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Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome by Ilkka Syvanne 9781526767509
RRP: €35.70€25.41This is a narrative military history of the emperors Lucius Domitius Aurelianus ( Aurelian', reigned 270-275) and Marcus Aurelius Probus (276-282) which also includes the other reigns between the years 268 and 285. It shows how these two remarkable... -
Alesia 52 BC: The final struggle for Gaul Nic Fields 9781782009221
RRP: €20.22€14.61In 52 BC Caesar's continued strategy of annihilation had engendered a spirit of desperation, which detonated into a revolt of Gallic tribes under the leadership of the charismatic young Arvernian noble Vercingetorix. Major engagements were fought at... -
Looking at Agamemnon by David Stuttard
€36.09Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus' greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding... -
Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis by Petronius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Two rollicking Roman satires.The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date, survives only as fragments of a much larger... -
Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists by Philostratus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Two sophists on the history of sophistry.Flavius Philostratus, known as "the Elder" or "the Athenian," was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who... -
Lives of the Ancient Egyptians by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: €15.46€9.67From the dawn of history to the death of Cleopatra, ancient Egypt was home to larger-than-life personalities. Across one hundred lives, Toby Wilkinson explores the true character and diversity of human experience in the ancient world's greatest... -
Fishbourne Roman Palace by Barry Cunliffe 9780752414089
RRP: €32.73€24.13The discovery, during the early 1960s, of the site of a Roman Palace and its garden at Fishbourne, near Chichester, remains the most important and exciting event in Romano-British archaeology over the last half-century. Since his original excavation,... -
Sacred Symbols of the Dogon: The Key to Advanced Science in the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Laird Scranton
RRP: €19.03€12.47In The Science of the Dogon, Laird Scranton demonstrated that the cosmological structure described in the myths and drawings of the Dogon runs parallel to modern science--atomic theory, quantum theory, and string theory--their drawings often taking the... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (2): AD 500–1450 by Dr Andrei Evgenevich Negin
RRP: €17.84€13.03In the twilight of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries, the elite of the field armies was the heavy armoured cavalry - the cataphracts, clad in lamellar, scale, mail and padded fabric armour. After the fall of the West, the Greek-speaking... -
The Demography of Roman Egypt by Roger S. Bagnall 9780521025966
RRP: €32.12€29.13The traditional demographic regime of ancient Greece and Rome is almost entirely unknown; but our best chance for understanding its characteristics is provided by the three hundred census returns that survive on papyri from Roman Egypt. These returns,... -
The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter by Melissa Lane
€22.54In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of... -
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt by Chris Naunton 9780500051993
€24.72Where are the tombs of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra? Both rulers were buried in Egypt, but their tombs have never been found despite years of intensive research and excavation. Yet we have tantalizing clues. Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt... -
Unearthing London: The Ancient World Beneath the Metropolis by Simon Webb 9780752462745
RRP: €17.84€13.74Unearthing London reveals the almost-forgotten ritual landscape which lies hidden beneath the streets of the modern capital. It is the city nobody knows, a vast and intricate network of hilltop shrines, tracks, sacred rivers, mounds, ditches, enclosures... -
Hunnic Warrior vs Late Roman Cavalryman: Attila's Wars, AD 440-53 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: €17.84€13.03Roman and Hunnic fighting men are assessed and compared in this fully illustrated study of Attila's bid to conquer Europe in the 5th century AD. The Huns burst on to the page of western European history in the 4th century AD. Fighting mostly on... -
Pharaoh: King of Egypt Margaret Maitland 9780714119984
RRP: €11.89€8.09The powerful image that the kings of Egypt presented to their subjects was so awe-inspiring and captivating that people today are still impressed by the compelling stories and imposing statuary of the Pharaoh. But the reality of Egyptian kingship was... -
Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Sandra Boehringer
RRP: €44.02€38.71This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary,... -
Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire: Author of Stratagems, Advisor to Emperors, Governor of Britain, Pacifier of Wales by John D Grainger 9781399051224
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sextus Iulius Frontinus is best known as author of the military handbook Strategems but, in addition to writing this and other works (now lost), he also had a varied and surprisingly influential career in military and civil posts� around the Roman Empire... -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Silk Roads by Christoph Baumer
