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Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney
RRP: £14.99£10.95Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, religious, political and social - that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader... -
Pity Transformed by David Konstan 9780715629048
£40.10"Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in... -
Dionysos by Richard Seaford 9780415324885
RRP: £29.99£26.64Covering a wide range of issues which have been overlooked in the past, including mystery, cult and philosophy, Richard Seaford explores Dionysos - one of the most studied figures of the ancient Greek gods.Popularly known as the god of wine and frenzied... -
Mesopotamian Myths: A Captivating Guide to Myths from Mesopotamia and Sumerian Mythology by Matt Clayton 9781952191176
RRP: £29.99£18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952191176Author Matt ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Refora PublicationsPublisher Refora PublicationsWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War by Charles W. Fornara 9780521299466
RRP: £29.99£26.67The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias,... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691195964
RRP: £20.00£15.89Who were the ancient Phoenicians-and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were... -
Women and War in Antiquity by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 9781421417622
£50.02The martial virtues-courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength-were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in... -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
RRP: £22.00£15.05Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
The Tribes of Britain David Miles 9780753817995
RRP: £14.99£10.20Who are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape.The diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures... -
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World Douglas Preston 9781426221989
RRP: £30.00£19.31Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous "Lost City of the Monkey God" tells incredible stories of how explorers and archaeologists have uncovered the clues that... -
PUGNARE: ECONOMIC SUCCESS AND FAILURE by GEORGE MAHER 9781999626211
RRP: £12.99£11.05We imagine the Roman Empire as being a world very distant from ours, in particular its business and banking systems. So distant, that we may think we have nothing to learn from them. That however would be a mistake. The root causes of the economic... -
The Final Frontier: Scotland's Early Roman Landscape by Andrew Tibbs 9781398117235
RRP: £15.99£10.85In this revealing book, Roman historian and archaeologist Andrew Tibbs uncovers the earliest Roman fortifications in Scotland and examines the landscape and context in which they were built. Although the most visible high-water marks of the Roman Empire... -
The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic by Jean-Manuel Roubineau 9780197666357
RRP: £14.99£13.09An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone mad"--was widely praised and idealized as much as he... -
Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds by James Clackson
RRP: £22.99£19.56Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the... -
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City by Dr Edmund Richardson
RRP: £10.99£7.51'Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.' The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great's lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history. 'Superb ... impeccably researched, but with the pace and... -
Troy: myth and reality by Alexandra Villing
RRP: £25.00£17.98Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Madeline Miller and Rick Riordan, and enacted by stars such as Elizabeth... -
Style and Necessity in Thucydides by Tobias Joho 9780198812043
RRP: £117.50£106.11Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately... -
The Basic Works of Aristotle by Richard McKeon
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757990Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 1520Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 850gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £27.49£20.28By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of... -
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism by Perry Anderson
RRP: £20.99£20.72Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson... -
The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity by David Konstan
RRP: £21.99£19.28Where 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... -
Histories: Bk.I-II by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
A Dictionary of the Roman Empire by Matthew E. Bunson 9780195102338
RRP: £25.49£18.50The extraordinarily rich cultural legacy of the Roman world has had a profound affect world civilization. Roman achievements in architecture, law, politics, literature, war, and philosophy serve as the foundation of modern Western society. Now, for the... -
The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain by David Miles
RRP: £14.99£9.80Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change - the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age' - through the most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using an ancient stone axe-head brought to him by a local... -
The Celts: Origins, Myths & Inventions by John Collis 9780752429137
RRP: £19.99£15.42We use the word 'Celtic' fast and loose - it evokes something mythical and romantic about our past - but what exactly does it mean? Furthermore, why do people believe that there were Celts in Britain and what relationship do they have to the ancient... -
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel
RRP: £16.99£12.28This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate... -
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393059748
RRP: £27.99£25.20This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer... -
BOUDICA THE TRUTH by Janet Smart
RRP: £9.99£9.61In the province of Britannia during AD60. the brutality of the Roman Empire forced catastrophic retaliation by the people. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, rose in rebellion, joined by thousands of her fellow countrymen. Together they engaged in a deadly... -
Teaching Latin: Contexts, Theories, Practices Steven Hunt 9781350161375
RRP: £24.99£20.44Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners'... -
Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology by J. Rasmus Brandt 9781785703591
£80.26Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC - AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape... -
Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome Dr Kathryn Tempest 9781472530561
RRP: £23.99£21.08As the greatest Roman orator of his time, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the senate and before the people of Rome. He was also a philosopher, a patriot and a private man. While his published speeches preserve scandalous... -
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £9.99£6.80Here is an informative and entertaining guide to everything that any tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD 200. You need only pack your imagination and a toothbrush - this guide provides the rest, describing all the best places... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: £40.00£26.95A Prospect Book of the YearAn epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of... -
Caesar Rules: The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c. 50 BC - AD 565) by Olivier Hekster
RRP: £30.00£26.35For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession was organised. Everyone... -
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca 9780486811246
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486811246Author Lucius SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Stephanie Dalley
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognized in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the... -
Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: £8.99£6.45Greek and Roman warfare differed from other cultures and was unlike any other forms of warfare before and after. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practised a 'Western Way of War', where the aim is an open, decisive... -
Book of Songs (Shi-Jing): A New Translation of Selected Poems from the Ancient Chinese Anthology by Confucius
RRP: £19.99£14.05Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Collecting poems over a number of centuries, the anthology - sometimes known as the Classic of Poetry (or Shi-jing) -... -
The Hero by Lee Child 9780008361877
RRP: £5.99£4.18THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin... -
Vindolanda: Everyday Life on Rome's Northern Frontier Robin Birley 9781848682108
RRP: £19.99£13.73The beautiful site the Romans called Vindolanda lies in south-west Northumberland, in the district of Tynedale, more or less half way between the North Sea east of Newcastle and the Irish Sea to the west of Carlisle. It is just within the boundary of the...