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The Romans in 100 Facts by Jem Duducu
RRP: £8.99£6.02The Roman Empire is one of the most famous civilisations in history, and with good cause. Over a period spanning nearly 1,000 years, the Romans came, saw and conquered land after land. This book looks at Roman history from the foundation to collapse of... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy by Walter Scheidel 9780521726887
RRP: £34.99£27.80This book offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features and consequences of Roman economic development and integrating additional web-based materials, it is... -
The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337 by Fergus Millar 9780674778863
£44.95From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. In a remarkable work of interpretive history, Fergus Millar shows us this world as it was... -
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by III Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III 9780691156934
RRP: £42.00£33.44An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In... -
Pre-Sargonic Period: (2700-2350 Bc) by Douglas Frayne 9781487545130
RRP: £47.00£42.15The book Presargonic Period (2700-2350 BC) provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of kings who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia down to the advent of King Sargon of Akkad. Most of the inscriptions come from the city states of Lagsh and Umma;... -
The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes by Christian A Thomsen
RRP: £20.99£19.25Christian Thomsen offers a study of political institutions on the island state of Rhodes an important power in the eastern Mediterranean and the first city of the Hellenistic world. Using Aristotle's notion of the polis as an 'association of... -
The Path to the New Hermopolis: The History, Philosophy, and Future of the City of Hermes by Mervat Nasser 9780995124509
RRP: £15.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995124509Author Mervat NasserFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Rubedo PressPublisher Rubedo PressWeight(grams) 177g -
Attila the Hun: A Captivating Guide to the Ruler of the Huns and His Invasions of the Roman Empire by Captivating History 9781950924592
RRP: £29.99£9.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924592Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: £16.99£14.13Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence... -
Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple: Ancient Acharnai by Danielle L. Kellogg 9780199645794
£98.42In ancient Athenian democracy there were one hundred and thirty-nine official demes, or recognized population centres, which formed the foundation of the political system introduced by Kleisthenes in 508/7 BC. Enrolment in one of these demes was a... -
The Origins of Greek Civilization: 1100-650 B.C. by Chester G. Starr 9780393307795
RRP: £24.00£20.43When the great citadel of Mycenae, then the center of the Aegean world, went up in flames about 1100 B.C., what followed was a "dark age" that left no written records. But rich archaeological records show conclusively that there was a radical... -
Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 BC by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta.The book explores both the city-state of Sparta and the territory of Lakonia which it unified and exploited... -
The Archaeology and Early History of the Channel Islands by Heather Sebire 9780752434490
RRP: £22.50£16.79A complete survey of the archaeology of the islands from prehistoric times, through the Roman and medieval periods, down to the present day. There will also be an annotated gazetteer of museums and sites to see.About the AuthorHeather Sabire is... -
Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain by D. F. Mackreth
£76.39The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain – the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. This... -
Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies by Zahi Hawass 9789774168871
RRP: £35.00£29.82The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have... -
Ramesses, Loved by Ptah: The History of a Colossal Royal Statue by Susanna Thomas
RRP: £19.99£16.42The dramatic story behind the 3,200-year-old colossal Grand Egyptian Museum Ramesses statueKing Ramesses II ruled Egypt for an extraordinary sixty-six years (1279-1213 BC) during the Nineteenth Dynasty. A great warrior and lavish builder, he fathered... -
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691147208
RRP: £25.00£19.99Amazons--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... -
Issues in the Conservation of Paintings by Mark Leonard 9780892367818
RRP: £40.00£34.59This volume on paintings conservation includes more than seventy texts ranging from the fifteenth century to the present day. Some are classic and highly influential writings; others, although little known when first published, in retrospect reflect... -
Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature by Denis Feeney
RRP: £25.95£20.64A History Today Best Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearVirgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable... -
Vespasian by Barbara Levick
RRP: £39.99£35.06From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this volume examines the life and times of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements. Levick examines how this plebeian and... -
The Pharos Lighthouse In Alexandria: Second Sun and Seventh Wonder of Antiquity by Andrew Michael Chugg 9781032569369
RRP: £135.00£117.28This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it... -
Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts by Georg Luck
RRP: £30.50£27.77Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe," of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking collection of Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, Georg Luck... -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition by Edward Gibbon
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758119Author Edward GibbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1312Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 697gDimensions(mm)... -
In Search of Aeneas: Classical Myth or Bronze Age Hero? by Anthony Adolph 9781398105362
RRP: £25.00£16.83Aeneas 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... -
Roman Bath Discovered by Barry Cunliffe 9780752419022
RRP: £22.50£20.28The finding, in 1727, of the gilded bronze head of the Roman goddess Minerva during the construction of the famous Stall Street led to the discovery of the Roman temple and of the baths. Since then archaeologists have discovered more and more about the... -
Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £14.99£11.35When, 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... -
A Companion to Archaic Greece by Kurt A. Raaflaub 9781118451380
RRP: £38.95£35.20A systematic survey of archaic Greek society and culture which introduces the reader to a wide range of new approaches to the period. The first comprehensive and accessible survey of developments in the study of archaic GreecePlaces Greek society of c... -
Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings: v. 1 by Valerius Maximus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Exemplary wisdom from ancient Rome.Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (AD 14-37). The collection was admired in antiquity and has recently been attracting renewed scholarly attention. Yet to... -
Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus by Nickolas Pappas 9780367256135
RRP: £41.99£36.75Menexenus is one of the least studied among Plato's works, mostly because of the puzzling nature of the text, which has led many scholars either to reject the dialogue as spurious or to consider it as a mocking parody of Athenian funeral rhetoric. In... -
Bandits in the Roman Empire: Myth and Reality by Thomas Grunewald
RRP: £53.99£46.87This wide-ranging and informative survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understanding of Roman social history.Examining men such as as Viriatus, Tacfarinus, Maternus and Bulla Felix, who were called latrones after... -
Livy: Ab urbe condita Book VI by Livy
RRP: £27.99£24.27Book VI of Livy's Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, faced serious civil disturbance, the resolution of which fundamentally... -
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall 9780393351163
RRP: £12.99£11.85The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient... -
The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe by Marta Diaz-Guardamino 9780198724605
£105.40This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over thousands of years, and reveals how they can act as a node linking people through time, possessing huge ideological and political significance... -
Balls of Fire: A Science of Life and Death by Judy Kay King 9780976281429
£36.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976281429Author Judy Kay KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Envision Editions, Ltd.Publisher Envision Editions, Ltd.Weight(grams)... -
Slavery and Society at Rome by Professor Keith Bradley 9780521378871
RRP: £24.99£21.18This book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world, and with revealing the impact the institution of slavery made on Roman society at large. It shows how and in what sense Rome... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian by Michael Maas
RRP: £37.99£32.97This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527-565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures... -
The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives by Professor Daniel Ogden
RRP: £25.00£23.78The Hellenistic World assembles fourteen new papers, by an international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII. Subjects range from settlement patterns, non-Greek populations and marginal... -
The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq by John Gittings
RRP: £22.49£17.17Human progress and prosperity depend on a peaceful environment, and most people have always sought to live in peace, yet our perception of the past is dominated too often by a narrative that is obsessed with war. In this ground breaking study, former... -
Omm Sety's Abydos by Eady D.L. 9780920808092
£14.25A 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... -
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt – Recreating Lahun by K Szpakowska 9781405118552
RRP: £89.95£80.17Using 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...