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Semiramis' Legacy: The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily by Jan Stronk
RRP: £31.00£29.09Presents and contextualises extracts from the Historical Library of DiodorusThere are only a few detailed histories of Persia from Ancient Greek historiography that have survived time. Diodorus of Sicily, a first century BC author, is the only one to... -
Phaedrus by Plato
RRP: £12.99£11.06"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive... -
The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife by Erik Hornung
RRP: £23.99£20.84Ancient 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... -
A Companion to the Punic Wars Dexter Hoyos (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781119025504
RRP: £35.95£32.07A Companion to the Punic Wars offers a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. Offers a broad survey of the Punic Wars from a variety of perspectivesFeatures contributions from an outstanding... -
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard 9781631494758
£14.85At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots,... -
Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC: The Imperial Republic Rosenstein 9780748623228
RRP: £32.00£26.44Rome's stunning rise to mastery of the ancient Mediterranean Nathan Rosenstein charts Rome's incredible journey and command of the Mediterranean over the course of the third and second centuries BC. He describes the Republic's great wars - against... -
On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome by Jorg Rupke
RRP: £47.00£40.88Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire. Religious Studies Review Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude... -
Roman History, Volume I by Appian
RRP: £24.95£23.39Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction... -
Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt by Salima Ikram 9789774166877
RRP: £19.99£16.82Death, burial, and the afterlife were as important to the ancient Egyptians as how they lived. This well-illustrated book explores all aspects of death in ancient Egypt, including beliefs of the afterlife, mummification, the protection of the body, tombs... -
Awakening Osiris: The Spiritual Keys to the Egyptian Book of the Dead by Normandi Ellis
RRP: £15.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637480106Author Normandi EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New Page Books,USPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
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... -
Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki (English language edition) by Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou
RRP: £21.50£18.87Thessaloniki, the most important city in the Byzantine empire after Constaninople, experienced periods of great economic prosperity and cultural and artistic flowering that created monuments of great importance in the development of Byzantine... -
Imperial Brothers: Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople Ian Hughes 9781399074490
RRP: £15.99£11.61The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death... -
The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire by Paul J. Kosmin
RRP: £25.95£22.45A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan-the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian... -
Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire by Mark Bradley 9780199584727
£98.42While the study of Classics in postcolonial worlds has received a great deal of recent attention, this is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between classical ideas and British colonialism. In this collection of essays, classical scholars... -
Ashen Sky - The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius . Pliny 9780892369003
RRP: £16.99£14.61Pliny the Younger (C61-112AD) was a Roman official and writer. He has become famous for his two letters to the historian Tacitus, which detail his eye-witness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD which took the life of his uncle, Pliny the... -
Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney
RRP: £43.99£38.44The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias.Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney... -
A Companion to Roman Britain Malcolm Todd (Formerly University of Durham) 9781405156813
RRP: £39.95£35.44This major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain spans the period from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. Major survey of the history and culture of Roman BritainBrings together specialists to provide an overview of recent debates... -
Herculaneum - Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Jay Deiss 9780892361649
RRP: £21.99£18.55A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.Book InformationISBN 9780892361649Author . DeissFormat PaperbackPage... -
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann
RRP: £33.00£29.45"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of... -
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 Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw 9780192802934
RRP: £23.49£17.61The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt is the only book available providing detailed historical coverage of Egypt from the early Stone Age to its incorporation into the Roman Empire. The lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and... -
Cornwall in Prehistory by Toni-Maree Rowe
RRP: £17.99£13.64Prehistory is a universal term used by archaeologists to describe a sizable portion of time in the past, essentially, from the beginning of human evolution to the arrival of the Romans in Britain. In Cornwall this distant past is always present, the... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard 9780520277168
RRP: £25.00£18.97What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing... -
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert
RRP: £26.95£21.41At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian... -
The Anubis Slayings (Amerotke Mysteries, Book 3): Murder, mystery and intrigue in Ancient Egypt Paul Doherty 9780747263098
RRP: £9.99£6.80Hatusu, the remarkable young widow of Pharaoh Tuthmosis II, has forced Egyptian society to acknowledge her as Pharaoh, and her success in battle is spreading Egypt's glory well beyond its frontiers. In the Temple of Anubis, Hatusu and the defeated King... -
The Life of Alexander the Great Plutarch 9780812971330
RRP: £9.99£7.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971330Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Sophocles: Electra by Sophocles 9780521292580
RRP: £37.99£34.83One of Sophocles' more accomplished dramas, the Electra has always generated a good deal of scholarly debate. This 2007 edition, the first full-scale commentary on any play of Sophocles since the nineteenth century, explores afresh long-standing... -
On the Natural Faculties by Galen
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was raised, then the work of Galen, who lived some six... -
The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity by Aaron A. Burke 9781108811361
RRP: £27.99£26.05In this book, Aaron A. Burke explores the evolution of Amorite identity in the Near East from ca. 2500-1500 BC. He sets the emergence of a collective identity for the Amorites, one of the most famous groups in Ancient Near Eastern history, against the... -
Ancient Medicine Vivian Nutton (University College London, UK) 9781032282824
RRP: £37.99£33.38The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade.This revised volume... -
Greco-Roman Medicine and What It Can Teach Us Today Nick Summerton 9781526752871
RRP: £25.00£17.62There can be little doubt that the Romans experienced many of the illnesses that are still encountered today, and individuals have always had to decide how best to deal with their health-related concerns. The Roman Empire was an amalgam of many... -
The Silk Road in World History by Xinru Liu
RRP: £27.99£20.76The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads... -
Spartans: A New History by Nigel M. Kennell 9781405130004
RRP: £30.95£28.29Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity. Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan historyApplies new... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott
RRP: £25.00£19.99The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to... -
Ley Lines Across the Midlands by Anthony Poulton-Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.62Some maintain that ley lines are the result of some 'earth force', others that they are the earliest routes marked out across the land. In his new book Anthony Poulton-Smith examines the origins and meanings of these ancient trackways, tracing them on... -
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: £16.99£15.01A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most... -
The Reign of Emperor Gallienus: The Apogee of Roman Cavalry by Ilkka Syvanne 9781526745217
RRP: £25.00£18.02This is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly military man of all of the soldier emperors of the third century, Gallienus is the emperor in Harry Sidebottom's... -
The Ancient World 2E by L. E. Snellgrove
£40.25A lively and colourful text which covers the beginnings of civilisation in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China; the Persian Empire and the Hebrews; the Classical world of Greece and Rome with a final chapter on Roman Britain.Book InformationISBN... -
Llyn Cerrig Bach: A Study of the Copper Alloy Artefacts from the Insular La Taene Assemblage by Philip Macdonald 9780708320419
RRP: £9.99£9.17The Llyn Cerrig Bach assemblage is one of the most important collections of La Tene metalwork discovered in the British Isles. Presenting a typological study of this collection of Iron Age metalwork, this volume includes discussions of metalwork and...