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Rome, Persia, and Arabia: Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad Greg Fisher (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) 9780415728812
RRP: £36.99£32.53Rome, Persia, and Arabia traces the enormous impact that the Great Powers of antiquity exerted on Arabia and the Arabs, between the arrival of Roman forces in the Middle East in 63 BC and the death of the Prophet Muhammad in AD 632.Richly illustrated and... -
Cicero's Orations by MarcusTullius Cicero 9780486822853
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486822853Author Marcustullius CiceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar by Luca Grillo
RRP: £30.99£27.17Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Julius Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and remains a central figure in the history of Latin literature. With twenty-three chapters written by renowned... -
Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria by Frank L. Holt
RRP: £62.00£48.22"Thundering Zeus" uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the... -
Man and Wound in the Ancient World: A History of Military Medicine from Sumer to the Fall of Constantinople by Professor Richard A. Gabriel 9781597978484
RRP: £23.99£20.84Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians and medics cope with arrow injuries, spear and sword gashes, dysentery, and infection without the benefits... -
Ancient Rome: The Archaeology of the Eternal City by J. C. Coulston 9780947816551
£34.26A major new book on the archaeology of Rome. The chapters, by an impressive list of contributors, are written to be as up-to-date and useful as possible, detailing lots of new research. There are new maps for the topography and monuments of Rome, a... -
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913: The Long Nineteenth Century by Thomas W. Gallant
RRP: £31.00£29.09Traces the rich social, cultural, economic and political history of the Greeks. Often referred to as the 'Long Nineteenth Century', this period in Greek history conventionally begins with the war of independence in 1821. However, this book adopts a... -
Protagoras by Daniel Silvermintz
£29.07The presocratic philosopher Protagoras of Abdera (490-420 BC), founder of the sophistic movement, was famously agnostic towards the existence and nature of the gods, and was the proponent of the doctrine that 'man is the measure of all things'. Still... -
The Yoruba People: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Yorubas and Yoruba Mythology by Captivating History 9781637165584
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165584Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Archaic and Classical Greece: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation by Michael H. Crawford 9780521296380
RRP: £57.99£50.98The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 BC - that is, the period... -
The Book of the Pharaohs by Pascal Vernus
RRP: £46.00£40.03The names of ancient Egyptian kings such as Cheops, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II have become part of popular culture. Yet, for all the tombs and statuary that have survived over the millennia, surprisingly little remains that speaks to the workings of... -
Constantine the Great: A Captivating Guide to the First Christian Roman Emperor and How He Ruled the Roman Empire by Captivating History 9781647486600
RRP: £19.97£12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486600Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)... -
Banking and Business in the Roman World by Jean Andreau
RRP: £32.99£28.38In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the state tax-farmers were handling enormous sums and exploiting the provinces of the Empire. Until now no... -
Roman Shields by Hilary 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 John and Hilary Travis turn their attention to the shields used... -
Egyptian Magic: The Quest for Thoth's Book of Secrets by Maarten J. Raven 9789774169335
RRP: £19.99£16.82The ancient Egyptians were firmly convinced of the importance of magic, which was both a source of supernatural wisdom and a means of affecting one's own fate. The gods themselves used it for creating the world, granting mankind magical powers as an aid... -
The Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe: Goddesses, Sacred Women and the Origins of Western Culture by Sharon Paice MacLeod 9780786471386
RRP: £30.95£17.97This book is an exploration of the spiritual traditions of ancient Europe, focusing on the numinous presence of the divine feminine in Russia, Central Europe, France, Britain, Ireland and the northern regions. Drawing upon research in archaeology,... -
Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape by Tim Darvill
RRP: £25.00£18.94More than a million people visit the Stonehenge World Heritage Site every year, pondering the stones and soaking up the surrounding landscape. When was it built? Who built it? What was it? How did it work? Here Timothy Darvill argues that around 2600 BC... -
Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity by Serafina Cuomo
RRP: £28.99£24.42The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures? Through five case-studies, this book sets ancient technical knowledge in its political, social... -
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation by Mary R. Lefkowitz 9781421421131
RRP: £34.00£32.29Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome by Edward Bispham
RRP: £37.00£35.01The Edinburgh Companion, newly available in paperback, is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach, it demonstrates the multifaceted nature of classical civilisation and enables readers to gain guidance... -
Ancient Epic Katherine Callen King (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9781118255346
RRP: £25.95£22.60Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the... -
The Digest of Justinian, Volume 2 by Alan Watson
RRP: £66.00£57.33When 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... -
Sparta and the Commemoration of War by Matthew A. Sears 9781316519455
RRP: £30.00£24.57The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle - so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspiring soldiers with rousing verse in the seventh... -
A New History of the Peloponnesian War Lawrence A. Tritle (Loyola Marymount University, USA) 9781405122511
RRP: £36.95£32.51This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and examines the realities of the war and its effects on the average Athenian. A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War... -
Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt: Revised Edition by Rosalie David 9780195366716
RRP: £23.99£20.63The Nile Valley civilization, which spanned a period from c. 5000 B.C. to the early centuries A.D., was one of the earliest created by humankind. This handy reference provides a comprehensive overview of more than five millennia of Egyptian history and... -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems by Philippa Steele 9781785706448
£42.39Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems arises from a conference held in Cambridge in 2015. The question of how writing systems are related to each other, and how we can study those relationships, has not been studied in... -
Romans and the People of God: Essays in Honor of Gordon D. Fee on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday by Sven K. Soderlund 9780802821294
RRP: £24.99£16.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802821294Author Sven K. SoderlundFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Men And Gods by Rex Warner 9781590172636
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172636Author Rex WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm)... -
Dorset's World Heritage Coast by John Beavis 9780752425450
RRP: £18.99£14.32Dorset's coastline is justly famous for its geology; its archaeological heritage deserves to be better known. This guide, which takes the form of an exploraton of the Dorset coastal path from Studland to Lyme Regis, aims to achieve this by showing the... -
Megasthenes' Indica: A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary by Richard Stoneman 9781032023571
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs available to the classical world. The Indica was a... -
Ovid: Fasti Book IV by Ovid
RRP: £29.99£26.67Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, as well as the traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many... -
Touch and the Ancient Senses Alex Purves 9781844658725
RRP: £29.99£26.64Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as it also... -
Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle
RRP: £28.95£22.90John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victorian England-a topic that until now has evaded the pens of able historians.Riddle's thesis is, quite simply,... -
Epistles Book I by Horace 9780521277549
RRP: £27.99£24.27This volume comprises an edition with introduction and commentary of the first book of Horace's Epistles. These imaginary letters in verse represent the poet's most original contribution to Latin literature. The introduction discusses fully the invention... -
Classical Traditions in Science Fiction by Brett M. Rogers 9780190228330
RRP: £45.49£33.44For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively... -
Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought: From Mourning to Creativity Marcia Dobson 9781032375526
RRP: £29.99£26.64This unusual book explores the transformative power of liminal experiences in ancient Greek texts, psychoanalytic theory, and the author's own life, to demonstrate how a contemporary understanding of ancient thought can illuminate modern psychoanalytic... -
Gladiators: Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome by M. C. Bishop 9781612005133
£9.32The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duals in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared at... -
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... -
End of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
£28.51By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until... -
Greek Drama and Dramatists by Alan H. Sommerstein 9780415260282
RRP: £37.99£33.38The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of classical, literary and theatrical subjects, and Alan H...