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101 Secrets of the Freemasons: The Truth Behind the World's Most Mysterious Society by Barb Karg 9781440503788
RRP: €15.41€10.21From the illustrious George Washington and the infamous J. Edgar Hoover to brilliant imaginer Walt Disney and bad boy of baseball Ty Cobb, Freemasons have influenced every aspect of American life. Yet this secret society remains as controversial and... -
A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome: 2 Volume Set by Georgia L. Irby 9781119100706
RRP: €58.25€52.63A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. ... -
Hadrian's Wall Through Time by Alan Michael Whitworth
RRP: €19.03€12.91This is a unique and visual companion to the best-known and most spectacular monument to the Roman Empire in Britain. A fascinating look at Hadrian's Wall uses James Irwin Coates 'old views' of the Wall as a comparison to how it looks today. Alan Michael... -
A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It by Nathan T. Elkins 9781421432557
RRP: €24.99€22.22Go behind the scenes to discover why the Colosseum was the king of amphitheaters in the Roman world-a paragon of Roman engineering prowess.Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of... -
Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story Martin Worthington 9781032085852
RRP: €47.59€41.72This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into... -
The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective Richard A. Billows (Columbia University, USA) 9781350289192
RRP: €29.74€24.32This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and why they had the highly unusual and influential form they took. After reviewing early city-state... -
King Arthur - English by Michael St. John Parker
RRP: €7.14€4.90What is the origin of the stories of the Round Table, of Excalibur and the Holy Grail, of Sir Launcelot and Guinevere? And where was Camelot? King Arthur's name has echoed down the centuries, conjuring up rich images of mystery and power, chivalry and... -
Red Granite - The Grains of Truth Beneath the Sand of Egypt: V Giza - Alexandria by Alexander Retrov 9780994314673
RRP: €21.30€18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994314673Author Alexander RetrovFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Thorpe-BowkerPublisher Thorpe-BowkerWeight(grams) 403g -
Enemies at the Gate: The City Walls of Ancient Rome by Patricia Southern 9781398112971
RRP: €35.70€23.24The earliest known wall in Rome encircled the early settlement on the Palatine Hill. Archaeological evidence corroborates the traditional date of the city’s foundation in the eighth century BC. No new wall is known until the early sixth century BC, when... -
New Pyramid Age, The - Worldwide Discoveries of New Pyramids Challenge Our Thinking Philip Coppens 9781846940460
RRP: €14.27€12.08Pyramids are now being found almost everywhere: in 1994 in China; then in Caral, in Peru, Southern America; then in Northern Italy and in 2005 in Bosnia. Despite their prevalence, massive pyramids remain as mysterious and controversial as ever. Though... -
Remains of Old Latin: v. 4: Archaic Inscriptions by E. H. Warmington
RRP: €29.69€27.83Physical graffiti.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials... -
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire by Paul J. Kosmin
RRP: €30.88€24.56Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award"Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from there, rather than starting a new count, as other states did, each time a new... -
Euripides' Medea: A New Translation by Diane J. Rayor 9781107652217
RRP: €28.55€13.59Euripides' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane J. Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality and vibrant poetry. The book includes... -
Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today by Athanassios G. Platias
RRP: €26.18€23.23Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its deep political and... -
The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs by Morris Bierbrier 9789774167461
RRP: €11.89€9.72The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs brings to life the people who lived and died at Deir el-Medina over three thousand years ago: their loves and hates, disputes and scandals, work and leisure. The author carried out extensive research on the tomb-builders... -
The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity Geoffrey Greatrex (Department of Classics & Religious Studies, University of Ottawa (Canada)) 9781846314940
RRP: €41.64€38.22The Chronicle attributed to Zachariah of Mytilene is one of the most important sources for the history of the church from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the early years of the reign of Justinian (527-565). The author who compiled the work in Syriac... -
Roman London by Dominic Perring 9780415620109
RRP: €51.16€44.73This book draws extensively on the results of the latest work to present a challenging new account of the rise and fall of one of the principal towns of the Roman empire.Reviews'Summarises succinctly what has been revealed in the City between 1973 and... -
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love by David M. Halperin
RRP: €45.21€39.72Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account... -
The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven by Anna Lefteratou 9780197666555
RRP: €64.26€58.58The Homeric Centos, a poem that is Homeric in style and biblical in theme, is a dramatic illustration of the creative cultural and religious dialogue between Classical Antiquity and Christianity taking place in the Roman Empire during the fifth century... -
Ancient Rome: Social and Historical Documents from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus Matthew Dillon 9780415726993
