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Monsters in Greek Literature: Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology by Fiona Mitchell
RRP: £36.99£20.78Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and... -
Ancient Civilizations: A Captivating Guide to Mayan History, the Aztecs, and Inca Empire by Captivating History 9781647484941
RRP: £29.99£20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484941Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating History -
Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis of AD 96-99 by Dr. John D. Grainger 9780415349581
RRP: £37.99£33.38The imperial succession at Rome was notoriously uncertain, and where possible hereditary succession was preferred. John Grainger's detailed study looks at aperiod of intrigue and conspiracy. He explores how, why and by whom Domitian was killed, the rule... -
From Fetish To God Ancient Egypt by Budge Wallis
RRP: £21.99£20.34First published in 2005. Written by eminent Egyptologist, E.A. Wallis Budge, this work addresses Egyptian religion and mythology in all of its manifestations, from times when earth, sea air and shy were filled with hostile spirits and men lived in terror... -
The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN by Hermann Hunger 9780367666187
RRP: £41.99£36.75MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists, descriptions of planetary phases, mathematical schemes for the length of day... -
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by John G Jackson 9780592438849
RRP: £19.99£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780592438849Author John G JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)... -
Revealing Trimontium: The Correspondence of James Curle of Melrose, Excavator of Newstead Roman Fort by Donald Gordon 9781803275154
£35.22The Roman fort of Trimontium, near the village of Newstead in the Scottish Borders, is renowned internationally thanks to the work of James Curle (1862-1944), a solicitor in nearby Melrose. He led the excavations of 1905-1910, with their spectacular... -
The Future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions by Jonathan J. Price 9781108797009
RRP: £30.99£26.43How was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined by different populations living under the Roman Empire? It emerges from this collection of essays by a distinguished international team of scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and... -
Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors by Jonathan Karam Skaff 9780190886974
RRP: £47.99£39.88Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia... -
Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance by Jairus Banaji 9780199226030
RRP: £81.00£59.26The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, Jairus Banaji argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and social change, propelled by the... -
Roman History: v. 6 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £24.95£24.54A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
The Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 337: A Sourcebook by Brian Campbell
RRP: £45.99£40.13The Roman army is remarkable for its detailed organisation and professional structure. It not only extended and protected Rome's territorial empire which was the basis of Western civilisation, but also maintained the politcal power of the emperors. The... -
Demosthenes: On the Crown by Demosthenes
RRP: £27.99£24.27Demosthenes' speech On the Crown is one of the finest artistic achievements of Greek prose. Delivered in an Athenian court in 330 BCE, and circulated in written form soon afterwards, the speech made an immediate impression on contemporary Greeks and for... -
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World by Sarah Hitch
RRP: £30.99£25.45This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century... -
Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity (Routledge Revivals) H. Parke 9781138015869
RRP: £53.99£46.87Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity, first published in 1988, is an authoritative account of a subject rarely treated in recent decades and difficult to access for non-specialists. A considerable number of books of prophecies went under... -
Anaximander: And the Birth of Science by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: £18.00£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593542361Author Carlo RovelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
A History of Siena: From its Origins to the Present Day by Mario Ascheri 9780367253486
RRP: £37.99£33.38A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena's history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city.Well... -
Slave-Wives, Single Women and "Bastards" in the Ancient Greek World: Law and Economics Perspectives by Morris Silver 9781785708633
£42.39Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status... -
The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt by Aidan Dodson
RRP: £18.99£13.61The royal tombs of ancient Egypt include some of the most stupendous monuments of all time, containing some of the greatest treasures to survive from the ancient world. This book is a history of the burial places of the rulers of Egypt from the very dawn... -
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;... -
Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions by Taco Terpstra 9780691172088
RRP: £35.00£27.74How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutionsFrom around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This... -
Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature by Emily Pillinger
RRP: £24.99£22.37This book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but never to be understood until too late - in Greek and Latin poetry. Using insights from the field of translation studies, the book focuses on the dialogic... -
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... -
Ambrose by Boniface Ramsey 9780415118422
RRP: £37.99£33.38St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, was one of the most important figures of the fourth century Roman empire. This volume explores the enormous impact of Ambrose on Western civilization, and examines the complexity of his ideas and influence;... -
The Ordered Day: Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome by James Ker
RRP: £50.00£44.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421445175Author James KerFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams)... -
Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC by John Buckler 9781009113861
RRP: £30.99£25.45The streams of Greek history in the fourth century are highly controversial. Sandwiched between the Classical fifth century and the Hellenistic period, the era has invited various readings, most prominently the verdict of decrepitude and decline. Recent... -
The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier Duane W Roller 9780415754064
RRP: £53.99£46.87Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC- AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the cliet kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife K'eopatra Selene, daughter of Marcus Anthonius and Kleopatra VII, he... -
The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium Ross R. Holloway 9780415143608
RRP: £39.99£35.06The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the reports of the walls of the Romulan city discovered on the city slopes of the... -
Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City by Catharine Edwards 9780521559522
RRP: £32.99£28.38The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of Rome, the public spaces of the city, were crowded with meanings and associations. These meanings were... -
Sallust: The Conspiracy of Catiline and The War of Jugurtha by Quintus Curtius 9780578431246
RRP: £23.24£20.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578431246Author Quintus CurtiusFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Quintus CurtiusPublisher Quintus CurtiusWeight(grams) 508g -
Whatever Else Happened to the Egyptians?: From the Revolution to the Age of Globalization by Galal A. Amin 9789774248191
RRP: £14.99£12.55At the time of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, the population of Egypt was around 22 million. At the end of 2002, it stood at 69 million, and was growing at a rate of 1.33 million a year. What happens to a society that grows so quickly, when the... -
Pilgrimage in Early Christian Jordan: A Literary and Archaeological Guide by Burton MacDonald 9780977409495
£32.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977409495Author Burton MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint David Brown Book CompanyPublisher David Brown Book Company -
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece by Kurt A. Raaflaub 9780520258099
RRP: £27.00£21.06This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. The authors... -
Resurrecting Pompeii by Estelle Lazer 9780415666336
RRP: £37.99£33.78Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time.Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early... -
Roman Philosophers by Mark Morford
RRP: £37.99£33.38The philosophers of the Roman world were asking questions whose answers had practical effects on people's lives in antiquity, and which still influence our thinking to this day. In spite of being neglected in the modern era, this important age of... -
The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in History and Historical Memory John P. Nielsen 9780367591298
RRP: £39.99£35.06Nebuchadnezzar I (r. 1125-1104) was one of the more significant and successful kings to rule Babylonia in the intervening period between the demise of the Kassite Dynasty in the 12th century at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and the emergence of a new,... -
Women and Monarchy in Macedonia by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney 9780806168746
£26.27In this groundbreaking work, Elizabeth Donnelly Carney examines the role of royal women in the Macedonian Argead dynasty from the sixth century B.C. to 168 B.C. Women were excluded from the exercise of power in most of the Hellenic world. However, Carney... -
Gregory of Nazianzus by Brian Daley 9780415121811
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book brings together a new, original survey of the significance of Gregory's life and work with translations of eight beautiful and profound orations. Gregory of Nazianzus portrays a vivid picture of a fascinating character of vital importance who... -
Sophocles by P. J. Finglass 9781108706094
RRP: £16.99£14.71Produced in Athens during the fifth century BC, the tragedies of Sophocles are a high point in world literature, vividly depicting unforgettable characters confronted with emotional crises, moral dilemmas, and the inscrutable ways of the gods. This... -
The People of the Cobra Province in Egypt: A Local History, 4500 to 1500 BC by Wolfram Grajetzki
£62.01The book delivers a history from below for the first half of Egyptian history covering the earliest settlements, state formation and the pyramid age. The focus is on the Wadjet province, about 350 km south of modern Cairo in Upper Egypt. Here...