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Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies by Emma J. Edelstein
RRP: €47.60€43.47Throughout nearly all of antiquity, the legendary Greek physician, Asclepius, son of Apollo and Coronis, was not only the primary representative of divine healing, but also so influential in the religious life of later centuries that, as Emma J... -
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome by J. C. McKeown
RRP: €19.03€13.82There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have rather lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to make good this lapse... -
Aleppo: A History Ross Burns (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) 9780815367987
RRP: €39.26€35.18Shortlisted for the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life-in particular an active traditional suq, with a... -
Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius 9780521278133
RRP: €34.50€30.73Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche, the relationship of the human Soul with divine Love, is one of the great allegories of world literature. It forms an integral part of and profoundly illuminates the message of his novel Metamorphoses or The Golden... -
The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity: A Political and Military History by Hugh Elton
RRP: €32.12€26.53In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the... -
The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin 9780691177946
RRP: €33.32€25.94The 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... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 7-8 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 ... -
Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context by Joseph R. Dodson 9780830852284
RRP: €27.36€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852284Author Joseph R. DodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm *... -
Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Dramatis personae.This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition... -
The Madness of Cambyses by Herodotus 9780141398778
RRP: €3.57€2.96'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodotus of Halicarnassus.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80... -
Experiencing Rome: Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire by Janet Huskinson 9780415212847
RRP: €45.21€40.20Unique in their broad-based coverage the twelve essays in this book provide a fresh look at some central aspects of Roman culture and society.Reviews'A clear grasp of the nature of culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire.' - Art Matters'Benefit... -
Rome and the Greek East to the Death of Augustus by Robert K. Sherk 9780521271233
RRP: €46.40€38.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Star Wars: The Pop-up Advent Calendar by Riley Silverman 9781803362892
RRP: €41.64€18.73Celebrate Life Day in true Wookiee fashion with this holiday pop-up book and advent calendar! Journey to the Star Wars galaxy, and experience the joyful Wookiee holiday Life Day, a celebration of family, love, and togetherness. With this pop-up advent... -
The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World by Kara Cooney
RRP: €26.17€20.86Written in the tradition of historians like Mary Beard and Stacy Schiff who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the... -
The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession by Bruce Chilton
€22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506474281Author Bruce ChiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 365Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Euripides: Cyclops by Richard Hunter
RRP: €29.74€25.92Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not... -
Homer's Secret Odyssey by Kenneth Wood
RRP: €17.84€13.74Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond... -
The Petroglyphs of Mu: Pohnpei, Nan Madol, and the Legacy of Lemuria by Carole Nervig
RRP: €23.79€15.30* Shows how the archetypal symbols of the Pohnpaid petroglyphs have exact counterparts in other ancient cultures throughout the world * Provides evidence that Pohnpaid is closely related to--yet predates--neighboring Nan Madol * Includes hundreds of... -
Epicureanism Tim O'Keefe 9781844651702
RRP: €45.21€39.72The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant philosophies of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (century 341-270 BCE), it was characterized by an empiricist epistemology and a hedonistic ethics. This new introduction to... -
A Companion to the Hellenistic World Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh) 9781405132787
RRP: €47.54€42.89Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this authoritative Companion explores the world that Alexander created but did not live to see. Comprises 29 original... -
The Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle by William Keith Chambers Guthrie
RRP: €44.02€38.71W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics, he sets out to explain the ideas of Plato and... -
Galatians by Philip Francis Esler
RRP: €45.21€39.72Paul's letter to the Galatians, sometimes known as the Magna Carta of Christian liberty, is central to the understanding of the relation of Paul and the Law and is packed with crucial historical, social and theological material.Philip F. Esler provides a... -
Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle by G. E. R. Lloyd
€17.85This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers, and Aristotle. G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between... -
Disgraceful Archaeology: Or Things You Shouldn't Know About the History of Mankind by Paul G. Bahn
RRP: €15.46€11.45The book that all archaeology buffs have secretly been yearning for! This unique blend of text, anecdote and cartoon reveals, and revels in, those aspects of the past that have been ignored, glossed over or even suppressed - the bawdy, the scatological... -
Catullus and his World: A Reappraisal by T. P. Wiseman 9780521319683
RRP: €47.59€39.58This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realities of the first century BC as recent advances in historical research allow us to understand them... -
Armies of the Scythians and Sarmatians 700 BC to AD 450: Weapons, Equipment and Tactics by Gabriele Esposito 9781399047357
RRP: €29.75€20.97The Scythians were a horse nomads from the central Eurasian steppes who migrated south and west into the region around the Black Sea from the seventh century BC which they dominated until replaced and absorbed by the very similar Sarmatians from the... -
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction by Barbara Watterson 9781445669656
RRP: €23.80€21.59Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, but our image of her is largely gleaned from the film starring Elizabeth Taylor or from Shakespeare's... -
Euripides: Hecuba by Luigi Battezzato
RRP: €30.93€26.91Hecuba was the most widely read play of Euripides from antiquity to the Renaissance, appealing to readers and spectators for its controversial treatment of moral themes: revenge, war and slavery, violence, human sacrifice, gender and ethnic relations. It... -
A History of the African-Olmecs: Black Civilizations of America from Prehistoric Times to the Present Era by Paul Alfred Barton 9780759644694
€15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759644694Author Paul Alfred BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 286g -
History of Rome, Volume V: Books 21-22 by Livy
RRP: €29.69€27.83Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the... -
Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World by Allison Surtees
RRP: €30.93€28.06Gender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender. Using contemporary theory and methodologies this book opens up a new history of gender diversity from the ancient... -
Works: v.2 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 Roman Amphitheatre in Britain by Tony Wilmott 9780752441238
RRP: €29.75€22.54This is the first study of all the Roman amphitheatres in Britain, and it draws on very recent excavations at Chester, London and Silchester. Tony Wilmott describes every amphitheatre, amphitheatre-type structure and mixed theatre/amphitheatre structure... -
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: €30.93€27.24Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian... -
Justinian and the Sixth Century by Fiona Haarer
RRP: €35.69€28.75This book combines comprehensive discussion of the main aspects of Justinian's rule, together with a varied selection of source material, from both textual and material culture, making it a valuable resource for students and lecturers alike.Book... -
The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty by Philip Matyszak
RRP: €15.46€10.23At the heart of this history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty are the lives of six men - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius and Nero - men who mastered Rome and changed it from a democracy to a personal possession. It was no easy... -
Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy by Professor Richard A. Gabriel
RRP: €36.89€32.56The Romans' destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every interest in minimizing his success, exaggerating his... -
Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria Silke Trzcionka (Australian Catholic University, Queensland, Australia) 9780415392426
RRP: €45.21€39.72Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria presents an in-depth investigation of a variety of 'magical' practices with a focused study in the late antique Syria and Palestine.Offering new research using both archaeological and literary sources,... -
A Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity by Prof. Douglas Cairns
RRP: €32.12€27.89This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire. This is a wide remit, dealing... -
Theurgy in Late Antiquity: The Invention of a Ritual Tradition by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler 9783525540206
€127.41Theurgy is commonly taken to denote a complex of rites which are based on the so-called Chaldean Oracles, a collection of oracles in hexameters, which were probably composed during the late 2nd century AD. These rituals are mostly known through...