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The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East by Patrick Wing
RRP: £23.99£21.85This book traces the origins, history, and memory of the Jalayirid dynasty, a family that succeeded the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran and Iraq in the 14th and early 15th centuries. The story of how the Jalayirids came to power is illustrative of the political... -
Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome 1118-1143 by Dr Maximilian C. G. Lau 9780198888673
RRP: £100.00£90.90John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess as a teenager to win... -
Military Leadership from Ancient Greece to Byzantium: The Art of Generalship by Shaun Tougher 9781474459952
RRP: £24.99£20.29Considers the ideals and realities of generalship across the Greek, Roman and Byzantine worlds Addresses a neglected aspect in the study of ancient warfare Analyses views generated in different ancient cultures about the theory and practice of... -
Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture by Sandra R. Joshel 9780801882685
£28.39The phenomenal success of the recent film Gladiator ensures that ancient Rome will continue to inspire moviemakers and attract audiences as it has done since the dawn of cinema. Indeed, the creators of popular culture have so often appropriated elements... -
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome by Donald G. Kyle 9780415248426
RRP: £43.99£38.44The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural... -
Adoration of the Ram: Five Hymns to Amun-Re from Hibis Temple by David Klotz
RRP: £21.00£20.10Hibis Temple, tucked away in the remote Khargeh Oasis, contains the longest monumental hymns to Amun-Re ever carved in hieroglyphs. These religious texts, inscribed during the reign of Darius I, drew upon a large variety of New Kingdom sources, and later... -
Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood
RRP: £29.99£25.85The story of Claudius has often been told before. Ancient writers saw the emperor as the dupe of his wives and palace insiders; Robert Graves tried to rehabilitate him as a far shrewder, if still frustrated, politician. In this book, Josiah Osgood shifts... -
Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians: 2: Internal Medicine by Eugen Strouhal
RRP: £49.99£41.10Ancient Egyptian medicine employed advanced surgical practices, while the prevention and treatment of diseases relied mostly on natural remedies and magical incantations. Following the successful first volume of The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians,... -
Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: £23.99£19.52This new translation of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristotle series. Fitting seamlessly with the others in the series, it enables Anglophone readers to read... -
The Archaeology of Argyll by J. N. G. Ritchie
RRP: £31.00£29.09From Neolithic monuments to the high-status of Dunadd, the region of Argyll has a rich and varied archaeological history. In this, the first account of Argyll's archaeology written for a general audience, a team of specialists traces the history of the... -
Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook by Jane Rowlandson 9780521588157
RRP: £35.99£31.71The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on... -
Thucydides Historiae Vol. II: Books V-VIII by Thucydides 9780198145516
£37.65Thucydides Historiae Vol. II: Books V-VIIIBook InformationISBN 9780198145516Author ThucydidesFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 399g -
Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier by Guy de la Bédoyère 9780226750231
£40.72Gladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire. Empire. The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single... -
Broken Legions: Fantasy Skirmish Wargames in the Roman Empire by Mark Latham
RRP: £12.99£9.80The Roman Empire rules the civilised world with an iron fist, seemingly all-powerful and limitless. And yet, the power of Rome is secured not by its mighty legions, but by small bands of warriors and agents fighting a secret war. Tasked by the Emperor to... -
The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors by Fred Woudhuizen 9781784918279
£26.44In scholarly literature, there is much attention given to the Hittites and the Mycenaean Greeks, but the Luwians of Western Anatolia are notoriously neglected. Therefore, a study focussing on the latter is desirable. In this book, the presently available... -
The Roman Era: The British Isles: 55 BC - AD 410 by Peter Salway 9780198731948
RRP: £35.99£34.54The Roman period marks the point at which the past of the British Isles starts to be approachable through substantial written sources as well as archaeology. Recent archaeological and documentary discoveries of major importance - and advances in the ways... -
King Arthur - English by Michael St. John Parker
RRP: £6.00£4.12What 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... -
A Companion to the Ancient Near East by Daniel C. Snell
RRP: £40.95£36.29A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Covers the civilizations of the Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians,... -
Julia Velva, A Roman Lady from York: Her Life and Times Revealed by Patrick Ottaway
RRP: £30.00£20.95The tombstone of Julia Velva, one of the best-preserved examples from Roman Britain, was found close to a Roman road just outside the centre of York. Fifty years old when she died in the early third century, Julia Velva was probably from a wealthy family... -
