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The Birth of the Trinity: Jesus, God, and Spirit in New Testament and Early Christian Interpretations of the Old Testament by Matthew W. Bates 9780198779247
RRP: €33.31€30.73How and when did Jesus and the Spirit come to be regarded as fully God? The Birth of the Trinity offers a new historical approach by exploring the way in which first- and second-century Christians read the Old Testament in order to differentiate the One... -
Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture by Liz Gloyn
€33.31What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity continue to stride across the modern world? In this book, the first in-depth study of how post-classical societies use the creatures from... -
Works: v.1 by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: €29.69€27.83A soldier's chronicle of Rome in decline.Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325-ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor... -
The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me by Nina Caplan 9781472938459
RRP: €15.46€10.82WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS DEBUT DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 WINNER OF THE LOUIS ROEDERER INTERNATIONAL WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 'Wine is alive, ageing and changing, but it's also a triumph over death. These grapes... -
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran by Parvaneh Pourshariati 9781784537470
RRP: €27.36€22.94I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a... -
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: €26.17€17.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118299Author Donald KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 258g -
The Roman Historical Tradition: Regal and Republican Rome by James H. Richardson 9780199657858
€88.87The study of Regal and Republican Rome presents a difficult and yet exciting challenge. The extant evidence, which for the most part is literary, is late, sparse, and difficult, and the value of it has long been a subject of intense and sometimes heated... -
The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity by Benjamin Isaac
RRP: €49.98€39.79There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual... -
Historicising Ancient Slavery by Kostas Vlassopoulos
RRP: €30.93€25.06A new framework for studying slaves and slavery in ancient societies Offers a new theoretical framework for the study of ancient slavery Employs a global historical perspective Focuses on the agency of ancient slaves Explores the link between... -
Romanifesto: Modern Lessons from Classical Politics by Asa Bennett 9781785905193
RRP: €14.27€10.23Despite the last days of Rome being around 1,500 years ago, the shadow of its empire - and what those who lived in it had to say - still looms large over modern politics. Indeed, we would not think of `politics' as it is without our Classical... -
The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period by Amelie Kuhrt 9780415552790
RRP: €80.91€72.67Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it... -
Cyrus The Great by Stephen Dando-Collins
RRP: €23.79€16.14Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew... -
A Short History of England: From the Roman Times to the World War I by G K Chesterton 9788027306367
RRP: €6.07€4.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027306367Author G K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World by Reza Zarghamee
RRP: €65.45€57.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823935Author Reza ZarghameeFormat HardbackPage Count 728Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 1395g -
William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians by Keith Dockray 9781781554159
RRP: €20.22€15.40For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because,... -
War and Imperialism in Republican Rome 327-70 B.C by William V. Harris 9780198148661
€138.83Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior that lay behind their quest for power. How did Romans respond to warfare, year after year? How... -
Out of Sight: Satellite Mayhem by Martin Granger 9781913062613
RRP: €10.70€8.88SATELLITES ARE FALLING OUT OF THE SKIES When rogue junk collides with a television satellite 22,000 miles above the Earth, blind cosmologist Harry Stones approaches Film Director Nathalie Thompson to make an investigative documentary. Undeterred by... -
The Lion: A Novel of Ancient Greece by Conn Iggulden
RRP: €32.07€20.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362226Author Conn IgguldenFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm *... -
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy
RRP: €33.32€29.68Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of The Best of the Achaeans bridged that gap, raising new... -
Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh by Peter J Brand
RRP: €38.68€36.57Warrior, mighty builder and statesman, over the course of his 67-year-long reign (1279-1212 BCE), Ramesses II achieved more than any other pharaoh in the three millennia of ancient Egyptian civilization. Drawing on the latest research, Peter Brand... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman 9780691154039
RRP: €47.60€38.71An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and... -
The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and Production by Alan Bowman
