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Tacitus Annales by Cornelius Tacitus
€36.09Tacitus AnnalesReviewsA conveniently accessible text of the Latin Annales. It allows teachers maximum flexibility in selecting readings. As with all Oxford Classical Texts editions, vocabulary and commentary are independently furnished...and includes..... -
Horace: Epodes by Horace
RRP: €39.26€34.78The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon. David Mankin's introduction and... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius 9781420970241
€16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970241Author Diogenes LaertiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin: Volume VI by Robert Maltby
RRP: €29.69€27.83Three 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... -
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory by P. E. Easterling 9780521359832
RRP: €53.54€44.22This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these... -
Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview by Frida Kahlo 9781612198750
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198750Author Frida KahloFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb by Zahi Hawass
RRP: €47.54€33.12The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures, remains the most sensational archaeological find of all time. This brilliantly illustrated volume takes the reader through Tutankhamun's tomb room-by-room in the order that it was discovered and... -
Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II by Pliny the Younger 9780521187275
RRP: €32.12€27.89Pliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman prose. Often mined as a historical and pedagogical sourcebook, this collection of 'private' letters is now finding recognition as a rich and rewarding work in its own right. The second book... -
What Is a Jewish Classicist?: Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics by Simon Goldhill
RRP: €21.41€18.97In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage with... -
Daily Life in Ancient Greece by Don Nardo
RRP: €10.70€9.44This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in Ancient Greece. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, it uncovers some fascinating insights and explodes some myths. Supported by timelines, maps and... -
Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell 9780199731602
RRP: €51.16€41.32Ancient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying... -
Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period by Campbell Price
RRP: €35.70€27.26Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE-200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia... -
Hung, Drawn and Quartered: History's Gruesome Bits by Clive Gifford
RRP: €8.32€5.60Take a gruesome trip through time with this grisly compendium of death! From the best way to shrink a head to making a mummy in eight simple steps, and with fascinating facts about botched beheadings, greedy royals and the plague, Hung, Drawn and... -
Karnak: Evolution of a Temple by Elizabeth Blyth 9780415404877
€54.35The first publication in English, this book fills a gap in the market and presents an in-depth examination of the significant temple site at Karnak. It is visited by thousands of tourists each year and is one of the most famous ancient temples in the... -
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Roman Frontiers in Wales: Ffiniau'r Ymerodraeth Rufeinig: Ffiniau Rhufeinig Cymru by David J. Breeze
€18.12The frontiers of the Roman Empire together form the largest monument of one of the world's greatest ancient states. They stretch for some 7,500 km through 20 countries which encircle the Mediterranean Sea. The remains of these frontiers have been studied... -
Atlas of Classical History: Revised Edition Richard Talbert 9781138785830
RRP: €45.21€39.72Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities and travels from Greece's Bronze... -
Roman Law: An Introduction Rafael Domingo 9780815362777
RRP: €44.02€38.71Roman Law: An Introduction offers a clear and accessible introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition. In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian's massive Codification, the Romans developed the most... -
Literary Texts and the Greek Historian by Christopher Pelling
RRP: €45.21€39.72Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are themselves among the most... -
Cicero: Select Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €33.31€28.88Professor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero's letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete correspondence is designed specifically for students at universities and in the... -
Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire by Iain Gardner 9780521568227
RRP: €53.54€45.39Founded by Mani (c. AD 216-276), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian background who lived in Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became one of the most persecuted heresies... -
The Syriac World by Daniel King 9780367732363
RRP: €54.73€47.75This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the... -
Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity, An Investigative Report by Francesco Carotta 9789059113961
RRP: €38.08€26.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789059113961Author Francesco CarottaFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 874g -
Marcus Aurelius in Love by Marcus Aurelius 9780226378114
RRP: €27.37€26.33In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had... -
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law by David Johnston
RRP: €41.64€33.08This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law. The essays, newly commissioned for this volume, cover the sources of evidence for classical Roman law, the elements of private law, as well as criminal and public law, and the second... -
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691147208
RRP: €29.75€23.79Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a... -
In Search of Aeneas: Classical Myth or Bronze Age Hero? by Anthony Adolph 9781398105362
RRP: €29.75€20.03Aeneas is one of the most prominent heroes who fought at Troy, as told in Homer's Iliad, and he is the subject of Virgil's Aeneid. Both works lie at the heart of western civilisation and are fantastic adventures involving love and war, journeys across... -
In Search of Cheddar Man by Larry Barham
RRP: €19.03€14.58This book puts Cheddar Man into a wider archaeological context and explains the scientific detective work behind the headlines which made him an international celebrity nine millennia after his death.Book InformationISBN 9780752414010Author Larry... -
The Emperor Caligula in the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett 9780198854579
RRP: €23.80€22.38There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source... -
Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel by Katell Berthelot
RRP: €49.98€39.32How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the TorahThroughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the... -
Sophocles: Philoctetes by Sophocles
RRP: €33.31€28.88Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It... -
Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica by Robert Garland
RRP: €24.99€22.22Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes' victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad... -
Marcus Aurelius: A Biography by Anthony R Birley
RRP: €45.21€39.72Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor who ruled the Roman Empire between AD 161 and 180, is one of the best recorded individuals from antiquity. Even his face became more than usually familiar: the imperial coinage displayed his portrait for over 40... -
Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World by David Phillips
RRP: €29.75€28.77First launched at the time of the Athens Olympics, "Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World" has become a classic study in its field. The 15 illustrated chapters of this collection not only explore many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the rich... -
The Roman Frontier in Britain: Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall and Roman Policy in Scotland by David C. A. Shotter
RRP: €11.84€8.43An up-to-date and in-depth historical study of the northern Roman frontier in Britain - why was the military conquest of Scotland never completed and what were the criteria governing Roman policy over the centuries? The idea of the Roman frontier... -
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: History,Archaeology and Society by Wolfram Grajetzki 9780715634356
€45.39For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local... -
Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis: Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes by Christopher Collard 9781911226475
RRP: €47.59€43.39Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are not available for purchase.About the AuthorChristopher Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Swansea. He has published widely on tragedy and Euripides in particular. His work... -
The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity by Maia Kotrosits
RRP: €30.94€29.57Our lives are filled with objects-ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a... -
The Ancient Greeks: History and Culture from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander by Matthew Dillon 9780415471435
RRP: €47.59€42.91The Ancient Greeks: History and Culture from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander offers students a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the ancient Greek world for the period c.800-323 BC. It provides critical background to the... -
Food in Roman Britain by Joan P. Alcock
RRP: €29.75€22.06Descriptions of food in Roman Britain are usually based on the cookery book of Apicius, as if the whole island dined on gourmet food. In contrast Joan Alcock draws on the archaeological evidence, as well as on Classical and Celtic literature, to discover... -
Men of Bronze by Eric Farrington
RRP: €15.46€11.66Men of Bronze is a wargame that allows you to play out Classical Greek hoplite battles on the tabletop. Players are Strategoi (generals) leading phalanxes of bronze-clad warriors in pursuit of fame, glory, and the honor of their city-states. To win such...