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A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures by Maria Golia 9781789146295
RRP: £25.00£17.62A 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: £25.00£17.62Julian 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... -
Historia Augusta: Volume II by David Magie
£23.39March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ... -
Understanding Ancient Battle: Combat in the Classical World from the Unit Commander’s Perspective by Hugh Elton 9781526753977
RRP: £20.00£14.29Traditional 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... -
Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler by Captivating History 9781637161470
RRP: £22.97£14.55Apologies 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)... -
The End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC: Conquest and Crisis by Catherine Steel
RRP: £32.00£26.44This title deals with a crucial and turbulent century for the Roman Republic. By 146, Rome had established itself as the leading Mediterranean power. Over the next century, it consolidated its power into an immense territorial empire. At the same time,... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: £6.99£4.80HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a... -
Greece: An Oxford Archaeological Guide by Christopher Mee 9780192880581
RRP: £55.00£50.12Greece, with all its temples, cities, and sanctuaries created by Europe's most formative ancient civilization, is a must-see for the archaeological traveller. This guide provides: * Coverage of all the main archaeological sites in Greece, ranging... -
Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture: An Introduction by Mary Emerson
RRP: £19.99£17.73Assuming 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... -
Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes by Nicki Howarth
£11.55This is the first major study of Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes tribe in Northern Britain in the first century AD. Little is known about the tribal ruler, who fought off rebellion and civil war and managed to keep her lands when many other British... -
The History of Rome by Michael Grant
RRP: £16.99£11.58From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians... -
Athens and Boiotia: Interstate Relations in the Archaic and Classical Periods by Roy van Wijk 9781009340595
RRP: £115.00£103.57Were 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: £14.99£14.42Apologies 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 *... -
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two... -
Exploratio: Military & Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople by N. J. E. Austin 9780415183017
RRP: £37.99£33.38Exploratio is the first ever survey of Roman military and civil intelligence. The authors examine in detail the operation and gradual development of Roman intelligence-gathering from shaky beginnings to a high level of excellence. They identify who... -
The Quest For Hermes Trismegistus: From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World by Gary Lachman 9780863157981
RRP: £20.00£13.11From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis, to our own times, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influence of Hermes Trismegistus -- the 'thrice-great one', as he was often called -- on the western mind. For... -
The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine 1850-1948 by Roger Hardy 9781912945337
RRP: £25.00£16.78Palestine, 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... -
Ovid Fasti: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: £12.99£11.86This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.533-616, 687-852, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in... -
A History of the Ptolemaic Empire by Gunther Holbl
RRP: £37.99£33.78This compelling narrative provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the rise and decline of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt over three centuries - from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the tragic deaths of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC.The skilful... -
Aleppo: A History by Ross Burns
RRP: £32.99£29.56Shortlisted for the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life-in particular an active traditional suq, with a... -
Phaedrus by Plato
£11.06"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive... -
The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps by Jessica Maier
RRP: £36.00£31.37One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much to... -
Bronze Drum by Phong Nguyen 9781538753705
RRP: £17.99£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538753705Author Phong NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Searching for the Silures: An Iron Age Tribe in South-East Wales by Ray Howell 9780752440149
£15.04The Silures, the Iron Age tribe of south-east Wales, are described by Roman sources as among the most implacable foes of Roman expansion. The remarkable Silurian War, a protracted and surprisingly successful guerrilla campaign, saw the advancing legions... -
Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus by Nickolas Pappas 9780367256135
RRP: £39.99£35.06Menexenus is one of the least studied among Plato's works, mostly because of the puzzling nature of the text, which has led many scholars either to reject the dialogue as spurious or to consider it as a mocking parody of Athenian funeral rhetoric. In... -
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction by Barbara Watterson 9781445669656
RRP: £26.95£19.15Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, but our image of her is largely gleaned from the film starring Elizabeth Taylor or from Shakespeare's... -
Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9789774168864
RRP: £29.99£25.16King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early thirteenth century BC. His lifetime coincided with a crucial point in Egyptian history, following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten, and... -
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies 9780500283714
RRP: £14.95£10.18New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts in the field. Offering intriguing historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from... -
The Anubis Slayings (Amerotke Mysteries, Book 3): Murder, mystery and intrigue in Ancient Egypt by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80Hatusu, the remarkable young widow of Pharaoh Tuthmosis II, has forced Egyptian society to acknowledge her as Pharaoh, and her success in battle is spreading Egypt's glory well beyond its frontiers. In the Temple of Anubis, Hatusu and the defeated King... -
People of the Long Barrows: Life, Death and Burial in the Earlier Neolithic by Martin Smith 9780752447339
£18.54Human remains can answer all sorts of questions about our ancestors - what sort of diet they ate, what age they lived to, what sort of living conditions they experienced and how they died. The Neolithic is the earliest period from which significant... -
Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands by Robert G. Ousterhout 9780190272739
£69.98Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known architectural marvels of Western Europes Middle Ages. In this landmark survey, distinguished art historian Robert... -
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century CE to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak 9781421419459
£23.29At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off... -
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
RRP: £10.99£7.40The history of ancient Rome omitting all the boring bits. Following the success of BBC2 hit Rome on BBC2, no one has looked at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Roman... -
Rome: Strategy of Empire by James Lacey
RRP: £32.49£23.01The first work to lay out Roman strategic thinking from its start under Augustus until its final demise in 476 CE From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years - an... -
Roman Legionary vs Carthaginian Warrior by Mr David Campbell
RRP: £15.99£13.33The peace that followed the First Punic War was shallow and fractious, with the resumption of hostilities in 218 BC sparked by Carthaginian expansion in Iberia seeing Rome suffer some of the worst defeats in her entire history. The Carthaginian... -
The Oracle of Delphi: The Ancient World's Most Famous Seer by Charles River Editors 9781985757325
RRP: £8.14£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985757325Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Tomb of Hatshopsitu by Professor Howard Carter 9781475204759
RRP: £10.50£9.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475204759Author Professor Howard CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
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... -
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt 9780375758959
RRP: £22.00£13.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prehistoric Belief: Shamans, Trance and the Afterlife by Mike Williams 9780752449210
£26.62Starting with the dawn of what we would recognise as modern human thought, this book journeys through 35,000 years of our human past. It shows how our earliest ancestors learnt to enter trance states and the revolutionary effect this had on the way they...