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Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs: Past and Present Approaches in Egyptology by Uros Matic
RRP: €20.23€17.52Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs deals with ancient Egyptian concept of collective identity, various groups which inhabited the Egyptian Nile Valley and different approaches to ethnic identity in the last two hundred years of Egyptology. The... -
The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Ancient City by Joseph J. Walsh 9781421433714
RRP: €24.99€22.22A thrilling and momentous account of the Great Fire of Rome and how a modern city arose from its embers.Peril was everywhere in ancient Rome, but the Great Fire of 64 CE was unlike anything the city had ever experienced. No building, no neighborhood, no... -
Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt by Sonia Zakrzewski
RRP: €47.59€42.20Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt takes an innovative and integrated approach to the use of scientific techniques and methodologies within the study of ancient Egypt. Accessibly demonstrating how to integrate scientific methodologies into Egyptology... -
Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age by Trevor Bryce 9780415642347
RRP: €54.73€47.75Offering fascinating insights into the people and politics of the ancient near Eastern kingdoms, Trevor Bryce uses the letters of the five Great Kings of Egypt, Babylon, Hatti, Mitanni and Assyria as the focus of a fresh look at this turbulent and... -
After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History by Andrew Feldherr
RRP: €49.92€43.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119076704Author Andrew FeldherrFormat PaperbackImprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc -
John's Gospel by Revd Mark W. G. Stibbe 9780415095112
RRP: €47.59€41.72John's Gospel is an innovative study which shows how the current plurality of literary methodologies can be used effectively to illuminate the text of the fourth gospel. Dr Stibbe, the well-respected author of three previous volumes on St John, uses the... -
Helots and Their Masters in Messenia and Laconia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures by Nino Luraghi 9780674012233
RRP: €29.69€23.67The name "Helots" evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek... -
Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. by Noel Lenski 9780520283893
RRP: €35.70€28.19Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This... -
Late Roman Dorset Black-Burnished Ware (BB1): A Corpus of Forms and Their Distribution in Southern Britain, on the Continent and in the Channel Islands by Malcolm Lyne
€50.66Much has been written about Roman Dorset Black-Burnished Ware (BB1) and its Late Iron Age Durotrigian origins since the industry was first recognised by Farrar, Gillam and Peacock at the end of the 1960s. However, most of this study has focused on the... -
The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora by Mabel L. Lang 9780876616420
RRP: €7.74€7.46A concise introduction to the workings of ancient democracy, The Athenian Citizen has been a bestseller since the original edition was first published almost 60 years ago by Mabel Lang. Using archaeological evidence from excavations at the heart of... -
Roman Barbarian Wars: The Era of Roman Conquest by Ludwig Dyck 9781473823884
RRP: €23.79€17.47The history of the 'barbarian' peoples of Europe is filled with dramatic wars and migrations along with charismatic and often farsighted leaders. Inevitably, their greatest challenge was their struggle with the renowned military might of Rome. Even when... -
Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World: Selected Papers by Benjamin Isaac
RRP: €124.95€112.70Benjamin Isaac is one of the most distinguished historians of the ancient world, with a number of landmark monographs to his name. This volume collects most of his published articles and book chapters of the last two decades, many of which are not easy... -
Beyond the Cyclades: Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from Mainland Greece, the North and East Aegean by Marisa Marthari 9781789250602
€59.33This second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in... -
Seth & The Two Ways: Ways of seeing the demon god of Egypt by Mogg Morgan
RRP: €21.41€13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958831Author Mogg MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 542g -
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule by Josiah Ober
RRP: €65.45€51.54How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition... -
Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries by Deborah F. Sawyer
RRP: €45.21€39.72Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries focuses on religion during the period of Roman imperial rule and its significance in women's lives. It discusses the rich variety of religious expression, from pagan cults and classical mythology to... -
Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens by Julia L. Shear
RRP: €44.02€36.09During the turbulent last years of the fifth century BC, Athens twice suffered the overthrow of democracy and the subsequent establishment of oligarchic regimes. In an in-depth treatment of both political revolutions, Julia Shear examines how the... -
Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean by Maryline G. Parca
RRP: €24.98€22.63Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women... -
Gilgamesh Louise M. Pryke 9781032093451
RRP: €47.59€41.72Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world's oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However, it also goes further and examines the significance of the story's Ancient Near Eastern context, and what it tells us about notions of kingship,... -
City of a Thousand Faces by John Dryden
RRP: €11.89€8.09'A complex, gorgeous and compelling tapestry of love, death, trust and betrayal' - Daily Mail A sweeping historical fantasy saga based on the hit podcast Tumanbay ******'Immersive, rich, compelling and populated with characters who come alive on the... -
