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Alexander the Great Failure: The Collapse of the Macedonian Empire by Dr. John D. Grainger 9780826443946
€31.45In this authoritative book John Grainger explores the foundations of Alexander's empire and why it did not survive after his untimely death in 323 BC. Alexander the Great's empire stretched across three continents and his achievements changed the nature... -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780679423089
RRP: €119.00€79.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679423089Author Edward GibbonFormat HardbackPage Count 1902Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 2092gDimensions(mm)... -
Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity by Lisa Nevett 9780521789455
RRP: €39.26€33.77Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women and Barrenness: Volume X by Hippocrates
RRP: €29.69€27.64The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine."This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Library's ongoing edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and... -
Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation by Michael Grant
RRP: €45.21€39.72It is today widely accepted that we do not get the whole truth from any historian. Greek and Roman Historians considers the work of ancient historians such as Herotudus, Tacitus and Thucydides in the the light of this attitude. In an enlightening new... -
The Invention of Prose by Simon Goldhill 9780198525233
RRP: €23.79€20.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy by Mariam F Ayad
RRP: €101.15€82.44Cutting-edge research by twenty-four international scholars on female power, agency, health, and literacy in ancient EgyptThere has been considerable scholarship in the last fifty years on the role of ancient Egyptian women in society. With their ability... -
The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand by Robin Lane Fox 9780300104035
€73.60The March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most famous military adventures in the ancient world. Its fearless army of Greek mercenaries marched through western Asia (modern Turkey and Iraq) in 401 BC to 399 BC, their hopes and hardships recounted by... -
Knossos Monastiriako Kephali Tomb and 'Deposit' by Laura Preston 9780904887686
€126.27The archaeological sites on the Monastiriako Kephali hill analysed in this volume include the earliest known mortuary activity at the key Minoan centre of Knossos on the island of Crete. Two Bronze Age sites are presented, known as the 'Tomb' and the... -
Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City by Derek Krueger 9780520302112
RRP: €40.46€32.09This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings alive one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious,... -
The Social History of Byzantium John Haldon (Princeton University) 9781405132411
RRP: €39.21€35.15A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM "Until now, the social history of Byzantium has remained a neglected field. Professor John Haldon has put together a team of leading international Byzantinists, each of whom addresses his or her own specialized area. The... -
The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man's Wealth Shaped the World by Frank L. Holt 9780190866259
RRP: €19.03€16.54War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions, sieges, massacres, annexations, and mass deportations all redistributed property with dramatic consequences for kings and... -
Eratosthenes' Geography by Eratosthenes 9780691142678
RRP: €83.30€65.09This 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... -
The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture Robin Sowerby 9780415727297
RRP: €45.21€39.72The Greeks has provided a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece. In this new and expanded third edition the best-selling volume offers a lucid survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilization from the... -
Fronto: Selected Letters by Caillan Davenport
€37.16M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto's talent and fame led to his appointment as tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the adoptive sons of... -
Galen on Food and Diet by Mark Grant 9780415232333
RRP: €52.35€45.74Galen, the personal physician of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, wrote what was long regarded as the definitive guide to a healthy diet, and profoundly influenced medical thought for centuries. Based on his theory of the four humours, these works describe... -
The Judgement of Paris: Greek Myths by Jill Dudley 9780955383489
RRP: €3.56€2.95Most people have heard of the Judgement of Paris, but who was Paris? Why was there a judgement, and what or who was he judging? The answers to these questions are to be found in this Put it in Your Pocket booklet.Book InformationISBN... -
The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE Han Baltussen 9781844655762
RRP: €45.21€43.65The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity of... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 1-45, v. 13 by Livy
RRP: €29.69€27.83Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome... -
Bandits in the Roman Empire: Myth and Reality by Thomas Grunewald
RRP: €64.25€55.78This wide-ranging and informative survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understanding of Roman social history.Examining men such as as Viriatus, Tacfarinus, Maternus and Bulla Felix, who were called latrones after... -
The Babylonians: An Introduction by Gwendolyn Leick
RRP: €45.21€39.72Gwendolyn Leick's approachable survey introduces the Babylonians, the people, the culture and the reality behind the popular myth of Babylon. Spanning some 1800 years in the history of the Babylonians, from the time of Hammurabi, famous for his Law-Code,... -
Plautus: Pseudolus by David Christenson 9780521766241
RRP: €101.14€88.66Pseudolus of all Plautus' comedies most fully reveals its author's metapoetics. As its eponymous clever slave telegraphs his every move to spectators, Pseudolus highlights the aesthetic, social, and performative priorities of Plautine comedy: brilliant... -
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece Nigel Wilson 9780415873963
RRP: €70.20€68.78Examining 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 Origins of Greek Civilization: 1100-650 B.C. by Chester G. Starr 9780393307795
RRP: €28.56€23.92When the great citadel of Mycenae, then the center of the Aegean world, went up in flames about 1100 B.C., what followed was a "dark age" that left no written records. But rich archaeological records show conclusively that there was a radical... -
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia University and University of Oxford) 9781444332209
RRP: €45.16€39.70The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II offers a transnational perspective on the age of King Ramesses II of Egypt during the centuries of 1500 to 1200 BC. Shows how powerful states - stretching from western Iran to Greece and from Turkey to... -
Roman Lives by Dorothy Harrer 9781936367702
RRP: €23.80€18.55This 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,... -
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece by Claude Calame 9780691159430
RRP: €33.32€25.94The 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... -
Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD by Johannes Wienand 9780199768998
€128.51This 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 Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity by Caillan Davenport 9780192865236
RRP: €119.00€108.17The 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... -
Carthage: A Biography by Dexter Hoyos 9780367635435
RRP: €49.97€43.73Carthage tells the life story of the city, both as one of the Mediterranean's great seafaring powers before 146 BC, and after its refounding in the first century BC. It provides a comprehensive history of the city and its unique culture, and offers... -
Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome by Christopher Siwicki 9780198848578
RRP: €139.83€126.75This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public monuments were restored in order to develop an understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage. It considers examples from... -
Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic by Robert Morstein-Marx 9780521066785
RRP: €47.59€39.58This 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 Shane Butler 9781844655625
RRP: €39.26€34.70Like 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... -
An Archaeology of Egyptian Monasticism: Settlement, Economy and Daily Life at the White Monastery Federation by Louise Blanke
RRP: €38.68€37.85A history of the White Monastery federation of Upper Egypt. Founded in the fourth century, the White Monastery communities form one of Coptic Christianity's largest, most prosperous and longest-lived locations. The book reconstructs their story through... -
Taste and the Ancient Senses Kelli C. Rudolph 9781844658695
RRP: €35.69€31.70Olives, 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... -
Ancient Canaan and Israel: An Introduction by Jonathan M. Golden 9780195379853
RRP: €28.55€22.00Where 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: €130.90€112.23This 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... -
The Colossus of Rhodes by Terence Lorence 9781365900921
RRP: €47.59€38.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781365900921Author Terence LorenceFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 331g -
The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Elizabeth D. Carney 9780367560256
RRP: €53.54€46.74This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters... -
Judaism and Islam in Practice: A Sourcebook by Jonathan E. Brockopp
RRP: €45.21€39.72Judaism and Islam compare because they concur that God cares deeply not only about attitudes but actions, not only about what one says to God but how one conducts affairs at home and in the village. In this sourcebook, the authors have selected key...