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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt Kasia Szpakowska (University of Wales, Swansea) 9781405118569
RRP: €40.40€35.68Using 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... -
The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire by Clifford Ando 9780520259867
RRP: €35.70€27.72What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: in contrast to ancient Christians, who had faith,... -
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780226801063
RRP: €28.56€27.88"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every... -
The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman 9780062565259
RRP: €21.41€14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062565259Author Richard Elliott FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Annals: Bk. 13-16, v. 5 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The 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... -
Imperial Roman Warships 27 BC-193 AD by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: €15.46€13.10The Roman Empire was not only built by the strength of the legions but also by a navy that was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed. It was the presence of this fleet that secured the trade routes and maintained the communications within... -
The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus by Joseph E. Skinner 9780190229184
RRP: €63.07€59.21Greek knowledge of and interest in foreign peoples is commonly believed to have developed in conjunction with a wider sense of "Greekness" that emerged during the Hellenic encounter with Achaemenid Persia during the late sixth to early fifth... -
Afterglow of Empire: Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance () by Aidan Dodson 9789774169250
RRP: €17.84€14.93During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom crumbled in the face of internal crises and external pressures, ultimately reversed by invaders from Nubia... -
Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction A. H. Gardiner 9780195002676
RRP: €21.41€15.20The mysteries of Ancient Egypt, the wonderland of the Pharaohs, have always held the world in awe. Now available in new covers, this volume provides a comprehensive history of this fascinating land from its earliest days to the conquest of Alexander the... -
The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun by Roger Beck 9780199216130
RRP: €80.92€64.62A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich... -
Patricians and Emperors: The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire by Hughes, Ian 9781399074643
RRP: €20.22€13.03Patricians and Emperors offers concise comparative biographies of the individuals who wielded power in the final decades of the Western Roman Empire, from the assassination of Aetius in 454 to the death of Julius Nepos in 480. The book is divided into... -
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere 9780226289540
RRP: €21.42€18.33In 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... -
The Macedonian State: The Origins, Institutions, and History by N. G. L. Hammond 9780198149279
RRP: €114.24€96.90In 338 BC Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece; he was succeeded in 336 by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests in the twelve years that followed reached as far as the Russian steppes, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, and... -
Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture by Jennifer T. Roberts 9780691181479
RRP: €35.70€24.91A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and... -
Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond by Christopher Woods
RRP: €38.68€37.14Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is one of humanity's greatest inventions. This book presents current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each writing... -
Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain by Philip Matyszak
RRP: €17.84€13.51When, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome (82 BC), among the many who refused to accept his rule was a young army officer called Quintus Sertorius. Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to Spain, where he made common cause... -
Roman York by Patrick Ottaway
RRP: €23.80€17.90The 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... -
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon 9781419760181
RRP: €32.13€21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419760181Author Emma SouthonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 155mm *... -
Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Sandra Boehringer
RRP: €44.02€38.71This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary,... -
Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.-A.D. 871 by Peter Blair 9780393003611
RRP: €23.80€19.49By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 B.C., migratory movements had established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material is so... -
The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts R. O. Faulkner 9780856687549
€134.12Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the `Pyramid' texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, ... -
The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources by Peter Thonemann
RRP: €28.55€24.24Coinage is one of our key sources for the rich and fascinating history of the Hellenistic world (323-31 BC). This book provides students of the period with an up-to-date introduction to Hellenistic gold, silver and bronze coins in their cultural and... -
Hannibal by Ernle Bradford 9781497637900
RRP: €21.36€16.42The 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... -
Library of History: v. 5 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
The Art of War: A Graphic Novel by Sun Tzu 9781684124299
RRP: €23.79€18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684124299Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
The Art of Resilience: The Lessons of Aeneas by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: €13.08€8.71Lucid, compelling, enlightening "Marcolongo is today's Montaigne."-Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name "Shows how languages gives us new ways of seeing and understanding the world."-The Guardian "Marcolongo uses the secrets of the Ancient... -
The Lost History of Peter the Patrician: An Account of Rome's Imperial Past from the Age of Justinian by Thomas M. Banchich
RRP: €49.97€43.73The Lost History of Peter the Patrician is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter's History, including additional fragments which are now more often considered the work of the Roman historian Cassius Dio's so-called Anonymous... -
The Hellenistic Age by Peter Thonemann
RRP: €17.84€13.03The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus... -
Cyrus The Great by Stephen Dando-Collins 9781684424375
RRP: €19.03€13.14Cyrus 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... -
Rethinking the Ancient Druids: An Archaeological Perspective by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
RRP: €53.55€43.73Ancient Classical authors have painted the Druids in a bad light, defining them as a barbaric priesthood, who 2,000 years ago perpetrated savage and blood rites in ancient Britain and Gaul in the name of their gods. Archaeology tells a different and more... -
Moral Conscience through the Ages: Fifth Century BCE to the Present by Richard Sorabji 9780199685547
RRP: €38.07€33.32In Moral Conscience through the Ages, Richard Sorabji brings his erudition and philosophical acumen to bear on a fundamental question: what is conscience? Examining the ways we have conceived of that little voice in our heads - our self-directed judge -... -
The Ending of Roman Britain by A. S. Esmonde Cleary
RRP: €45.21€39.72Why did Roman Britain collapse? What sort of society succeeded it? How did the Anglo-Saxons take over? And how far is the traditional view of a massacre of the native population a product of biased historical sources? This text explores what Britain was... -
Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jorg Rupke
RRP: €49.98€39.79From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean world In this ambitious and authoritative book, Jorg Rupke provides a comprehensive and strikingly... -
A History of the Ptolemaic Empire by Gunther Holbl
RRP: €45.21€40.20This compelling narrative provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the rise and decline of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt over three centuries - from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the tragic deaths of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC.The skilful... -
Blood of the Provinces: The Roman Auxilia and the Making of Provincial Society from Augustus to the Severans by Ian Haynes
€52.55Blood of the Provinces is the first fully comprehensive study of the largest part of the Roman army, the auxilia. This non-citizen force constituted more than half of Rome's celebrated armies and was often the military presence in some of its territories... -
The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties by Shaye J. D. Cohen 9780520226937
RRP: €32.13€25.54In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity,... -
Works: v.3 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... -
Law and Life of Rome, 90 B.C.-A.D. 212 by J.A. Crook 9780801492730
RRP: €27.36€21.36It is about Roman law in its social context, an attempt to strengthen the bridge between two spheres of discourse about ancient Rome by using the institutions of the law to enlarge understanding of the society and bringing the evidence of the social and... -
Roman Conquests: The Danube Frontier by Michael Schmitz 9781848848245
RRP: €23.79€16.99The Roman conquests of Macedonia in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to the south of the Danube. But their new neighbour on the other side of the mighty river, the kingdom of the... -
Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration by O.F. Robinson 9780415106184
RRP: €44.02€38.71Rome was a huge city. Running it required not only public works and services but also specialised law. This innovative work traces the development of that law and system in the main areas of administration. The book incorporates and develops previous...