RRP: €57.11€50.94In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapters on the Second Triumvirate and The Age of Augustus. Dillon and Garland have also included more extensive... -
The Late Third Millennium in the Ancient Near East: Chronology, C14, and Climate Change by Felix Hoflmayer
€14.55During the late third millennium BC one of the biggest transformations of the ancient Near East took place, affecting almost all regions from Egypt to Anatolia and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Iranian plateau. This period not only saw the collapse... -
Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World by Emma Dench
RRP: €28.55€24.24This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the 'Empire of the... -
Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt by Miroslav Verner 9789774165634
RRP: €35.69€30.65Despite the prominence of ancient temples in the landscape of Egypt, books about them are surprisingly rare. This new and essential publication from a prominent Czech scholar answers the need for a study that goes beyond temple architecture to examine... -
An Oasis City by Roger S. Bagnall
RRP: €53.55€47.10Scattered through the vast expanse of stone and sand that makes up Egypt's Western Desert are several oases. These islands of green in the midst of the Sahara owe their existence to springs and wells drawing on ancient aquifers. In antiquity, as today,... -
The Ancient Mediterranean by Michael Grant 9780452010376
RRP: €22.49€17.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452010376Author Michael GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352g -
Nero: Emperor and Court by John F. Drinkwater
RRP: €47.59€40.06This book portrays Nero, not as the murderous tyrant of tradition, but as a young man ever-more reluctant to fulfil his responsibilities as emperor and ever-more anxious to demonstrate his genuine skills as a sportsman and artist. This reluctance caused... -
The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett 9780691156514
RRP: €38.08€29.46Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians--not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide,... -
The Pocket Stoic by John Sellars 9780226682969
RRP: €14.28€10.75To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very different and distant time: Stoicism. Today, more than... -
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual by Walter Burkert
RRP: €30.94€24.19"Tantalizingly rich ...this is a splendid book."--Greece and Rome "Burken relegates his learned documentation to the notes and writes in a lively and fluent style. The book is recommended as a major contribution to the interpretation of ancient Greek... -
Daily Life in Late Antiquity by Kristina Sessa 9780521148405
RRP: €29.74€25.20Daily Life in Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive study of lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE. Each of the six topical chapters highlight historical 'everyday' people, spaces, and objects, whose lives operate as windows... -
Sophocles: Oedipus the King by P. J. Finglass
RRP: €49.97€48.18For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, has exerted a powerful hold on the human imagination; but no retelling of that myth has ever come close, in passion, drama, and menace to the one that we... -
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus 9780521270113
RRP: €36.88€32.75The myth of fire stolen from the gods appears in many pre-industrial societies. In Greek culture Prometheus the fire-stealer figures prominently in the poems of Hesiod, but in Prometheus Bound Hesiod's morality tale has been transformed into a drama of... -
Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic by Raphael Woolf 9781844658411
RRP: €49.97€43.73Cicero's philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero's value as... -
The Mongol Conquests: A Captivating Guide to the Invasions and Conquests Initiated by Genghis Khan That Created the Vast Mongol Empire by Captivating History 9781950924233
RRP: €23.76€14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924233Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)... -
The Wars of the Maccabees by Dr. John D. Grainger 9781526782267
RRP: €17.84€13.03By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led... -
Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge Alan Butler 9781903816691
RRP: €15.46€14.11We're only just beginning to realize that Bronze Age people knew far more about astronomy and engineering than we have given them credit for. Reading like a thriller, The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge shows what Grail Knowledge really was and is.About... -
The Parthenon Enigma: A Journey Into Legend by Joan Breton Connelly
RRP: €29.75€22.94A radical new interpretation of the meaning and purposes of one of the world's most iconic buildings. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture and its highest ideals. It was understood to honour the... -
Roman Conquests: Egypt and Judaea John D. Grainger 9781526781598
RRP: €17.84€13.03Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting. However, Cleopatra's famous love affair with Marc Antony ensured she... -
The Athenian Empire by Russell Meiggs 9780198148432
RRP: €117.81€99.53A comprehensive re-examination of all the literary and epigraphic evidence, old and new, relating to the nature of Athenian imperialism in the fifth century BC.Book InformationISBN 9780198148432Author Russell MeiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint... -
Theodosius II: Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity by Christopher Kelly
RRP: €36.88€30.29Theodosius II (AD 408-450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian...