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The Anthology by Vettius Valens 9780998588919
RRP: €49.97€36.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998588919Author Vettius ValensFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Amor Fati PublicationsPublisher Amor Fati PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Wars of the Anunnaki: Nuclear Self-Destruction in Ancient Sumer Chris H. Hardy, Ph.D. 9781591432593
RRP: €20.22€13.66The detonation of nuclear weapons in the 20th century was not the first time humanity has seen such terrible destruction. Drawing upon the work of Zecharia Sitchin, the Book of Genesis, Sumerian clay tablets, and archaeological evidence such as ancient... -
Guide to Greece: Central Greece by Pausanias
RRP: €17.84€13.03Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings, traditions and myth, it describes with precision and... -
Virgil, Aeneid II: A Selection by Dominic Jones
RRP: €20.22€18.11This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid Book 2, lines 40-249 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Book 2, lines 268-317, 370-558, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary,... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
RRP: €35.70€28.91From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets... -
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 9781400069224
RRP: €33.32€19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400069224Author Reza AslanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 241mm *... -
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977
RRP: €107.10€80.50This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil... -
Vesuvius by Pliny the Younger 9780615191317
RRP: €10.04€8.91This new edition of the two letters in which Pliny the Younger gives his eye-witness account of the most fabulous natural disaster ever fabled by mankind-the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy and the destruction of "whole communities and... -
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
RRP: €9.51€6.89What do we really need in order to live a happy life? An Epicurean antidote to anxietyOver two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really want is pleasure. Today we tend to associate the word... -
The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator by Irving Finkel
RRP: €13.08€8.81'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History Revealed'A fascinating journey' - Yorkshire Post'Marvellous...Finkel is an expert in Mesopotamian cultures... -
24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Dr Philip Matyszak
RRP: €10.70€7.40'Accessible, informative, enjoyable' - All About History _____________________Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age.Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous... -
The Rise And Fall of Athens by Plutarch 9780140449051
RRP: €20.22€14.61Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine... -
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: €13.08€9.25Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a... -
Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics Yannis Hamilakis 9781598742718
RRP: €45.21€39.72The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they... -
How to Read a Rock: Our Planet's Hidden Stories by Jan Zalasiewicz 9780750999953
RRP: €23.80€17.90Earth's history is embedded in its rocks, from dinosaur-trodden landscapes to new plastic-and-rock combinations. How to Read a Rock unearths stories buried in everything from grains of sand to mountain ranges, featuring over one hundred breathtaking... -
Essays: The Philosophy Classic by Michel De Montaigne 9780857089335
RRP: €16.65€8.81An essential companion to the most relevant works of Michel de Montaigne Essays: The Philosophy Classic delivers a carefully curated collection of thought-provoking works by sixteenth-century thinker Michel De Montaigne. Exploring topics as diverse as... -
de Romanis Book 2: homines Katharine Radice (Stephen Perse Foundation, UK) 9781350100077
RRP: €23.79€21.10FOR A LINK TO THE ONLINE RESOURCES, PLEASE SCROLL DOWN This is the new Latin course that you have long been waiting for! An introduction to both the Latin language and the cultural world of the Romans, it also develops English literacy skills... -
Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives by Plutarch
RRP: €14.27€10.03Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I... -
Roman Mail and Scale Armour by M.C. Bishop
RRP: €17.84€13.03Fully illustrated, this study investigates the origins, evolution and use of the mail and scale armour worn by the soldiers and gladiators of Imperial Rome. Less glamorous than the Roman Army's instantly recognizable plate armour but much more... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780199554027
RRP: €10.70€7.68'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially... -
Battle Elephants and Flaming Foxes: Animals in the Roman World by Caroline Freeman-Cuerden
RRP: €23.80€17.90From the hooves of chariot horses pounding the dust of the racetrack to the cries of elephants charging the battlefields, animals were a key part of Roman life. On memorials left to beloved dogs or in images of arena animals hammered onto coins, their... -
Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia Matthew Dennison 9780857381637
RRP: €15.46€10.23Empress of Rome is the fascinating biography of one of the most perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity... -
The Egyptian Book of the Dead by John Romer
RRP: €23.80€18.08The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome... -
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
RRP: €17.84€11.66The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... -
A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard
RRP: €15.46€10.23The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But who were these people, what do we know of their lives... -
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods by David Lewis-Williams
RRP: €17.84€11.66This fascinating book continues the story begun in the bestselling and critically acclaimed book The Mind in the Cave. Drawing on the latest research and recent discoveries, the authors skilfully link material on human consciousness, imagery and belief... -
Ancient Egyptian Furniture Volume III by Geoffrey Killen 9781785704895
RRP: €71.40€66.05In this third volume Dr Killen investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. It establishes the range of wooden furniture manufactured during this period by surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and... -
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust
RRP: €13.08€9.25Sallust (86-c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline's War tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc led by L. Sergius... -
The Histories by Polybius
RRP: €14.27€10.03'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's... -
The First Female Pharaoh: Sobekneferu, Goddess of the Seven Stars by Andrew Collins
RRP: €23.79€15.30Cleopatra. Nefertiti. Hatshepsut. All of them are ancient Egyptian female rulers who rose above their predominantly patriarchal societies to become controllers of a great empire. Missing from this list, however, is Sobekneferu, ancient Egypt's first... -
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall 9780241575734
RRP: €29.75€20.97Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a... -
Tacitus, Annals XIV: A Selection by John Storey
RRP: €15.46€14.11This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Annals XIV, 1-13, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A... -
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City by Gwendolyn Leick
RRP: €15.46€10.82Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first... -
Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson
RRP: €13.08€9.25Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive... -
OCR Ancient History GCSE Component 1: Greece and Persia Sam Baddeley (Winchester College, UK) 9781350015159
RRP: €17.84€16.59This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies: Period Study: The... -
The Ancient City - Imperium Press by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges 9780648690542
RRP: €20.17€14.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648690542Author Numa Denis Fustel De CoulangesFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 449g -
The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity by David Konstan
RRP: €26.17€22.94Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings, and argues that the fundamental idea of "sin" arose... -
The Roman Army: The Greatest War Machine of the Ancient World Chris McNab 9781849088138
RRP: €23.80€20.74The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar today as it was to the citizens - and enemies - of the vast Roman Empire two thousand years ago. This book goes beyond the stereotypes found in popular culture to examine the Roman Army from the first armed... -
OCR Ancient History GCSE Component 2: Rome by Paul Fowler
RRP: €17.84€16.59This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 2, both the compulsory longer Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies: Longer Period... -
Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes
RRP: €13.08€9.25Geza Vermes, translator and editor of The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the...