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Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks by Frank M. Snowden
RRP: £30.95£24.42In this richly illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. For three thousand years Mediterranean whites... -
The Hellenistic Age by Peter Thonemann
RRP: £14.99£10.95The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus... -
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: II. In Search of the Divine Centre by Werner Jaeger 9780195040470
RRP: £52.00£36.10This book is intended for Prizes won etc.Book InformationISBN 9780195040470Author Werner JaegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 592g -
Tacitus: Annals Book XV by Rhiannon Ash
RRP: £27.99£24.27Tacitus' account of Nero's principate is an extraordinary piece of historical writing. His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the Roman Empire. It describes how the imperial system... -
Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature by Emily Pillinger
RRP: £24.99£22.37This book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but never to be understood until too late - in Greek and Latin poetry. Using insights from the field of translation studies, the book focuses on the dialogic... -
Demosthenes: Selected Political Speeches by Judson Herrman
RRP: £26.99£23.44Demosthenes, as an emerging political leader in fourth-century Athens, delivered a series of fiery speeches to the citizens in the democratic Assembly, attacking the Macedonian king Philip II as an aggressive imperialist bent on destroying the city's... -
Homer by Richard Rutherford
RRP: £20.99£17.94This is a revised and updated version of the survey on Homer which the author originally published in 1996. It provides a wide variety of readers with a clear and detailed introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and to the problems which arise in... -
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization by A.Leo Oppenheim
RRP: £28.00£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226631875Author A. Leo OppenheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Pyrrhus of Epirus by Jeff Champion 9781473886643
£13.57Pyrrhus was born into the royal house of Epirus, northwest Greece, but his mother was forced to flee into exile to protect his life when he was a mere infant. Yet he prospered in troubled times and rose from a refugee to a king. Always an adventurer he... -
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran by D. T. Potts 9780190668662
RRP: £52.00£48.22Iran's heritage is as varied as it is complex, and the archaeological, philological, and linguistic scholarship of the region has not been the focus of a comprehensive study for many decades. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran provides up-to-date,... -
Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Light of its History by Nathan Schlanger 9781845450663
RRP: £72.00£58.56In line with the resurgence of interest in the history of archaeology manifested over the past decade, this volume aims to highlight state of the art research across several topics and areas, and to stimulate new approaches and studies in the field. With... -
The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 by R. B. Dobson 9780333255056
£70.59`An excellent selection of sources for the rebellion.' Bibliographies Handbook One of the most famous and dramatic episodes in English history, the great revolt of 1381 is still a largely unsolved mystery. The new edition of this lengthy and detailed... -
Roman Religion by J.A. North 9780199224333
RRP: £21.99£18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199224333Author J.A. NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 180g -
Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Stephen Bertman
RRP: £21.49£15.64Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate our understanding of the ancient world, including the many contributions made by the people of Mesopotamia to literature, art, government, and urban life The Handbook to Life... -
A Short History of the Byzantine Empire: Revised Edition by Dionysios Stathakopoulos
RRP: £14.99£13.32Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this revised edition sheds new light on the Empire's culture, theology, and economic and socio-political spheres. Charting from the... -
Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period: An Anthology by Neil Hopkinson 9780521423137
RRP: £36.99£32.65This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in... -
The Histories: No. 2 by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Hellenistic 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... -
Wisdom Texts from Qumran by Daniel J. Harrington, SJ
RRP: £36.99£32.53This study is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts. New translations and a full explanation of the background and context of wisdom literature introduce the reader to an important and hitherto little discussed part of the Dead Sea Scrolls... -
Commemorating Classical Battles: A Landscape Biography Approach to Marathon, Leuktra, and Chaironeia by Brandon Braun
RRP: £49.95£45.54This is a study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles, approaching monuments and other mnemonic practices as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories. It analyses the diachronic development of battlefield, sanctuary, and city... -
After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History by Andrew Feldherr
