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A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts: Third, revised and expanded edition by John L Hayes
RRP: €62.48€60.34This manual is designed as a textbook of the Sumerian language, based principally on texts of the Ur III period (21st century BCE). It is self-contained, so that it will be of use to students with or without a teacher. It includes a general description... -
Roman Emperors: A Captivating Guide to Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Constantine the Great, and Justinian I by Captivating History 9781647486723
RRP: €29.71€18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486723Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)... -
The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green
RRP: €32.13€25.06This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire... -
The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art by Robin M. Jensen 9780367734398
RRP: €52.35€45.74The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of the subject and then presents fifteen essays that... -
Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic by Dan-el Padilla Peralta 9780691247632
RRP: €35.70€27.72How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social... -
The Roman Invasions of Britain by Gerald Grainge 9780752433387
RRP: €22.60€17.04The Romans invaded Britains on three occasions, twice under Julius Caesar in 55 and 54 BC, under Claudius in AD 43 and in AD 296 under Constantius Chlorus. Grainge looks at the challenges and how they were overcome, reconstructing the ships and examining... -
Roman Towns Adam Rogers 9781445698601
RRP: €10.70€7.16Britain has a rich urban history with many of its towns and cities overlying Roman period archaeology and incorporating Roman remains. In further cases, Roman towns now lie beneath fields and agricultural land because settlement did not continue, or took... -
Roma Traversata: Tracing Historic Pathways through Rome by Allan Ceen
RRP: €40.46€35.57Roma Traversata analyzes pathways to decipher the complexity of Rome's urban layout. Nearly all of the prehistoric country paths converging on what was to become the Roman Forum (the ancient city center) are still traceable in the modern city. To these... -
A Companion to the Classical Greek World Konrad H. Kinzl (Trent University, Canada) 9781444334128
RRP: €47.54€42.89This Companion provides scholarly yet accessible new interpretations of Greek history of the Classical period, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. Topics covered range from the political and... -
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian by John Marincola
RRP: €17.84€13.03What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world.The study of history was invented in... -
The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story by T. P. Wiseman 9780691180076
RRP: €38.08€30.65A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the PalatineCaesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word "palace"... -
Anecdota, or Secret History by Procopius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Late antique muckraking.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 ... -
Alexander The Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius by James Romm 9780872207271
RRP: €20.22€16.81Comprising relevant selections from the four ancient writers whose portraits of Alexander the Great still survive--Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius--this volume provides a complete narrative of the important events in Alexander's life. The... -
Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources Laura K. McClure (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 9780631225898
RRP: €47.54€41.70This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.About the AuthorLaura K. McClure is Associate Professor of Classics at the... -
Early Rome: Myth and Society Jaclyn Neel 9781119083801
RRP: €46.35€40.70The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern and accessible translations and commentaries on... -
The Fall of the Roman Household by Kate Cooper 9780521884600
RRP: €67.83€61.32Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life ... whole legions were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This... -
Law and Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine's Marriage Legislation by Judith Evans Grubbs 9780198208228
€128.12This is a new and thought-provoking study of marriage and the law in late antiquity, dealing particularly with the legislation on marriage enacted by the Roman emperor Constantine (AD 307-337). As the first emperor to accept Christianity, Constantine is... -
Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome’s War with Hannibal by Antony Augoustakis 9780367699895
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus' Punica. Composed in the first century CE, this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between Rome and Hannibal's Carthage (218-202 BCE). It is not... -
Works: v. 1: The Life AND Against Apion by Flavius Josephus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
Cicero: De re publica: Selections by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780521348966
RRP: €34.50€30.73Cicero's De re publica contains the fullest ancient account of the theory of the mixed constitution and the oldest extant narrative of early Roman history; it concludes with the Dream of Scipio, one of the most influential ancient visions of the... -
The Learned Banqueters: v. 1 by Athenaeus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of... -
Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects by Fergus Millar 9780198148586
€64.62This book presents seven fresh and original views of Caesar Augustus, as the authors of the papers collected here consider the image which he presented of himself, how poets and historians reacted to him, the nature of his rule, and the representation of... -
The End of Roman Britain by Michael E. Jones
RRP: €34.50€29.70Among the provinces long occupied by Rome, Britain retained the slightest imprint of the invading civilization. To explain why this was true, Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that... -
Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership by Barry Strauss 9781439164495
RRP: €22.60€14.51Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar had to be not only generals but statesmen. And yet each was a battlefield commander, a strategist, a leader of men-in short, a warrior. Tactics change, weapons change, but the ultimate purpose of war remains much the same... -
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
RRP: €23.79€18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060787295Author Thomas AsbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Life In Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine by Scott Korb
€17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485039Author Scott KorbFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 230g -
Druids: Preachers of Immortality by Anne Ross 9780752425764
RRP: €15.46€11.45Druidism was the religion of the Celts. The richest source of information about the druids is the vernacular material from Ireland and Wales. The author's familiarity with the gaelic texts strips away modern myths about the Druids.Book InformationISBN... -
Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens: Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE) by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: €23.79€20.87Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great-the Bibliotheke, or "Library," produced by Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca... -
Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology by Michael Philip Penn
RRP: €40.46€33.28Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac Christians quickly spread across Eurasia, from Turkey to China,... -
Leisure and Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner 9780745621982
€21.53In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.About the AuthorJerry Toner studied Classics at... -
Achilles the Hero: Epic and Legendary Leaders by Eirene Allen, PhD
RRP: €8.32€6.32With a new introduction, this life of the warrior leader Achilles focuses on the ten-year siege of Troy, but also gathers accounts of the early life of Achilles as portrayed by authors from classical times through to late Antiquity and the modern era. It... -
Greek Island Myths: Kos : Hippocrates and Asclepius by Jill Dudley 9780993489075
€3.74In this booklet Jill Dudley writes about Hippocrates who was born on Kos, whose father was a temple priest-physician serving Asclepius, god of healing. She describes Hippocrates' pioneering approach to medicine, and his break with the traditional belief... -
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I-II by Tim Whitmarsh 9781316640593
RRP: €32.12€27.89The Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling narratives, but also because they offer revealing insights into the culture of the Greek world of the Roman... -
Library of History: v. 8 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;... -
Ancient Near East: The Basics Daniel C. Snell 9780415656986
RRP: €22.60€20.08Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great's conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of... -
Nothing to Do with Dionysos?: Athenian Drama in Its Social Context by John J. Winkler 9780691015255
RRP: €71.40€56.05These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically... -
Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War by Larry Hedrick
€14.34In 1906, a stilted English translation of "Xenophon of Athens", story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more accessible edition of one of history's most extraordinary and successful leaders is emerging... -
Corruption and the Decline of Rome by Ramsay MacMullen 9780300047998
€40.46Prominent historian Ramsay MacMullen here offers a new perspective on the decline and fall of Rome. MacMullen argues that a key factor in Rome's fall was the steady loss of focus and control over government as its aims were thwarted for private gain by... -
Barbarians: Rebellion and Resistance to the Roman Empire by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: €29.75€26.41'And now what will become of us without barbarians?Those people were a sort of solution.' 'Waiting for the Barbarians' C. P. CavafyHistory is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left... -
Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar's Decision and the Fate of Rome by Luca Fezzi
RRP: €32.73€27.72A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his troops, he instead marched his soldiers across the...