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Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson 9780300097214
RRP: £12.99£11.46This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when "books" were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the royal libraries of the... -
Greek Fiction by J. R. Morgan
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1994. Greek fiction has never been more popular. New approaches to ancient literature, and new courses in literature in translation, have made the ancient novel a fertile field for scholar and student alike. This volume extends the... -
Empedocles: An Interpretation by Simon Trepanier
RRP: £53.99£46.87Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles - one of the founding figures of Western philosophy - since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light.Book InformationISBN... -
The Archaeology and Early History of the Channel Islands by Heather Sebire 9780752434490
£16.79A complete survey of the archaeology of the islands from prehistoric times, through the Roman and medieval periods, down to the present day. There will also be an annotated gazetteer of museums and sites to see.About the AuthorHeather Sabire is... -
Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition by Lin Foxhall
RRP: £135.00£117.68Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of... -
Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we... -
Sophocles: Oedipus the King by P. J. Finglass
RRP: £41.99£40.49For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, has exerted a powerful hold on the human imagination; but no retelling of that myth has ever come close, in passion, drama, and menace to the one that we... -
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691147208
RRP: £25.00£19.99Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a... -
Solomon's Temple Treasure: A New Treasure Hunt by Walter Parks 9781470165291
RRP: £9.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470165291Author Walter ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts by Georg Luck
£27.77Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe," of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking collection of Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, Georg Luck... -
Terence: Adelphoe by Terence
RRP: £26.99£23.44The Adelphoe (The Brothers) of Terence is a Latin adaptation of a comedy of the same name by the Greek comic playwright Menander. The theme of the play is the perennially interesting question of the relationship between the generations and the proper way... -
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B Strassler 9781400031146
RRP: £32.00£27.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031146Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Nero: The End of a Dynasty by Miriam Griffin
RRP: £37.99£33.38Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. However, his reign also illuminates the nature of the Julio-Claudian Principate. Nero's suicide brought to an end the dynasty Augustus had founded, and placed in... -
The City in the Roman West, c.250 BC-c.AD 250 by Simon Esmonde Cleary
RRP: £34.99£29.75The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the... -
Vespasian by Barbara Levick
RRP: £39.99£35.06From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this volume examines the life and times of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements. Levick examines how this plebeian and... -
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... -
Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought by Mark Edwards
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the... -
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... -
The Aegean World: A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum by Yannis Galanakis
RRP: £26.50£21.87This is the first companion guide ever to be written on the Ashmolean's outstanding Aegean collections, the best and most comprehensive outside Greece. Comprising 12,000 objects, the Ashmolean holds a remarkable collection of Neolithic and Cycladic... -
Athanasius by Khaled Anatolios
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book presents the fundamental elements of Athanasius' response to the central questions of the identity of Jesus and the nature of his relationship with God. Providing a useful introduction on his life and work, the book focuses on the... -
The Uses of Greek Mythology by Ken Dowden 9780415061353
RRP: £36.99£32.53In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality -... -
Armenian Myths and Legends: The History of the Mythology and Folk Tales from Armenia by Charles River Editors 9781721620791
RRP: £10.24£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781721620791Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt – Recreating Lahun by K Szpakowska 9781405118552
RRP: £91.95£80.17Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt's Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated... -
Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity by H. W. Parke
RRP: £53.99£46.87Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity, first published in 1988, is an authoritative account of a subject rarely treated in recent decades and difficult to access for non-specialists. A considerable number of books of prophecies went under... -
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... -
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I-II by Tim Whitmarsh 9781316640593
RRP: £26.99£23.44The Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling narratives, but also because they offer revealing insights into the culture of the Greek world of the Roman... -
Geography: v. 1 by Strabo
£23.39The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various... -
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... -
Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East: Sources and Contexts by Olga Kubica 9781032193021
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Indo-Greek kingdom... -
Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy by Paul Ratchnevsky 9780631189497
RRP: £33.95£29.98Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest continuous land empire ever. On his death in 1227, this extended from the Near East to the Yellow Sea, and was expanded by his successors to include what is now Iran, Iraq and southern Russia... -
Demosthenes: Selected Political Speeches by Judson Herrman
RRP: £26.99£23.44Demosthenes, as an emerging political leader in fourth-century Athens, delivered a series of fiery speeches to the citizens in the democratic Assembly, attacking the Macedonian king Philip II as an aggressive imperialist bent on destroying the city's... -
Roman Britain by John Watney 9780853727842 [USED COPY]
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Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Touraj Daryaee 9780755618415
RRP: £19.99£16.54Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He examines... -
Bacchylides: A Selection by Bacchylides
RRP: £32.99£29.23Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC) was one of the nine Greek lyric poets selected as models of this genre by the Alexandrian scholars who first collected and edited their songs in the 3rd century BC. Bacchylides' songs did not survive the end of antiquity, but... -
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy
£24.94Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of The Best of the Achaeans bridged that gap, raising new... -
Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War by Judy Foster
RRP: £29.95£23.23This 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... -
Great Women of Imperial Rome: Mothers and Wives of the Caesars by Jasper Burns 9780415408981 [USED COPY]
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Great Women of Imperial Rome: Mothers and Wives of the Caesars by Jasper Burns
RRP: £54.99£48.12Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations.Spanning the period from the death of... -
The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources by Liv Mariah Yarrow
RRP: £20.99£18.44The narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources, augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however, provide new information on the distant past. This accessible but authoritative... -
The Cambridge Companion to Catullus by I. M. Le M. Du Quesnay
RRP: £25.99£21.99Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus'...