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The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome by Erich S. Gruen
RRP: €53.55€43.22In this revisionist study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, Gruen considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place. The evidence discloses a preponderance of Greek rather than Roman ideas: a noteworthy readiness on the... -
Chronicles of the Ancient World John Haywood 9781848668966
RRP: €15.46€10.23Sumeria, c.3500 BC, witnessed the birth of the world's very first city by the rich and fertile banks of the Uruk. Over the next four millennia, the social and cultural landscape would change beyond recognition as many of history's most important kingdoms... -
Terence: Hecyra by Terence
RRP: €30.93€26.91Terence's Hecyra raises social, literary and theatrical issues of great interest to modern students of Roman comedy and, indeed, of Roman culture more broadly. The play pays strikingly close attention to the domestic problems of women and experiments... -
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner by Harriet I. Flower 9780691175003
€61.96The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to... -
Rome: A Living Portrait of an Ancient City by Stephen L. Dyson
€40.07Stephen L. Dyson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of ancient Rome. That unparalleled knowledge is reflected in his magisterial overview of the Eternal City. Rather than look only at the physical development of the city-its... -
A Grammar of the Hittite Language: Part 1: Reference Grammar by Harry J. Hoffner
RRP: €74.91€66.94Hoffner and Melchert's long-awaited work is sure to become both the standard reference grammar and the main teaching tool for the Hittite language. The first volume includes a thorough description of Hittite grammar, grounded in an abundance of textual... -
Iron from Tutankhamun's Tomb by Katja Broschat 9781617979972
RRP: €35.69€28.75A comprehensive study of the iron objects found in Tutankhamun's tomb that include daggers, quivers, arrows, and an elaborately decorated bow caseA century after Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's sensational discovery in 1922 of the virtually intact... -
Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs by Denis Feeney 9780521559218
RRP: €40.45€34.82Recent reevaluations of Roman religion by ancient historians have stressed the vitality and creativity of the Romans' religious system throughout its long history of continual adaptation to new challenges. Capitalising on these insights, Denis Feeney... -
Italy Before Rome: A Sourcebook by Katherine McDonald
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy, including its cultures, politics, trade, languages, writing systems, religious rituals, magical practices, and... -
Shipwrecks by Maureen Attwooll 9781874336594
RRP: €7.14€6.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336594Author Maureen AttwoollFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought by Christopher Star
RRP: €56.53€49.94How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world?What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain as it is or will it undergo a catastrophic change? What role do the gods, human morality, and the forces of... -
Nero Caesar Augustus: Emperor of Rome David Shotter (University of Lancaster, UK) 9781405824576
RRP: €52.35€50.77Propelled to power by the age of 17 by an ambitious mother, self-indulgent to the point of criminality, inadequate, paranoid and the perpetrator of heinous crimes including matricide and fratricide, and deposed and killed by 31, Nero is one of Rome's... -
Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts: Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History by Russell E. Gmirkin 9781032020846
RRP: €47.59€42.20Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato's famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil... -
Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in their Roman Context by J. Albert Harrill 9780521757805
RRP: €35.69€30.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought Ryan K. Balot (University of Toronto, Canada) 9781118451359
RRP: €47.54€42.89A COMPANION TO GREEK AND ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT Justice, virtue, and citizenship were at the center of political life in ancient Greece and Rome and were frequently discussed by classical poets, historians, and philosophers. This Companion illuminates... -
The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation Roger S. Bagnall (Columbia University) 9781405101332
RRP: €51.11€45.18This book presents in translation 175 of the most revealing documents that have survived on stone and papyrus from the Hellenistic period. Presents over 150 sources in translation. Captures the political, social, economic and religious dynamism of the... -
Lords of Asia Minor: An Introduction to the Lydians by Annick Payne 9783447105682
RRP: €46.41€44.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447105682Author Annick PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm * 8mm -
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography by Nandini B. Pandey
RRP: €36.88€30.29Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals... -
Violence in Republican Rome by Andrew Lintott
€79.86Why did the aristocracy of the Roman Republic destroy the system of government which was its basis? The answers given by ancient authorities are moral corruption and personal ambition. The modern student finds only too inevitable the causal nexus of... -
Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II: Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD by Muriel Moser
RRP: €33.31€30.52In this book, Muriel Moser investigates the relationship between the emperors Constantine I and his son Constantius II (AD 312-361) and the senators of Constantinople and Rome. She examines and contextualizes the integration of the social elites of Rome... -
The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations by Bremner Jan N and Er
RRP: €36.89€35.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780748683222Author Jan N BremmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Translating Maya Hieroglyphs by Scott A J Johnson
€38.20Maya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning students, but scholar Scott A. J. Johnson presents it as a regular and comprehensible system in this engaging, easy-to-follow textbook. The only comprehensive introduction designed... -
Children and Childhood in Classical Athens by Mark Golden 9781421416861
€28.16First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family... -
Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World by Andrew Wilson 9780198852902
RRP: €39.85€36.99This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic history of urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world, with a particular emphasis on the imperial period... -
Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World by Mark Masterson
RRP: €46.40€41.91Looking 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 Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition by Marcel Detienne
RRP: €49.98€44.99Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's... -
Greek Tragedy H. D. F. Kitto 9780415289641
RRP: €45.21€39.72This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as:* why did Aeschylus... -
The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity by Karen K. Hersch
RRP: €35.69€30.87The wedding ritual of the ancient Romans provides a crucial key to understanding their remarkable civilization. The intriguing ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl's transition to womanhood. This is the first... -
Slingers and Sling Bullets in the Roman Civil Wars of the Late Republic, 90-31 BC by Lawrence Keppie 9781803276403
€39.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803276403Author Lawrence KeppieFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 431g -
Goths and Romans 332-489 by Peter Heather 9780198205357
€83.47This book examines the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. In these years Gothic tribes played a major role in the destruction of the western half of the Roman Empire, establishing successor states in southern France and... -
Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome by Susanna Elm 9780520287549
RRP: €35.70€33.07This ground breaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two... -
Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond by Nicole Brisch
RRP: €24.99€23.92This volume represents a collection of contributions presented during the Third Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute, February 23-24,... -
Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization by Emily Teeter
RRP: €41.65€40.57This catalogue for an exhibit at Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum presents the newest research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods in a lavishly illustrated format. Essays on the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts,... -
Plato: Phaedrus by Plato 9780521097031
RRP: €39.26€34.78The dialogue begins with a playful discussion of erotic passion, then extends the theme to consider the nature of inspiration, love and knowledge. The centerpiece is the myth of the charioteer - the famous and moving account of the vision, fall and... -
Roman Myths: Gods, Heroes, Villains & Legends of Ancient Rome by Martin J Dougherty
RRP: €23.79€17.62In ancient Rome (753 BC - 476 AD) mythology was integral to various aspects of society, from religion, to politics, to the founding of the city. Today, we may encounter the legacy of these stories before we encounter the stories themselves, whether this... -
Tiber - Eternal River of Rome by Bruce Ware Allen
RRP: €33.32€28.17In this rich history of Italy's Tiber River, Bruce Ware Allen charts the main currents, mythic headwaters, and hidden tributaries of one of the world's most storied waterways. He considers life along the river, from its twin springs high in the Apennines... -
Stolen Inheritance by Desmond Clarke
RRP: €14.27€10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641827676Author Desmond ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)... -
Ancient Religions by Sarah Iles Johnston
RRP: €33.26€26.36Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers,... -
Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research by Karl-J. Holkeskamp 9780691140384
RRP: €59.50€53.25In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Holkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing... -
Theophrastus: Characters by Theophrastus 9780521045766
RRP: €83.29€70.25Theophrastus' Characters is a collection of 30 short character-sketches of various types of individuals who might be met in the streets of Athens in the late fourth century BC. It is a work which had a profound influence on European literature, and this...