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The Fall of Roman Britain: and Why We Speak English by Lambshead, John 9781399075565
RRP: €23.80€17.01The end of empire in the island of Great Britain was both more abrupt and more complete than in any of the other European Roman provinces. When the fog clears and Britain re-enters the historical record, it is, unlike other former European provinces of... -
From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and Civilization During the 6th and 5th Centuries BC by Victor Ehrenberg
RRP: €45.21€40.20From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse... -
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781786077851
RRP: €15.46€9.73'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the... -
The Gladius: The Roman Short Sword by M. C. Bishop
RRP: €19.03€13.82One of the most feared weapons in the ancient world, the gladius was lethal both on the battlefield and in the arena. Literary sources tell of the terror it inspired, while archaeological evidence of wounds inflicted is testament to its deadly effect. By... -
Armies of the Roman Republic 264-30 BC: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: €29.75€20.97The period covered in this book saw the Roman Republic face its greatest military challenges. In 264 the Romans were pitted against the might of Carthage in the first of the three Punic Wars, which would push Rome to the brink but end with the... -
A Brief History of Roman Britain Joan P. Alcock 9781845297282
RRP: €13.08€8.81In BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400... -
The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society by Ian Morris 9780197586891
RRP: €74.96€68.04In The Greeks, Ian Morris and Barry B. Powell try to see ancient Greece as a whole: not just a narrative of events or an overview of culture, but history and culture taken together. From ancient Greece comes the modern conviction that through open... -
Seneca: Apocolocyntosis by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: €32.12€27.89The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world - and satire, a Roman speciality, is one of the few types of ancient literature to survive, and... -
Roman History: Bk. 56-60, v. 7 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: €29.69€28.91A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
Scripta Minora by Xenophon
RRP: €29.69€27.83A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great: The Remarkable Discovery of the Royal Tombs of Macedon by David Grant 9781526763433
RRP: €29.75€21.44In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a statue of King Philip II who was deifying himself in front of the Greek world. Moments later Philip was stabbed... -
Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many by Erik Hornung
RRP: €28.55€24.80An excellent historical overview of the gods... It is a recommended necessary reading for those studying Ancient Egyptian religion. Frankie's Reviews in Egyptology A work of extraordinary distinction, Hornung's book will appeal to anyone interested in... -
Xenophon's Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia by Christopher Nadon
RRP: €58.31€45.64For over two millennia, the Cyropaedia, an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work and considered his masterpiece. This study contributes to the recent rediscovery of the Cyropaedia and Xenophon, making... -
Danebury Hillfort by Barry Cunliffe 9780752429106
RRP: €23.80€18.37An extremely well-preserved example of an Iron Age hillfort, Danebury is typical of many in Wessex but made exceptional by being the most thoroughly excavated and explored hillfort in the whole of Europe. Barry Cunliffe recreates the hillfort's past... -
Murder at Larinum: Narrative Parts of "Pro Cluentio" by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780862920937
RRP: €26.17€26.05This volume contains the explanatory sections of Cicero's speech Pro Cluentio - the defence in a particularly lurid murder case set in the northern Italian provincial town of Larinum. It forms an admirable introduction to the reading of Golden Latin... -
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield 9780199573929
RRP: €41.64€31.67This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the disintegration of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece... -
Ancient Literacy by William V. Harris 9780674033818
RRP: €52.30€42.30How many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans? No one has previously tried to give a systematic answer to this question. Most historians who have considered the problem at all have given optimistic assessments, since... -
Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic by Valentina Arena
RRP: €36.88€33.65This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought,... -
Early Roman Warfare: From the Regal Period to the First Punic War by Jeremy Armstrong 9781781592540
RRP: €23.79€8.57While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed on the later Republic or the Imperial period when the legionary system was already well-developed. Here Dr. Jeremy Armstrong traces the development of Rome's military... -
Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War by Judy Foster
RRP: €35.64€22.84This is a revolutionary book that challenges our preconceptions about the past. We often think of history as a linear development in which we are steadily moving out of a violent and patriarchal past to a more equitable and peaceful future. While we have... -
Ancient Egyptian Jewelry: 50 Masterpieces of Art and Design by Nigel Fletcher-Jones 9789774169656
RRP: €23.79€19.54Jewelry was worn by ancient Egyptians at every level of society and, like their modern descendants, they prized it for its aesthetic value, as a way to adorn and beautify the body. It was also a conspicuous signifier of wealth, status, and power. But... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Western Greek 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... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: €8.32€5.71HarperCollins 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... -
A Search In Secret Egypt by Paul Brunton
RRP: €23.79€16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583949818Author Paul BruntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East by Max Price
RRP: €36.88€27.67Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious studies scholars for decades. Rejecting simple explanations, this book... -
Ancient Egypt 39,000 BCE: The History, Technology, and Philosophy of Civilization X by Edward F. Malkowski 9781591431091
RRP: €24.98€16.02Traditional Egyptologists have long resisted the notion that the architectural achievements of the Ancient Egyptians required the existence of a much more sophisticated technology than would have existed at that time. Yet, no records exist explaining... -
Theophilus of Edessa's Chronicle and the Circulation of Historical Knowledge in Late Antiquity and Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland
€132.70Theophilus of Edessa was an astrologer in the court of the Muslim caliphs from the 750s to the 780s, a time when their capital, Baghdad, was a thriving cosmopolitan centre of culture and trade and one of the most populous and prosperous cities of the... -
Prehistoric Cooking by Jacqui Wood 9780752419435
RRP: €32.73€24.61If you imagine that our ancient forbears ate weak gruel, some meat, and bread so hard that it was practically inedible, Jacqui Wood's study and recreation of ancient cooking methods and recipes will be a revelation. Based on experimental archaeology at... -
The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy by Rupert Jackson
RRP: €38.07€34.25This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first time the most recent archaeological discoveries from... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.64Three late dialogues.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in... -
Hadrian's Wall: Everyday Life on a Roman Frontier by Patricia Southern
RRP: €15.46€10.09Hadrian's Wall is a major World Heritage site, set in stunning countryside in Cumbria and Northumberland, where the Wall and its forts are the most visited Roman remains in Britain. It runs through the narrow gap across the Pennines between the Solway... -
Greek Orators I: Antiphon, Lysias by M. Edwards 9780856682476
€35.81Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies ... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691175270
RRP: €38.08€29.94Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really... -
Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans by Andrew M. Riggsby
RRP: €35.69€30.29In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted with the rest of Roman life. Emphasising basic concepts, he recounts its historical development and focuses... -
The Athenian Empire: Using Coins as Sources by Lisa Kallet
RRP: €23.79€20.96Coinage played a central role in the history of the Athenian naval empire of the fifth century BC. It made possible the rise of the empire itself, which was financed through tribute in coinage collected annually from the empire's approximately 200... -
Electras: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides Michael Davis 9781587312083
RRP: €19.04€18.77Michael Davis revisits questions of interpretation in Greek tragedy emerging in the thought of the late Seth Benardete. While this is not the book Benardete would have written, it wrestles with problems that bear his indelible mark. In the extant... -
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-700 by Averil Cameron 9780415579612
RRP: €52.35€45.74This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman... -
Hot Fat by Russell Alford 9781999379919
RRP: €15.47€10.60Russell Alford and Patrick Hanlon are fried food aficionados - they are absolutely obsessed with anything that can be put in a deep fryer or a pot full of dripping. They've taken familiar favourites, chipper classics and the flavours we can't get enough... -
Prehistory in the Peak by Mark Edmonds
RRP: €21.41€16.71Anyone who lives in Derbyshire or has walked in the Peak District will have marvelled at the rich variety of prehistoric remains: how and why did our remote ancestors choose to live in this seemingly wild and inhospitable. Arranging the text around a... -
Cynics William Desmond 9781844651290
RRP: €45.21€39.72Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and...