A Casebook on the Roman Law of Contracts by Bruce W. Frier
RRP: €43.42€37.76Roman contract law has profoundly influenced subsequent legal systems throughout the world, but is inarguably an important subject in its own right. This casebook introduces students to the rich body of Roman law concerning contracts between private... -
The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris by Jean-Baptiste Apollinaire Lebas
RRP: €41.65€34.77The extraordinary story of how an obelisk from the banks of Luxor was transferred to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in the early 19th century Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early... -
Cicero: 'Pro Sexto Roscio' by Andrew R. Dyck
RRP: €32.12€27.89Sextus Roscius was murdered in Rome some months after the official end of the Sullan proscriptions on 1 June 81 BC. The case was tried early the following year with a young Cicero acting as defense counsel in his first criminal case for the accused son... -
Ancient Ice Mummies by James Holmes Dickson 9780752459356
RRP: €23.80€17.90Ancient human bodies, melted from their glacial time-capsules, present unique sources of highly detailed information of lives spent long ago. One example of particular note has been dubbed by the world's media 'OEtzi the Iceman'. Deservedly celebrated... -
Egyptian Gods: A Captivating Guide to Atum, Horus, Seth, Isis, Anubis, Ra, Thoth, Sekhmet, Geb, Hathor and Other Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Matt Clayton 9781952191848
RRP: €28.55€20.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952191848Author Matt ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Refora PublicationsPublisher Refora PublicationsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt – Recreating Lahun by K Szpakowska 9781405118552
RRP: €107.04€95.40Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt's Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated... -
Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome by Lauren Hackworth Petersen 9780292754348
RRP: €23.79€20.87Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield enormous influence as the reproductive bodies of society and, in many cases, of culture... -
I Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and Society by Yale University Art Gallery 9780292743403
RRP: €26.17€23.31I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome-an exhibition and catalog produced by the Yale University Art Gallery-provided the first comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in Roman art. Responding to the popular success of the exhibit and... -
The Severans: The Roman Empire Transformed by Michael Grant
RRP: €160.65€139.56The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learned and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
RRP: €16.65€13.30In 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... -
Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism by Caroline T. Schroeder
RRP: €36.88€28.32This is the first book-length study of children in one of the birthplaces of early Christian monasticism, Egypt. Although comprised of men and women who had renounced sex and family, the monasteries of late antiquity raised children, educated them, and... -
Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 by Lynda Garland
RRP: €64.25€56.25Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses... -
Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization by Peter J. Ahrensdorf 9780521141550
RRP: €36.88€23.79This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in the history of political and moral philosophy. Through this fresh and provocative analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Peter J. Ahrensdorf examines Homer's... -
Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome by Charles Gates 9780415498647
€60.49Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence... -
Rape Culture, Purity Culture, and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles by Caroline Blyth
RRP: €23.79€21.05In this fascinating book, Caroline Blyth takes a close look at Bibles marketed to teen girls and asks how these might perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes that lie at the heart of rape culture. The author considers the devotionals, commentaries, and... -
The Gracchi by David Stockton 9780198721055
RRP: €83.30€66.59The GracchiBook InformationISBN 9780198721055Author David StocktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 321g -
Naxos Theseus & Ariadne Greek Islands: All You Need to Know About the Islands Myths, Legends, and its Gods by Jill Dudley 9780993489099
€3.74In this booklet Jill Dudley describes how, after he killed he Minotaur, Theseus came to Naxos with Ariadne and lived on the small offshore islet of Palatia now dominated by the great marble Portara (gateway). She explains how Dionysos, god of wine and... -
Economics of Religion in the Mycenaean World by Lisa Bendall 9781905905027
€80.18The Mycenaean Linear B tablets include numerous references to religion, such as details of offerings, banqueting foodstuffs or land-tenure relating to cult personnel. While contributing significantly to our understanding of early Greek religion, the ... -
The Roman Frontier with Persia in North-Eastern Mesopotamia: Fortresses and Roads around Singara by Anthony Comfort
€36.10The Roman frontier with Persia in north-eastern Mesopotamia investigates the Roman city of Singara and the fortifications and roads in the surrounding area. The physical frontier between Rome and Persia has been little studied, in part because of the... -
Highlights of the Egyptian Museum by Zahi A. Hawass 9789774164385
RRP: €15.46€14.43Cairo's Egyptian Museum, one of the greatest storehouses of ancient art and artifacts in the world, is at the top of the agenda for millions of visitors to Egypt every year. People come to see the fabulous gold treasures of King Tutankhamun, the...