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Development on Roman London's Western Hill: Excavations at Paternoster Square, City of London by Sadie Watson 9781901992663
RRP: $29.30$24.70Redevelopment of Paternoster Square in 2000-2001 provided the opportunity to reassess 1960s work at the site and review Roman activity on the western hill, south of the main east-west road from London to Silchester. Natural stream channels recorded at... -
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler 9780197518786
RRP: $61.93$53.59These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics... -
The Illusion of Us: The Suppression and Evolution of Human Consciousness by Marc Peterson 9781518671067
RRP: $25.18$20.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781518671067Author Marc PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman 9780062565259
RRP: $37.78$27.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062565259Author Richard Elliott FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations by Garry J. Shaw
RRP: $41.98$30.83The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enemies - people from Nubia, Libya and the Levant - or crushing them beneath his chariot. Officially,... -
The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook by Barbara Levick
RRP: $79.78$70.10This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration... -
Magic in the Ancient Greek World by Derek Collins
RRP: $62.90$55.88Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece. Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets, and... -
Statius: Silvae Book II by P. Papinius Statius
$153.59With 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... -
The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628 by Geoffrey Greatrex
RRP: $113.38$98.43Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in... -
Virgil: Aeneid Book XI by Scott McGill 9781107416789
RRP: $48.28$47.99Virgil's Aeneid XI is an important, yet sometimes overlooked, book which covers the funerals following the fierce fighting in Book X and a council of the Latins before they and the Trojans resume battle after the end of the truce. This edition contains a... -
Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence by Luke O'Neill
RRP: $58.78$43.28Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O'Neill explains how it all began, how it all will end and everything in between. Readers will benefit from Luke's insatiable... -
Old Testament Warriors: The Clash of Cultures in the Ancient Near East by Simon Elliott
RRP: $42.00$27.01The period covered by the Old Testament - beginning in approximately 3000 BC - was one of great technological development and innovation in warfare, as competing cultures clashed in the ancient Middle East. The Sumerians were the first to introduce the... -
A History of the Roman Republic by Klaus Bringmann 9780745633718
RRP: $52.48$45.80In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the Tiber estuary into a power that controlled the Italian peninsula and created the final Empire of... -
Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome by Vivian Nutton
RRP: $71.38$63.00This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his activities and ideas as a doctor and intellectual, as well as his reception in later centuries. Nutton's wide-ranging study surveys Galen's early life and medical... -
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer 9781773239712
RRP: $18.80$17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773239712Author Samuel Noah KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Weapons, Warriors and Battles of Ancient Iberia by Fernando Quesada Sanz 9781781592755
RRP: $84.00$59.62In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) was home to warriors of great renown. Spanish and Celtiberian warriors, both infantry and cavalry, provided the backbone of the Carthaginian armies that terrorized Italy under Hannibal and... -
Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton 9781032282824
RRP: $79.78$70.10The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade.This revised volume... -
Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden
$70.69In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of... -
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions by Kate Cooper
RRP: $42.00$24.47'A brilliant new take' Janina Ramirez, author of Femina'A masterpiece of the historian's art' Peter Brown, author of Augustine of HippoThe powerful and surprising story of the four remarkable women who changed Augustine's life - and history - forever... -
Virgil: Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: $56.68$53.45Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the life... -
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern
RRP: $52.50$34.40'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born... -
A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 by Paul-Alain Beaulieu
RRP: $67.10$59.41Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople Written by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time... -
Tollund Man by Christian Fischer 9780752486352
RRP: $46.20$33.79On May 6, 1950, Viggo and Emil Hojgaard from the small village of Tollund were cutting mud to find peat for their stove in the Bjaeldskovdal peat bog, 12km west of Silkeborg, Denmark. As they worked, one of their wives noticed in the peat layer a corpse... -
The Art of War by Ralph D. Sawyer
RRP: $27.28$18.06The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by such great Asian war leaders as Mao... -
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward N. Luttwak
RRP: $54.50$43.30In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield 9780199656462
RRP: $45.13$32.93The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and... -
Juvenal: Satire 6 by Juvenal 9780521671101
RRP: $54.58$53.45Juvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates... -
History of Ancient Egypt by John Romer
RRP: $83.98$47.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250030115Author John RomerFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm... -
Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism by Caroline T. Schroeder
RRP: $65.08$49.98This is the first book-length study of children in one of the birthplaces of early Christian monasticism, Egypt. Although comprised of men and women who had renounced sex and family, the monasteries of late antiquity raised children, educated them, and... -
The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts by Marvin W. Meyer 9780812216929
RRP: $54.58$31.46Zeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more immediate to the concerns of people living in an increasingly... -
The Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity by Edward J. Watts
RRP: $52.50$40.28A compelling history of radical transformation in the fourth-century--when Christianity decimated the practices of traditional pagan religion in the Roman Empire.The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the... -
Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9781649031617
RRP: $62.98$46.83An innovative account of the life of Tutankhamun, the rediscovery of his existence, and the enduring impact of the finding of his tomb, by leading Egyptologist Aidan DodsonThe spectacular discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 has given him an afterlife... -
The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland 9781786941473
RRP: $57.65$51.45This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya'qubi (d. ca. 910), 'Ali al-Mas'udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim... -
The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World: The Jews of Palestine from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest by Peter Schafer
RRP: $79.78$70.10The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. Under the Greek, Roman and finally Christian supremacy... -
Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds by James Clackson
RRP: $48.28$45.97Texts 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... -
A History of Byzantium by Timothy E. Gregory 9781405184717
RRP: $71.30$63.80This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new... -
Stoicism by John Sellars
RRP: $79.78$70.10Stoicism was one of the most influential schools of philosophy in antiquity and its influence has persisted to the present day. Originating in Athens around 300 BCE, Stoicism flourished for some five hundred years and has remained a constant presence... -
Julius Caesar in Egypt: Cleopatra and the War in Alexandria by Philip Matyszak 9781399097369
RRP: $42.00$30.01In 48 BC the armies of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great fought a decisive battle at Pharsalus in Greece. Pompey was comprehensively defeated and fled to the last power in the Mediterranean world that was independent of Rome, Ptolemaic Egypt. Caesar... -
Virgil: Aeneid Book XII by Virgil
RRP: $56.68$49.22Book XII brings Virgil's Aeneid to a close, as the long-delayed single combat between Aeneas and Turnus ends with Turnus' death - a finale that many readers find more unsettling than triumphant. In this, the first detailed single-volume commentary on the... -
The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations by Lucy Shipley 9781789148329
RRP: $27.20$19.05The Etruscans were a powerful and influential civilization in ancient Italy. But despite their prominence, they are often misrepresented as mysterious - a strange, unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley's history...