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Greek Anthology: Volume I: book 1: Christian Epigrams by W. R. Paton
RRP: £24.95£23.39A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred poets and collected over many centuries. To the original collection, called the Garland... -
The Prehistory of Music: Human Evolution, Archaeology, and the Origins of Musicality by Iain Morley 9780198827269
RRP: £31.99£29.75Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of fields, from neuroscience and psychology... -
Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld 9780520397392
RRP: £25.00£19.59Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away,... -
Armies of the Roman Republic 264-30 BC: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £25.00£17.62The 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... -
The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall by Timothy Parsons 9780199931156
RRP: £15.99£12.63In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires... -
The Invention of God by Thomas Romer 9780674504974
RRP: £35.95£29.36Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Roemer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms-Yhwh, God, or Allah-by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period... -
Olympia: A Cultural History by Professor Judith M. Barringer
RRP: £35.00£27.74A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient... -
Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic by Fred K. Drogula 9780190869021
£36.34Marcus Porcius Cato ("the Younger") is most famous for being Julius Caesar's nemesis. His sustained antagonism was in large part responsible for pushing the Romans towards civil war. Yet Cato never wanted war even though he used the threat of violence... -
Archon Invasion: The Rise, Fall and Return of the Nephilim by Rob Skiba 9780985098179
RRP: £24.95£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985098179Author Rob SkibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint King's Gate Media, LLCPublisher King's Gate Media, LLCWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)... -
The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East by Robert Drews
RRP: £35.00£27.74When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence--historical, linguistic, and archaeological--to tackle these... -
Saving the Pyramids: Twenty First Century Engineering and Egypt's Ancient Monuments Peter James 9781786832504
RRP: £12.99£10.10Having worked on projects around the world, strengthening and restoring historically significant structures from Windsor Castle to the parliament buildings in Canada, Peter James brings insight to the structural engineering of ancient Egypt. After... -
Three More Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Politics Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University, United States of America) 9780367747596
RRP: £35.99£31.69This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These plays, originally a series, are the world's earliest political satires, and are made available here for the first time in one volume, augmented by... -
Emperor'S Handbook, the by AURELIUS 9780743233835
RRP: £24.00£13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743233835Author AURELIUSPage Count 160Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 292g -
Nero: the man behind the myth 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... -
The Roman Family Suzanne Dixon 9780801842009
RRP: £26.50£23.29Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents-today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family. But are any of these problems truly new? What can we learn from... -
Classical Greece: 500-323 BC by Robin Osborne 9780198731535
RRP: £34.49£31.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman
RRP: £28.00£22.20An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrecognizable, the customs... -
The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History by David Lloyd Dusenbury 9781787382176
RRP: £25.00£22.03The gospels and ancient historians agree: Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman imperial prefect in Jerusalem. To this day, Christians of all churches confess that Jesus died 'under Pontius Pilate'. But what exactly does that mean? ... -
The Seleukid Empire of Antiochus III, 223-187 BC by John D Grainger 9781526774934
RRP: £14.99£10.95The second volume in John Grainger's history of the Seleukid Empire is devoted to the reign of Antiochus III. Too often remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at Magnesia, Antiochus is here revealed as one of the most powerful and capable... -
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken 9780300098396
RRP: £13.99£13.94This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans. "A fascinating . . . account of early Christian thought. . . . Readable and exciting... -
The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures by James B. Pritchard
RRP: £50.00£43.54James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peoples and cultures of this important region. Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated... -
The Fate of the Apostles: Examining the Martyrdom Accounts of the Closest Followers of Jesus by Sean McDowell
RRP: £41.99£37.15The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe written in the 16th century has long been the go-to source for studying the lives and martyrdom of the apostles. Whilst other scholars have written individual treatments on the more prominent apostles such as Peter,... -
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... -
Vikings at War by Kim Hjardar
£22.81Vikings at War is a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war: their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and... -
Isis in the Ancient World by Reginald Eldred Witt 9780801856426
RRP: £27.50£24.12Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B.C. and extended at least until the fifth century A.D. throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass, and evidence of its influence has been... -
An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Sobekmose by Paul F. O'Rourke
RRP: £24.95£17.35The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such 'books' - papyrus scrolls - were composed of traditional... -
Rome in Africa by Susan Raven
RRP: £43.99£38.44Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from outside. Carthaginians, Romans, vandals, Byzantines,... -
The Roman King Arthur?: Lucius Artorius Castus by Sullivan, Tony 9781399084024
RRP: £20.00£14.29The 2004 film, King Arthur, starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, introduced the audience to Lucius Artorius Castus as the basis to the much later legend of King Arthur. The book analyses the theories behind the film which link this second to third... -
The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity Georgios Boudalis 9781941792124
RRP: £22.50£21.68The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this... -
The Origins of the World's Mythologies by E. J. Michael Witzel
RRP: £60.00£38.05In this comprehensive book Michael Witzel persuasively demonstrates the prehistoric origins of most of the mythologies of Eurasia and the Americas ('Laurasia'). By comparing these myths with others indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, Melanesia, and... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus: The Invention of Literary History by Christopher S. van den Berg
RRP: £75.00£67.74Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously... -
Expedition to Disaster: The Athenian Mission to Sicily 415 BC by Philip Matyszak 9781399024846
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to give... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume Iv: Sophists by Glenn W. Most
RRP: £24.95£23.39A 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... -
The Abu Bakr Cemetery at Giza by Tohfa Handoussa
RRP: £121.00£110.37The present volume reflects the work of the joint expedition of Cairo University and Brown University to record and publish the tombs uncovered on behalf of Cairo University by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr from 1949 through 1953, but never published. The... -
Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets by Fritz Graf
RRP: £43.99£38.44Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These... -
Roman Britain's Missing Legion: What Really Happened to IX Hispana? by Simon Elliott 9781399006965
£16.13Legio IX Hispana had a long and active history, later founding York from where it guarded the northern frontiers in Britain. But the last evidence for its existence in Britain comes from AD 108. The mystery of their disappearance has inspired debate and... -
Tausret: Forgotten Queen & Pharaoh of Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson 9780199740116
£52.28One of only a few women who ruled ancient Egypt as a king during its thousands of years of history, Tausret was the last pharaoh of the 19th dynasty (c. 1200 BCE), the last ruling descendent of Ramesses the Great, and one of only two female monarchs... -
Mesoamerica Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilization Dr Robert Bircher 9781804176146
RRP: £10.99£7.40Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Mesoamerican culture is rooted in the region of modern Mexico where some 3500 years ago ancient peoples called the Olmecs farmed and created beautiful art and pottery at roughly the same time as the Middle Kingdom Ancient... -
The Histories: v. 3, Bk. 5-8 by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£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...