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The Lion: A Novel of Ancient Greece by Conn Iggulden
RRP: £26.95£17.33Apologies 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 *... -
Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna by Emily A. Hemelrijk 9780415196932
RRP: £135.00£117.68Matrona Docta presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235.Emily A. Hemelrijk reconstructs women's opportunities to acquire an education, the... -
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones 9781786498946
RRP: £10.99£7.32In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped... -
Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh by Peter J Brand
RRP: £32.50£30.73Warrior, 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 Routledge History of Disability by Roy Hanes
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, this wide-ranging collection shows that... -
The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and Production by Alan Bowman
£38.14This 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... -
Ovid: Metamorphoses Book XIV by Ovid 9780521007931
RRP: £28.99£25.82In 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... -
Hannibal by Ernle Bradford 9781497637900
RRP: £17.95£13.80The life of the great military commander of ancient Carthage from the bestselling author of Thermopylae and Gibraltar. Born in Carthage in 247 BC, Hannibal Barca is considered one of the greatest military commanders of all time. Following the example... -
Ishtar by Louise M. Pryke 9780367901103
RRP: £41.99£36.75Ishtar is the first book dedicated to providing an accessible analysis of the mythology and image of this complex goddess. The polarity of her nature is reflected in her role as goddess of sexual love and war, and has made her difficult to characterise... -
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom by James Romm
RRP: £12.99£8.18From 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 Ancient World: Ideas in Profile by Jerry Toner
RRP: £9.99£7.11Ideas 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... -
Sunken cities: Egypt's lost worlds by Franck Goddio
RRP: £40.00£27.75Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank over 1,000 years ago but were dramatically rediscovered in the 20th century and brought to... -
Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples: A Neurocognitive Approach by Olympia Panagiotidou 9781800501423
£26.13Healing, 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... -
Augustus: Image and Substance by Barbara Levick 9780582894211
£42.66Throughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once... -
Sport in Ancient Times by Nigel B. Crowther 9780275987398
£55.96Crowther 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... -
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... -
Stonehenge a Temple Restored to the British Druids by William Stukeley M D
RRP: £7.99£6.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537178936Author William Stukeley M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire by Dr Matthew S. Hobson
£38.15Lyde 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: £19.95£12.94Waiting 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... -
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Kasia Szpakowska 9781405118569
RRP: £33.95£29.98Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt's Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated... -
Moralia: v. 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.39Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts: Third, revised and expanded edition by John L Hayes
RRP: £52.50£50.71This manual is designed as a textbook of the Sumerian language, based principally on texts of the Ur III period (21st century BCE). It is self-contained, so that it will be of use to students with or without a teacher. It includes a general description... -
The Kingdom of Kush: A Captivating Guide to an Ancient African Kingdom in Nubia That Once Ruled Egypt by Captivating History 9781647489021
RRP: £14.97£9.21Apologies 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)... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Brian K. Harvey 9781585107957
RRP: £26.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585107957Author Brian K. HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal by David Constantine
RRP: £11.99£9.08In the Footsteps of the Gods traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspired those who travelled there. Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and... -
The Annals: Bk. 13-16, v. 5 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by III Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III
RRP: £35.00£27.74An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In... -
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian by John Marincola
RRP: £14.99£10.95What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world.The study of history was invented in... -
Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English by S. J. Harrison 9780199233731
£76.60This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about... -
The Road to Geometry: How Euclid's Elements Built the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh
RRP: £25.00£16.83Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art,... -
The Age of Augustus by Werner Eck
RRP: £26.95£23.43In this updated edition of his concise biography, Werner Eck tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first monarch. Incorporates literary, archaeological, and legal sources to provide a vivid narrative of Augustus' brutal rise to powerWritten... -
The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar by Katharina Volk
RRP: £30.00£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 Poetics in its Aristotelian Context by Pierre Destree
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which... -
The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story by T. P. Wiseman 9780691180076
RRP: £32.00£25.76A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the PalatineCaesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word "palace"... -
In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece by Helen Lovatt 9781350115125
RRP: £24.99£20.44Few classical stories are as exciting as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The legend of the boy, who discovers a new identity as son of a usurped king and leads a crew of demi-gods and famous heroes, has resonated through the ages, rumbling like the... -
Ancient and Medieval Siege Weapons: A Fully Illustrated Guide To Siege Weapons And Tactics by Konstantin S. Nossov 9780762782642
RRP: £14.99£11.93In this richly illustrated guide, author Konstantin Nossov masterfully analyzes and recreates the weaponry, tactics, and stratagems of the ancient world. He offers first a comprehensive history of siege warfare in Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Judea, Persia,... -
Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe 9780375753978
RRP: £21.00£15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375753978Author Ann WroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Roman Legionary AD 284-337 by Ross Cowan
RRP: £14.99£10.95Diocletian and Constantine were the greatest of the Late Roman emperors, and their era marks the climax of the legionary system. Under Constantine's successors the legions were reduced in size and increasingly sidelined in favour of new units of elite... -
Alexander the Great versus Julius Caesar: Who was the Greatest Commander in the Ancient World? by Elliott, Simon 9781526765642
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the annals of ancient history the lights of Alexander the Great and Gaius Julius Caesar shine brighter than any other, inspiring generations of dynasts and despots with their imperial exploits. Each has been termed the greatest military leader of the... -
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185 by John Carr 9781526702296
£27.15The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with the extremely able Alexios I, and unable now to count on help from the West,...