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Daily Life in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Brian K. Harvey 9781585107957
RRP: €32.12€25.95Apologies 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 &... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
RRP: €29.69€27.83A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal by David Constantine
RRP: €14.27€10.81In 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... -
Marginal Comment: A Memoir Revisited by Sir K. J. Dover
RRP: €29.74€25.92Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications... -
Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English by S. J. Harrison 9780199233731
€91.15This 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... -
Testimonia. Origines by Cato
RRP: €29.69€27.83Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of... -
The Road to Geometry: How Euclid's Elements Built the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh
RRP: €29.75€20.03Euclid'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,... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk.1-2 by Thucydides
RRP: €29.69€27.83Classic 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 Age of Augustus Werner Eck (Cologne University) 9781405151498
RRP: €32.07€27.88In 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... -
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones 9781786498946
RRP: €13.08€8.71In 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... -
Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe 9780375753978
RRP: €24.99€18.02Apologies 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: €17.84€13.03Diocletian 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? Simon Elliott 9781526765642
RRP: €29.75€20.97In 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... -
Lives: v.1 by Plutarch
RRP: €29.69€27.83Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.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 consular... -
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185 by John Carr 9781526702296
€31.65The 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,... -
Theophrastus: Characters by James Diggle
RRP: €29.74€25.92Theophrastus:Characters is a collection of thirty short character-sketches of various types of individuals who might be met in the streets of Athens in the late fourth century BC. It is a unique work which has had a profound influence on European... -
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor 9780691202266
RRP: €19.03€13.74The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life-and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: €29.75€24.89An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
Prehistoric Lancashire by David Barrowclough 9780752447087
RRP: €29.75€22.54What was life like for the prehistoric inhabitants of Lancashire? This is the first book to look at the history of the county from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age period. What emerges is a picture of a complex society that changed and developed with the... -
Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure: The Sarcophagus of Seti I John H Taylor 9781910258873
RRP: €11.89€8.09Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt - the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I. Re-discovered in 1817 in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings by the flamboyant... -
Technology and Culture in Pharaonic Egypt: Actor Network Theory and the Archaeology of Things and People by Martin Fitzenreiter 9781009074353
RRP: €20.23€17.52The inherent paradox of Egyptology is that the objective of its study - people living in Egypt in Pharaonic times - are never the direct object of its studies. Egyptology, as well as archaeology in general, approach ancient lives through material (and... -
Rome's Great Eastern War: Lucullus, Pompey and the Conquest of the East, 74-62 BC by Gareth C Sampson
RRP: €29.75€21.44Despite Rome's conquest of the Mediterranean, by the turn of the first century BC, Rome's influence barely stretched into the East. In the century since Rome's defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new... -
The Histories: v. V by Polybius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher by Edward J. Watts
RRP: €35.09€30.37A 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... -
Omm Sety's Abydos by Eady D.L. 9780920808092
€16.64A personal history and guide to the ritual site of Abydos, on the West bank of the Nile, which flourished from the Predynastic period until Christian times (c. 4000 BC to AD 641). The author moved to Egypt in 1933 and was involved in excavations with... -
Rome - A High-speed History by Terry Deary 9781407111780
RRP: €10.70€5.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 by Wm. Theodore De Bary
RRP: €49.98€40.51A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students... -
Conversations in the House of Life: A New Translation of the Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth by Richard Jasnow 9783447101165
RRP: €35.70€34.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447101165Author Karl-Theodor ZauzichFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Homer: Iliad Book VI by Barbara Graziosi 9780521703727
RRP: €32.12€27.89The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek. Book 6 describes how Glaukos and Diomedes, though... -
The Secret History by Procopius 9781420964554
€9.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964554Author ProcopiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 132g -
Maximus the Confessor by Andrew Louth 9780415118460
RRP: €45.21€39.72St Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophic period the Byzantine Empire was to experience before the Crusades. This book introduces the reader to the times and upheavals during which Maximus lived... -
Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
€16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967401Author Peter GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 179gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume IV: The Age of Assyria by Karen Radner 9780190687632
€117.06This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a... -
Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile by Marjorie Fisher 9789774164781
RRP: €59.50€51.30Gloriously illustrated and impressive in scope, this book represents a comprehensive overview of ancient Nubia. It opens with a thematic survey with contributors addressing topics such as the rediscovery of ancient Nubia and the development of... -
Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen by Joyce Tyldesley
RRP: €22.60€16.20For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrated... -
Parallel Lives: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus by Plutarch
RRP: €29.69€27.83Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.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 consular... -
Geography of Claudius Ptolemy by Claudius Ptolemy
RRP: €23.79€22.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605204383Author Claudius PtolemyFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 667g -
The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361–630 by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: €101.15€91.63This book presents a new history of the leadership, organization, and disposition of the field armies of the east Roman empire between Julian (361-363) and Herakleios (610-641). To date, scholars studying this topic have privileged a poorly understood... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World by Greg Woolf 9780521827751
RRP: €58.31€51.54From its mythical foundation in 753 BC to its sack in the fifth century AD, the city of Rome had an impact on the world that it would be hard to overestimate. At its height the empire which it built up stretched from northern Britain to the deserts of... -
A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies by Spiros Tsoutsoumpis 9781526143495
RRP: €35.70€31.75A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle...