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The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes by Nicole Loraux
RRP: £55.00£42.91According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly... -
Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jorg Rupke
£50.76From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean world In this ambitious and authoritative book, Jorg Rupke provides a comprehensive and strikingly... -
Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean by Sara Parks
RRP: £37.99£33.38Winner of the 2023 CSBS' Frank W. Beare Award.This engaging and accessible textbook provides an introduction to the study of ancient Jewish and Christian women in their Hellenistic and Roman contexts.This is the first textbook dedicated to introducing... -
Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire by Walter Goffart
RRP: £27.99£24.54The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his... -
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia by Sharon R. Steadman 9780199336012
RRP: £56.00£55.90The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century. Anatolia is home to early complex... -
Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook of Translated Greek and Roman Texts by Andrew N. Sherwood 9781138927896
RRP: £54.99£49.32In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world.Sherwood and Nikolic, with... -
The Great Pyramid Decoded by Peter Lemesurier (1996) by Peter Lemesurier 9781635619898
£21.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635619898Author Peter LemesurierFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Echo Point Books & Media, LLCPublisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis: New Discoveries and Research 2012-2014 by Elena Pischikova 9789774167249
RRP: £49.50£40.72This volume is the second joint publication of the members of the American-Egyptian archaeological team South Asasif Conservation Project, working under the auspices of the Ministry of State for Antiquities and directed by the editor. The Project is... -
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... -
Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians: 1: Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics by Eugen Strouhal
RRP: £29.99£24.16Ancient Egyptian medicine employed advanced surgical practices, while the prevention and treatment of diseases relied mostly on natural remedies and magical incantations. In the first of three volumes, The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians explores these... -
Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood by Judith Evans Grubbs
RRP: £45.99£40.13It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial... -
Class in Archaic Greece by Peter W. Rose 9780521768764
RRP: £120.00£88.31Archaic Greece saw a number of decisive changes, including the emergence of the polis, the foundation of Greek settlements throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea, the organization of panhellenic games and festivals, the rise of tyranny, the invention... -
Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World by Tim Whitmarsh
RRP: £30.99£25.45This 2010 volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much as globalisation in the modern world has done. Localism became the focal point for complex debates:... -
Roman Arbitration by Derek Roebuck 9780953773039
RRP: £40.00£32.67The authors provide the story of arbitration in Rome and its colonies from the earliest times to the codification of Justinian, with translations of all the sources.Book InformationISBN 9780953773039Author Derek RoebuckFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome by George Jennison 9780812219197
RRP: £19.99£17.54Deadly combat between gladiators is perhaps the best-known example of public entertainment offered in the Roman world. Wild and domesticated animals were also a part of these extravagant shows, and the elaborate presentation-or sometimes butchery-of... -
The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete by Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder
RRP: £78.00£73.68The excavation of a Minoan shipwreck dated to 1725/1700 BC is described. The cargo includes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete clay vessels from a single Middle Minoan IIB deposit. The transport boat provides interesting information... -
The Book of the Ancient World by Dorothy Mills 9781597313537
£13.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597313537Author Dorothy MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 331g -
State Power in Ancient China and Rome by Walter Scheidel 9780190202248
RRP: £99.00£81.43The Chinese and the Romans created the largest empires of the ancient world. Separated by thousands of miles of steppe, mountains and sea, these powerful states developed independently and with very limited awareness of each other's existence. This... -
Antiquity: Drawing a Blank? by Tiffany J Daniels 9781838534684
RRP: £10.99£7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838534684Author Tiffany J DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint T J DanielsPublisher T J DanielsWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man by Nicole Loraux
RRP: £50.00£39.12Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man... -
The Creativity of Crete: City States and the Foundations of the Modern World by Malcolm Cross
RRP: £12.99£11.95Crete is famous for its Minoan civilization, which by 1200BC had come to an end. It is far less well known that less than 600 years later, Crete pioneered the idea of the 'city-state' and developed it for longer than anywhere else in the ancient Greek... -
Technology of the Ancient Near East: From the Neolithic to the Early Roman Period by Jill L. Baker 9780815393696
RRP: £37.99£33.38Peoples of the distant past lived comfortably in cities that boasted well-conceived urban planning, monumental architecture, running water, artistic expression, knowledge of mathematics and medicine, and more. Without the benefits of modern technology,... -
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens by Nicole Loraux 9781890951085
RRP: £22.00£17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951085Author Nicole LorauxFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE by Eric Rebillard
RRP: £23.99£20.84For too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups divided by clear markers of belief, ritual, and social practice. More recently, however, a growing body... -
Food in the Ancient World from A to Z by Andrew Dalby 9780415862790
RRP: £47.99£42.21Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds.In entries ranging from a few lines to a couple of pages, Andrew... -
Daily Life of the Ancient Romans by David Matz 9780872209572
RRP: £16.99£14.13This book provides a clear, accessible examination of the major aspects of daily life--from food and sports to religion, education, and politics--of ancient Rome's common people, including slaves, and offers generous selections from a wide variety of... -
The Ancient Romans: A Social and Political History from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus by Matthew Dillon
RRP: £35.99£31.69This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in... -
The Exagoge of Ezekiel by Howard Jacobson 9780521122436
RRP: £39.99£33.26The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in Greek in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew living in Alexandria probably at some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines - not isolated verses but forming several... -
Greek Tyranny by Sian Lewis 9781904675273
£17.16The tyrants of Greece are some of the most colourful figures in antiquity, notorious for their luxury, excess and violence, and provoking heated debates among political thinkers. Greek Tyranny examines the phenomenon of autocratic rule outside the law in... -
The Argonautica of Apollonius by R. L. Hunter 9780521604383
RRP: £39.99£33.26In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better appreciated, but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily understood and much basic analysis remains to be done. The present... -
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... -
A People`s History of India 6 - Post Mauryan India, 200 BC - AD 300 by Irfan Habib
RRP: £12.99£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381297Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 156mm * 11mm -
Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide by Jennifer Larson
RRP: £53.99£46.87Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are... -
Monuments Of Senemut by Dorman
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1988. In all past commentaries on Senenmut and his time, 1 the single most pervasive problem with which modem scholars--and no doubt even contemporary ancient Egyptians--have had the most difficulty in coming to terms is perhaps the... -
Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920 by Constanze Guthenke
RRP: £22.99£20.66Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. In this book, Constanze Guthenke shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity have lastingly shaped modern... -
Cassius Dio: Roman History: Books 57 and 58 (The Reign of Tiberius) by C. T. Mallan
RRP: £110.00£109.96This volume provides a new translation of Books 57 and 58 of Cassius Dio's Roman History and the 'fragments' of these books preserved in later Byzantine epitomes, as well as the first English language commentary to examine them in their entirety. Dio's... -
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic by Gareth C. Sampson 9781473887329
RRP: £25.00£24.73The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile politicians who proposed political or social reform programmes, many of which culminated in acts of bloodshed on the streets of Rome itself... -
Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE-20 CE by Josiah Osgood 9781108413190
RRP: £24.99£19.83In the century following 150 BCE, the Romans developed a coherent vision of empire and a more systematic provincial administration. The city of Rome itself became a cultural and intellectual center that eclipsed other Mediterranean cities, while ideas... -
Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire by Richard Hingley 9780415351768
RRP: £37.99£33.38Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture?Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came... -
Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture by Alain M. Gowing 9780521544801
RRP: £32.99£28.38The memory of the Roman Republic exercised a powerful influence on several generations of Romans who lived under its political and cultural successor, the Principate or Empire. Empire and Memory explores how (and why) that memory manifested itself over...