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Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece by Nigel Wilson 9780415873963
RRP: £58.99£57.80Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars.This Encyclopedia is derived from... -
The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome by J. G. Manning
RRP: £28.00£22.20A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean worldIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world during the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the... -
Roman Lives by Dorothy Harrer 9781936367702
RRP: £20.00£13.11This is a rich history of the Roman Empire told in a style that makes the book not only a resource for teachers but also a reader for Class 6 (age 12) and older.Generously illustrated with paintings by masters and maps depicting the era of Roman rule,... -
Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD by Johannes Wienand 9780199768998
£107.99This volume aims to reappraise the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The book takes as its focus the period from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395) and thus on a major developmental... -
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece by Claude Calame 9780691159430
RRP: £28.00£21.80The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological... -
The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity by Caillan Davenport 9780192865236
RRP: £100.00£90.90The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in... -
European Paganism by Ken Dowden 9780415474634
RRP: £43.99£38.84European Paganism provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of ancient pagan religions throughout the European continent.Before there where Christians, the peoples of Europe were pagans. Were they bloodthirsty savages hanging human offerings from... -
Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic by Robert Morstein-Marx 9780521066785
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book highlights the role played by public, political discourse in shaping the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. Against the background of the debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of... -
Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses by Shane Butler 9781844655625
RRP: £32.99£29.16Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in the study of antiquity and, when the senses are examined, sight is regularly privileged. 'Synaesthesia... -
Rethinking the Roman City: The Spatial Turn and the Archaeology of Roman Italy by Dunia Filippi 9781032161877
RRP: £39.99£35.06The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban... -
Taste and the Ancient Senses by Kelli C. Rudolph 9781844658695
RRP: £29.99£26.64Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies... -
Campus Martius: The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome by Diane Atnally Conlin 9781107664920
RRP: £36.99£32.15A mosquito-infested and swampy plain lying north of the city walls, Rome's Campus Martius, or Field of Mars, was used for much of the period of the Republic as a military training ground and as a site for celebratory rituals and occasional political... -
Ancient Canaan and Israel: An Introduction by Jonathan M. Golden 9780195379853
RRP: £23.99£18.49Where did the Israelites originate? What was the fate of the Canaanites? In this revealing introduction, Jonathan M. Golden tackles these and other hotly debated questions. Drawing on the extensive and often surprising archeological record, he looks at... -
Xenophon: Poroi (Revenue-Sources) by David Whitehead 9780198834427
RRP: £110.00£94.31This volume showcases for the first time in the Clarendon Ancient History Series one of the best-known prose authors of classical Athens: Xenophon. Poroi (or, Revenue-Sources) was the final work of his large and varied output, written in the mid-350s BCE... -
Eratosthenes' Geography by Eratosthenes 9780691142678
RRP: £70.00£54.70This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of... -
Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary by Erika Simon
RRP: £17.95£16.23The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon sets out here to explicate those complex and often obscure festivals. By careful marshalling of a variety of proofs from literary,... -
Cicero's Pro L. Murena Oratio by Elaine Fantham 9780199974535
RRP: £35.99£25.45Cicero's speech on behalf of L. Lucinius Murena, newly elected to the consulship of 62 BCE but immediately prosecuted for electoral bribery, is especially famous for its digressions and valuable for its insights into the complex political wrangles of the... -
Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War by Keith Sidwell 9781009073202
RRP: £36.99£30.33This book provides a new interpretation of the nature of Old Comedy and its place at the heart of Athenian democratic politics. Professor Sidwell argues that Aristophanes and his rivals belonged to opposing political groups, each with their own political... -
The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past by Walter Scheidel
RRP: £22.00£17.36How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquityThis groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history... -
Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus by Beate Dignas 9780674027879
RRP: £16.95£13.85"What is a Greek priest?" The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual... -
Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook by Georgia L. Irby-Massie
RRP: £39.99£35.46We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and... -
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline by Montesquieu 9780872204966
RRP: £18.99£15.67"Republication of David Lowenthal's elegant translation of Montesquieu's neglected study of the Romans--an indispensable source for understanding the philosopher's treatment of Rome in The Spirit of the Laws--makes the book available to a new generation... -
Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE by Francoise Dunand
RRP: £31.00£27.76In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Francoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Florence Dupont 9780631193951
RRP: £38.95£34.20This book, now available in paperback, concerns the everyday private and public lives of the citizens of ancient Rome. Drawing on a broad selection of contemporary sources, the author examines the institutions, actions and rituals of day to day life... -
Library of History: v. 12 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;... -
Classical Mythology: The Basics by Richard Martin
RRP: £16.99£15.22This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they have fascinated and inspired artists, writers, musicians,... -
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... -
Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC by Leah Lazar 9780198896265
RRP: £90.00£81.98Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC provides a new analysis of the fifth-century BC Athenian empire, a central topic in ancient Greek history. Challenging orthodox approaches, which have been mostly empirical, monolithic and focused on Athens, the... -
Friendship in the Classical World by David Konstan
RRP: £33.99£29.26This book - the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English - examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome from Homer to the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth century AD. Friendship is conceived of as a voluntary... -
The Middle East under Rome by Maurice Sartre
RRP: £27.95£22.55The ancient Middle East was the theater of passionate interaction between Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, and Romans. At the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and the Arabian peninsula, the area dominated by what the Romans... -
Terence: Andria by Sander M. Goldberg 9781009200660
RRP: £23.99£20.94As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from... -
Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity by Elliott Colla
RRP: £23.99£20.84Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates... -
The Last Queens of Egypt: Cleopatra's Royal House by Sally-Ann Ashton 9780582772106
RRP: £36.99£36.14The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who ruled Egypt for 300 years, Cleopatra is the most famous of the Ptolemaic queens. But what of her predecessors? The Last Queens of Egypt examines the roles played by the Ptolemaic royal women and explores their part... -
Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity by Karl Galinsky 9780198822592
£30.73What and how do people remember? Who controls the process of what we call cultural or social memory? What is forgotten and why? People's memories are not the same as history written in retrospect; they are malleable and an ongoing process of construction... -
Sphinx: History of a Monument by Christiane Zivie-Coche
RRP: £23.99£20.84"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt-what is so special about this one?... We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its special features and analyzing the changes it experienced throughout its history. The evidence linked to the statue... -
Technologies of Enchantment?: Exploring Celtic Art: 400 BC to AD 100 by Duncan Garrow 9780199548064
RRP: £110.00£99.81While Celtic art includes some of the most famous archaeological artefacts in the British Isles, such as the Battersea shield or the gold torcs from Snettisham, it has often been considered from an art historical point of view. Technologies of... -
Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800-146 BC by David M. Lewis 9780198769941
RRP: £117.50£113.32The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome were its only 'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites. Other... -
The Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare Under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 B.C. by James R. Ashley 9780786419180
RRP: £28.99£24.45The Macedonian Empire lasted only 36 years, beginning with Philip II's assumption of the throne in 359 B.C. and ending with the death of his son Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. In that span, the two leaders changed the map in the known world. Philip... -
Augustine: The Confessions by Gillian Clark 9781904675037
£18.26Augustine's 'Confessions', written at the close of the fourth century CE, is a highly significant text in the history of European culture. Augustine explains just how and why he came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely... -
Myth Into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece by H. A. Shapiro
RRP: £43.99£38.44Myth into Art is a comparative study of mythological narrative in Greek poetry and the visual arts. Thirty of the major myths are surveyed, focusing on Homer, lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. On the artistic side, the emphasis is on Athenian and South...