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Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World before and after Jesus by Thomas Cahill 9780385483728
RRP: £20.00£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483728Author Thomas CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
A Companion to Julius Caesar by Miriam Griffin 9781405149235
RRP: £41.95£37.73A Companion to Julius Caesar comprises 30 essays from leading scholars examining the life and after life of this great polarizing figure. Explores Caesar from a variety of perspectives: military genius, ruthless tyrant, brilliant politician, first class... -
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love by David M. Halperin
RRP: £37.99£33.38Halperin'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... -
King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
RRP: £29.99£24.16This book explores Achaemenid kingship and argues for the centrality of the royal court in elite Persian society. The first Persian Empire (559-331 BC) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seated at the heart of its vast dominions, in the... -
In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World by Christian Marek 9780691182902
RRP: £32.00£25.76A 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... -
Virgil: Aeneid Book IX by Virgil
RRP: £27.99£24.27Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic. Two days during which Turnus launches a siege-assault on the Trojan camp while Aeneas is absent... -
The Early Roman Expansion into Italy: Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas by Nicola Terrenato
RRP: £30.99£25.45This book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy during the fourth and third centuries BCE. Nicola Terrenato argues that the process was accomplished by means of a grand bargain that was negotiated between the landed elites of... -
Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine by Brent D. Shaw
RRP: £37.99£35.43One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of... -
The Roman Imperial Succession by Dr. John D. Grainger 9781526766045
RRP: £25.00£18.02John D Grainger analyses the Roman imperial succession, demonstrating that the empire organized by Augustus was fundamentally flawed in the method it used to find emperors. Augustus' system was a mixture of heredity, senatorial and military influences,... -
Politics in the Ancient World by M. I. Finley 9780521275705
RRP: £25.99£21.99The business of politics - the vital process of conducting government through the dynamics of argument, conflict and decision-making - offers us one of the most revealing areas of insight into any society. Sir Moses Finley's exploration of politics in... -
Herodotus: Histories Book V by Herodotus
RRP: £27.99£24.27One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and... -
The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games by Garrett G. Fagan 9780521185967
RRP: £38.99£31.71Why did the Romans turn out in their tens of thousands to watch brutal gladiatorial games? Previous studies have tried to explain the attraction of the arena by theorizing about its cultural function in Roman society. The games have been seen as... -
A Short History of Babylon by Karen Radner
£15.23Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a return to their lost homeland after the sack of Jerusalem in 587 BC and... -
Secrets of Pompeii - Everyday Life in Ancient Rome by Emidio de Albentiis 9780892369416
RRP: £40.00£34.59This title presents a lavishly illustrated and fascinating exploration of the art, architecture, and archaeology of one of the world's best preserved Roman cities. The remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time following the tragic eruption... -
Sight and the Ancient Senses by Michael Squire
RRP: £37.99£33.78It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough... -
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
RRP: £12.99£8.18A "splendid" (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire.Following Caesar's... -
Roman History: v. 2 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £24.95£24.54A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy by Ronald H. Fritze
RRP: £18.00£13.36Now available in paperback, Egyptomania takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination, a land of strange gods, mysterious magic, secret knowledge, monumental pyramids, enigmatic sphinxes and immense wealth. Egypt has always... -
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire by Ian Worthington
RRP: £15.99£12.63Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded... -
Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games by Roland Auguet 9780415104531
RRP: £37.99£33.38Roland Auguet examines the Roman taste for blood and considers what the games, that strange combination of Cruelty and Civilization, reveal about the Roman mentality. He shows how the great spectacles became a part of city life - they were awaited with... -
The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume II: Athens and Attica by Robin Osborne 9780197644423
RRP: £71.00£65.04This book introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Athens in the period from 800-500 BCE. Following the standard arrangement of the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World series, author Robin Osborne deals successively with the sources;... -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780679423089
RRP: £100.00£68.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679423089Author Edward GibbonFormat HardbackPage Count 1902Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 2092gDimensions(mm)... -
Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780471675013
RRP: £21.99£20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471675013Author Stephen Dando-CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Gill Mill: Later Prehistoric Landscape and a Roman Nucleated Settlement in the Lower Windrush Valley at Gill Mill, near Witney, Oxfordshire by Paul Booth 9781905905423
£41.69The valley floodplain landscape covered by the Gill Mill quarry, almost 130ha, was intensively exploited from about 300 BC at a variety of Iron Age settlements. The largest of these remained in occupation into the early 3rd century AD, but meanwhile a... -
Livy: The History of Rome, Books 21-25 (Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri XXI-XXV) by John Briscoe
£54.99Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient texts, with apparatus criticus on each page. In this volume, Briscoe provides readers with a revised... -
Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused by Garth Fowden 9780691168401
RRP: £25.00£19.59Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only... -
Music in Ancient Greece: Melody, Rhythm and Life by Spencer Klavan
£20.97Life 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... -
Conquerors and Slaves by Keith Hopkins 9780521281812
RRP: £39.99£33.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Travel in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
RRP: £30.00£27.35The only book of its kind in any language, Travel in the Ancient World offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient travel, from the first Egyptian voyages recorded in Old Kingdom inscriptions through Greek and Roman times to the Christian... -
The Romans: An Introduction by Abigail Graham
RRP: £33.99£30.00The Romans: An Introduction is a concise, readable and comprehensive survey of the Roman world, which explores 1,200 years of political, military and cultural history alongside religion, social pressures, literature, art and architecture. This new... -
Euripides' Medea: A New Translation by Diane J. Rayor 9781107652217
RRP: £23.99£11.42Euripides' 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... -
Rome: A Sourcebook on the Ancient City by Fanny Dolansky
£31.23The ancient city of Rome was the site of daily activities as well as famous historical events. It was not merely a backdrop, but rather an active part of the experiences of its inhabitants, shaping their actions and infusing them with meaning. During... -
Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion by Jacob L. Mackey
RRP: £38.00£30.41A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn't absent from-but rather was at the heart of-Roman religionBelief and Cult argues that belief isn't uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion... -
Epic of Gilgamesh by Gilgamesh
£34.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780848805012Author GilgameshFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Amereon LtdPublisher Amereon LtdWeight(grams) 295g -
Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny by Edward J. Watts
RRP: £14.99£11.18In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and... -
Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI by Ovid
RRP: £27.99£24.27This is Ovid's wittily imagined version of the letters exchanged by three famous pairs of lovers. Heroides XVI-XXI constitute an artfully constructed triptych: Hero and Leander's tragedy of high romance and fleeting happiness framed by two ironic... -
Homicide in the Attic Orators: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Context by Christine Plastow
RRP: £37.99£33.38This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators and examines how these features affected and were represented and utilised in forensic rhetoric.The socially... -
Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we... -
The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition by Philip Hardie 9780521425629
RRP: £28.99£24.42This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level by Dr. Malcolm Campbell
RRP: £32.99£31.65The OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination in 2017-2019, giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription...