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The Portable Antiquities Scheme and Roman Britain by Tom Brindle 9780861591961
£62.30A comprehensive evaluation of the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the archaeological value of its findings particularly in relation to Roman Britain.About the AuthorTom Brindle is a Research Fellow at the University of Reading on a Leverhulme Trust... -
Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple by Florin Leonte
RRP: £25.99£23.58With a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos' rule, 1391 1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.About the... -
A Companion to Byzantium by Liz James 9781405126540
RRP: £124.95£108.82Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companion to Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world from its inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries of... -
Sparta and War by Stephen Hodkinson 9781905125111
£59.27This title includes ten new essays from a distinguished international cast that treat Spartas most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. Among the contributors, Thomas Figueira explores the paradox that Spartas cavalry was an... -
City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria by Edward J. Watts 9780520258167
RRP: £29.00£22.54A lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education, this book explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth century to shed new light on the... -
Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe: 5500-500 BC by William O'Brien 9780199605651
£110.45This volume examines prehistoric copper mining in Europe, from the first use of the metal eight thousand years ago in the Balkans to its widespread adoption during the Bronze Age. The history of research is examined, as is the survival of this mining... -
The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna: Textual Evidence for the Origins of the Napatan State by John Coleman Darnell
RRP: £17.00£16.13This is the first complete translation and commentary on the important tableau and inscription of Queen Katimala/Karimala at Semna. Proper understanding of the paleography, grammar and content reveals Katimala to have been a Nubian ruler at the time of... -
Life in a Roman Villa by Brenda Williams
RRP: £6.00£4.44When the Romans came to Britain in AD 43, they brought a new style of domestic life, one that better-off Britons soon copied. This informative guide looks at how villas were built, and at the accommodation and daily life villa residents enjoyed - their... -
How to Win a Roman Chariot Race: Lives, Legends and Treasures from the Ancient World by Jane C. Hood
RRP: £8.99£3.38Who first thought of atoms? How much can you learn about archaeology from an oil lamp? Who came up with the theory of the 'wandering womb'?Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ancient... -
Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family by Catherine Michael Chin
RRP: £30.00£27.39Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth, status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity... -
A Late Roman Town House and its Environs by Emma Durham 9780907764397
£62.12This report publishes the 1937-8 excavations in Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, which revealed one of the best preserved late Roman town houses so far discovered in Roman Britain. Extensively decorated with mosaics, the building has recently been... -
Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity by Kelly Olson
RRP: £39.99£35.06In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity, Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts... -
Catullan Questions Revisited by T. P. Wiseman 9781009235747
RRP: £75.00£15.23Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the primary sources, Peter Wiseman combines textual,... -
Empires of Trust: How Rome Built--and America Is Building--a New World by Thomas F. Madden 9780452295452
RRP: £18.90£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452295452Author Thomas F. MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335g -
Death on the Nile by Helen Strudwick 9781907804717
RRP: £45.00£34.99'Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt' reflects the continuing public fascination with Egyptian coffins, mummies and burials. This new volume draws on 100 objects from the Fitzwilliam Museum's Egyptian collection, and deepens our... -
Broken Cities: A Historical Sociology of Ruins by Martin Devecka 9781421438429
RRP: £30.50£27.37A comparative study of cities that fell into ruin through human involvement.We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues that we should see them as processes... -
Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers by Carl J. Richard 9780742556249
RRP: £14.99£11.53This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the Founding Fathers. The classical education they imbibed as young students inspired them to undertake the American Revolution and... -
Lost Voices of the Nile: Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt by Charlotte Booth
RRP: £9.99£6.64When we think of ancient Egypt, we think of the gods, the pharaohs and the pyramids. However, life for the average Egyptian was very different from this glorious perception and was not so unrecognisable from the lives we live today. This book tells... -
Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200 by Neville Morley 9780521893312
RRP: £37.99£31.31Ancient Rome was one of the greatest cities of the pre-industrial era. Like other such great cities, it has often been deemed parasitic, a drain on the resources of the society that supported it. Rome's huge population was maintained not by trade or... -
Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt: Women's Bodies, Society and Domestic Space by Ada Nifosi 9780367731823
RRP: £39.99£35.06How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions? Detailing women's lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of... -
Statius: Silvae Book II by P. Papinius Statius 9780521666237
