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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... -
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... -
Pyrrhonian Buddhism: A Philosophical Reconstruction by Adrian Kuzminski 9780367631642
RRP: £21.99£19.34Pyrrhonian Buddhism reconstructs the path to enlightenment shared both by early Buddhists and the ancient Greek sceptics inspired by Pyrrho of Elis, who may have had extended contacts with Buddhists when he accompanied Alexander the Great to India in the... -
Euripides and the Politics of Form by Victoria Wohl 9780691202372
RRP: £30.00£23.29How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only... -
The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
RRP: £27.99£24.14The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius' Divine Institutes-seditious in its time-responded to the emperor Diocletian's... -
Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780521604215
RRP: £26.99£24.08In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a new text... -
The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths: Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer's Gods by John Heath
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western culture: the Homeric pantheon and Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament. Heath argues that not only does the God of... -
Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History by George Cawkwell 9780199593286
£107.92This selection of papers, by the distinguished historian of ancient Greece George Cawkwell, reflects a half-century of outstanding scholarship that is of immense value to anyone studying the ancient world today. The articles range from early Greek... -
Archaic Greece: The Age of New Reckonings by Brian M. Lavelle
RRP: £30.95£27.45An introductory guide to the Archaic period in ancient Greece-the people, their society, and their culture. Excerpts from literary and other texts give voice to the interests, concerns, and emotions of the Archaic Greeks themselves. This book provides a... -
Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles: A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of Proclus' Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy by Nicola Spanu
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus' Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus' exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used... -
Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt by Henry P Colburn
RRP: £25.99£21.06This study provides a clear overview of the archaeological evidence for Achaemenid Egypt, including temples, tombs, irrigation works, statues, stelae, seals and coins.About the AuthorHenry P. Colburn, Lecturer in Art History, University of Southern... -
The Maya Civilization: An Enthralling Overview of Maya History, Starting from the Olmecs' Domination of Ancient Mexico to the Arrival of Hernan Cortes and the Spanish Conquest by Enthralling History 9781956296068
RRP: £23.99£16.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956296068Author Enthralling HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Enthralling HistoryPublisher Enthralling HistoryWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)... -
Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus by Serena Connolly
RRP: £19.99£17.54In this exploration of the administration of law and its role in the lives of ordinary people in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire, Serena Connolly draws upon a rich but little-known legal collection from the late 3rd century known as the Codex... -
Philosophy in Late Antiquity by Andrew Smith
RRP: £36.99£32.53Philosophy in Late Antiquity provides an essential new introduction to the key ideas of the Neoplatonists, which affected approaches to Plato as late as the nineteenth century. Andrew Smith shows how they influenced Christian thought and his approach not... -
Pudding Pan: A Roman Shipwreck and its Cargo in Context by Michael Walsh 9780861592029
£62.70For more than 300 years commercial fishermen working in the outer Thames estuary have recovered Roman pottery in their oyster dredgers and fishing nets from the seabed in the vicinity of Pudding Pan. However, despite numerous attempts to locate the... -
Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age by Richard M. Berthold
RRP: £29.99£26.50This book offers a detailed political history of Rhodes from the foundation of the Rhodian republic in the fifth century B.C. to the conclusions of Rhodes' alliance with Rome in the second, a period in which Rhodes was a major Mediterranean power... -
The Mongol Conquests: A Captivating Guide to the Invasions and Conquests Initiated by Genghis Khan That Created the Vast Mongol Empire by Captivating History 9781647480516
RRP: £29.99£18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480516Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Poverty in the Roman World by Margaret Atkins 9780521106573
RRP: £39.99£33.26If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the Late Republic onwards, the poor were an important force in social and political life and how... -
The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens by Jacqueline de Romilly 9780198238072
RRP: £54.00£47.17'a brilliant introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a major reinterpretation of the goals and effects of their thought. Engagingly written, this eminently accessible account deserves lasting popularity.' Choice 'This is a fine work,... -
Nero by Jurgen Malitz 9781405121781
RRP: £24.95£21.78In this rigorously researched biography Jurgen Malitz invites readers to reconsider the reputation of the Roman Emperor Nero. Focuses on the growing tension between Nero's artistic tendencies and his role as emperor. Steers readers through the diverse... -
Julian's Gods: Religion and Philosophy in the Thought and Action of Julian the Apostate by Rowland B. E. Smith 9780415642767
RRP: £51.99£45.19Julian's brief reign (360-363 AD) had a profound impact on his contemporaries, as he worked fervently for a pagan restoration in the Roman Empire, which was rapidly becoming Christian.Julian's Gods focuses on the cultural mentality of `the last pagan... -
Greek Civilization: An Introduction by Brian A Sparkes 9780631205593
RRP: £44.95£40.51It covers all the major themes of Ancient Greek history, set in the context of both the preceding and following periods.About the AuthorBrian A. Sparkes received his training in classics and archaeology at Kings College London and at the British School... -
Localism in Hellenistic Greece by Sheila Ager 9781487548315
RRP: £66.00£61.85The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered... -
Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World by Erik Jensen 9781624667121
RRP: £16.99£14.13What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari? Did they share the modern Western conception-popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games-of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of...