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Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness 9780691167107
RRP: £25.00£19.99A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children-the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of... -
Medea by Euripides 9780872209237
RRP: £11.99£9.77This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far,... -
Lost Ancient Technology Of Egypt by Brien D Foerster
£10.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500915568Author Brien D FoersterFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine by Hartmut Leppin 9781316517239
RRP: £34.99£29.21The early Christians were by no means a homogeneous group, let alone a church. This is the fascinating story of the beliefs, practices and experience of individual Christians of antiquity, their relationships to Jewish tradition and the wider Roman... -
Acropolis (English language edition): Visiting its Museum and its Monuments by Panos Valavanis
RRP: £9.00£7.4195 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: £12.99£9.09'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: £15.99£12.23The 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: £23.99£19.12The 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... -
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
£29.22How 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
£27.99What 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... -
Chedworth Roman Villa: Excavations and Re-Imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries by Professor Simon Esmonde Cleary
RRP: £100.00£93.51Ten years in the planning and with contributions by 27 expert authors, this is a comprehensive record of archaeological research at Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire (now in the care of the National Trust), from the nineteenth to the twenty-first... -
Works: v.1 by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A 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... -
Scripta Minora by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me by Nina Caplan 9781472938459
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER 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... -
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere 9780226289540
RRP: £18.00£15.40In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With... -
A Cultural History of Democracy in Antiquity by Paul Cartledge 9781350439986
£29.07This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considers how ancient... -
The Etruscan World by Jean MacIntosh Turfa
RRP: £55.99£50.96The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden... -
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran by Parvaneh Pourshariati 9781784537470
RRP: £22.99£19.28I.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... -
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great by A. B. Bosworth 9780521406796
RRP: £22.99£17.92This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual... -
Iron Age and Roman Settlement in the Upper Thames Valley: Excavations at Claydon Pike and other sites within the Cotswold Water Park by A. Smith 9780947816742
£62.87The Cotswold Water Park Project is a landscape study centred upon parts of the Upper Thames Valley within what is now the Cotswold Water Park. The report is based upon four key excavated rural settlements, the most extensive being that at Claydon... -
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £21.99£14.46Apologies 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
£74.68The 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... -
Aristotle for Everybody by Mortimer J. Adler
£11.01Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common... -
The Prodigies of Egypt by John Davies 9781515177951
RRP: £9.99£8.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515177951Author John DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher by Edward J. Watts
£29.68A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films... -
The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire by Paul J. Kosmin
RRP: £25.95£22.45A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan-the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian... -
The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin 9780691177946
RRP: £28.00£21.80The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to... -
Roman York by Patrick Ottaway
RRP: £20.00£15.04The great historic city of York owes its origins to the Roman army which built a fortress here on the banks of the River Ouse in AD 71. By the early third century York had also became the site of a major urban center and the capital of the northern half... -
Historicising Ancient Slavery by Kostas Vlassopoulos
RRP: £25.99£21.06A 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: £11.99£8.60Despite 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... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk.1-2 by Thucydides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that he... -
The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran by Matthew P. Canepa 9780520294837
RRP: £30.00£23.69This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. Bridging the... -
A Short History of England: From the Roman Times to the World War I by G K Chesterton 9788027306367
RRP: £5.10£4.12Apologies 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: £55.00£49.03Apologies 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 -
Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet 9781032149653
RRP: £39.99£35.06Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a wide range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question.On tombstones, curse... -
The Lords Of Avaris by David Rohl
RRP: £16.99£12.28The 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,... -
Works: v. 2 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin: Volume VI by Robert Maltby
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans... -
William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians by Keith Dockray 9781781554159
RRP: £16.99£12.94For 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,... -
Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean by J. Donald Hughes
RRP: £27.50£24.12In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan's Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their...