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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... -
Rome the Perverts Delight: : Sex, drugs, brothels, alcohol, aphrodisiacs and prostitutes in the Roman Empire by Joe Medhurst 9781499734249
RRP: £12.99£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499734249Author Joe MedhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Egypt: faith after the pharaohs by Elizabeth O'Connell
RRP: £25.00£17.98Due to its arid climate, Egypt preserves a unique range and abundance of evidence providing insights into the emergence and establishment of new religions, their relationship to each other and the pagan past. Over 300 objects have been specially selected... -
Nothing to Do with Dionysos?: Athenian Drama in Its Social Context by John J. Winkler 9780691015255
£47.10These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically... -
Hathor Rising: The Secret Power of Ancient Egypt by Alison Roberts
RRP: £15.99£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952423300Author Alison RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Northgate PublishersPublisher Northgate PublishersWeight(grams) 510g -
A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies by George Hodgkinson 9781399049450
£30.98Throughout history, man has been performing rituals at the launch of a new ship to seek supernatural or divine protection for his ship and those who will sail in her. The form of the ritual varies according to local custom and religion: from the breaking... -
Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain by D. F. Mackreth
RRP: £75.00£68.66The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain – the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. This... -
Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes: Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome by M. David Litwa 9781032285368
RRP: £39.99£35.06Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in Rome, Marcellina.It contains the first full-length study of and commentary on... -
After Jesus, Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements by Erin Vearncombe
RRP: £29.99£19.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063062153Author Erin VearncombeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Homer by Barbara Graziosi
RRP: £12.99£9.09Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By... -
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (World of Art) by T. H. Carpenter
RRP: £16.99£11.94The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources - vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone - often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or... -
Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology: A Study of Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides by Shaul Tor
RRP: £36.99£30.33This book demonstrates that we need not choose between seeing so-called Presocratic thinkers as rational philosophers or as religious sages. In particular, it rethinks fundamentally the emergence of systematic epistemology and reflection on speculative... -
Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt: Pyramids, Plagues, Gods and Grave-Robbers by Terry Deary
RRP: £9.99£6.80Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?Don't bet your afterlife on it.Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its... -
The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography by Frank T. Coulson 9780197689707
£43.64Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 1-45, v. 1 by Livy
RRP: £24.95£24.29Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome... -
Julius Caesar: A Life by Patricia Southern
RRP: £12.99£8.48Julius Caesar is part historical figure and part legend. He was a complex individual, a brilliant politician, a successful general, an accomplished psychologist. He grew up in a world where political and military careers were inextricably intertwined,... -
Before the Pharaohs: Exploring the Archaeology of Stone Age Egypt by Julian Maxwell Heath
RRP: £19.99£14.68The remarkable archaeology of pharaonic Egypt continues to captivate countless people worldwide but evidence for Egypt's prehistoric or Stone Age past has been relatively neglected. This is perhaps understandable, as the archaeology of Stone Age Egypt... -
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean by Yaron Eliav
£30.01A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths... -
Aeneas: Virgil's Epic Retold for Young Readers by Virgil
£21.80Two thousand years ago the Roman poet Virgil related the adventures of a hero called Aeneas. He was a man who escaped from the burning ruins of Troy and, 'driven by Fate', led his people to a new home in a distant land. The story of Aeneas and the... -
The Histories: No. 1 by Polybius
£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... -
Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes 9780856682100
RRP: £27.99£24.95Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
Marcus Aurelius in Love by Marcus Aurelius 9780226378114
RRP: £23.00£22.13In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had... -
Literary Papyri Poetry: Selections: v. 3 by D. L. Page
£23.39Scraps of verse from the sands of Egypt.The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th-4th centuries BC fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play) by Aeschylus; of... -
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture by Marilyn B. Skinner 9781444349863
RRP: £41.95£37.13This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Covers a wide range of... -
The Minoans and Mycenaeans: The History of the Civilizations That First Developed Ancient Greek Culture by Charles River Editors
RRP: £8.24£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539767213Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for...All my dreams were of Leucippe.' Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five 'Greek... -
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing by Ewan Clayton
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political... -
Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary by Diskin Clay 9780198789659
RRP: £22.49£21.04Lucian of Samosata's True History is a fantastical tale of voyage and imagination. No editor, translator, or reader knows quite how to describe it or fit it comfortably into a familiar genre of Greek literature: 'satires' and 'dialogues' only partially... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99£12.79The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of... -
Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric by Michael Kulikowski
RRP: £34.00£30.93Rome'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,... -
A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian: Akkadian-English by Jeremy Black 9783447042642
£41.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447042642Author Jeremy BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Harrassowitz VerlagPublisher Harrassowitz VerlagWeight(grams) 894gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
The Histories: v. 3, Bk. 5-8 by Polybius
£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... -
Rome, Blood and Power: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic 70-27 BC by Gareth C. Sampson 9781526710178
RRP: £25.00£18.02Following the First Civil War the Roman Republic was able to rebuild itself and restore stability. Yet the problems which had plagued the previous seventy years of the Republic, of political reform being met with violence and bloodshed, had not been... -
The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices by William Shepherd
RRP: £25.00£19.21'An exciting, highly informative and also enjoyable read: Shepherd writes with clarity and verve... this book should find its way into the hands of all schools, universities and lovers of Herodotus.' - Peter Jones, Classics for All Weaving together... -
Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC by Robin Osborne
RRP: £43.99£38.84Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic... -
Roman Rule in Asia Minor, Volume 1 (Text): To the End of the Third Century After Christ by David Magie 9780691627403
£71.81What is known of the expansion of the Roman Empire in Asia and adjacent lands to the East between 133 B.C. and A.D. 285 is presented here in a comprehensive organization of all the existing scholarship. An authority in the field of ancient history and... -
The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period by Amelie Kuhrt 9780415552790
RRP: £66.99£60.23Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it... -
Ley Lines Across the Midlands by Anthony Poulton-Smith
£9.62Some maintain that ley lines are the result of some 'earth force', others that they are the earliest routes marked out across the land. In his new book Anthony Poulton-Smith examines the origins and meanings of these ancient trackways, tracing them on... -
Parallel Lives: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus by Plutarch
£23.39Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.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 consular...