Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Roman History, Volume I 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... -
Xerxes: A Persian Life by Richard Stoneman
RRP: £25.00£21.32The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at... -
Roman Britain's Pirate King: Carausius, Constantius Chlorus and the Fourth Roman Invasion of Britain by Elliott, Simon 9781399094368
RRP: £22.00£14.31In the mid-3rd century AD Roman Britain's regional fleet, the Classis Britannica, disappeared. It was never to return. Soon the North Sea and English Channel were over-run by Germanic pirates preying upon the east and south coast of Britain, and the... -
Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century Professor Richard Hingley (Durham University, UK) 9781350047297
RRP: £28.99£26.22*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to... -
Cicero and Rome by David Taylor 9781853995064
RRP: £19.99£19.04In "Cicero and Rome", David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for examination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces the often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla (82 BC) to Cicero's own death in the... -
Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth by John G Jackson 9781603867320
£5.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603867320Author John G JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm)... -
Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley 9780140175967
RRP: £15.99£11.61In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners... -
Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome by Lesley Adkins
RRP: £23.49£17.87This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, including information that is hard to find and even harder to decipher. Clear, authoritative, and highly organized, Handbook to Life... -
Olympia: A Cultural History by Professor Judith M. Barringer
RRP: £35.00£27.74A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient... -
The Frontiers of Imperial Rome by Breeze, David J 9781526760807
RRP: £14.99£11.61At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen with borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to the sun-scorched Nubian desert in the south. But how were the vast and varied stretches of frontier defined... -
The Caudine Forks 321 BC: Rome's most humiliating defeat by Nic Fields
RRP: £15.99£11.61In its long history, the Roman Republic suffered many defeats, but none as humiliating as the Caudine Forks in the summer of 321 BC. Rome had been at war with the Samnites - one of early Rome's most formidable foes - since 326 BC in what would turn out... -
Augustus: The Biography by Jochen Bleicken
RRP: £18.99£13.61'Masterful ... a breathtaking panorama of Roman politics at a crucial turning point in history' Simon J. V. Malloch, Literary ReviewHe was named son and heir by a murdered dictator. He came to Rome with nothing, surrounded by ruthless enemies. Yet... -
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy Joyce Tyldesley 9781472289865
RRP: £12.99£8.60Pharaoh.Icon.Enigma.Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century.A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery: a near-complete royal burial, an ancient mummy, and golden riches beyond... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece Robin Waterfield (Writer and translator) 9780199656462
RRP: £22.99£16.68The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and... -
Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome by Vivian Nutton
RRP: £33.99£30.00This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his activities and ideas as a doctor and intellectual, as well as his reception in later centuries. Nutton's wide-ranging study surveys Galen's early life and medical... -
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion by Thorkild Jacobsen
RRP: £25.00£23.94A recreation of the spiritual life of ancient Mesopotamia demonstrating that the roots of Western civilization lie in the ancient Near East"A brilliant presentation of Mesopotamian religion from the inside, backed at every point by meticulous scholarship... -
Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond by Natalie N. May
£13.52The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute April 8-9, 2011. The purpose of the... -
Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt: Awakening the Healing Power of the Heart by Nicki Scully 9781591430681
RRP: £15.99£12.15In Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt, Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf renew humanity's connection to the ancient gods of Egypt, the neteru. Voices from these divine ancestors remind us of the healing power of the heart, and call us to bring their... -
Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers 2: AD 192-500 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Late Roman Empire was a period of significant change in the designs of standards and in the costumes of standard-bearers. During the middle decades of the chaotic 3rd century, evidence confirms the continued use of the old legionary eagle and the... -
Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9781649031617
RRP: £29.99£24.77An innovative account of the life of Tutankhamun, the rediscovery of his existence, and the enduring impact of the finding of his tomb, by leading Egyptologist Aidan DodsonThe spectacular discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 has given him an afterlife... -
Tacitus Histories I: A Selection by Benedict Gravell
£19.16This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Histories Book I sections 4 (finis Neronis ...) to 7, 12-14, 17-23 and 26, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Histories Book I sections... -
Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World's Cosmologies by Laird Scranton 9781620554449
RRP: £12.99£8.18How could multiple ancient cultures, spanning both years and geography, have strikingly similar creation myths and cosmologies? Why do the Dogon of Africa and the civilizations of ancient Egypt, India, Tibet, and China share sacred words and symbols?... -
The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland 9781786941473
RRP: £27.45£24.50This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya'qubi (d. ca. 910), 'Ali al-Mas'udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim... -
The Season of the Hyaena (Akhenaten Trilogy, Book 2): A twisting novel of intrigue, corruption and secrets Paul Doherty 9780755303410
RRP: £9.99£6.80Mahu, former Chief of Police and Keeper of the Secrets of the Heart is sitting down to record his memories. He sees uneasy quiet reigning in the Royal Circle at Thebes, after the disappearance of the Pharaoh Akenhaten and the abandonment of his new,... -
The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180 by Martin Goodman 9780415559799
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Roman World 44 BC - AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city... -
The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354454
RRP: £13.99£11.10In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters;... -
Military History of Late Rome 425-457 by Syvanne, Ilkka 9781848848535
RRP: £25.00£17.62_The Military History of Late Rome 425-457_ analyses in great detail how the Romans coped with the challenge posed by masses of Huns in a situation in which the Germanic tribes had gained a permanent foothold in the territories of West Rome. This... -
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. -
In Search of the Romans (Second Edition) James Renshaw (Godolphin and Latymer School, London, UK) 9781474299916
RRP: £21.99£20.41In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome. Making extensive use of ancient sources and copiously illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, now for the first time in colour, its opening two chapters... -
The Roman King Arthur?: Lucius Artorius Castus by Sullivan, Tony 9781399084024
RRP: £20.00£14.29The 2004 film, King Arthur, starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, introduced the audience to Lucius Artorius Castus as the basis to the much later legend of King Arthur. The book analyses the theories behind the film which link this second to third... -
1919: Britain's Year of Revolution by Webb, Simon 9781399011396
RRP: £15.99£11.611919; Britain's Year of Revolution tells the story of an almost unknown passage in British history. On the August Bank Holiday that year, the government in London despatched warships to the northern city of Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force... -
A History of Byzantium Timothy E. Gregory (Ohio State University, USA) 9781405184717
RRP: £33.95£30.38This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and... -
Gladiators 4th-1st centuries BC Francois Gilbert 9781472850928
RRP: £13.99£9.75This new study lifts the veil on the high-profile but often misunderstood gladiators of ancient Rome, from their origins to the dawn of the Principate. Originating in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd century BC, the Roman gladiator games... -
Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy by N.J. Sewell-Rutter 9780199227334
RRP: £140.00£109.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
RRP: £16.99£14.61Alexander the Great is remembered as a brilliant conqueror, but his father's achievements as a leader were greater still Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and... -
Giza and the Pyramids Mark Lehner 9780500051894
RRP: £75.00£50.25For more than 4,000 years the pyramids of Giza have stood like giant question marks that have intrigued and endlessly fascinated people. Who exactly built them? When? Why? And how did they create these colossal structures? But the pyramids are not a... -
Stoicism John Sellars 9781844650538
RRP: £37.99£33.38Stoicism was one of the most influential schools of philosophy in antiquity and its influence has persisted to the present day. Originating in Athens around 300 BCE, Stoicism flourished for some five hundred years and has remained a constant presence... -
The Histories: No. 1 by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was... -
Democracy: A Life by Paul Cartledge 9780199697670
RRP: £22.99£17.52Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? ...