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The Land Was Forever: 15000 Years in North-East Scotland: Excavations on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty by Kirsty Dingwall 9781785709883
RRP: £40.00£32.78Eight sites were excavated along the route of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route between Balmedy to Tipperty. The sites are mostly multi-period. One site on the banks of the River Dee, revealed nine phases of activity extending from the Upper... -
Cosmology in Antiquity by Rosemary Wright
RRP: £135.00£117.28The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead by Rita Lucarelli
RRP: £107.50£98.19Among the broad spectrum of ancient Egyptian religious literature, the Book of the Dead is the most representative of ancient Egyptian mortuary religion and of the magical and ritual practices belonging to it. Moreover, its rich corpus of texts and... -
Histories: Bk. VIII-IX by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£22.92The "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... -
The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames: The Early Historical Period: AD1-1000 by Paul Booth 9780954962753
RRP: £34.99£31.21The gravel terraces of the river Thames have revealed a wealth of archaeological information about the evolution of the landscape of the region, the development of the settlement pattern, and past human occupation. Much of this has come to light in... -
The End of Empire: Cyprus: A Soldier's Story by Martin Bell 9781473848184
£7.89 - £17.62Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the... -
A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey by Irene J. F. de Jong 9780521468442
£47.84Whereas traditional commentaries tend to be comprehensive and micro-textual, this narratological commentary, first published in 2001, focuses on one aspect of the Odyssey, its narrativity, and pays lavish attention to the meso- and macro-levels. Drawing... -
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany 9780199858682
RRP: £36.49£24.20Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day. Allowing them... -
Roman Arabia by G. W. Bowersock 9780674777569
£33.14The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from... -
Edge of Empire, Rome's Scottish Frontier: The Antonine Wall by David J. Breeze
RRP: £14.99£10.77Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from what is now Northumbria and, 20 years after and over 100 miles further north than Hadrian's Wall, built a new frontier... -
Ancient Egyptian Literature by Miriam Lichtheim 9780520305847
RRP: £30.00£23.22First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations. Beginning with the early and gradual evolution of... -
Semiramis' Legacy: The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily by Jan Stronk
RRP: £31.00£28.55Presents and contextualises extracts from the Historical Library of DiodorusThere are only a few detailed histories of Persia from Ancient Greek historiography that have survived time. Diodorus of Sicily, a first century BC author, is the only one to... -
Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus
RRP: £24.95£22.92A late epic bridge between Homeric masterpieces.Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC) and Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD), fills in the... -
Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance by H. A. Drake 9780801871047
£38.08Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded the emperor Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. But in Constantine and the Bishops, historian H. A. Drake... -
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts
RRP: £24.99£21.58As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200... -
Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great by Robert Garland 9780691173801
RRP: £28.00£27.39Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement... -
Roman Law in Context by David Johnston
£19.99This book explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. Written in an accessible style with the minimum of legal technicality, the book is designed for students and... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £31.99£23.85Edited 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... -
Justinian and the Sixth Century by Fiona Haarer
RRP: £29.99£24.16This book combines comprehensive discussion of the main aspects of Justinian's rule, together with a varied selection of source material, from both textual and material culture, making it a valuable resource for students and lecturers alike.Book... -
Ashen Sky - The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius by Barry Moser 9780892369003
RRP: £16.99£14.61Pliny the Younger (C61-112AD) was a Roman official and writer. He has become famous for his two letters to the historian Tacitus, which detail his eye-witness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD which took the life of his uncle, Pliny the... -
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney by Colin Richards
RRP: £25.00£22.70Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, standing stones... -
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard
RRP: £36.00£28.35The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period - from the earliest Greek... -
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert
RRP: £26.95£22.45At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid by Philip Hardie
RRP: £34.99£29.75Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America... -
The Tragic Imagination: The Literary Agenda by Dr. Rowan Williams
RRP: £21.99£18.75The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
The Silk Road in World History by Xinru Liu
RRP: £25.99£20.76The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads... -
Neolithic Britain: The Transformation of Social Worlds by Keith Ray 9780198823896
RRP: £38.49£33.39The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animals, and inhabiting a richer world of material things: timber houses and halls, pottery vessels, polished... -
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK 9780241605400
RRP: £30.00£23.35Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the War of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover... -
The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition by Robert Drews
RRP: £42.00£32.43The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine,... -
Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean by Anastasia Christophilopolou 9781913645496
RRP: £20.00£12.86Accompanying an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, this book explores island identities in the ancient Mediterranean, questioning how 'insularity'- being of an island - affected and shaped art production and creativity, architectural... -
A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 by Edith Hall
RRP: £32.99£29.16A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from... -
Histories: Bk. V-VII by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£22.92The "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... -
Carthaginian Armies of the Punic Wars, 264–146 BC: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781399067546
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Carthaginians were undoubtedly the most formidable enemies of the ever-expanding Roman Republic, due to their sophisticated and often well-led military forces. Although the citizens of Carthage itself, a seafaring, mercantile state by tradition, may... -
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean by Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
RRP: £38.95£31.10The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks.Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You... -
A Companion to Ancient History by Andrew Erskine
RRP: £38.95£35.20This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the study of ancient history. Examines the forms of evidence, problems, approaches, and major themes in the study of ancient historyComprises more than 40 essays, written by leading... -
Disgraceful Archaeology: Or Things You Shouldn't Know About the History of Mankind by Paul G. Bahn
RRP: £12.99£9.37The book that all archaeology buffs have secretly been yearning for! This unique blend of text, anecdote and cartoon reveals, and revels in, those aspects of the past that have been ignored, glossed over or even suppressed - the bawdy, the scatological... -
Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity by David Frankfurter
RRP: £40.00£31.34How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in... -
Augustus: Image and Substance by Barbara Levick 9780582894211
£42.66Throughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once... -
The Goths: Lost Civilizations by David M. Gwynn 9781780238456
RRP: £18.00£12.96The Goths are truly a 'lost civilization'. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and... -
Worshippers of the Gods by Mattias Philip Gassman
RRP: £71.00£64.64Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional religion in the empire and city of Rome. In parallel with the empire's legal Christianisation, it traces...