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Seneca's Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca 9780486811246
RRP: $21.43$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486811246Author Lucius SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Desert Ascetics of Egypt by Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom 9781641891677
RRP: $33.05$32.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891677Author Darlene L. Brooks HedstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Historia Augusta: Volume I by David Magie
RRP: $48.65$45.61March 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 lacuna... -
Engineering in the Ancient World by J. G. Landels 9780094804906
$25.99This extraordinary book reveals the engineering know-how of the ancient Greeks and Romans, explores in fascinating detail how they developed and constructed their machines, and considers how the same principles are used in modern-day engineering. The... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
RRP: $25.33$22.93Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)-a summation of three and a half centuries of the... -
Archaeology in Hertfordshire: Recent Research by Kris Lockyear
RRP: $39.00$35.57Celebrating the rich heritage of archaeology and of archaeological research in Hertfordshire, the 15 papers collected in this work focus on various aspects of the region, including the Neolithic to the post-Medieval periods, and include a report on the... -
The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor by H. W. Parke
RRP: $105.28$91.40Delphi, although by far the most prestigious, was not the only oracular site dedicated to the god of prophecy. The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor, first published in 1985, presents the first unified account of these lesser-known religious... -
The Romans: A Captivating Guide to the People, Emperors, Soldiers and Gladiators of Ancient Rome, Starting from the Roman Republic through the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire by Captivating History 9781637163078
RRP: $31.14$20.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637163078Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There by Tiffany Jenkins
RRP: $33.13$23.95The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many... -
Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-Marx
RRP: $97.48$89.64Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar... -
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah
RRP: $48.65$40.74A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological AssociationReligion in Human Evolution is a work of... -
Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apology by Xenophon
RRP: $48.65$45.61Socrates 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... -
Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric by Michael Kulikowski
RRP: $66.30$60.31Rome's Gothic Wars is a concise introduction to research on the Roman Empire's relations with one of the most important barbarian groups of the ancient world. The book uses archaeological and historical evidence to look not just at the course of events,... -
Lemuria: A Civilization Time Forgot by Una Marcotte 9781982206413
RRP: $23.30$16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982206413Author Una MarcotteFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm -
Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum by Stanley Mayer Burstein 9781558765054
RRP: $52.55$41.65The first edition of this book provided teachers of African history, for the first time, with fully annotated translations of the most important Greek and Roman sources for the history of these two remarkable ancient African civilizations. The new... -
Caesar's Civil War: 49–44 BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $25.33$17.73Fully illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an accessible introduction to Julius Caesar's Civil War. Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced. Together they had brought vast stretches of... -
Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome by Ilkka Syvanne 9781526767509
RRP: $58.50$41.63This 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 by Nic Fields
RRP: $33.13$23.95In 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... -
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by John G Jackson 9780592438849
RRP: $38.98$25.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780592438849Author John G JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)... -
Sacred Symbols of the Dogon: The Key to Advanced Science in the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Laird Scranton
RRP: $31.18$20.44In 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... -
Boudica: The British Revolt Against Rome AD 60 by Graham Webster
RRP: $74.08$65.09Queen Boudica, leader of the Iceni, revolted against the Romans in AD60 only to have her efforts avenged by a humiliated Roman army. This lively and fascinating book examines in detail the evidence and theories which surround these events.About the... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (2): AD 500–1450 by Dr Andrei Evgenevich Negin
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 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 Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter by Melissa Lane
$37.83In 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
$41.36Where 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... -
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt by Gene Kritsky
RRP: $63.36$47.19According to Egyptian mythology, when the god Re cried, his tears turned into bees upon touching the ground. Beyond the realm of myth, the honey bee is a surprisingly common and significant motif in Egyptian history, playing a role in the mythology,... -
A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War by Gary Forsythe 9780520249912
RRP: $56.55$44.73During the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C., the Romans in large measure developed the social, political, and military structure that would be the foundation of their... -
Hunnic Warrior vs Late Roman Cavalryman: Attila's Wars, AD 440-53 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $29.23$21.35Roman 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... -
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: $48.75$34.36Sextus 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 Syriac World by Daniel King 9780367732363
RRP: $89.68$78.25This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the... -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Silk Roads by Christoph Baumer
RRP: $97.50$90.01The 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... -
Aristotle: De Anima by Aristotle 9780199243457
RRP: $68.23$65.29The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues, The volumes in the... -
Historia Augusta: Volume II by David Magie
RRP: $48.65$45.61March 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 ... -
The Confessions by Edmund Augustine
RRP: $29.23$21.35Augustine'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... -
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 by Chris Wickham 9780199212965
$122.25The 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... -
50 Roman Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by John Pearce 9781445686844
RRP: $31.18$21.1650 Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme highlights some of the most important and interesting Roman objects recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) or reported as Treasure. It features a wide variety of objects, allowing for a... -
Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler by Captivating History 9781637161470
RRP: $40.89$27.53Apologies 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 Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures by Maria Golia 9781789146295
RRP: $48.75$34.36A history of tomb-raiders in Egypt since antiquity.Book InformationISBN 9781789146295Author Maria GoliaFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion BooksWeight(grams) 138g -
Greece: An Oxford Archaeological Guide by Christopher Mee 9780192880581
RRP: $107.25$97.73Greece, 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... -
Julius Caesar's Civil War: Tactics, Strategies and Logistics by Julian Romane 9781399089425
RRP: $48.75$34.36Julian 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... -
Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes by Nicki Howarth
RRP: $29.23$22.52This 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...