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Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation by Rebecca Futo Kennedy 9781603849944
RRP: £21.99£17.98By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of otherness, as well as Greek and Roman views of non-Greeks and... -
A Companion to the Punic Wars by Dexter Hoyos 9781119025504
RRP: £35.95£32.07A Companion to the Punic Wars offers a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. Offers a broad survey of the Punic Wars from a variety of perspectivesFeatures contributions from an outstanding... -
Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel by Katell Berthelot
RRP: £42.00£33.04How 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... -
Rome's Empire: How the Romans Acquired and Lost Their Provinces by Patricia Southern
RRP: £35.00£22.62The Roman Empire was forged in war and defended by military might. It also endured because of the Romans' ability to assimilate and pacify the different peoples and cultures within their provinces. In Rome's early years it did not annexe territory but... -
Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: A Selection of Love Poetry by Anita Nikkanen 9781474266147
RRP: £18.99£16.90This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Ovid's Amores 1.1 and 2.5, Propertius 1.1 and Tibullus 1.1 with the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Amores 2.7 and 2.8, Propertius 1.3... -
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy by James M. Redfield
RRP: £95.00£74.51Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the... -
The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. - A.D.235) by Jonathan Roth 9789004225473
RRP: £58.00£52.68Relying on a variety of literary, documentary and archaeological sources, this work explores the Roman military supply system from the Punic Wars to the end of the Principate. Each chapter is devoted to a different aspect of logistics: supply needs and... -
Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East: Sources and Contexts by Olga Kubica 9781032193021
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Indo-Greek kingdom... -
Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy by Paul Ratchnevsky 9780631189497
RRP: £33.95£29.98Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest continuous land empire ever. On his death in 1227, this extended from the Near East to the Yellow Sea, and was expanded by his successors to include what is now Iran, Iraq and southern Russia... -
Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III by Ovid 9780521124218
RRP: £40.99£33.66This is a full-scale commentary devoted to the third book of Ovid's Ars Amatoria. It includes an Introduction, a revision of E. J. Kenney's Oxford text of the book, and detailed line-by-line and section-by-section commentary on the language and ideas of... -
Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens by David Stuttard
RRP: £30.95£24.82A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearA vivid, novelistic history of the rise of Athens from relative obscurity to the edge of its golden age, told through the lives of Miltiades and Cimon, the father and son whose defiance of Persia vaulted... -
Herodotus: Histories, Books 5-9 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri V-IX) by N. G. Wilson 9780199560714
£47.32In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1906 and last revised in 1927. As well as incorporating much of the valuable work on the text that has... -
James by Richard Bauckham
RRP: £37.99£33.38Richard Bauckham explores the historical and literary contexts of the Epistle of James, discussing the significance of James as the brother of Jesus and leader of the early Jerusalem church. He gives special attention to the aphorisms which encapsulate... -
Gladiator: The Complete Guide To Ancient Rome's Bloody Fighters by Konstantin S. Nossov
RRP: £18.99£17.86Gladiatorial games at first served as a solemn funeral rite to honor noble citizens. At the height of their eight-century reign of popularity, the games-which constantly evolved to include new events such as combat with animals and full-scale naval... -
Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Touraj Daryaee 9780755618415
RRP: £19.99£16.54Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He examines... -
Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World by Anise K. Strong
RRP: £21.99£19.80Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World is the first substantial account of elite Roman concubines and courtesans. Exploring the blurred line between proper matron and wicked prostitute, it illuminates the lives of sexually promiscuous women like... -
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays by Helene P. Foley
RRP: £45.00£35.32The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess... -
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £28.00£24.94Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of The Best of the Achaeans bridged that gap, raising new... -
Life in a Roman Legionary Fortress by Tim Copeland 9781445643588
RRP: £15.99£15.38The Roman legions were the formidable, highly organised and welldisciplined backbone of the Roman army, vital to maintaining order and control of the borders of the Empire and its subjugated peoples. The fortresses that were the bases of the legions... -
Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Alexander R. Jones 9780691174402
RRP: £55.00£43.91The Greeks and Romans lived according to a distinctively Hellenic conception of time as an aspect of cosmic order and regularity. Appropriating ideas from Egypt and the Near East, the Greeks integrated them into a cosmological framework governed by... -
Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam by Eric H. Cline
RRP: £46.99£41.47Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity and the early Muslim period. Taking a focused and thematic approach,... -
Nero: The End of a Dynasty by Miriam Griffin
RRP: £37.99£33.38Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. However, his reign also illuminates the nature of the Julio-Claudian Principate. Nero's suicide brought to an end the dynasty Augustus had founded, and placed in... -
Golden Shrine, Goddess Queen: Egypt's Anointing Mysteries by Alison Roberts 9780952423324
RRP: £18.99£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952423324Author Alison RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Northgate PublishersPublisher Northgate PublishersWeight(grams) 476g -
Great Women of Imperial Rome: Mothers and Wives of the Caesars by Jasper Burns
RRP: £54.99£48.12Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations.Spanning the period from the death of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Horace by Stephen Harrison
RRP: £30.99£27.17Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He... -
The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources by Liv Mariah Yarrow
RRP: £20.99£18.44The narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources, augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however, provide new information on the distant past. This accessible but authoritative... -
Thucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IV by H. Stuart-Jones 9780198145509
£26.91Thucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IVBook InformationISBN 9780198145509Author H. Stuart-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 128mm * 23mm -
Greek and Latin Letters: An Anthology with Translation by Professor Michael Trapp
RRP: £29.99£26.67The 78 letters in this Anthology (41 Greek, 36 Latin and 1 bilingual, with facing English translation) are selected both for their intrinsic interest, and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c... -
The Cambridge Companion to Catullus by I. M. Le M. Du Quesnay
RRP: £25.99£21.99Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus'... -
Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity by Lin Foxhall 9780521557399
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped people's lives and experiences across the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. Exploring how gender was linked with other socio-political characteristics such as wealth, status, age and... -
Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann 9780415029728
RRP: £37.99£33.38Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and... -
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Graham Hancock 9781400049516
RRP: £28.00£20.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400049516Author Graham HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar's Decision and the Fate of Rome by Luca Fezzi
RRP: £27.50£23.29A 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... -
Abusir: The Necropolis of the Sons of the Sun by Miroslav Verner 9789774167904
RRP: £40.00£33.18At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. Long overshadowed by the more familiar pyramids at Giza and Saqqara, this area has... -
The Carthaginians by Dexter Hoyos 9780415436458
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Carthaginians reveals the complex culture, society and achievements of a famous, yet misunderstood, ancient people. Beginning as Phoenician settlers in North Africa, the Carthaginians then broadened their civilization with influences from... -
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction by Barbara Watterson
RRP: £10.99£7.25Cleopatra 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... -
The King Arthur Conspiracy: How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero by Simon Stirling
RRP: £14.99£11.55Arthur led the Britons to the brink of victory but was cut down by treachery and betrayal. Arthurian legends have since been corrupted, leading to popular but false assumptions about the king and the belief that his grave could never be found. Drawing on... -
Pericles and the Conquest of History: A Political Biography by Loren J. Samons
RRP: £24.99£19.99As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as... -
Edge of Empire, Rome's Scottish Frontier: The Antonine Wall by David J. Breeze
RRP: £14.99£10.77Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from what is now Northumbria and, 20 years after and over 100 miles further north than Hadrian's Wall, built a new frontier... -
Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court AD 364-425 by John Matthews 9780198144991
RRP: £65.00£57.06The central theme of this book is the relationship between the `public' and `private' lives of the men who were involved in the politics of the western Roman Empire in the later fourth and early fifth centuries. A postscript updates the book with regard...