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The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan by Pedro Carrasco 9780806141992
£34.35The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of... -
Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World by Stephanie Lynn Budin 9780367277437
RRP: £43.99£40.84This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine... -
Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: stratigraghy, spatial organisation and chronology by Mike Parker Pearson 9781789256932
RRP: £35.00£32.23This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh... -
Genesis and the Synchronized, Biblically Endorsed, Extra-Biblical Texts by Rob Skiba 9781494300920
RRP: £44.44£37.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494300920Author Rob SkibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Rethinking the Ancient Druids: An Archaeological Perspective by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
RRP: £45.00£36.75Ancient Classical authors have painted the Druids in a bad light, defining them as a barbaric priesthood, who 2,000 years ago perpetrated savage and blood rites in ancient Britain and Gaul in the name of their gods. Archaeology tells a different and more... -
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus by Barry B. Powell 9780520302877
£16.63The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally... -
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £18.99£13.61This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks... -
A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations by Marinos Yeroulanos 9781784534929
£56.34'Human wisdom is of little or no value', wrote Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for... -
The Judgement of Paris: Greek Myths by Jill Dudley 9780955383489
RRP: £2.99£2.48Most people have heard of the Judgement of Paris, but who was Paris? Why was there a judgement, and what or who was he judging? The answers to these questions are to be found in this Put it in Your Pocket booklet.Book InformationISBN... -
Religions of the Constantinian Empire by Mark Edwards
£29.75Religions of the Constantinian Empire provides a synoptic review of Constantine's relation to all the cultic and theological traditions of the Empire during the period from his seizure of power in the west in 306 CE to the end of his reign as autocrat of... -
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic: New Discoveries at the Edge of Europe by Jessica Smyth
RRP: £24.99£22.67The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The... -
Homer's Secret Odyssey by Kenneth Wood
£11.55Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE by Margreet L. Steiner
£41.09This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Levant as used here is a historical... -
From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race by Andrew Collins
£20.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879181724Author Andrew CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel by Steven B Bowman
£55.95The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.Sepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a medieval historian and noted by modern scholars for its eloquent style. This is the first known chronicle of Jewish... -
Greek Sculpture by Nigel Spivey
RRP: £32.99£29.63Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality - provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its... -
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records by Keith Dockray 9781781554692
£12.94Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou, 'a great and strong laboured woman', became a... -
Virgil Aeneid XI: A Selection by Ashley Carter
£19.16This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Aeneid Book XI, lines 1-224, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Aeneid Book XI, lines 498-521, 532-596, 648-689, and 725-835, giving... -
Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland by Ian Armit
£20.28The brochs are among the best-known ancient monuments in Scotland. However, despite a long and colourful history of research, it is only in the last 20 years that the results of field survey, excavation and radiocarbon dating have begun to flesh out a... -
Josephus, the Essential Works: A Condensation of "Jewish Antiquities", and, "the Jewish War" by Flavius Josephus 9780825432606
£19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825432606Author Flavius JosephusFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Life and Times of Takabuti in Ancient Egypt: Investigating the Belfast Mummy by Rosalie David
RRP: £10.99£10.02The mummy of Takabuti is one of the best known antiquities in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Takabuti was a young woman who lived in Egypt during a tumultuous period, c. 600 BC. Her mummy was unwrapped and investigated in Belfast in 1835. While the focus of... -
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume I: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad by Karen Radner
RRP: £122.50£111.56This 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... -
The Variae: The Complete Translation by Cassiodorus
£23.69Cassiodorus-famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity-spent most of his life as a high-ranking public official under the Ostrogothic King Theoderic and his heirs. He produced the Variae, a unique letter collection that... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
£23.39Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
Decoding the Pictish Symbols by W. A. Cummins 9780752452395
£15.02The Picts, the most powerful nation in northern Britain for some 500 years, mysteriously disappeared from contemporary records in the ninth century. All that remains of the language they spoke are a few fragments in the names of places or people. Their... -
Anglesey: A Megalithic Journey by Neil McDonald 9780955523069
£10.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955523069Author Neil McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Mutus LiberPublisher Mutus LiberWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm -
Roman Dorset by Bill Putnam 9780752441047
£20.28At the time of the Roman Invasion of AD 43, Dorset was the territory of Iron Age tribe called Durotriges. The extent to which, Roman ideas, life and language were adopted was remarkable. This work describes neighbouring towns, villas, local industries,... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
£23.39A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Castles of England by John Paul Davis
RRP: £25.00£18.02In 1051, a monk of Canterbury Cathedral made a bizarre observation in what would eventually form part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In his chronicling of the year's events, he described the establishment of a new fortification in Herefordshire by French... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 1: From Thales to Euclid by I. Thomas
£23.39Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical... -
Works: v. 1: The Life AND Against Apion by Flavius Josephus
£23.39Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
£23.39Three 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... -
Broken Legions: Fantasy Skirmish Wargames in the Roman Empire by Mark Latham
RRP: £12.99£9.80The Roman Empire rules the civilised world with an iron fist, seemingly all-powerful and limitless. And yet, the power of Rome is secured not by its mighty legions, but by small bands of warriors and agents fighting a secret war. Tasked by the Emperor to... -
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire by J. C. McKeown 9780195393750
RRP: £14.99£12.37The ancient Romans have left us far more information about themselves than has any other Western society until much more recent times. But what we know about them is sometimes bizarre, and hardly fits the conventional view of the Romans as a pragmatic... -
Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
RRP: £31.00£25.65Explore how history was brought to life on the silver screen and how the Hollywood's epic movies dictated our vision of the past. This lively study analyses how Hollywood producers, directors, designers, costumiers, publicity agents, movie stars, and,... -
Exploring Celtic Origins: New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £32.00£29.56Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age... -
The New Complete Works of Josephus by Josephus Flavius 9780825429248
£29.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825429248Author Josephus FlaviusFormat HardbackPage Count 1144Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 1383g -
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 Nile and its People: 7000 Years of Egyptian History by Charlotte Booth
£12.94The Nile and its People is an ambitious title, covering 7000 years of Egyptian history, from the time of the first settlers in Egypt through to the modern day, with the Nile being the constant element throughout. Changes through history of the culture... -
Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches by Danielle Candelora
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume challenges assumptions about-and highlights new approaches to-the study of ancient Egyptian society by tackling various thematic social issues through structured individual case studies. The reader will be presented with questions about the...