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The Etruscans Graeme Barker (University of Cambridge) 9780631220381
RRP: €43.97€39.16The Etruscans were the creators of one of the most highly developed cultures of the pre-Roman Mediterranean.About the AuthorGraeme Barker is Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeological Studies at the University of Leicester. He was... -
Aristophanes: Clouds Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)) 9780856682100
RRP: €33.31€29.69Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
Ancient Egyptian Tombs: The Culture of Life and Death Steven Snape (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781405120890
RRP: €33.26€29.33This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptians' belief in the afterlife. Investigates the roles of tombs in the development of funerary... -
Mosaics in Roman Britain by Anthony Beeson
RRP: €19.03€12.91This book covers the development of mosaics in Britain from the invasion to the end of Roman Britain. The technical side of the art form is covered as well as prefabrication. It covers those mosaics based in towns as well as more rural locations. Many of... -
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing by Ewan Clayton
RRP: €17.84€11.66The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political... -
Sophocles and Alcibiades: Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature Michael Vickers 9781844651238
RRP: €160.65€139.56Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael... -
Ancient Egypt by Peter Mavrikis
RRP: €11.89€8.15From the Neolithic cave paintings in Wadi Sura - created long before it was a desert when the region was savannah grassland - to the Valley of the Kings to the rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel, and from the vast temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor to the... -
Roman Republics by Harriet I. Flower
RRP: €33.32€29.70From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first century BC--has profoundly shaped how Roman history is understood, how the ultimate failure of... -
Religions of the Ancient Greeks by Simon Price 9780521388672
RRP: €32.12€27.13This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of... -
Decoding the Pictish Symbols by W. A. Cummins 9780752452395
RRP: €23.79€17.87The 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... -
Roman Battle Tactics 109BC - AD313 by Ross Cowan 9781846031847
RRP: €24.99€14.61How, exactly, did Rome become master of the ancient world? This book examines and illustrates the tactics employed by the legions of late Republican and early Imperial Rome, from the evidence o f ancient writers. The greatest military machine in the... -
Rome the Cosmopolis by Catharine Edwards 9780521030113
RRP: €47.59€39.58Rome stands today for an empire and for a city. The essays gathered in this volume explore some of the many ways in which the two were interwoven. Rome was fed, beautified and enriched by empire just as it was swollen, polluted, infected and occupied by... -
Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths by Philip Freeman
RRP: €22.60€14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451609981Author Philip FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Britain and the End of the Roman Empire by Ken Dark
RRP: €32.73€24.61The end of the Roman period and the early development of Post-Roman Kingdoms are two of the most important and most debated subjects for archaeologists and historians. Questioning many current assumptions, this book presents a radical reinterpretation of... -
Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe's Classical Past by Johann Chapoutot 9780520292970
RRP: €29.75€25.22Much has been written about the conditions that made possible Hitler's rise and the Nazi takeover of Germany, but when we tell the story of the National Socialist Party, should we not also speak of Julius Caesar and Pericles? Greeks, Romans, Germans... -
Domina: Murder and intrigue in Ancient Rome Paul Doherty 9780747264682
RRP: €11.89€8.09Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was a beautiful and talented woman who saw her father murdered, was banished by her brother, and was killed on the orders of her son. Her freed man, a one-eyed former gladiator named Parmenon, tells of... -
Virgil: Aeneid Book VIII by Virgil 9780521290470
RRP: €33.31€28.88Book VIII is one of the most attractive and important books of Virgil's Aeneid. It includes the visit of Aaneas to the site of the future Rome, the story of Hercules and Cacus, the episode between Venus and Vulcan and the description of the great... -
Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9789774168864
RRP: €35.69€29.94King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early thirteenth century BC. His lifetime coincided with a crucial point in Egyptian history, following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten, and... -
The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume 2 by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallace Budge 9780486220567
RRP: €32.71€18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486220567Author E. A. Wallis BudgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine by Noel Lenski
RRP: €41.64€36.28The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of... -
Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 2 by Geoffrey Summers 9781614910794
RRP: €145.78€140.00The city on the Kerkenes Dağ in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later seventh century BC, the city was put to the torch in the mid-sixth century and then abandoned. Excavations at what... -
Lilith - The First Eve: Historical & Psychological Aspects of the Dark Feminine by Siegmund Hurwitz 9783856307325
RRP: €44.02€19.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307325Author Dr Siegmund HurwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 372g -
Seneca: Phaedra by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780521337137
RRP: €34.50€30.73Seneca's Phaedra occupies an important and influential position in the tradition of European drama. This new edition concentrates on the dramatic qualities of Phaedra and examines the Greek and Roman background to the play, particularly Seneca's use of... -
Tales from Herodotus by G.S. Farnell 9780862920913
RRP: €27.36€27.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students by David Raeburn 9780199595617
RRP: €28.55€26.62This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling... -
Cities that Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich
RRP: €15.46€10.23John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations - and which in turn have shaped our own. The cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their... -
The Roman Empire: Roots of Imperialism Neville Morley 9780745328690
RRP: €33.31€25.67Over a millennium after the end of its unrivalled dominance, the spectre of Rome figures highly in western culture. This book explores what the empire meant to its subjects. The idea of Rome has long outlived the physical empire that gave it form, and... -
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies 9780500283714
RRP: €17.79€12.11New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts in the field. Offering intriguing historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from... -
Apuleius Metamorphoses V: A Selection by Stuart R. Thomson
€17.98This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Apuleius' Metamorphoses V, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for sections 11-24. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text... -
Horace: Odes Book III by A. J. Woodman
RRP: €30.93€27.38Book 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets, published in 23 BC. Arguably his most famous book, it opens with the six so-called 'Roman Odes', those defining texts of the Augustan Age,... -
Politics in the Roman Republic by Henrik Mouritsen
RRP: €27.36€23.28The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence, 'parties' and ideology, politics as public ritual, and the character of Rome's political... -
Understanding Hieroglyphs: A Quick and Simple Guide by Hilary Wilson 9781789291070
RRP: €20.22€18.84For more than 1500 years the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt defied interpretation but were thought to conceal ancient wisdom and religious secrets. When at last they were deciphered, the hieroglyphs provided a surprisingly vivid picture of all areas of... -
On the Primaeval Ocean by Mark Smith 9788772896465
€70.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772896465Author Mark SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 1368gDimensions(mm)... -
A Companion to the Roman Empire David S. Potter (University of Michigan, USA) 9781405199186
RRP: €47.54€42.89A Companion to the Roman Empire provides readers with a guide both to Roman imperial history and to the field of Roman studies, taking account of the most recent discoveries. This Companion brings together thirty original essays guiding readers through... -
Death in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards 9780300217278
RRP: €28.56€27.41For the Romans, the manner of a person's death was the most telling indication of their true character. Death revealed the true patriot, the genuine philosopher, even, perhaps, the great artist-and certainly the faithful Christian. Catharine Edwards... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1 by Andre Laks
RRP: €29.69€27.83A 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... -
Acropolis (English language edition): Visiting its Museum and its Monuments by Panos Valavanis
RRP: €10.71€8.8295 colour illustrations. The Athens Acropolis and its Museum constitute an integrated architectural and artistic unity, one of the most important in the history of global civilization. This informative and attractive guidebook is designed to be a... -
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field by Timothy Venning 9781783461929
RRP: €15.46€10.82'An astonishingly complete account of this most significant battle in the Wars of the Roses. Impeccable research, clear, concise and fascinating maps, and a narrative that persuades you you're an onlooker at the very time these astounding events took... -
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization by J. C. McKeown 9780199982103
RRP: €19.03€14.55The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without them. And yet they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs,... -
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction by Jamie Kreiner
RRP: €28.55€22.44The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasise about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world...