€45.39This volume is a collection of studies which presents new analyses of the nature and scale of Roman agriculture in the Mediterranean world from c. 100 BC to AD 350. It provides a clear understanding of the fundamental features of Roman agricultural... -
Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction by Emma Nicholson 9780192866769
RRP: €139.83€126.27Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian. It takes a... -
Ovid: Metamorphoses Book XIV by Ovid 9780521007931
RRP: €34.50€30.73In Book XIV of the Metamorphoses Ovid takes his epic for the first time into Italy and continues from book XIII his close intertextual engagement with Virgil's Aeneid. His tendentious treatment of his model subordinates Virgil's epic plot to fantastic... -
Christ's Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City by John S. Kloppenborg
€45.29A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a... -
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom by James Romm
RRP: €15.46€9.73From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes-and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban... -
The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources by Liv Mariah Yarrow
RRP: €24.98€21.94The narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources, augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however, provide new information on the distant past. This accessible but authoritative... -
The Ancient World: Ideas in Profile Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) 9781781254202
RRP: €11.89€8.81Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics This introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome to the Jews and Syrians who refused to be... -
Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples: A Neurocognitive Approach by Olympia Panagiotidou 9781800501423
€31.09Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples narrates a story of religious healing that took place at sanctuaries dedicated to the ancient Greek god Asclepius, the so called asclepieia. The Asclepius cult, which attracted supplicants... -
For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE by Guy MacLean Rogers
RRP: €29.75€24.89A definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple This deeply researched and insightful book examines the causes, course, and historical significance of the Jews' failed revolt against Rome from... -
Rome's First Frontier: The Flavian Occupation of Northern Scotland by David Woolliscroft 9780752430447
RRP: €32.73€24.61Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall are Britain's best-known Roman frontiers but a more northerly line is also known, on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire, which seems to represent the earliest fortified land frontier anywhere in the Roman Empire... -
A History of Ancient Persia – The Achaemenid Empire by M Brosius
RRP: €49.92€43.71An innovative approach to the history of the First Persian Empire, offering an accessible historical narrative for students and general readers alike A History of the Achaemenid Empire considers archaeological and written sources to provide an expansive,... -
The Lords Of Avaris by David Rohl
RRP: €20.22€14.61The Lords of Avaris is one man's journey in search of the legendary origins of the Western World. Our story begins in a small rock-cut tomb below the desolate ruin-mound of Jericho in the Jordan Valley. This is the start of an epic journey of discovery,... -
Sport in Ancient Times by Nigel B. Crowther 9780275987398
€66.59Crowther offers a fascinating look at the role of sport as practiced in several important civilizations in the ancient world. He not only probes the games themselves, but explores the ways in which athletics figured into cultural arenas that extended... -
Amnesty and Reconciliation in Late Fifth-Century Athens: The Rule of Law Under Restored Democracy Christopher J. Joyce 9781399506359
RRP: €29.74€27.02Re-evaluates the Athenian Reconciliation Agreement of 403 BCE, its historical causes and its legal legacy. -
The Mycenaeans by Rodney Castleden 9780415363365
RRP: €45.21€40.20Following on from Rodney Castleden's best-selling study Minoans, this major contribution to our understanding of the crucial Mycenaean period clearly and effectively brings together research and knowledge we have accumulated since the discovery of the... -
Greek & Roman Myths & Legends by Hélène Adeline Guerber 9781398835061
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398835061Author H. A. GuerberFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire by Dr Matthew S. Hobson
€45.40Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire was excavated between mid-2012 and mid-2013 along with its surroundings and antecedent settlement. The excavations took place as part of the Emersons Green East Development Area, funded... -
The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene by Simcha Jacobovici
RRP: €23.74€15.40Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, copied by an anonymous monk. The manuscript is at least 1,450 years old, possibly dating to the first century. And now, The Lost Gospel provides the first... -
The Kingdom of Kush: A Captivating Guide to an Ancient African Kingdom in Nubia That Once Ruled Egypt by Captivating History 9781647489021
RRP: €17.81€10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647489021Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...