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Terence: Eunuchus by Terence 9780521458719
RRP: £28.99£25.82Terence's Eunuchus (The Eunuch) was his most successful play in his lifetime but has been surprisingly neglected by modern commentators. In this first ever full-scale commentary in English, Professor Barsby provides a thorough examination of the play in... -
Hellenism, The History of a Civilization by Arnold Joseph Toynbee 9780313227424
£48.28The author surveys the development of Hellenism-- Graeco-Roman Culture--from its earliest beginnings at the end of the second millennium B.C. until its decline in the seventh century of the Christian era--a period of some 1800 years.Book InformationISBN... -
The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire: Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor by Arjan Zuiderhoek
RRP: £30.99£22.85In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity unmatched in their previous or later history. In this study, Arjan Zuiderhoek attempts to answer the question why this should have been so... -
The Republican Roman Army: A Sourcebook by Michael M. Sage 9780415178808
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Republican Roman Army assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the evolution of the Roman Army and the Roman experience of war. The author has carefully selected and translated key texts, many of them not... -
Ceramic Perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society by Leslie Anne Warden
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element demonstrates how ceramics, a dataset that is more typically identified with chronology than social analysis, can forward the study of Egyptian society writ large. This Element argues that the sheer mass of ceramic material indicates the... -
The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, Cultural and Economic Impacts by Matthew Adam Cobb
RRP: £39.99£35.06The period from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Islam (c. late fourth century BCE to seventh century CE) saw a significant growth in economic, diplomatic and cultural exchange between various civilisations in Africa, Europe and Asia... -
The Language of Ruins: Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer 9780190626310
RRP: £100.00£93.60A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the... -
Greek Mythology: A Complete Guide to Greek Mythology, Greek Gods, and Ancient Greece by Andrew Walsh 9781761035999
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761035999Author Andrew WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Ingram PublishingPublisher Ingram PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity by Professor Mary Harlow
RRP: £26.99£23.44"A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair." Times Literary Supplement Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages... -
The Primeval Flood Catastrophe: Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Traditions by Y. S. Chen
£43.76Previous research on Mesopotamian Flood traditions tended to focus on a few textual sources. How the traditions originated and developed as a whole has not been seriously investigated. By systematically examining a large body of relevant cuneiform... -
The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2 by Joshua Jeffers 9781646022236
RRP: £108.95£95.79This second volume of Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny's new and updated editio princeps of the inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal provides reliable, up-to-date editions of 169 historical inscriptions of this seventh-century BC ruler,... -
Alexander the Great in His World by Carol G. Thomas 9780631232469
RRP: £34.95£30.83Alexander the Great is one of the most celebrated figures of antiquity. In this book, Carol G. Thomas places this powerful figure within the context of his time, place, culture, and ancestry in order to discover what influences shaped his life and career... -
The Ancient Greeks in 100 Facts by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £8.99£6.02Ancient Greece was never just one nation: it was a disparate collection of independent city-states, often embroiled in war with each other, with separate governments, their own armies and distinct politics, economies and societies. However, together... -
Antioch in Syria: A History from Coins (300 BCE-450 CE) by Kristina M. Neumann
RRP: £90.00£81.43Antioch in Syria critically reassesses this ancient city from its Seleucid foundation into Late Antiquity. Although Antioch's prominence is famous, Kristina M. Neumann newly exposes the gradations of imperial power and local agency mediated within its... -
Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts 9780691029191
RRP: £45.00£40.81The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a... -
Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity by David H. J. Larmour
RRP: £52.00£40.63In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both... -
Ancient Greek Literary Letters: Selections in Translation by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
RRP: £36.99£32.53The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the... -
Through the Pillars of Herakles: Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic by Duane W. Roller 9780415486965
RRP: £47.99£41.81In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century, Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean.Roller... -
Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual: Performance, Patterns, and Practice by Katherine Eaton
RRP: £54.99£47.72Large state temples in ancient Egypt were vast agricultural estates, with interests in mining, trading, and other economic activities. The temple itself served as the mansion or palace of the deity to whom the estate belonged, and much of the ritual in... -
The Arts of Love: Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy by Duncan F. Kennedy 9780521407670
RRP: £26.99£22.80This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read... -
Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt by Lorna Oakes 9781780193540
RRP: £7.99£6.19This is the illustrated guide to the temples, tombs and pyramids. It is a fascinating tour of the temples built to worship the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, including Philae, Karnak and Abydos. It is a detailed survey of the famous tombs of the... -
Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity by Lauren Caldwell
RRP: £30.99£18.09Elite women in the Roman world were often educated, socially prominent, and even relatively independent. Yet the social regime that ushered these same women into marriage and childbearing at an early age was remarkably restrictive. In the first... -
The Roman Retail Revolution: The Socio-Economic World of the Taberna by Steven J. R. Ellis 9780198769934
RRP: £102.50£95.82Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections in numbers far exceeding those of any other form of building. That they played a vital role in the operation of the city, and indeed... -
Euripides: 'Helen' by Euripides 9780521836906
RRP: £72.99£64.56This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife... -
Latin Literature and its Transmission by Richard Hunter
RRP: £36.99£27.40This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays... -
The Seleukid Royal Economy: The Finances and Financial Administration of the Seleukid Empire by G.G. Aperghis 9780521837071
RRP: £66.00£59.44The Seleukid empire, the principal successor-state of the empire of Alexander the Great, endured for over 200 years and stretched, at its peak, from the Mediterranean to the borders of India. This book provides a wide-ranging study of the empire's... -
Herodotus: Histories Book IX by Herodotus
RRP: £27.99£24.27Book IX of Herodotus' Histories provides the conclusion and climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable Greek victory over Persia. The major themes of the work are all here echoed, modified, and revisited, and Book... -
Roman London by Dominic Perring
RRP: £130.00£112.11First Published in 2004.Precious little of Roman London survives and the destruction of Roman levels continues fast as new office foundations are sunk ever deeper into ancient levels. In recent years the close attention of the archaeologists of the... -
The Chivalrous Society by Georges Duby 9780520042711
£27.08"Georges Duby in productivity and originality stands at the forefront of active medievalists in France and in the world. The present collection contains 15 of his short articles, most but not all of which appear in English for the first time...Of capital... -
Reviving Roman Religion: Sacred Trees in the Roman World by Ailsa Hunt 9781107153547
RRP: £104.00£93.82Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, weird phenomenon, but this book argues that in fact they prompted sophisticated theological thinking in the Roman world. Challenging major aspects of current scholarly constructions of Roman religion,... -
The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology by Vernon K. Robbins
RRP: £37.99£33.38This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz' anthropological concept of thick description. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. In this manner, multiple methods of interpretation are... -
The Roman Monetary System: The Eastern Provinces from the First to the Third Century AD by Constantina Katsari
RRP: £90.00£71.57The Roman monetary system was highly complex. It involved official Roman coins in both silver and bronze, which some provinces produced while others imported them from mints in Rome and elsewhere, as well as, in the East, a range of civic coinages. This... -
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity: A Sourcebook with Commentaries by Sian Lewis
RRP: £43.99£39.44The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the... -
The Toltec Civilization: An Enthralling Overview of the History of the Toltecs, Starting from the Classic Maya Period in Mesoamerica to the Rise of the Aztec Empire by Enthralling History 9781956296037
RRP: £22.99£15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956296037Author Enthralling HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Enthralling HistoryPublisher Enthralling HistoryWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)... -
Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic by Paul J. du Plessis
RRP: £23.99£19.51A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous... -
Three Historians of Alexander the Great by N. G. L. Hammond 9780521036535
RRP: £37.99£31.31Our knowledge of Alexander the Great is derived from the widely varying accounts of five authors who wrote three and more centuries after his death. The value of each account can be determined in detail only by discovering the source from which it drew,... -
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens by Nicole Loraux
RRP: £22.00£17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951092Author Nicole LorauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources by Eric W. Robinson 9780631233947
RRP: £32.95£29.14This book invites readers to join in a fresh and extensive investigation of one of Ancient Greece's greatest inventions: democratic government. Provides an accessible, up-to-date survey of vital issues in Greek democracy.Covers democracy's origins,... -
Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture (Revised second edition) by Gideon Nisbet 9781904675785
£31.58This revised and expanded second edition responds to new developments in the reception of Greece in contemporary popular culture, and particularly the impact of the film "300" (2006). Why, in a century of film-making, have so few versions of the story of... -
A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes by John F. Hoffecker 9780813534695
RRP: £35.00£27.37Early humans did not simply drift northward from their African origins as their abilities to cope with cooler climates evolved. The initial settlement of places like Europe and northern Asia, as well as the later movement into the Arctic and the...