher Pelling
RRP: £49.00£42.20In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
Hunter-Gatherer Ireland: Making connections in an island world by Graeme Warren 9781789256819
RRP: £19.95£16.40Explores the Irish Mesolithic - the period after the end of the last Ice Age when Ireland was home to hunter-gatherer communities, mostly from about 10,000-6,000 years ago. At this time, Ireland was an island world, with striking similarities and... -
Hygiene, Volume I: Books 1-4 by Galen
RRP: £24.95£22.92Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian, theoretician, and practitioner who wrote... -
Roman Roads: New Evidence - New Perspectives by Anne Kolb 9783110763348
RRP: £26.50£22.11This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical and archaeological perspective. The focus is on the diverse local histories and the varying degrees of significance of individual... -
Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror by Jackson, Nicholas 9781784387075
RRP: £25.00£17.62Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general reader. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history, featuring comprehensive maps and photographs to help... -
The Dissociative Mind by Elizabeth F. Howell 9780881634952
RRP: £42.99£37.59Drawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of the dissociative mind. Dissociation, for her, suffuses everyday life; it is a... -
The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
RRP: £20.00£14.71The 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... -
Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire by David J. Mattingly
RRP: £38.95£37.55Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire challenges orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman domination. It presents a new framework for understanding this and other territories incorporated in the Roman empire. Based on decades of... -
Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780471686132
£13.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471686132Author Stephen Dando-CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Wroxeter: Life & Death of a Roman City by Roger White 9780752414096
RRP: £17.99£13.33The '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... -
The upper Walbrook valley cemetery of Roman London by Chiz Harward 9781907586255
RRP: £25.00£21.30Six excavations (1987-2007) at Finsbury Circus on the north side of the City of London uncovered over 130 Romano-British burials, part of the upper Walbrook cemetery, to the west of the better-known `northern' cemetery (around Bishopsgate). Set within... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £24.95£22.92Epic 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... -
Reach of Rome: A Journey Through the Lands of the Ancient Empire, Following a Coin by Alberto Angela
RRP: £16.95£14.48In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by... -
Philosophy of Epicurus by ,George,K. Strodach
RRP: £9.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486833033Author George K StrodachFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel
RRP: £16.99£12.28This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate... -
Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
RRP: £25.00£16.78It is time for a new book about bog bodies: the number of known bodies is growing. Lindow Man, the famous 'Pete Marsh' discovered in Cheshire in the 1980s, has been joined by new finds from Ireland and elsewhere. Who were these unfortunate people, and... -
An early Roman fort and urban development on Londinium's eastern hill by Lesley Dunwoodie 9781907586323
RRP: £30.00£25.17Excavation in 1997-2003 produced important new evidence for the development of Roman London. The site lay north-east of the bridge, towards the edge of the early town. Sparse commercial and domestic ribbon development here alongside early roads was ended... -
The Ptolemies, Rise of a Dynasty: Ptolemaic Egypt 330 246 BC by Grainger, John D 9781399090223
RRP: £25.00£18.02In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great's death. Egypt had been independent for most of the fourth century BC, but was... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: £29.99£26.64This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her... -
The History of Zonaras: From Alexander Severus to the Death of Theodosius the Great by Thomas Banchich
RRP: £36.99£32.53While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where his sources... -
Masters of Rome by Simon Turney
RRP: £8.99£6.45Their rivalry will change the world forever. As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of empire, battered by... -
Publius Quinctilius Varus: The Man Who Lost Three Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster by Joanne Ball 9781399088329
RRP: £25.00£17.62Publius Quinctilius Varus is famous as the incompetent commander duped into an ambush that wiped out three legions in one of the most humiliating defeats in Roman history. Yet this is the first full length biography of the man. Dr Joanne Ball revisits...