RRP: £29.99£26.67With the exception of a poem on the unscripted death of a lion in the Colosseum, Book II of Statius' Silvae is largely domestic in theme. It reflects the more private side of Roman culture, its pleasures, houses, gardens, friendships, and personal... -
Resurrection in Alexandria: The Painted Greco-Roman Tombs of Kom Al-Shuqafa by Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets 9789774168291
RRP: £35.00£29.82In the Greco-Roman catacombs of Alexandria, uniquely decorated tombs from the time when religious boundaries blurred and syncretistic beliefs flourished have long been known. But it was only in 1993 that researchers discovered faint traces of paintings... -
An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome by Lukas Thommen 9780521174657
RRP: £22.99£19.56In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine... -
Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600 by James H. Barrett 9781902937618
£96.33Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both reflected... -
Empire and Religion in the Roman World by Harriet I. Flower 9781108927581
RRP: £24.99£22.37The inspiration for this volume comes from the work of its dedicatee, Brent D. Shaw, who is one of the most original and wide-ranging historians of the ancient world of the last half-century and continues to open up exciting new fields for exploration... -
Aristotle by Sir David Ross
RRP: £37.99£33.38Written by renowned Aristotle scholar Sir David Ross, this study has long been established as one of the foremost surveys of Aristotle's life, work and philosophy. With John L. Ackrill's introduction and updated bibliography, created for the sixth... -
The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Kleopatra VII by Stanley M. Burstein 9780521281584
RRP: £38.99£32.28Greek and Roman history has largely been reconstructed from the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, and other major authors who are today well represented in English translations. But much equally valuable documentary material is buried in... -
Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic by Fred K. Drogula
RRP: £23.99£21.66Marcus Porcius Cato ("the Younger") is most famous for being Julius Caesar's nemesis. His sustained antagonism was in large part responsible for pushing the Romans towards civil war. Yet Cato never wanted war even though he used the threat of violence... -
The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture by Richard T. Neer 9780226570648
RRP: £40.00£38.95In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of... -
Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical Survey by M. L. Clarke
RRP: £37.99£33.38This new edition of M.L. Clarke's 1953 classic study of Roman rhetoric incorporates corrections and a new introduction by D.H. Berry. The bibliography has been substantially updated and supplemented by suggestions for further reading.About the AuthorM.L... -
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction by A. B. Bosworth 9780199252756
RRP: £62.00£51.56This book collects together ten contributions by leading experts in the field of Alexander studies which represent the most advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and... -
Coffin Commerce: How a Funerary Materiality Formed Ancient Egypt by Kathlyn M. Cooney
RRP: £17.00£14.72This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather simple Egyptian object type - the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin - how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in... -
Hesiod's Cosmos by Jenny Strauss Clay 9780521117685
RRP: £39.99£33.26Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After... -
Gilgamesh by Louise M. Pryke
RRP: £39.99£35.06Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world's oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However, it also goes further and examines the significance of the story's Ancient Near Eastern context, and what it tells us about notions of kingship,... -
Rome Against Caratacus: The Roman Campaigns in Britain AD 48-58 by Graham Webster
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Roman Conquest of Britain in AD 43 was one of the most important turning points in the history of the British Isles. It left a legacy still discernible today in the form of archaeological remain, road networks, land divisions and even language.In his... -
The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE by Stanley M. Burstein
RRP: £22.99£18.09This book provides the first comprehensive history of Afro-Eurasia during the first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first millennium CE. The history of these 1300 plus years can be summed up in one word: connectivity. The growth in connectivity... -
Hadrian's Wall: Exploring Its Past to Protect Its Future by Marta Alberti
£28.79Through the voices of over 20 Hadrian's Wall enthusiasts - chosen amongst prominent frontier scholars and archaeologists, re-enactors, curators, walkers and site managers - this volume celebrates the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian's visit to Britain and... -
Signs of Cleopatra: Reading an Icon Historically by Mary Hamer 9780859898096
RRP: £22.00£19.89Cleopatra has been dead for twenty centuries, but her name still resonates in the west. Her story has the status of a foundation myth. As such, artists of all periods have drawn on it in order to raise questions concerned with the world in which they... -
Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers by David Noy
RRP: £25.00£23.78'The Tiber has been joinded by the Orontes'. So wrote the Roman satirist Juvenal, in a complaint about immigration to the Empire's capital. Rome was constantly sustained by immigrants. Some were voluntary: craftworkers, soldiers, teachers and... -
Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World by G. W. Bowersock 9780674005983
£28.77The era of late antiquity-from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth-was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. In...