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Living Latin: Everyday Language and Popular Culture by Dr Charlie Kerrigan 9781350377035
£18.87What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. Surveying the whole span of the language's history, it explores the evidence that exists for ordinary Latin... -
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris 9780674916456
£32.66A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities,... -
The Oracles of the Ancient World: A Complete Guide by Trevor Curnow 9780715631942
RRP: £60.00£59.62Ranging from Abai to Zeleia, from massive temples in Egypt to modest tombs in Turkey, oracles were a major feature of the religions of many ancient cultures until their demise under the Christian Roman emperors. This work is a guide to all the known... -
Classical Greece: 500-323 BC by Robin Osborne 9780198731535
RRP: £34.49£31.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Anaximander: And the Birth of Science by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: £18.00£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593542361Author Carlo RovelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger
RRP: £12.99£8.60Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell... -
From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity by Kyle Harper 9780674660014
RRP: £19.95£16.12When Rome was at its height, an emperor's male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four... -
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 Future of the Classical by Salvatore Settis 9780745635996
RRP: £14.99£13.58Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis... -
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... -
Vikings at War by Kim Hjardar
£23.33Vikings 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... -
Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity by Georgios Boudalis
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 Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar by Katharina Volk 9780691253954
RRP: £22.00£17.36An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary... -
Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels by Edward W. Bodnar 9780674007581
RRP: £29.95£24.06Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to... -
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... -
Remains of Old Latin: v. 4: Archaic Inscriptions by E. H. Warmington
RRP: £24.95£23.39Physical graffiti.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials... -
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... -
The Abu Bakr Cemetery at Giza by Tohfa Handoussa
RRP: £121.00£112.72The 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... -
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 & Civilisation by 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... -
Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World by Duane W. Roller
RRP: £24.49£20.39What 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... -
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' SpectatorThis book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it... -
King Solomon and the Temple of Solomon: The History of the Jewish King and His Temple by Charles River Editors 9781544877549
RRP: £10.14£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544877549Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 5-6 by Thucydides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that ... -
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... -
Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process. Volume 2: Characterizing the City. Final Report of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project, 1994-1997 by R. H. White 9781905739615
£79.01In the mid 1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to one of the most intensive campaigns of geophysical survey ever carried out on a Roman town. The result was a complete plan of the city using... -
Antiphon: The Speeches by Antiphon
RRP: £27.99£24.27This volume provides a commentary on the six surviving speeches of the fifth-century BC Athenian orator Antiphon, all of which concern homicide, together with a fragment of Antiphon's final speech at his own trial for treason in 411 BC. The commentary... -
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 Mythology of Plants - Botanical Lore From Ancient Greece and Rome by Annette Giesecke 9781606063217
RRP: £21.99£18.55This is a fascinating exploration of the role of the botanical in ancient Greek and Roman myth and classical literature. This engaging book focuses on the perennially fascinating topic of plants in Greek and Roman myth. The author, an authority on the... -
Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept by Brent Nongbri
RRP: £19.99£16.97For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the "natural" human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and... -
The Army of the Early Roman Empire 30 BC-AD 180: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £25.00£17.62The legionary soldier of the early Empire period, with his distinctive segmented armour, is one of the images most closely associated by popular imagination with ancient Rome. Such soldiers conquered most of Britain, suffered and avenged the terrible... -
Landmark Thucydides by Robert B Strassler 9781416590873
RRP: £35.00£33.31Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World by John Baines 9781800500266
RRP: £35.00£33.49Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern... -
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
RRP: £16.99£14.61Alexander the Great is remembered as a brilliant conqueror, but his father's achievements as a leader were greater still Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and... -
Homer: Iliad Book 22 by Homer 9780521709774
RRP: £25.99£22.61Book XXII recounts the climax of the Iliad: the fatal encounter between the main defender of Troy and the greatest warrior of the Greeks, which results in the death of Hector and Achilles' revenge for the death of his friend Patroclus. At the same time... -
Greek Drama and Dramatists by Alan H. Sommerstein 9780415260282
RRP: £37.99£33.38The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of classical, literary and theatrical subjects, and Alan H... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.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... -
Ancient Egypt Secrets Explained!: The Influences Behind Egyptian History, Mythology & The Impact On World Civilization by Jeffrey Houston 9781533451965
RRP: £5.99£5.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533451965Author Jeffrey HoustonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Medea by Euripides
£8.00Though it wasn't successful at its first performance, in the centuries since then, Euripides's Medea has established itself as one of the most powerful and influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon her...