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Gregory the Great by John Moorhead 9780415233903
RRP: £37.99£33.38Gregory's life culminated in his holding the office of pope (590 - 604). He is generally regarded as one of the outstanding figures in the long line of popes, and by the late ninth century had come to be known as 'the Great'. Along with Ambrose, Jerome... -
In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English by Carmel McCaffrey 9781566635257
RRP: £12.99£9.61This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of... -
Roman Law Essentials by Craig Anderson
RRP: £19.99£18.38A study and revision guide for Scots law students of Roman law'Roman Law Essentials' provides a clear overview of the structure of Roman government and society. It first introduces the sources and development of Roman Law. Then, it examines the three... -
Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History by Neville Morley 9780415248778
RRP: £36.99£32.53Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history.Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret historical evidence for themselves, as well as to evaluate... -
Egyptian Religion by Siegfried Morenz 9780801480294
RRP: £29.99£26.50Introducing the reader to the gods and their worshippers and to the ways in which they were related, this book focuses on the ever-present link between the human and the divine in Ancient Egypt. The book also examines the impact of Egyptian... -
Akhenaten and the Religion of Light by Erik Hornung
RRP: £20.99£18.37Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C. E. Called the "religious revolutionary," he is the earliest known creator of a new religion. The cult he founded broke with Egypt's... -
Everyday Life in Ancient Rome by Lionel Casson
RRP: £26.50£23.29In Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, Lionel Casson offers a lively introduction to the society of the times. Instead of following the standard procedure of social history, he presents a series of vignettes focusing on the "ways of life" of various members... -
The Song Of Troy by Colleen McCullough
RRP: £9.99£7.16The tale of the Trojan War brilliantly retold by the bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS.The tragic and terrible drama of the war between Greeks and Trojans, the long siege of Troy, and the impact of one woman's beauty on the fate of two nations, is... -
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris by Emily Kearns
RRP: £24.99£21.78Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama set on the Black Sea coast in what is now Crimea, which explores themes of family loyalty, Greeks and barbarians, and the... -
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson 9780801851308
RRP: £32.50£30.09Lionel Casson's encyclopedic study is the first of its kind to use underwater archaeological data to refine and area of scholarship that had, for the most part, relied on ancient texts and graphic representations. Tracing the history of early ships and... -
The Economy of Pompeii by Andrew Wilson 9780198786573
£102.88This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii, and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy. Four themes are discussed. The first of... -
Disability in Antiquity by Christian Laes
RRP: £44.99£39.28This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as... -
Artemis by Stephanie Lynn Budin
RRP: £36.99£32.53Artemis is a literary, iconographic, and archaeological study of the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, who presided over the transitions and mediations between the wild and the civilized, youth and maturity, life and death. Beginning with a study of the... -
The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire by Shadi Bartsch 9780226038353
RRP: £80.00£77.01People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element... -
Life In Ancient Rome by Joan P. Alcock 9780752448008
RRP: £18.99£14.32Ancient Rome, as a subject, has always attracted and fascinated people. The extent of its vast empire, much of it a result of its efficient military power, was such that many Romans believed that they governed the whole world, as it was then known, and... -
A Companion to the Hellenistic World by Andrew Erskine
RRP: £39.95£36.04Covering 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... -
Saint Aldhelm's 'Riddles' by Saint Aldhelm 9781442628922
RRP: £29.99£27.38The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called "Britain's first man of letters." Among his many influential poetic texts were the hundred riddles that made up his... -
Aeschylus: Eumenides by Aeschylus 9780521284301
RRP: £28.99£25.82Professor Sommerstein here presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Eumenides is of all Athenian tragic dramas... -
The Origins of Greek Thought by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £20.99£18.37Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived... -
On the Embassy to Gaius: General Indexes: v. 10 by Philo
RRP: £24.95£23.39A diplomatic mission to the emperor Caligula.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as... -
Intellectual Life in the Roman Republic by Elizabeth Rawson 9780715622254
