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Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe by Robert Drews
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before 1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken over by military forces from the Eurasian steppe and from southern Caucasia. First were the copper and silver... -
Ishtar by Louise M. Pryke 9780367901103
RRP: £39.99£35.06Ishtar is the first book dedicated to providing an accessible analysis of the mythology and image of this complex goddess. The polarity of her nature is reflected in her role as goddess of sexual love and war, and has made her difficult to characterise... -
The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395 by David S. Potter
RRP: £43.99£39.44The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion-Christianity. The book... -
Empire: A New History of the World by Paul Strathern
RRP: £17.95£15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137681Author Paul StrathernFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire by Fik Meijer 9780801896972
RRP: £28.00£24.05A massive crowd of people, cloaked in the colors of their beloved athletes, slowly fill a 150,000-seat arena to cheer on their favorite teams. Athletes enter the stadium amid great pomp and circumstance as opposing fans hurl insults at one another and... -
The End of Roman Britain by Michael E. Jones
RRP: £32.00£29.13Among the provinces long occupied by Rome, Britain retained the slightest imprint of the invading civilization. To explain why this was true, Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that... -
Alexander the Great: A Reader by Ian Worthington
RRP: £45.99£40.53This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691175270
RRP: £30.00£23.22Who 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... -
Rethinking Roundhouses: Later Prehistoric Settlement in Britain and Beyond by D. W. Harding 9780192893802
RRP: £90.00£81.58Excavated plans of roundhouses may compound multiple episodes of activity, design, construction, occupation, repair, and closure, reflecting successive stages of a building's biography. What does not survive archaeologically, through use of materials or... -
Bandits in the Roman Empire: Myth and Reality by Thomas Grunewald
RRP: £53.99£46.87This wide-ranging and informative survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understanding of Roman social history.Examining men such as as Viriatus, Tacfarinus, Maternus and Bulla Felix, who were called latrones after... -
Medieval Mercenaries by William Urban 9781848328549
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of... -
Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary - History and Heritage by Sarah Court
RRP: £26.00£22.10This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the... -
Island of the Setting Sun: In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers by Anthony Murphy 9781916099852
RRP: £29.95£19.19Ireland is home to some of the world's oldest astronomically-aligned structures, giant stone monuments erected over 5,000 years ago. Despite their apparent simplicity, these megalithic edifices were crafted by a scientifically knowledgeable community of... -
Prehistoric Forteviot: Excavations of a Ceremonial Complex in Eastern Scotland (Serf Vol 1) by Kenneth Brophy 9781909990043
RRP: £38.00£31.20A detailed report on the excavation of prehistoric features at Forteviot in eastern Scotland by the University of Glasgow's Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF) Project. Details include an extensive prehistoric landscape including a Neolithic... -
A Sensory History of Ancient Warfare: Reconstructing the Physical Experience of War in the Classical World by Conor Whately
RRP: £19.99£14.28How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? What was the visual impact of seeing the massed ranks of the enemy approaching or the sky darkened with their arrows? How did it feel to be... -
Sophocles: Philoctetes by Sophocles
RRP: £27.99£25.45Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It... -
Death and Burial in the Roman World by J.M.C. Toynbee
RRP: £29.00£25.58Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem-Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide... -
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... -
The Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity by Edward J. Watts 9780520283701
RRP: £30.00£23.22The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic... -
London's Roman Amphitheatre by Nick Bateman 9781901992717
RRP: £29.95£25.13The discovery of one of Roman Londons most significant buildings - its amphitheatre - underneath the medieval Guildhall resulted from major archaeological excavations which took place between 1985 and 1999 as part of the City of London Corporations ... -
Offa and the Mercian Wars by Chris Peers 9781526711502
RRP: £14.99£10.95In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the... -
Roman Egypt: A History by Roger S. Bagnall 9781108949002
RRP: £26.99£23.37Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds, while its uniquely fertile lands helped to feed the imperial capitals at Rome and... -
The Battles of Antiochus the Great: The failure of combined arms at Magnesia that handed the world to Rome by Wrightson, Graham 9781526793461
RRP: £20.00£14.29Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India to Egypt, and he lost almost as many. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of... -
Clachtoll: An Iron Age Broch Settlement in Assynt, North-west Scotland by Graeme Cavers 9781789258479
RRP: £35.00£28.82Clachtoll broch is one of the most spectacular Iron Age settlements on the northern mainland of Scotland. When it became clear that the structure was threatened by coastal erosion, community heritage group Historic Assynt launched a major programme of... -
Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran by Jason Sion Mokhtarian 9780520385726
RRP: £30.00£22.82Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. What impact did the Persian Zoroastrian Empire, as both a real historical... -
The Nature of Astrology: History, Philosophy, and the Science of Self-Organizing Systems by Bruce Scofield
RRP: £26.00£21.47* Shares modern biological studies offering evidence that our solar system neighbors profoundly affect and shape life on our planet* Explores the early practice of astrometeorology, revealing the links between the solar system, weather, and climate over... -
Roman Towns in Britain by Guy de la Bedoyere 9780752429199
RRP: £25.00£18.55Today, Britain's Roman Town survive in numerous different forms: from the earthworks of small roadside settlements in Lincolnshire, to the unending new discoveries from deep beneath London's busy modern streets, and the great ruins at Leicester and... -
Burnley and Pendle Archaeology: Part two: Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age by John A. Clayton 9780957004344
£20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957004344Author John A. ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Barrowford PressPublisher Barrowford Press -
Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History by Trevor Bryce 9780198828907
RRP: £15.99£11.90Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what happened many centuries before. Trevor... -
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy by Martin Revermann
RRP: £34.99£29.75Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This... -
The Vandals by Andrew Merrills
RRP: £29.95£26.61The Vandals is the first book available in the English Language dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fall of this complex North African Kingdom. This complete history provides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspects of... -
Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia by Marc van de Mieroop
RRP: £22.00£16.99There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what... -
Cyrus The Great by Stephen Dando-Collins 9781684424375
RRP: £15.99£11.04Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew... -
Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland: Volume 2 by Cora L. Scofield 9781781554760
RRP: £20.00£15.11Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In a turbulent world marred by civil war, Edward, 4th Duke of York-with good title to the throne-overthrew... -
Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Contexts, Legacy by David G Hunter
RRP: £64.99£40.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802876997Author David G HunterFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co -
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian by John Marincola
RRP: £14.99£10.95What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world.The study of history was invented in... -
Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth and Fire by Gordon Noble 9780748623389
RRP: £37.00£33.38This is an account of the Neolithic period in Scotland from its earliest traces around 4000 BC to the transformation of Neolithic society in the Early Bronze Age fifteen hundred years later. Gordon Noble inteprets Scottish material in the context of... -
Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum Iran - A Late Sasanian Hoard from Orumiyeh by Daryoosh Abarzadeh 9783700179566
RRP: £119.00£90.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700179566Author Daryoosh AbarzadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences... -
Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters by David Mountain
£7.02 - £11.58'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle AgesFrom the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.The stories we tell about our past... -
Hannibal by Ernle Bradford 9781911445944
RRP: £5.99£4.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911445944Author Ernle BradfordFormat PaperbackImprint Endeavour InkPublisher Lume Books