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Xenophon: Anabasis Book III by Luuk Huitink
RRP: £67.99£59.12This is the first comprehensive commentary on a section of Xenophon's Anabasis in English for almost a century. It provides up-to-date guidance on literary, historical and cultural aspects of the Anabasis and will help undergraduate students to read... -
Edge of Empire: Rome'S Frontier on the Lower Rhine by Jona Lendering 9789490258054
£25.48Every ancient author writing about the Low Countries, was preoccupied with the complete contrast between the civilized people of the Roman Empire and the tribes of noble savages or barbarians living outside it. Julius Caesar exploited this preconception... -
The Rome that Did Not Fall: The Survival of the East in the Fifth Century Gerard Friell 9781138007031
RRP: £49.99£43.50The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It... -
428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina 9780691150253
RRP: £14.99£12.15This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in... -
Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE by Francoise Dunand
RRP: £31.00£27.76In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Francoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of... -
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... -
Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority by Ellen Oliensis 9780521030885
RRP: £37.99£31.31This book explores how Horace's poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between 'persona' and 'author', Ellen Oliensis considers Horace's poetry as one dimension of his 'face' - the... -
Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic by Henriette van der Blom
RRP: £36.99£28.38Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic is a pioneering investigation into political life in the late Roman Republic. It explores the nature and extent to which Roman politicians embraced oratorical performances as part of their political... -
Roman History 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... -
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... -
Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources Craige B. Champion (Syracuse University, USA) 9780631231196
RRP: £38.95£34.60This broad-ranging reader on Roman imperialism brings together ancient documents in translation and a selection of the best recent scholarly essays, in order to introduce students to the major problems and controversies in studying this central aspect of... -
Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge by Jacques Brunschwig
RRP: £81.95£66.90Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this... -
The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC by J. G. Manning
£35.92The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs... -
Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780471095705
£24.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471095705Author Stephen Dando-CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Roman Helmets by John Travis
RRP: £20.00£13.34The Roman military is an iconic, ancient institution; everybody is familiar with the image of fearsome Roman soldiers marching in their famous columns. In this book, Roman military experts Hilary and John Travis turn their attention to the helmets used... -
The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens by Jason Crowley
RRP: £30.99£25.45Throughout the Classical period, the Athenian hoplite demonstrated an unwavering willingness to close with and kill the enemies of Athens, whenever and wherever he was required to do so. Yet, despite his pugnacity, he was not a professional soldier; he... -
Limits of Empire by Simon Forty
RRP: £25.00£18.02The borders of the Roman Empire were frontiers that were often wild and dangerous. The expansion of the empire after the Punic Wars saw the Roman Republic become the dominant force in the Mediterranean as it first took Carthaginian territories in Gaul,... -
Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day by Donald P. Ryan 9780500297797
RRP: £9.99£6.80An essential guide for the discerning time-traveller: take a trip to ancient Egypt at the height of its power and prosperity in the reign of Ramesses II. More reliable than Herodotus and more upbeat than The Book of the Dead, this popular book in Thames... -
The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece by John J. Winkler
RRP: £39.99£35.06For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the "position of women" in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power, or were they little better than slaves? Using methods developed from feminist anthropology, Winkler steps back... -
Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh by Peter J Brand 9781948488471
RRP: £80.00£75.12In Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh Peter J. Brand paints with authoritative knowledge and colourful details a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age. Warrior, mighty builder and statesman,... -
Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness by Guy MacLean Rogers 9780812972719
RRP: £19.99£14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972719Author Guy Maclean RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Times BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Sallust by Ronald Syme
RRP: £31.00£24.43With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be... -
Works: v. 7 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
101 Things to do with a Stone Circle by Geoff Holder
RRP: £9.99£7.55This is not a book about the prehistoric peoples who built the stone circles. Rather it is light-hearted look at the weird and wonderful uses that these circles have been put to through the ages. This strange and fascinating list of uses ranges from... -
House of the Surgeon, Pompeii: Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23) by Michael Anderson 9781785707285
£82.58The House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the... -
On the Margin of the Euphrates: Settlement and Land Use at Tell es-Sweyhat and in the Upper Tabqa Area, Syria Tony J. Wilkinson 9781885923295
RRP: £66.00£62.45The present study forms part of the author's long-term research strategy that is aimed at examining the growth of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape over much of the last ten thousand years. Emphasis is upon the retrieval of information... -
A History of the Roman World 753-146 BC H.H. Scullard 9780415305044
RRP: £49.99£43.90This definitive study from the author of From the Gracchi to Nero, examines the period from the foundation of Rome to the fall of Carthage. An accessible introduction to these centuries of change, this book will also be useful as context for those... -
The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times. - Second Edition by Lionel Casson 9780691014777
RRP: £32.00£29.13Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition... -
The Trojans & Their Neighbours by Trevor Bryce
RRP: £37.99£33.38A central figure in both classical and ancient near Eastern fields, Trevor Bryce presents the first publication to focus on Troy's neighbours and contemporaries as much as Troy itself. With the help of maps, charts and photographs, he unearths the... -
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... -
Tacitus Historiae by C. D. Fisher 9780198146346
£37.80Tacitus HistoriaeBook InformationISBN 9780198146346Author C. D. FisherFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 129mm * 21mm -
The Digest of Justinian, Volume 1 by Alan Watson
RRP: £66.00£57.93When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code, which collected the... -
69 AD: The Year of Four Emperors by Gwyn Morgan 9780195315899
RRP: £14.99£11.43The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so out of control that they had no qualms about occupying... -
In Bed with the Ancient Egyptians by Charlotte Booth
RRP: £9.99£6.64In modern-day media, depictions of ancient Egyptian society are of a highly sexualised, lustful culture, but how accurate are these depictions of a people so shrouded in mystery and legend that it is sometimes hard to tell truth from fiction? In this... -
The Ancient Roman City by John E. Stambaugh 9780801836923
RRP: £25.50£22.44To walk through Rome today is to find the past made present at nearly every corner. For John Stambaugh, this continuity of fabric, form, and function affords an extraordinary view of the ancient city, the experience of its inhabitants, and the Roman way... -
Thutmose III: The Military Biography of Egypt's Greatest Warrior King by Professor Richard A. Gabriel 9781597973731
RRP: £27.99£22.43In the course of his thirty-two-year reign over ancient Egypt, Thutmose III fought an impressive seventeen campaigns. He fought more battles over a longer period of time and experienced more victories than Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar did... -
Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods But Verify by Rose Mary Sheldon
RRP: £43.99£38.44Professor Sheldon uses the modern concept of the intelligence cycle to trace intelligence activities in Rome whether they were done by private citizens, the government, or the military.Examining a broad range of activities the book looks at the many... -
Literacy and Power in the Ancient World by Alan K. Bowman 9780521587365
RRP: £39.99£33.26This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society. Was writing a revolutionary innovation, prompting or participating in social... -
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity by James J O'Donnell 9780061845390
RRP: £16.99£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061845390Author James J O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
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...