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Letters to Atticus: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
$45.61The 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... -
Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire by David J. Mattingly
RRP: $87.65$74.26Between 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... -
Hygiene, Volume I: Books 1-4 by Galen
$45.61Antiquity'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... -
Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror by Jackson, Nicholas 9781784387075
RRP: $74.00$44.83Until 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... -
Philosophy of Epicurus by ,George,K. Strodach
RRP: $19.48$12.50Apologies 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: $33.13$23.95This 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: $48.75$32.72It 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... -
The Ptolemies, Rise of a Dynasty: Ptolemaic Egypt 330 246 BC by Grainger, John D 9781399090223
RRP: $48.75$35.14In 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... -
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $46.80$39.86The dramatic story of Rome's first emperor, who plunged into Rome's violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire Caesar Augustus' story, one of the most riveting... -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
$26.62A 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... -
The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
$29.33The 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... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: $58.48$51.95This 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: $72.13$63.43While 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: $17.53$12.58Their 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: $48.75$34.36Publius 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... -
Wroxeter: Life & Death of a Roman City by Roger White 9780752414096
$26.60The '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... -
Great Battles of the Early Roman Empire by Simon Elliott 9781399069830
RRP: $42.90$30.46Dr Simon Elliott describes eight of the greatest, most decisive of the Roman Empire of the first to third centuries. The list includes battles fought from the highlands of Scotland and the forests of Germany to the deserts of the Middle East. They show... -
Athenian Trireme vs Persian Trireme: The Graeco-Persian Wars 499-449 BC by Nic Fields
RRP: $29.23$21.35A fascinating and detailed exploration of one of the most famous warships of the Ancient world - the trireme - and its tactical employment by the opposing sides in the 5th-century BC Graeco-Persian Wars. You may be familiar with the Athenian trireme -... -
The Civil War by Lucan
$45.61Epic 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... -
The Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: $17.53$12.58'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them.' The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life... -
Roman Southwark - Settlement and Economy by Carrie Cowan 9781901992786
RRP: $54.50$52.55This report presents an overview of Roman urban development in London south of the Thames. The establishment of the Roman bridge and the first approach roads and landing places, made Southwark an ideal location for the development of facilities for... -
Roman Conquests: North Africa by Nic Fields 9781844159703
RRP: $38.98$27.85The third in the Roman Conquests series briefly covers Rome's first forays into the dark continent during the First and Second Punic Wars, then covers in detail her vindictive final conquest and destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War. The... -
Sallust's Bellum Catilinae by J. T. Ramsey
$52.36In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, after two electoral defeats, made himself the leader of a... -
Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts
RRP: $44.75$31.69Cunning, seductive, monstrous, virtuous - whether in divine or mortal form, women shape the foundations of ancient Greek mythology, but have long been eclipsed by their male counterparts. Now, it's time for their stories to be told.Heroines of Olympus... -
Atlantis and Lemuria: History and Civilization by Rudolf Steiner 9781609425791
$29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609425791Author Rudolf SteinerFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Publisher Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire by Jerome Carcopino
RRP: $25.33$17.73In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins by painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural and religious aspects of the community are drawn. He enlarges on the details of everyday life, following the typical routine of a... -
Letters of Pliny: A Selection by Carl Hope
RRP: $25.33$23.13This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.9; 3.16; 4.2; 4.19; 8.8; 8.16; 8.17; 9.6, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the... -
Britannia Surveyed: New light on early Roman Britain through the work of military surveyors by Robert Entwistle 9781910238172
$37.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910238172Author Robert EntwistleFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The Armatura PressPublisher The Armatura PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman 9780062565259
RRP: $37.03$25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062565259Author Richard Elliott FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook by Barbara Levick
RRP: $74.08$65.09This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration... -
Magic in the Ancient Greek World by Derek Collins
RRP: $58.40$51.89Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece. Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets, and... -
The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green
$41.07This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire... -
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 Ce by Robin Fleming
$68.97Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of... -
Statius: Silvae Book II by P. Papinius Statius
RRP: $140.38$123.44With the exception of a poem on the unscripted death of a lion in the Colosseum, Book II of Statius' Silvae is largely domestic in theme. It reflects the more private side of Roman culture, its pleasures, houses, gardens, friendships, and personal... -
The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume 1: Search, Discovery and Clearance of the Antechamber by Howard Carter
RRP: $46.78$40.83The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian King Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in... -
The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628 by Geoffrey Greatrex
RRP: $105.28$91.40Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in... -
Virgil: Aeneid Book XI by Scott McGill 9781107416789
RRP: $44.83$39.21Virgil's Aeneid XI is an important, yet sometimes overlooked, book which covers the funerals following the fierce fighting in Book X and a council of the Latins before they and the Trojans resume battle after the end of the truce. This edition contains a... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
$51.36In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Since its discovery, scholars relying on direct... -
The Little Book of Kent by Alex Tulloch 9780752458342
$22.52The Little Book of Kent is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric... -
The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: $53.63$44.64An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a...