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Athens and Boiotia: Interstate Relations in the Archaic and Classical Periods by Roy van Wijk 9781009340595
RRP: $224.25$201.96Were 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: $29.23$28.12Apologies 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 *... -
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: $74.08$65.09Exploratio 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: $39.00$25.56From 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... -
Understanding Ancient Battle: Combat in the Classical World from the Unit Commander’s Perspective by Hugh Elton 9781526753977
RRP: $39.00$27.87Traditional 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... -
The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine 1850-1948 by Roger Hardy 9781912945337
RRP: $48.75$32.72Palestine, 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: $39.00$26.81The 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... -
The End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC: Conquest and Crisis by Catherine Steel
RRP: $62.40$51.56This 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,... -
Ovid Fasti: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: $25.33$23.13This 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: $74.08$65.87This 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: $64.33$57.64Shortlisted 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
RRP: $25.33$21.57"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... -
Martial: Select Epigrams by Martial
RRP: $54.58$47.33Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the... -
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
RRP: $25.33$16.69In 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... -
The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps by Jessica Maier
RRP: $70.20$61.17One 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... -
Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian by Peter Heather 9780197500538
RRP: $35.08$29.00Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his... -
Searching for the Silures: An Iron Age Tribe in South-East Wales by Ray Howell 9780752440149
RRP: $39.00$29.33The 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... -
The Forty Two Precepts of Maat, the Philosophy of Righteous Action and the Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts by Muata Ashby
RRP: $36.08$24.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884564482Author Muata AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Sema InstitutePublisher Sema InstituteWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm *... -
Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus by Nickolas Pappas 9780367256135
RRP: $81.88$71.66Menexenus 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: $39.00$36.33Cleopatra 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... -
Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome by Lesley Adkins
RRP: $45.81$34.85This 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... -
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies 9780500283714
RRP: $29.15$19.85New 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: $19.48$13.26Hatusu, 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
RRP: $48.75$36.15Human 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
$136.46Aside 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
RRP: $51.68$45.42At 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: $21.43$14.43The 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... -
The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce 9780199281329
RRP: $159.90$139.35In the 14th century BC the Hittites became the supreme political and military power in the Near East. How did they achieve their supremacy? How successful were they in maintaining it? What brought about their collapse and disappearance? This... -
Rome: Strategy of Empire by James Lacey
RRP: $63.36$44.87The 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: $31.18$25.99The 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: $15.87$14.10Apologies 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: $20.48$18.51Apologies 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
$49.65A 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: $42.90$25.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758959Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Rome the Perverts Delight: : Sex, drugs, brothels, alcohol, aphrodisiacs and prostitutes in the Roman Empire by Joe Medhurst 9781499734249
RRP: $25.33$21.41Apologies 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: $48.75$35.06Due 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... -
Unwritten Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859898232
RRP: $68.23$62.63In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments... -
Nothing to Do with Dionysos?: Athenian Drama in Its Social Context by John J. Winkler 9780691015255
RRP: $117.00$91.85These 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... -
Jewel of the Nile by Tessa Afshar 9781496428769
RRP: $29.23$23.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496428769Author Tessa AfsharFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
Becoming Gold: Zosimos of Panopolis and the Alchemical Arts in Roman Egypt by Shannon Grimes 9780473407759
RRP: $42.90$37.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473407759Author Shannon GrimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Rubedo PressPublisher Rubedo PressWeight(grams) 526g