RRP: €59.50€54.93The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC- c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network of interlinking trade routes, collectively known as the Silk Road, led to an explosion of cultural and commercial... -
The Dissociative Mind Lawrence M. Kowerski 9780881634952
RRP: €51.16€44.73Drawing 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... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume III: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: €29.69€27.83A 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... -
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
€25.10The 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... -
The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East by Robert Drews
RRP: €41.65€33.01When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence--historical, linguistic, and archaeological--to tackle these... -
Moralia: v. 1 by Plutarch
RRP: €29.69€27.83Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
The Confessions by Edmund Augustine
RRP: €17.84€13.03Augustine's spiritual autobiography is not only a major document in the history of Christianity and a classic of Roman Africa: it also marks a vital moment in the history of Western culture. As Augustine explains how, when and why he became the man he is... -
The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain by M. C. Bishop 9781526761132
RRP: €17.84€13.03There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the... -
Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apology by Xenophon
RRP: €29.69€27.83Socrates without Plato.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC), a member of a wealthy but politically quietist Athenian family and an admirer of Socrates, left Athens in 401 BC to serve as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger of Persia, then joined the... -
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 by Chris Wickham 9780199212965
€74.60The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more... -
Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler by Captivating History 9781637161470
RRP: €24.95€16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161470Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm)... -
A History of the Roman Republic Klaus Bringmann (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main) 9780745633718
€30.29In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the Tiber estuary into a power that controlled the Italian peninsula and created the final Empire of... -
A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures by Maria Golia 9781789146295
RRP: €29.75€20.97A history of tomb-raiders in Egypt since antiquity.Book InformationISBN 9781789146295Author Maria GoliaFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion BooksWeight(grams) 138g -
Julius Caesar's Civil War: Tactics, Strategies and Logistics by Julian Romane 9781399089425
RRP: €29.75€20.97Julian Romane examines the campaigns of Julius Caesar throughout the civil wars that followed his famous crossing of the Rubicon, through to the defeat of the final Pompeian diehards at the battle of Munda. He analyses Caesar's generalship in the widest... -
Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture: An Introduction by Mary Emerson
RRP: €23.79€21.10Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way. Intended for college-level students and the interested general reader, this book... -
Athens and Boiotia: Interstate Relations in the Archaic and Classical Periods by Roy van Wijk 9781009340595
RRP: €136.85€123.25Were Athenians and Boiotians natural enemies in the Archaic and Classical period? The scholarly consensus is yes. Roy van Wijk, however, re-evaluates this commonly held assumption and shows that, far from perpetually hostile, their relationship was... -
Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America by Robert M. Schoch
RRP: €17.84€17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585423200Author Robert M. SchochFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: €38.07€33.71This 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... -
Understanding Ancient Battle: Combat in the Classical World from the Unit Commander’s Perspective by Hugh Elton 9781526753977
RRP: €23.80€17.01Traditional military history of battles focussed on the strategies of great leaders, though in modern times many scholars have discussed the ‘face of battle’, describing the personal experience of the ordinary soldier. But in between, there still lies a... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533... -
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B Edwards 9780981928425
€36.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981928425Author Amelia B EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Norton Creek PressPublisher Norton Creek PressWeight(grams) 839g -
The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine 1850-1948 by Roger Hardy 9781912945337
RRP: €29.75€19.97Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly polarised, internationally the vacuum left by the demise of the Ottoman Empire was filled with the... -
Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales by Christine van Ruymbeke
RRP: €23.80€16.36The Shah Nameh (The Book of Kings), The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan (The Flower Garden) are amongst the greatest works of Persia, containing some of the most beautiful, rich and diverse language in the literary world. They rival Dante's Divine...