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Thraldom: A History of Slavery in the Viking Age by Stefan Brink
RRP: £31.49£27.18Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and... -
Stolen Legacy by George G M James 9781585095865
RRP: £26.95£18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585095865Author George G M JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Book TreePublisher Book TreeWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm -
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasaid Society (2nd-4th/5th-10th c.) by Prof. Dimitri Gutas 9780415061339
RRP: £41.99£36.75From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern... -
Caesar Commentarii. I. (Gallic War): (Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento) by Julius Caesar 9780198146025
£28.38(Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet.Book InformationISBN 9780198146025Author R. L. A. Du PontetFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)... -
Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction by Gary B. Ferngren 9781421412160
RRP: £25.00£22.03Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the... -
Treasures of Roman Yorkshire by Adam Parker
RRP: £15.99£10.85From the legionary fortress at York to the coastal lookout towers on the coast, and from the artisan potters of Crambeck to the brooch makers of Castleford, the history of Yorkshire has an indelible mark left upon it by the Roman period. The Romans built... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533... -
Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40-20 BC by Gareth Sampson 9781526710130
RRP: £25.00£21.29In the mid-first century BC, despite its military victories elsewhere, the Roman Empire faced a rival power in the east; the Parthian Empire. The first war between two superpowers of the ancient world had resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the... -
Meditations Marcus Aurelius 9781914602139
RRP: £20.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602139Author Marcus AureliusFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
Cicero Philippic II: A Selection Christopher Tanfield (Classics Teacher, South Hampstead High School, UK) 9781350010239
RRP: £17.99£16.05This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Philippic II sections 44-50 (... viri tui similis esses) and 78 (C. Caesari ex Hispania redeunti...)-92, and the A-Level (Group 2)... -
Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History by Matthew Simonton 9780691192055
RRP: £35.00£27.74Classical Greek Oligarchy thoroughly reassesses an important but neglected form of ancient Greek government, the "rule of the few." Matthew Simonton challenges scholarly orthodoxy by showing that oligarchy was not the default mode of politics from time... -
A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There by Dr Donald P. Ryan
RRP: £12.99£8.73Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (c.1400 BC), which saw a royal transition bringing Thutmose IV to the throne of Upper and Lower Egypt. While builders from the... -
Greek Historical Inscriptions 478-404 BC by Robin Osborne
£41.47This volume is both a companion to the editors' Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, edited by Russell Meiggs and David M. Lewis... -
Ancient Egyptian Literature by Miriam Lichtheim 9780520305847
RRP: £30.00£23.69First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations. Beginning with the early and gradual evolution of... -
Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
RRP: £30.00£26.62How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, the laborers, and the families that made up the vast majority of this much mythologized civilization? With a... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
On Ancient Warfare by Professor Richard A. Gabriel 9781526718457
£26.60Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. He has written fifty-five books on the subject (before this one) and over three hundred published articles. These decades of scholarship are complemented by... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 1: From Thales to Euclid by I. Thomas
RRP: £24.95£23.23Elemental 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... -
Homer: Odyssey Books XIX and XX by Homer 9780521347600
RRP: £28.99£25.82The Odyssey, besides being one of the world's first and best adventure stories, is a poem of great subtlety, rich in irony and sophisticated characterisation. The poet's art is amply illustrated by books XIX and XX, in which Odysseus, disguised as a... -
Works: v. 3 by Julian
RRP: £24.95£23.39The emperor who renounced Christianity.Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and ... -
The Anger of Achilles: The Iliad by Homer
£16.37War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved... -
Exodus: The Exodus Revelation by Trey Smith by Trey Smith 9781733490351
RRP: £35.00£33.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733490351Author Trey SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Trey Smith BooksPublisher Trey Smith BooksWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 279mm *... -
Cicero: Pro Milone by Thomas J. Keeline
RRP: £25.99£22.61The Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public... -
The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition by Robert Drews
RRP: £42.00£33.04The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine,... -
Euripidean Polemic: The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy by Neil T. Croally 9780521041126
RRP: £48.99£41.07The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the... -
Magic in the Ancient Greek World Derek Collins (University of Michigan) 9781405132398
RRP: £29.95£26.61Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece. Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets, and... -
Time and Temporality in the Ancient World by Ralph M. Rosen 9781931707671
RRP: £27.40£26.13Considering the topic of time in antiquity, juxtaposing cultures and societies, yields remarkable intersections, continuities, and discontinuities in the ways people have engaged with temporality. One of the most persistent dichotomies we find across... -
Lucan: De bello civili Book II by Lucan 9780521422413
RRP: £29.99£26.67In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all three leading figures - Cato, Caesar and Pompey - in... -
Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome by Anna Bonnell Freidin 9780691226279
RRP: £38.00£30.01How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing... -
A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE by Jonathan M. Hall 9781118301272
RRP: £41.00£37.13A History of the Archaic Greek World offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE. Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections, expanded geographical coverage, a guide to electronic... -
Pompey the Great: A Political Biography by Robin Seager
RRP: £34.95£30.83Pompey the Great gives readers a look inside the political and military world of ancient Rome and at one of the characters that shaped its destiny.About the Author Robin Seager is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He... -
The Great Pyramid Void Enigma: The Mystery of the Hall of the Ancestors by Scott Creighton
RRP: £16.99£11.08Reveals the extraordinary purpose of the newly discovered "Big Void" within the Great Pyramid of Giza* Analyzes ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts and evidence from astronomy and archaeology to show how the Big Void may be a grand "Hall of Ancestors" *... -
The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395 David Potter 9780415840552
RRP: £43.99£39.44The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion-Christianity. The book... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
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... -
Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation by Aili McConnon
RRP: £20.00£12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307590657Author Aili McConnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Castle to Fortress: Medieval to Renaissance Fortifications in the Lands of the Former Western Roman Empire Kaufmann, J E 9781526736871
RRP: £25.00£18.02Across western Europe the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later medieval period and then, in response to the development of gunpowder weapons, it underwent a fundamental change - from castle to fortress. This,... -
The Romans in Scotland by Frances Jarvie
RRP: £5.99£5.10This rewritten and redesigned edition of a popular title in the Scotties series, gives a fascinating glimpse into life at the most northern edge of the Roman Empire. Find out: about life in a Roman fort; how and where Roman soldiers lived in Scotland;... -
Virgil: The Aeneid by K. W. Gransden 9780521539807
RRP: £19.99£17.13The Aeneid is a landmark of literary narrative and poetic sensibility. This 2004 guide gives a full account of the historical setting and significance of Virgil's epic, and discusses the poet's use of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the most... -
Medieval Mercenaries William Urban 9781848328549
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of... -
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-700 by Averil Cameron 9780415579612
RRP: £43.99£38.44This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman...