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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'... -
Athenian Political Oratory: Sixteen Key Speeches by David Phillips
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415966108Author David PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 386g -
Sumerian Mythology: History for kids: A captivating guide to ancient Sumerian history, Sumerian myths of Sumerian Gods, Goddesses, and Monsters by Dinobibi Publishing 9781703980868
RRP: £8.50£7.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781703980868Author Dinobibi PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Graham Hancock 9781400049516
RRP: £28.00£21.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400049516Author Graham HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Pericles and the Conquest of History: A Political Biography by Loren J. Samons
RRP: £24.99£19.99As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as... -
The King Arthur Conspiracy: How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero by Simon Stirling
£11.55Arthur led the Britons to the brink of victory but was cut down by treachery and betrayal. Arthurian legends have since been corrupted, leading to popular but false assumptions about the king and the belief that his grave could never be found. Drawing on... -
Roman Britain by Stephen R. Hill 9781853991400 [USED COPY]
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Roman Britain by Stephen R. Hill 9781853991400
RRP: £19.99£19.04This text aims to provide students with an introduction to Roman Britain, and a guide to further areas of study. It ranges from Britain's Celtic origins, through the history of Roman occupation, to discussions of its administrations, economy,... -
Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann 9780415029728 [USED COPY]
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Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann 9780415029728
RRP: £37.99£33.38Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and... -
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century CE to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak 9781421419442
£52.72At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off... -
Rome in Africa by Susan Raven
RRP: £43.99£38.44Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from outside. Carthaginians, Romans, vandals, Byzantines,... -
Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook by Michael Maas
RRP: £47.99£42.21Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The... -
Herodotus: Histories Book IX by Herodotus
RRP: £27.99£24.27Book IX of Herodotus' Histories provides the conclusion and climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable Greek victory over Persia. The major themes of the work are all here echoed, modified, and revisited, and Book... -
The Mystery of Ovid's Exile by John C. Thibault 9780520302273
£26.97Toward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and barbaric Tomis on the Black Sea. The action presumably followed a secret hearing before the emperor, and the official reason given for the... -
Aurelian and the Third Century by Alaric Watson
RRP: £37.99£33.38Aurelian and the Third Century provides a re-evaluation, in the light of recent scholarship, of the difficulties facing the Roman empire in the AD 260s and 270s, concentrating upon the reign of the Emperor Aurelian and his part in summoning them.With... -
Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries by Deborah F. Sawyer
RRP: £37.99£33.38Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries focuses on religion during the period of Roman imperial rule and its significance in women's lives. It discusses the rich variety of religious expression, from pagan cults and classical mythology to... -
Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia by Eberhard Sauer
RRP: £28.99£23.38The Sasanian Empire was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan. This book explores key phenomena which contributed to its wealth and power, from the empire's armed forces to agriculture, trade and... -
Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium by Elizabeth James
RRP: £39.99£35.06The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The... -
The City in Late Antiquity by John Rich
RRP: £37.99£33.38The city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts the change undergone by cities as the Empire was weakened by the third-century crisis, and later disintegrated under external pressures. The old picture... -
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions by Kate Cooper 9781399807982
RRP: £12.99£8.60'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... -
Cyrus The Great by Stephen Dando-Collins
RRP: £19.99£13.56Cyrus 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... -
The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception: The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus by Jonas Grethlein
RRP: £34.99£30.49The concept of mimesis has dominated reflection on the nature and role, in Greek literature, of representation. Jonas Grethlein, in his ambitious new book, takes this reflection a step further. He argues that, beyond mimesis, there was an important but... -
A History of the Byzantine State and Society by Warren T. Treadgold 9780804726306
£51.17This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in A.D. 285, when the emperor Diocletian separated what became... -
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece by Rosalind Thomas
RRP: £36.99£31.75This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral... -
Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins': A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer by Bart Wagemakers 9781782972457
RRP: £80.00£68.24Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953-4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of... -
Petra: The History of the Rose City, One of the New Seven Wonders of the World by Charles River Editors 9781530824885
RRP: £10.24£8.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530824885Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity by Panagiotis G. Pavlos 9781032092003
RRP: £39.99£35.06Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith. The chapters are... -
Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World by Lynn V. Foster 9780195183634
RRP: £21.49£13.74The ancient Mayan civilization of southern Mexico and northern Central America has long been described as "mysterious," even though scholars have been studying this culture for hundreds of years. Our view of the Maya has changed dramatically based on the... -
Chronicon Paschale 284-628 by Michael Whitby
£29.59The Chronicon Paschale is one of the major constituents of the Byzantine chronographic tradition covering the late antique period.About the AuthorMichael Whitby is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham. His many publications include, with... -
In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English by Carmel McCaffrey 9781566635257
£9.61This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of... -
Everyday Life in Ancient Rome by Lionel Casson
£23.29In Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, Lionel Casson offers a lively introduction to the society of the times. Instead of following the standard procedure of social history, he presents a series of vignettes focusing on the "ways of life" of various members... -
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris by Emily Kearns
RRP: £24.99£21.78Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama set on the Black Sea coast in what is now Crimea, which explores themes of family loyalty, Greeks and barbarians, and the... -
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson 9780801851308
£30.09Lionel Casson's encyclopedic study is the first of its kind to use underwater archaeological data to refine and area of scholarship that had, for the most part, relied on ancient texts and graphic representations. Tracing the history of early ships and... -
Artemis by Stephanie Lynn Budin
RRP: £36.99£32.53Artemis is a literary, iconographic, and archaeological study of the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, who presided over the transitions and mediations between the wild and the civilized, youth and maturity, life and death. Beginning with a study of the... -
Saint Aldhelm's 'Riddles' by Saint Aldhelm 9781442628922
RRP: £29.99£27.38The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called "Britain's first man of letters." Among his many influential poetic texts were the hundred riddles that made up his... -
The Babylonian World by Gwendolyn Leick
RRP: £45.99£41.73The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding... -
Reorienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity by Khododad Rezakhani
RRP: £24.99£20.29In the mediaeval period, Central Asia rose to prominence as a centre of Persian-Islamic culture, from the Seljuks to the Mongols. Khodadad Rezakhani tells the back story of this rise to prominence, the story of the famed Kushans and mysterious 'Asian... -
Tiberius the Politician by Barbara Levick
RRP: £37.99£33.38Tiberius has always been one of the most enigmatic of the Roman emperors. At the same time, his career is uniquely important for the understanding of the Empire's development on the foundations laid by Augustus.Barbara Levick offers a comprehensive and... -
The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia by Benjamin R. Foster 9781138909755
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world's first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws...