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Roman Port Societies: The Evidence of Inscriptions by Pascal Arnaud
RRP: £29.99£27.80In this book, an international team of experts draws upon a rich range of Latin and Greek texts to explore the roles played by individuals at ports in activities and institutions that were central to the maritime commerce of the Roman Mediterranean. In... -
The Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos by Josef Wegner 9780974002545
£44.22The ruins of the mortuary complex named Enduring-are-the Places of Khakaure-true-of-voice in Abydos are located at South Abydos. Erected for pharaoh Khakaure-Senwosret III (ca. 1878-1841 BC) of Dynasty 12, the Abydos complex includes a subterranean royal... -
The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia: Money, Culture, and State Power by Noah Kaye 9781009279574
RRP: £22.99£21.06Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map - a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. What allowed the Attalids... -
The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, Ad 430-476 by Priscus 9781935228141
£19.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935228141Author PriscusFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Evolution Publishing & ManufacturingPublisher Evolution Publishing &... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.39Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
The Ancient City by Arjan Zuiderhoek 9780521166010
RRP: £22.99£19.04Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the... -
Olympia: The Olympic Games by Jill Dudley 9780993537844
RRP: £2.99£2.48Jill Dudley relates the various myths regarding the founding of the Olympic Games. She takes the reader around the main buildings on the site where the athletes took their vows, and the victors were crowned before the cult statue of the supreme god Zeus... -
New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare Lee L. Brice (Western Illinois University) 9781118273333
RRP: £32.99£29.16Uses new methodologies, evidence, and topics to better understand ancient warfare and its place in culture and history New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare brings together essays from specialists in ancient history who employ contemporary tools and... -
Money in Classical Antiquity by Sitta von Reden
RRP: £26.99£22.80This book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and... -
Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III by Apollonius of Rhodes
RRP: £28.99£25.82The Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, composed in the third century BC and the only extant Greek epic between Homer and the later Roman empire, tells of Jason's successful expedition with the Argonauts to recover the Golden Fleece from Colchis on the... -
Sound and the Ancient Senses Shane Butler 9781138481664
RRP: £37.99£33.78Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the... -
Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable Fourteenth Legion by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780470046388
RRP: £16.95£11.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470046388Author Stephen Dando-CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy by A. M. Bowie 9780521575751
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of... -
The Aegean World: A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum by Yannis Galanakis
RRP: £26.50£21.87This is the first companion guide ever to be written on the Ashmolean's outstanding Aegean collections, the best and most comprehensive outside Greece. Comprising 12,000 objects, the Ashmolean holds a remarkable collection of Neolithic and Cycladic... -
Ancient Israel: Its Life and Institutions by Roland de Vaux 9780232512199
£50.26One of the most important books on the Old Testament of recent years. The general reader will find it enlightening and inforativeto the highest degree.Book InformationISBN 9780232512199Author Roland de VauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint Darton,... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: £22.99£22.85For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and... -
The Digest of Justinian, Volume 3 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... -
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £18.00£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078851Author Paul CartledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity by Jonathan M. Hall 9780521789998
RRP: £39.99£33.26In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in... -
Life in Ancient Britain by Brian Williams
RRP: £6.00£4.44Life in Ancient Britain journeys through the ancient worlds of our ancestors: how they lived, how they shaped the landscape we know today, and how we know what we do, about their achievements. This guide offers a concise and lively introduction to the... -
Tribonian by Tony Honore 9780715615485
£28.38'This is a wonderful book. The making of Justinian's Digest seemed in prospect to be a task so huge as to be beyond man's power to tackle. The centre of Honor 's Tribonian is the account of how it was done. This is set in the life-history of the man... -
The Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context by Mary T. Boatwright
RRP: £93.00£79.14The Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE, the Roman principate. Boatwright uses coins, inscriptions, papyri, material culture, and archaeology, as well... -
Ancient Turkey by Antonio Sagona 9780415481236
RRP: £45.99£40.53Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes. Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented evidence, both archaeological and textual, that forms the basis of our... -
Virgil Aeneid VIII: A Selection by Keith MacLennan 9781474271905
£16.77This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid VIII, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for lines 86-279 and 558-584, along with a detailed introduction. ... -
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... -
Bacchylides: A Selection by Bacchylides
RRP: £32.99£29.23Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC) was one of the nine Greek lyric poets selected as models of this genre by the Alexandrian scholars who first collected and edited their songs in the 3rd century BC. Bacchylides' songs did not survive the end of antiquity, but... -
Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity by Diana Spencer
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book tackles how and why 'landscape' (farms, gardens, countryside) set the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and about (but also to scrutinize and understand) what it meant to be a citizen. It investigates what... -
Ovid Heroides: A Selection by John Godwin 9781474265904
RRP: £13.99£13.45This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Heroides VI, lines 1-100 and 127-64, and X, lines 1-76 and 119-50. A detailed... -
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser by Donald Malcolm Reid 9789774169380
RRP: £25.00£20.70The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun's tomb, close on the heels of Britain's declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of 'pharaonism'-popular interest in ancient... -
Subotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General by Richard A. Gabriel 9780275975821
£65.53This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, one of the greatest generals in military history, surely the equal of Hannibal and Scipio in tactical brilliance and ranking right along with both Alexander and Caesar as a strategist. Subotai commanded... -
The Peoples of Ararat by Armen Asher 9781439225677
RRP: £15.99£13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439225677Author Armen AsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Pope, Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning Carolyn D. Williams 9781138979062
RRP: £43.99£38.44The author here reassesses the concept of 'masculinity', and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models. The argument is sustained by a close reading of the... -
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... -
The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man's Wealth Shaped the World by Frank L. Holt 9780199950966
RRP: £32.49£23.80War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth violently from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions, massacres, confiscations, deportations, the sacking of cities, and the selling of survivors into slavery all... -
Late Antiquity by Peter Brown 9780674511705
RRP: £26.95£25.22In this history of the late antique period, which appeared earlier in the five-volume series A History of Private Life, Peter Brown shows the slow shift from one form of public community to another--from the ancient city to the Christian church. In the... -
Sparta by Michael Whitby 9780748612932
RRP: £31.00£28.69This volume introduces the reader to every important aspect of the society of Sparta, the dominant power in southern Greece from the seventh century BC and the great rival of democratic Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries. During this period Sparta... -
Works: v. 4: The Jewish War, Bks.V-VII by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
Tacitus by Ronald Mellor 9780415910026
RRP: £37.99£33.38The histories of Roman senator Cornelius Tacitus constitute the most influential examination of tyranny, political behavior and public morality from the classical age. For centuries these portraits of courageous martyrs to freedom, of paranoid tyrants,... -
Life In Ancient Rome by Joan P. Alcock 9780752448008
RRP: £18.99£14.32Ancient Rome, as a subject, has always attracted and fascinated people. The extent of its vast empire, much of it a result of its efficient military power, was such that many Romans believed that they governed the whole world, as it was then known, and... -
The Scribes of Rome: A Cultural and Social History of the Scribae by Benjamin Hartmann
RRP: £30.99£22.85In a society in which only a fraction of the population was literate and numerate, being one of the few specialists in reading, writing and reckoning meant the possession of an invaluable asset. The fact that the Roman state heavily relied on these...