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Women in Classical Antiquity: From Birth to Death by Laura K. McClure
RRP: £37.95£33.76An introduction to women and gender in the classical world that draws on the most recent research in the field Women in Classical Antiquity focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek... -
Kings and Queens of the Medieval World: From Conquerors and Exiles to Madmen and Saints by Martin J Dougherty
RRP: £19.99£14.05The Great, the Pious, the Fair; the Wise, the Lame, the Mad. Imprisoned, deposed, exiled. Excommunicated, assassinated; devout, debauched; loved, loathed - the Middle Ages produced a fascinating array of monarchs. From Britain to Russia, from Scandinavia... -
Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires by Walter Scheidel 9780199758357
RRP: £42.49£28.38Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of... -
Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece by Debra Hamel 9780300107630
RRP: £18.99£18.48Neaira grew up in a Corinthian brothel in the fourth century B.C., became a high-priced courtesan and a sex slave, then settled into a thirty-year relationship with Stephanos of Athens. But next she found herself in court, charged with transgressing... -
Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure by Paul Veyne 9780226427829
RRP: £20.00£19.40Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city,... -
The Other Jack by Charles Boyle 9781909585416
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585416Author Charles BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions -
War, Women, and Druids: Eyewitness Reports and Early Accounts of the Ancient Celts by Philip Freeman
RRP: £15.99£14.24"The ancient Celts capture the modern imagination as do few other people of classical times. Naked barbarians charging the Roman legions, Druids performing sacrifices of unspeakable horror, women fighting beside their men and even leading armies-these,... -
Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome by Jane Draycott
RRP: £75.00£67.74This is the first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the... -
The Tomb of Parennefer, Butler of Pharaoh Akhenaten: Theban Tomb 188 by Susan Redford
RRP: £83.95£74.13Theban Tomb 188 is the sole archaeological site in the ancient Theban necropolis securely dated to the reign of the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten (1353-1336 BCE). The result of several years of clearance and recording by Dr. Susan Redford, director of the... -
Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum by Alice Stevenson 9781009074377
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in the museum as a mixture of multiple pasts and presents that cohere around collections; their artefacts, documentation, storage, research, and display. Its four sections examine how ideas... -
Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt: Pyramids, Plagues, Gods and Grave-Robbers by Terry Deary 9780297870623
RRP: £12.99£3.43Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?Don't bet your afterlife on it.Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its... -
From Oxus to Euphrates: The World of Late Antique Iran by Touraj Daryaee 9781780835778
RRP: £12.00£9.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780835778Author Khodadad RezakhaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint H&s MediaPublisher H&s MediaWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm -
Remus: A Roman Myth by T. P. Wiseman 9780521483667
RRP: £39.99£33.26Romulus founded Rome - but why does the myth give him a twin brother Remus, who is killed at the moment of the foundation? This mysterious legend has been oddly neglected. Roman historians ignore it as irrelevant to real history; students of myth... -
Library of History: v. 7 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Brooke Holmes 9780691163406
RRP: £28.00£27.39The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with... -
Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World by Mark Masterson
RRP: £38.99£35.22Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies,... -
The Byzantines by Averil Cameron 9781405198332
RRP: £24.95£21.78Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium - often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world - to the... -
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... -
Women of Ancient Rome: To Survive under the Patriarchy by Lynda Telford
RRP: £22.99£15.18According to legend, Rome was a settlement of warlike young men, from Alba, an area in the Alban Hills just southeast of Rome. When they settled there, they inaugurated the earliest of Rome's traditions, including the relationship between men and women... -
Women in Roman Law and Society by Jane F. Gardner 9780415059022
RRP: £37.99£33.38The legal situation of the women of ancient Rome was extremely complex, and - since there was no sharp distinction between free woman, freedwoman and slave - the definition of their legal position is often heard. Basing her lively analysis on detailed... -
Becoming Gold: Zosimos of Panopolis and the Alchemical Arts in Roman Egypt by Shannon Grimes 9780473407766
RRP: £35.00£31.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473407766Author Shannon GrimesFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Rubedo PressPublisher Rubedo PressWeight(grams) 680g -
Orestes by Euripides 9780198143963
£39.24Despite the outstanding popularity of this play in antiquity and its importance as a link between classical Greek tragedy and later theatrical developments, this new edition (first published in hardback in 1986) is the first in English since 1895. The... -
Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry by Stephen Hinds 9780521576772
RRP: £35.99£30.92The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have been diffident about situating such work within the more spacious inquiries into... -
A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey by Irene J. F. de Jong 9780521468442
RRP: £37.99£35.43Whereas traditional commentaries tend to be comprehensive and micro-textual, this narratological commentary, first published in 2001, focuses on one aspect of the Odyssey, its narrativity, and pays lavish attention to the meso- and macro-levels. Drawing... -
Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal: The Roman Legend's Life, Times, and Legacy by Michael J Hillyard 9781401011260
RRP: £15.99£14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401011260Author Michael J HillyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm * 13mm -
Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion by Esther Eidinow
RRP: £36.99£29.35Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think... -
The British Museum Colouring Book of Ancient Rome by John Green
RRP: £2.99£2.60Providing a fun way to find out about Ancient Rome, this activity book includes word puzzles, picture puzzles, logic and maths puzzles, and jokes and cartoons.Providing a fun way to find out about Ancient Rome, this activity book includes word puzzles,... -
Settlement, Urbanization, and Population by Alan Bowman 9780198788515
£30.22This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The analyses offered here highlight the... -
Virgil Aeneid X: A Selection by Christopher Tanfield 9781474266109
RRP: £14.99£4.94This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid X, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for lines 215-250, 260-307, 362-398 and 426-542. A detailed introduction covers the... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
RRP: £13.99£11.35In the conventional story of Rome's collapse, violent "barbarians" destroy "civilisation". Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant. Alaric grew up near the border that separated Gothic... -
Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis of AD 96-99 by Dr. John D. Grainger 9780415349581
RRP: £37.99£33.38The imperial succession at Rome was notoriously uncertain, and where possible hereditary succession was preferred. John Grainger's detailed study looks at aperiod of intrigue and conspiracy. He explores how, why and by whom Domitian was killed, the rule... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott
RRP: £25.00£19.99The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to... -
Borges' Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past by Laura Jansen
RRP: £90.00£79.05In Borges' Classics, Laura Jansen reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. This major study reveals how Borges constructs a new 'physics of... -
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... -
Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar by Catherine Conybeare
RRP: £30.99£25.45Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them. It demonstrates how from antiquity to the... -
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian by David S. Potter
RRP: £37.99£33.38Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read.Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy... -
Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire by Clifford Ando 9780520280168
RRP: £30.00£23.69The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire... -
Egypt and the Desert by John Coleman Darnell
RRP: £17.00£14.72Deserts, the Red Land, bracket the narrow strip of alluvial Black Land that borders the Nile. Networks of desert roads ascended to the high desert from the Nile Valley, providing access to the mineral wealth and Red Sea ports of the Eastern Desert, the... -
Histories: Bk.VIII by Herodotus 9780862920043
£30.33Greek text with English notes--An account of Egyptian history and custom which includes anthropology, natural history and any antiquarian information of interest to Herodotus. This scholarly edition offers a thorough introduction to both Greek... -
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy by Martin T. Dinter
RRP: £30.99£27.17The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of...