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Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottero
RRP: £24.00£23.03One of the world's foremost experts on Assyriology, Jean Bottero has studied the religion of ancient Mesopotamia for more than fifty years. Building on these many years of research, Bottero here presents the definitive account of one of the world's... -
Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry: The Secrets of History's Most Famous Embriodery Hiden in Plain Sight by Arthur Wright 9781526741103
RRP: £25.00£18.02The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the entire panoply of English history, and over the last 200 years there have been hundreds of books portraying the Tapestry... -
Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History by Neville Morley 9780415248778
RRP: £36.99£32.53Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history.Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret historical evidence for themselves, as well as to evaluate... -
Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary by Diskin Clay 9780198789659
RRP: £22.49£21.04Lucian of Samosata's True History is a fantastical tale of voyage and imagination. No editor, translator, or reader knows quite how to describe it or fit it comfortably into a familiar genre of Greek literature: 'satires' and 'dialogues' only partially... -
A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian: Akkadian-English by Jeremy Black 9783447042642
RRP: £49.95£40.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447042642Author Jeremy BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Harrassowitz VerlagPublisher Harrassowitz VerlagWeight(grams) 894gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
Greek Lyric: A Selection by Felix Budelmann
RRP: £27.99£24.27The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since... -
Mercenaries and Their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy by Michael Mallett
RRP: £14.99£10.95Michael Mallett's classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who... -
Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel 9780375703997
RRP: £22.00£16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703997Author Fernand BraudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £33.99£24.61Edited by Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading archaeologists, this book provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. Unique in its approach, it is a history of both... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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... -
Rome, Blood and Power: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic 70-27 BC by Gareth C. Sampson 9781526710178
RRP: £25.00£18.02Following the First Civil War the Roman Republic was able to rebuild itself and restore stability. Yet the problems which had plagued the previous seventy years of the Republic, of political reform being met with violence and bloodshed, had not been... -
The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'Etei by Carl Fredrik Sverdrup 9781913336059
RRP: £25.00£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336059Author Carl Fredrik SverdrupFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
An Introduction to the Ancient World Lukas de Blois 9780815372417
RRP: £36.99£32.93An Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of the history of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Covering the social, political, economic and cultural processes that have influenced later western and Near Eastern civilisations,... -
Euripides: Medea by Euripides
RRP: £27.99£24.27This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of... -
Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature by Benjamin R. Foster
RRP: £49.95£43.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883053765Author Benjamin R. FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 1044Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1497gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Armies of Ancient Greece Circa 500 to 338 BC: History, Organization & Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781526751898
RRP: £25.00£17.62Conflict was rife among the Greeks of the Classical period, including some of the most famous wars and battles of the whole ancient period, such as the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, the Spartans' heroic last stand at Thermopylae, the gruelling... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Timothy H. Lim 9780199663088
£35.00In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by... -
Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300-550 CE by Jan R. Stenger 9780198869788
£99.84Education in Late Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of the Graeco-Roman debate on education between c. 300 and 550 CE. Jan Stenger traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation through the... -
Cyril of Jerusalem by Edward Yarnold
RRP: £37.99£33.38Cyril was bishop in Jerusalem from c350-351 AD until 386 AD. His writings are an important source for the history of early Christian doctrine. This book provides full English translations, with explanatory commentary, of his most important works. The... -
Cyril of Alexandria by Norman Russell
RRP: £37.99£33.38As a ruler of the church of Alexander and president of the Third Ecumenical Council of 431, Cyril was one of the most powerful men of the fifth century. Not only did he define the concept of christological orthodoxy for the next two centuries, but he is... -
From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and Civilization During the 6th and 5th Centuries BC by Victor Ehrenberg
RRP: £37.99£33.78From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse... -
The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. - A.D.235) by Jonathan Roth 9789004225473
RRP: £58.00£53.36Relying on a variety of literary, documentary and archaeological sources, this work explores the Roman military supply system from the Punic Wars to the end of the Principate. Each chapter is devoted to a different aspect of logistics: supply needs and... -
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781786077851
RRP: £12.99£8.18'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the... -
A Brief History of Roman Britain Joan P. Alcock 9781845297282
RRP: £10.99£7.40In BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400... -
Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
RRP: £31.00£25.65Explore how history was brought to life on the silver screen and how the Hollywood's epic movies dictated our vision of the past. This lively study analyses how Hollywood producers, directors, designers, costumiers, publicity agents, movie stars, and,... -
Seneca: Apocolocyntosis by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £26.99£23.44The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world - and satire, a Roman speciality, is one of the few types of ancient literature to survive, and... -
Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great: The Remarkable Discovery of the Royal Tombs of Macedon by David Grant 9781526763433
RRP: £25.00£18.02In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a statue of King Philip II who was deifying himself in front of the Greek world. Moments later Philip was stabbed... -
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield 9780199573929
RRP: £34.99£26.61This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the disintegration of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece... -
Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic by Valentina Arena
RRP: £30.99£28.28This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought,... -
Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War by Judy Foster
RRP: £29.95£22.12This is a revolutionary book that challenges our preconceptions about the past. We often think of history as a linear development in which we are steadily moving out of a violent and patriarchal past to a more equitable and peaceful future. While we have... -
Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East by Max Price
RRP: £30.99£23.25Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious studies scholars for decades. Rejecting simple explanations, this book... -
Theophilus of Edessa's Chronicle and the Circulation of Historical Knowledge in Late Antiquity and Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland
£111.51Theophilus of Edessa was an astrologer in the court of the Muslim caliphs from the 750s to the 780s, a time when their capital, Baghdad, was a thriving cosmopolitan centre of culture and trade and one of the most populous and prosperous cities of the... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691175270
RRP: £32.00£25.16Who 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... -
Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans by Andrew M. Riggsby
RRP: £29.99£25.45In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted with the rest of Roman life. Emphasising basic concepts, he recounts its historical development and focuses... -
The Athenian Empire: Using Coins as Sources by Lisa Kallet
RRP: £19.99£17.61Coinage played a central role in the history of the Athenian naval empire of the fifth century BC. It made possible the rise of the empire itself, which was financed through tribute in coinage collected annually from the empire's approximately 200... -
Electras: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides Michael Davis 9781587312083
RRP: £16.00£15.77Michael Davis revisits questions of interpretation in Greek tragedy emerging in the thought of the late Seth Benardete. While this is not the book Benardete would have written, it wrestles with problems that bear his indelible mark. In the extant... -
Cynics William Desmond 9781844651290
RRP: £37.99£33.38Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and... -
Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: When Archaeology and the Bible Intersect by William G. Dever 9780802867018
£25.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802867018Author William G. DeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
History of Ancient Egypt by John Romer
RRP: £39.99£25.16Apologies 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... -
Prehistory in the Peak by Mark Edmonds
RRP: £17.99£14.04Anyone who lives in Derbyshire or has walked in the Peak District will have marvelled at the rich variety of prehistoric remains: how and why did our remote ancestors choose to live in this seemingly wild and inhospitable. Arranging the text around a...