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Cynics by William D. Desmond 9781844651290
RRP: £37.99£33.38Once 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... -
Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336-30 BC: War at Sea from Alexander to Actium by Michael Paul Pitassi
RRP: £30.00£20.95The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race between the Successor States that culminated in a plethora of ship types and... -
Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams by Callimachus
RRP: £24.95£22.92The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped... -
The Archaeology of Egyptian Non-Royal Burial Customs in New Kingdom Egypt and Its Empire by Wolfram Grajetzki
RRP: £17.00£15.24This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider population. It also covers the regions then under Egyptian control: the Southern Levant and the area of... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin 9780393635690
RRP: £20.99£17.75In the conventional story of Rome's collapse, violent "barbarians" destroy "civilisation". Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant. Alaric grew up near the border that separated Gothic... -
From Wakefield and Towton: the Wars of the Roses by Philip A. Haigh 9780850528251
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Wars of the Roses was a complicated, bloody affair between the houses of Lancaster and York, and witnessed much changing of sides. That disjointed feuding persisted for a staggering thirty years and was a north versus south affair. However, the... -
The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History by Peregrine Horden
RRP: £39.95£36.04The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to... -
Antigonus The One-Eyed: Greatest of the Successors by Jeff Champion 9781526774897
RRP: £12.99£9.09Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors.' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to... -
Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire by Timothy David Barnes 9781118782750
RRP: £24.95£21.78Drawing on recent scholarly advances and new evidence, Timothy Barnes offers a fresh and exciting study of Constantine and his life. First study of Constantine to make use of Kevin Wilkinson's re-dating of the poet Palladas to the reign of Constantine,... -
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick 9781501198946
RRP: £20.00£12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198946Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Fodder & Drincan: Anglo-Saxon Culinary History by Emma Kay
RRP: £20.00£16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248755Author Emma KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife by Erik Hornung
RRP: £26.99£22.85Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two millennia later in royal tombs. Erik Hornung, the world's leading authority on these religious texts, surveys... -
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor by P J Rhodes
RRP: £12.99£9.09Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War (429-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant, charismatic (and wealthy), this close... -
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities by Adrienne Mayor
RRP: £16.99£13.75A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels-and the surprising truths behind themAdrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific... -
Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World by Myke Cole
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the... -
Pope, Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning by Carolyn D. Williams
RRP: £43.99£38.44The author here reassesses the concept of 'masculinity', and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models. The argument is sustained by a close reading of the... -
Rome in the Ancient World by David Potter
RRP: £35.00£31.73This authoritative, highly readable textbook offers a complete survey of the history of Rome from its origins, through the Republic and Empire, to the period of its decline and fall, ending with the emergence of Mohammed in the 6th century. Written by a... -
The Land of Boudica: Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk by John Davies 9781905223336
RRP: £19.95£16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905223336Author John DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Heritage Marketing & Publications LtdPublisher Heritage Marketing & Publications Ltd -
Roman History: v. 6 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £24.95£23.74A 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... -
Lives of the Ancient Egyptians by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£8.13From the dawn of history to the death of Cleopatra, ancient Egypt was home to larger-than-life personalities. Across one hundred lives, Toby Wilkinson explores the true character and diversity of human experience in the ancient world's greatest... -
Nero by Thorsten Opper 9780714122908
RRP: £40.00£26.55One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled while Rome burnt. Such a reputation has, however, been shaped by ancient literary sources written by his... -
Egyptian Shaman: the Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt by Nick Farrell
RRP: £15.00£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958428Author Nick FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 360g -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1) by Christoph Baumer 9781780760605
RRP: £85.00£76.91The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region... -
Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome by Hughes, Ian 9781781590096
RRP: £19.99£14.28Attila the Hun is a household name. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next two decades. Attila bullied and manipulated both halves of the Roman empire, forcing successive emperors to make tribute payments or... -
Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins': A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer by Bart Wagemakers 9781782972457
RRP: £49.95£41.68Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953-4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of... -
From Fratricide to Forgiveness: The Language and Ethics of Anger in Genesis by Matthew SCHLIMM 9781575062242
RRP: £38.95£34.39In the first book of the Bible, every patriarch and many of the matriarchs become angry in significant ways. However, scholars have largely ignored how Genesis treats this emotion, particularly how Genesis functions as Torah by providing ethical... -
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume V: The Age of Persia by Karen Radner
RRP: £97.00£87.83This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a... -
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome by Lindsay Powell
RRP: £25.00£18.02_BAR KOKHBA_ is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation. One was Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, then at its zenith, who some regarded as divine; the other... -
Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J Robertson
RRP: £25.00£22.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250270955Author Donald J. RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 876gDimensions(mm)... -
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: £27.50£23.29A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David Stuttard, Classics for All During the Persian Wars,... -
The Gates of the Necronomicon by Simon 9780060890063
RRP: £6.99£4.80"The Gates of the Necronomicon" is another important and invaluable companion book to the Necro. To properly utilise the magick of the Necro, an occultist must decipher the deep complex world that the Mad Arab describes, and for many a reader, the... -
Ancient Greeks at War: Warfare in the Classical World from Agamemnon to Alexander by Simon Elliott 9781612009988
RRP: £30.00£19.81Ancient Greeks at War is a lavishly illustrated tour de force covering every aspect of warfare in the Ancient Greek world from the beginnings of Greek civilization through to its assimilation into the ever expanding world of Rome. As such it begins with... -
Fingerprints Of The Gods by Graham Hancock 9780517887295
RRP: £25.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517887295Author Graham HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm)... -
Danebury Hillfort by Barry Cunliffe 9780752429106
RRP: £20.00£15.11An 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... -
A Year in the Life of Ancient Greece: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There by Dr Philip Matyszak
RRP: £12.99£8.89Experience a remarkable year among the real people of ancient Greece, as they prepare for the most important event in their calendar.It is 248 BC, the year of the 133rd Olympic Games. At this time the Hellenistic world is at its peak, with Greek... -
Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World by Duane W. Roller
RRP: £22.99£19.96What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the... -
Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781781593578
RRP: £19.99£14.28Carthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and chequered even before her Punic Wars' against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a... -
The Negro Question Part 2 the Slave Ships That Came from Judah by Lee Cummings 9781492719120
RRP: £9.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492719120Author Lee CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts by R. O. Faulkner 9780856687549
£112.71Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the `Pyramid' texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, ... -
The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch by Raffaella Cribiore
RRP: £28.00£21.76This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian,...