£38.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715622254Author Elizabeth RawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 490g -
Works: v.3 by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A 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... -
Reorienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity by Khododad Rezakhani
RRP: £24.99£20.29In the mediaeval period, Central Asia rose to prominence as a centre of Persian-Islamic culture, from the Seljuks to the Mongols. Khodadad Rezakhani tells the back story of this rise to prominence, the story of the famed Kushans and mysterious 'Asian... -
Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen by Joyce Tyldesley
RRP: £18.99£13.61For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrated... -
The Mysteries of Stonehenge: Myth and Ritual at the Sacred Centre by Nikolai Tolstoy
RRP: £25.00£17.43Stonehenge presents us with one of the greatest archaeological mysteries from prehistory. With each new breakthrough in field research and technological innovation, the full scale and significance of the ancient site only deepens. In this new magisterial... -
Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C. by Samuel D. Gartland
£62.55The region of Boiotia was one of the most powerful regions in Greece between the Peloponnesian War and the rise of Macedonian power under Philip II and Alexander the Great. Its influence stretched across most of the Greek mainland and, at times, across... -
Roman History, Volume III by Appian
RRP: £24.95£23.39Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction... -
The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia by Benjamin R. Foster 9781138909755
RRP: £41.99£37.15The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world's first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws... -
History of the Wars by Procopius - The Gothic War by Procopius
RRP: £12.24£9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785431388Author ProcopiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint ConflictPublisher ConflictWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
Roman Britain by Stephen R. Hill 9781853991400
RRP: £19.99£19.04This text aims to provide students with an introduction to Roman Britain, and a guide to further areas of study. It ranges from Britain's Celtic origins, through the history of Roman occupation, to discussions of its administrations, economy,... -
A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories by Sean Sheehan 9781474292665
RRP: £25.99£21.22Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the... -
Roman Disasters by Jerry Toner
RRP: £50.00£43.51Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where... -
Herodotus: Histories Book VIII by Herodotus 9780521575713
RRP: £27.99£24.27The Battle of Salamis was the first great (and unexpected) victory of the Greeks over the Persian forces under Xerxes, whose defeat had important consequences for the subsequent history and self-image of Europe. This battle forms the centre-piece of book... -
Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens: The Horse in Ancient Athens by Jenifer Neils
RRP: £32.50£30.81Hippos delves deeply into all aspects of ancient Athenian horsemanship, from the scientific analysis of a horse skeleton recently excavated at Phaleron to the roles of horses in Greek religion. Major discussion is devoted to hippotrophia, the training of... -
The World of the Gladiator by Susanna Shadrake 9780752434421
RRP: £30.00£22.43The figure of the gladiator is as compelling to us as it was to the Romans. Why are we drawn to this ancient blood sport? The usual explanation of the savagery lurking beneath our veneer of civilisation is too simplistic. Gladiatorial combat has always... -
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Don Nardo
RRP: £8.99£6.45This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in Ancient Egypt. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, it uncovers some fascinating insights and explodes some myths. Supported by timelines, maps and... -
Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture by William H. Stiebing Jr. 9780367744250
RRP: £61.99£53.61Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history.This new edition is a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the Near East, from... -
Treasures from the Oxus: The Art and Civilization of Central Asia by Massimo Vidale
£51.46In history, this grand arterial 1500-mile waterway was always seen as the natural frontier between the northern provinces of the Iranian empires and the outer Turanian lands. It was for centuries central to Achaemenid and later Persian power. But, as the... -
Ancient History from Coins by Christopher Howgego
RRP: £37.99£33.38Like other volumes in this series, Ancient History from Coins demystifies a specialism, introducing students (from first year upwards) to the techniques, methods, problems and advantages of using coins to do ancient history.Coins are a fertile source of... -
Memorable Deeds and Sayings: One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome by Valerius Maximus 9780872206748
RRP: £19.99£16.44Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as an engaging introduction to the cultural and moral history of ancient Rome. Valerius' "thousand tales" are...