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Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War by Larry Hedrick
$23.95In 1906, a stilted English translation of "Xenophon of Athens", story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more accessible edition of one of history's most extraordinary and successful leaders is emerging... -
Hadrian's Wall: Everyday Life on a Roman Frontier by Patricia Southern
RRP: $25.33$16.54Hadrian'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... -
Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus 9780872208209
RRP: $35.08$29.07By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two's... -
Prehistory in the Peak by Mark Edmonds
RRP: $35.08$27.38Anyone 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... -
Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans by Andrew M. Riggsby
RRP: $58.48$49.63In 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... -
Electras: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides by Michael Davis 9781587312083
RRP: $31.20$30.75Michael 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... -
Hot Fat by Russell Alford 9781999379919
RRP: $25.35$17.37Russell 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... -
Cynics by William D. Desmond 9781844651290
RRP: $74.08$65.09Once 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... -
Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: When Archaeology and the Bible Intersect by William G. Dever 9780802867018
$50.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802867018Author William G. DeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams by Callimachus
RRP: $48.65$45.61The 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: $33.15$28.70This 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... -
The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran by Matthew P. Canepa 9780520294837
RRP: $58.50$46.20This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. Bridging the... -
Macedonian Phalangite vs Persian Warrior by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $27.28$19.01In August 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire and systematically set about its conquest. At the core of Alexander's army were 10,000 members of the phalanx, the phalangites. Armed with a long pike and fighting in formations up to 16... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin 9780393635690
RRP: $40.93$35.96In 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... -
The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History by Peregrine Horden
RRP: $77.90$70.28The 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... -
Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire by Timothy David Barnes 9781118782750
RRP: $48.65$42.47Drawing 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,... -
Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336-30 BC: War at Sea from Alexander to Actium by Michael Paul Pitassi
RRP: $58.50$40.85The 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... -
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick 9781501198946
RRP: $39.00$23.79Apologies 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 -
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor by P J Rhodes
RRP: $25.33$17.73Alcibiades 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: $33.13$24.55A 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... -
Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context by Joseph R. Dodson 9780830852284
RRP: $44.83$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852284Author Joseph R. DodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm *... -
Pope, Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning by Carolyn D. Williams
RRP: $85.78$74.96The 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: $68.25$61.87This 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... -
From Wakefield and Towton: the Wars of the Roses by Philip A. Haigh 9780850528251
RRP: $25.33$17.73The 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... -
Antigonus The One-Eyed: Greatest of the Successors by Jeff Champion 9781526774897
RRP: $25.33$17.73Plutarch 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... -
Lives of the Ancient Egyptians by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: $25.33$15.85From 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... -
Greek Lyric: A Selection by Felix Budelmann
RRP: $54.58$47.33The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since... -
Nero by Thorsten Opper 9780714122908
RRP: $78.00$51.77One 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: $29.25$18.25Apologies 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 -
Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome by Hughes, Ian 9781781590096
RRP: $38.98$27.85Attila 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... -
From Fratricide to Forgiveness: The Language and Ethics of Anger in Genesis by Matthew SCHLIMM 9781575062242
RRP: $75.95$68.31In 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... -
Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome by Ilkka Syvänne 9781399021456
RRP: $33.13$23.95This 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... -
Fodder & Drincan: Anglo-Saxon Culinary History by Emma Kay
RRP: $39.00$32.06Apologies 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: $52.63$40.64Ancient 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... -
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome by Lindsay Powell
RRP: $48.75$35.14_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... -
Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World by Myke Cole
RRP: $29.23$21.35From 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... -
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: $53.63$45.42A 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 Land of Boudica: Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk by John Davies 9781905223336
RRP: $38.90$36.45Apologies 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 -
Mohenjo-daro: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Settlement of the Indus Valley Civilization by Charles River Editors 9781535202176
RRP: $19.97$15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535202176Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Danebury Hillfort by Barry Cunliffe 9780752429106
RRP: $39.00$30.11An 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...