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama by P. E. Easterling 9780521359825
RRP: £33.99£28.38This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part IV... -
Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts by Richard F. Buxton 9780198814573
RRP: £35.99£30.92This work brings together eleven of Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two, and their importance to the Greeks themselves. Situating and contextualizing topics and... -
A Coloring Book of Ancient Egypt: With Illustrations from the Artists of Those Times by Bellerophon Books 9780883880050
RRP: £4.50£4.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883880050Author Bellerophon BooksFormat PaperbackImprint Bellerophon BooksPublisher Bellerophon Books -
Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God by Bojana Mojsov
RRP: £32.95£29.14Bojana Mojsov tells the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end, sketching its development throughout 3,000 years of Egyptian history. Draws together the numerous records about Osiris from the third millennium B.C. to the Roman conquest of... -
The Making of the Roman Army: From Republic to Empire by Lawrence Keppie
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive and well-documented survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army.Lawrence Keppie overcomes the... -
Alexandria Lost: From the Advent of Christianity to the Arab Conquest by Bojana Mojsov
£27.40Imperialism, nationalism, religion and race: this narrative charts the tensions that destroyed Alexandria's ancient walls, leading to the loss of an entire classical heritage, and beginning a thousand-year rift between Christian Europe and the Islamic... -
Fifty Key Classical Authors by Alison Sharrock 9780415165112
RRP: £25.99£22.63A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including essays on Sappho, Polybius and Lucan, as well as on major... -
Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War by George Cawkwell 9780415165525
RRP: £37.99£33.38Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account as infallible. This book... -
Athens Transformed, 404-262 BC: From Popular Sovereignty to the Dominion of Wealth by Phillip Harding 9781138574311
RRP: £43.99£38.44During the heady, democratic days of the fifth and fourth centuries, the poorer members of Athenian society, the lower two classes of zeugitai and thetes, enjoyed an unprecedented dominance in both domestic and foreign politics. At home, the... -
Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History by Maria Wyke 9780415906142
RRP: £44.99£39.28Brought vividly to life on screen, the myth of ancient Rome resonates through modern popular culture. Projectingthe Past examines how the cinematic traditions of Hollywood and Italy have resurrected ancient Rome to address the concerns of the present... -
The Senate of Imperial Rome by Richard J. A. Talbert
RRP: £55.00£43.31Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great council has not previously received such scholarly... -
The Boxford Mosaic: A Unique Survivor from the Roman Age by Anthony Beeson 9781846743924
£13.23The Boxford Mosaic has been described as the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. Yet it lay hidden beneath a Berkshire field for some 1,600 years until it was fully uncovered in the Summer of 2019. Dating from around 350... -
Origen by Joseph Wilson Trigg 9780415118361
RRP: £37.99£33.38Origen was the most influential Christian theologian before Augustine, the founder of Biblical study as a serious discipline in the Christian tradition, and a figure with immense influence on the development of Christian spirituality.This volume presents... -
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire by Kirk Freudenburg 9780521006279
RRP: £37.99£32.97Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city... -
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kirk Ormand
RRP: £29.99£26.90"Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, Controlling Desires is the only handbook on ancient sexuality that works persistently to offset modern readers' assumptions about sex and sexuality, to challenge the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians by Andrew Feldherr 9780521670937
RRP: £33.99£29.66No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political... -
Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order by Christopher Fuhrmann 9780199360017
RRP: £49.49£31.25Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship networks or community self-regulation as a means of... -
A History of Siena: From its Origins to the Present Day by Mario Ascheri 9780367253486
RRP: £37.99£33.38A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena's history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city.Well... -
The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography by Arnaldo Momigliano
RRP: £27.00£21.06Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano, In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those features of an ancient historian's work that not only gave... -
Discovering Tutankhamun's Tomb: Level 15 (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme) by Juliet Kerrigan
RRP: £5.50£5.39Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows... -
The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine by Patricia Southern 9780415738088
RRP: £49.99£43.90The third century of the Roman Empire is a confused and sparsely documented period, punctuated by wars, victorious conquests and ignominious losses, and a recurring cycle of rebellions that saw several Emperors created and eliminated by the Roman armies...