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Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia by Marc van de Mieroop
RRP: £25.00£19.59There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what... -
Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean by Robert C. Davis 9780275989507
£56.36Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean tells a story unfamiliar to most modern readers-how this pervasive servitude involved, connected, and divided those on both sides of the Mediterranean. The... -
From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and Civilization During the 6th and 5th Centuries BC by Victor Ehrenberg 9780415584876
RRP: £16.99£15.22From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse... -
The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar by Katharina Volk
RRP: £32.00£25.16An 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... -
The Illyrians by John Wilkes
RRP: £36.95£32.91For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book, now... -
Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 BC by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta.The book explores both the city-state of Sparta and the territory of Lakonia which it unified and exploited... -
Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE by Matt Waters
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r.522-486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book,... -
A Week In the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman by Holly Beers 9780830824847
RRP: £16.99£13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830824847Author Holly BeersFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 208gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 13mm -
Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives by Teresa Bernheimer 9780906094532
£59.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094532Author Teresa BernheimerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust -
Religion and Society in Roman Palestine: Old Questions, New Approaches Douglas R. Edwards 9780415486835
RRP: £43.99£38.44This collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine.A range of international experts provide an unprecedented look at issues of acculturation, assimilation... -
Marvel Deluxe Edition: Marvel Super Heroes - Secret Wars by Jim Shooter 9781804910504
RRP: £39.99£28.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804910504Author Jim ShooterFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd -
The End of Ancient Christianity by R. A. Markus 9780521339490
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book is concerned with one central historical problem: the nature of the changes that transformed the intellectual and spiritual horizons of the Christian world from its establishment in the fourth century to the end of the sixth. The End of Ancient... -
Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture' by Vitruvius 9780521002929
RRP: £30.99£24.88The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped... -
Cicero: Brutus and Orator by Robert A. Kaster 9780190857851
£30.73Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early... -
Megalithomania: Artists, Antiquarians and Archaeologists at the Old Stone Monuments by John Michell 9781906069032
RRP: £12.99£11.05A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical,... -
Historia Augusta: Volume III by David Magie
RRP: £24.95£23.39March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ... -
People of the Long Barrows: Life, Death and Burial in the Earlier Neolithic by Martin Smith 9780752447339
RRP: £25.00£18.54Human remains can answer all sorts of questions about our ancestors - what sort of diet they ate, what age they lived to, what sort of living conditions they experienced and how they died. The Neolithic is the earliest period from which significant... -
Arabia Felix Colin Thubron 9781681370729
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370729Author Colin ThubronFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic by Natale Barca
RRP: £34.95£24.21This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women, in the complex social and political system of the time, to provide a full context to the historical events and epic battles of the 1st century BC. Scholar Natale... -
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kirk Ormand 9780275988807
£56.36Historians of ancient Greece and Rome are sometimes hesitant to engage with the well-documented fact that Greek and Roman men regularly engaged in same-sex sexual relations with younger men. In a similar vein, scholars have constructed elaborate social... -
Caesar's Commentaries: On The Gallic War and On The Civil War by Julius Caesar 9780976072614
RRP: £21.95£14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976072614Author Julius CaesarFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Digital Pulse PublishingPublisher Digital Pulse PublishingWeight(grams)... -
A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato's Ideal State Dr Stephen P. Kershaw 9781472136992
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination. But where did Atlantis come from, what was it like, and where did it go to?Atlantis was first... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle by Christopher Shields 9780190244842
RRP: £46.99£43.77The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately,... -
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £18.99£15.27The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson "The author succeeds in bringing this distant age to life through telling detail... -
Medieval Military Combat: Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses by Tom Lewis 9781612008875
RRP: £25.00£21.55We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armour, to smash each other with their maces and poleaxes, for hours on end, as depicted on film in programs such as Game of Thrones?They could not have done so. It is... -
Theatreland: A Journey Through the Heart of London's Theatre by Paul Ibell
RRP: £35.00£26.73Paul Ibell's "Theatreland" combines historical narrative with a unique exploration of how London's theatre works today. Covering the five centuries from Shakespeare's Bankside playhouses to today's West End, Paul Ibell's "Theatreland" explores the... -
The Twelve Caesars by Alexander Thomson 9781613824252
RRP: £22.00£21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613824252Author Alexander ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 628Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
Dinner with Persephone: Travels in: Travels in by Patricia Storace 9780679744788
RRP: £20.00£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744788Author Patricia StoraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 339gDimensions(mm) 207mm *... -
Troy: Myth, City, Icon Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney (University of Leicester, UK) 9781472529374
RRP: £23.99£19.66From the palaces of Homeric epic to the ancestral seat of Roman emperors, Troy in antiquity was a place couched in myth. But for nearly four millennia, Troy was also a living city, inhabited by real people. Troy today is therefore a site of major... -
Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia by Christopher I. Beckwith
RRP: £25.00£19.59Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy... -
Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE): A Sourcebook by Kristi Upson-Saia 9780520299726
RRP: £34.00£29.67This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. Covering a wide array of fascinating topics-such as ancient diagnostic practices using the pulse and urine, gynecological theories of women's... -
Plato's Atlantis Story: Text, Translation and Commentary Christopher Gill 9781786940155
RRP: £24.99£22.41This book aims to bring together all the evidence relevant for understanding Plato's Atlantis Story, providing the Greek text of the relevant Platonic texts (the start of Plato's Timaeus and the incomplete Critias), together with a commentary on language... -
Religion in the Roman Empire James B. Rives (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) 9781405106566
RRP: £31.95£28.29This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western EuropeExamines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics... -
The Probable and the Provable by L. Jonathan Cohen 9780198244127
£118.90The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian... -
The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia by Benjamin R. Foster 9781138909755
RRP: £41.99£37.15The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world's first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws... -
The Search for God in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann
RRP: £23.99£20.84First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt offers a distillation of Jan... -
A Historical Guide to Roman York by Chrystal, Paul 9781526781284
RRP: £25.00£18.02Considering that York was always an important Roman city there are few books available that are devoted specifically to the Roman occupation, even though it lasted for over 300 years and played a significant role in the politics and military activity of... -
Ancient Messene (English language edition) by Petros Themelis
RRP: £16.50£13.73This book, illustrated in colour throughout, offers a concise presentation of the archaeological site of Ancient Messene, in the Greek Peloponnese, written by its excavator and head of the restoration program, and incorporating the latest results of... -
What the Greeks Did for Us by Tony Spawforth
RRP: £20.00£19.02An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus...