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Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger by Roy K. Gibson 9780199948192
RRP: €35.69€32.83Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual... -
Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection: v. 1 by E. A. Wallis Budge 9780486227801
RRP: €29.74€28.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486227801Author Sir E. A. WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Greek Mythology Explained: A Deeper Look at Classical Greek Lore and Myth by Marios Christou 9781633538962
RRP: €17.84€13.07Ancient Greek Gods and Mythology Explored Like Never Before#1 Bestseller in Ancient & Classical LiteratureDiscover six classic stories of Greek mythology in this exciting retelling that paints both famous and lesser-known Greek gods in a whole new light... -
Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium by Elizabeth James
RRP: €49.97€43.73The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The... -
Anabasis (The Persian Expedition) by Xenophon 9781420964912
€11.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964912Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 240g -
Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia by Eberhard Sauer
RRP: €34.50€27.82The Sasanian Empire was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan. This book explores key phenomena which contributed to its wealth and power, from the empire's armed forces to agriculture, trade and... -
A History of the Byzantine State and Society by Warren T. Treadgold 9780804726306
RRP: €64.26€56.87This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in A.D. 285, when the emperor Diocletian separated what became... -
Rome's Armies to the Death of Augustus by Tony McArthur 9781399080071
RRP: €26.18€18.59National armies, as we know them today, are a comparatively recent development. It has been assumed that the Romans had an army similar to the national institutions of advanced, almost exclusively European, powers at the end of the nineteenth century... -
Music in Ancient Greece: Melody, Rhythm and Life by Spencer Klavan
€24.95Life in ancient Greece was musical life. Soloists competed onstage for popular accolades, becoming centrepieces for cultural conversation and even leading Plato to recommend that certain forms of music be banned from his ideal society. And the music... -
Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture by Harriet I. Flower 9780199240241
€123.99In the first comprehensive study of Roman ancestor masks in English, Harriet Flower explains the reasons behind the use of wax masks in the commemoration of politically prominent family members by the elite society of Rome. Flower traces the functional... -
Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins': A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer by Bart Wagemakers 9781782972457
€77.03Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953-4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of... -
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5: Books 17-20 by Mark W. Edwards 9780521312080
RRP: €53.54€45.86This is the fifth volume in the major six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad now being prepared under the general- editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk. Volume I was published in 1985, Volume II in 1990; both were edited by Professor Kirk himself. Like its... -
The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts by Philip Freeman 9781416585237
€15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416585237Author Philip FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Augustus, First Roman Emperor: Power, Propaganda and the Politics of Survival Matthew D. H. Clark 9781904675143
€32.97Rome's first emperor, Augustus, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, has probably had the most lasting effect on history of all rulers of the classical world. This book focuses on his rise to power and on the ways in which he then maintained authority... -
Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World by Lynn V. Foster 9780195183634
RRP: €25.57€16.35The ancient Mayan civilization of southern Mexico and northern Central America has long been described as "mysterious," even though scholars have been studying this culture for hundreds of years. Our view of the Maya has changed dramatically based on the... -
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction by Barbara Watterson
RRP: €13.08€8.63Cleopatra 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... -
Ancient Greeks at War: Warfare in the Classical World from Agamemnon to Alexander by Simon Elliott 9781612009988
RRP: €35.70€35.05Ancient Greeks at War is a lavishly illustrated tour de force covering every aspect of warfare in the Ancient Greek world from the beginnings of Greek civilization through to its assimilation into the ever expanding world of Rome. As such it begins with... -
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece by Rosalind Thomas
RRP: €44.02€37.78This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral... -
In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World by Christian Marek 9780691182902
RRP: €38.08€30.65A monumental history of Asia Minor from the Stone Age to the Roman EmpireIn this critically acclaimed book, Christian Marek masterfully provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. Blending rich... -
The Histories: No. 2 by Polybius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
Roman Clothing and Fashion by Alexandra Croom
RRP: €26.18€18.22There is plenty of information about military dress in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman Empire, but the evidence for civilian dress has not been comprehensively looked at since the 1930s. In this richly illustrated survey, Alexandra Croom... -
The War for Gaul: A New Translation by Julius Caesar 9780691174921
RRP: €26.18€20.66A new translation that captures the gripping power of one of the greatest war stories ever told-Julius Caesar's pitiless account of his brutal campaign to conquer GaulImagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying... -
In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English by Carmel McCaffrey 9781566635257
RRP: €15.46€11.44This 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: €23.79€21.87A 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... -
The World of the Gladiator by Susanna Shadrake 9780752434421
RRP: €35.70€26.69The 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... -
Egyptian Religion by Siegfried Morenz 9780801480294
RRP: €35.69€31.54Introducing 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: €24.98€21.86Akhenaten, 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... -
The Economy of Pompeii by Andrew Wilson 9780198786573
€122.43This 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... -
The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337 by Fergus Millar 9780674778863
€52.68From 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... -
Artemis Stephanie Lynn Budin 9780367001001
RRP: €44.02€38.71Artemis 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... -
Literary Papyri Poetry: Selections: v. 3 by D. L. Page
RRP: €29.69€27.83Scraps of verse from the sands of Egypt.The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th-4th centuries BC fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play) by Aeschylus; of... -
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley 9780688154806
€6.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688154806Author Diane StanleyFormat PaperbackImprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g -
Roman Architecture Frank Sear 9781138543737
RRP: €42.83€37.71In this fully updated new edition, Frank Sear offers a thorough overview of the history of architecture in the Roman Empire.Arranged logically in six historical sections interspersed with material on Roman architects and their techniques, the building... -
Aeschylus: Eumenides by Aeschylus 9780521284301
RRP: €34.50€30.73Professor 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: €24.98€21.86Jean-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... -
Mycenae: From Myth to History by Robert McCabe
RRP: €34.50€24.28The Mycenaean civilization flourished more than 800 years before the classical Greeks, with a complex society, strong artistic tendencies, and a distinct system of writing. Famous for its lion gate and citadel, Mycenae was long believed to be the city... -
The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies by Michael MacDonald 9780197503607
€63.21One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once... -
Reorienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity by Khododad Rezakhani
RRP: €29.74€24.15In 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... -
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B Strassler
RRP: €42.84€41.33From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika covers... -
Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: €59.50€46.55Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between...