RRP: £41.95£36.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119076704Author Andrew FeldherrFormat PaperbackImprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc -
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner by Harriet I. Flower 9780691175003
RRP: £45.00£36.32The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to... -
Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism by Richard Tarrant 9780521158992
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book re-examines the most traditional area of classical scholarship, offering critical assessments of the current state of the field, its methods and controversies, and its prospects for the future in a digital environment. Each stage of the... -
Euripides: Ion by Euripides
RRP: £28.99£25.82Ion is one of Euripides' most appealing and inventive plays. With its story of an anonymous temple slave discovered to be the son of Apollo and Creusa, an Athenian princess, it is a rare example of Athenian myth dramatized for the Athenian stage. It... -
East and West in the World Empire of Alexander: Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth by Pat Wheatley 9780199693429
£107.92The essays in this volume - written by twenty international scholars - are dedicated to Professor Brian Bosworth who has, in over forty-five years, produced arguably the most influential corpus of historical and historiographical research by one scholar... -
History of the Wars: v. 3: Bks.V-VI, xv by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late antique military operations.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... -
The Bronze Age in Europe: Gods, Heroes and Treasures by Jean-Pierre Mohen
RRP: £7.95£4.08The heroes of the Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and swords of bronze.Book InformationISBN 9780500301012Author Jean-Pierre MohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd -
Athens and Athenian Democracy by Robin Osborne 9780521605700
RRP: £37.99£32.68These collected papers construct a distinctive view of classical Athens and of Athenian democracy, a view which takes seriously the evidence of settlement archaeology and of art history. This evidence both casts new light on traditional questions and... -
Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion by Christopher A. Faraone 9780195111408
RRP: £43.99£29.35This is a collection of essays by leading American and European scholars. Its purpose is to remedy the tendency among scholars working in Greek Religion to ignore the evidence for what have traditionally been called "magical" practices in... -
Marcus Aurelius by John Sellars 9780367146078
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this new study, John Sellars offers a fresh examination of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations as a work of philosophy by placing it against the background of the tradition of Stoic philosophy to which Marcus was committed. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius... -
Cosmology in Antiquity by Rosemary Wright
RRP: £135.00£117.28The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek... -
History of Rome, Volume VIII: Books 28-30 by Livy
RRP: £24.95£23.39Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the... -
The History Written on the Classical Greek Body by Robin Osborne 9780521176705
RRP: £30.99£22.85This book challenges historians to come to terms with the distortions that they systematically introduce into their work by their reliance on what has been written on paper without looking at what was and was not written on the body. This book is... -
Homer: Odyssey Books XIII and XIV by Homer 9780521159388
RRP: £25.99£22.61The second part of the Odyssey takes epic in new directions, giving significant roles to people of 'lower status' and their way of life: epic notions of the primacy of the aristocrat and the achievements of the Trojan War are submitted to scrutiny. Books... -
Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity by Simon Goldhill 9781108797023
RRP: £30.99£25.45How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew... -
Historical Miscellany by Aelian
RRP: £24.95£23.39A literary cabinet of curiosities.Aelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and enjoyable... -
History of the Wars: Bks.6, 16-7, 35, v. 4: Gothic War Continues by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late antique military operations.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... -
Perseus by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £36.99£32.53The son of Zeus, Perseus belongs in the first rank of Greek heroes. Indeed to some he was a greater hero even than Heracles. With the help of Hermes and Athena he slew the Gorgon Medusa, conquered a mighty sea monster and won the hand of the beautiful... -
Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece by Sara Forsdyke
RRP: £23.99£19.04Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own perspectives, rather than those of their owners, giving a voice to a group that is often rendered silent by... -
Virgil by Alison Keith
RRP: £21.99£19.28The works of Virgil (70-19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral... -
Who's Who in the Roman World by John Hazel 9780415291620
RRP: £22.99£20.16Who's Who in the Roman World is a wide-ranging biographical survey of one of the greatest civilizations in history. Covering a period from the 5th century BC to AD 364, this is an authoritative and hugely enjoyable guide to an era which continues to...