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Landmark Thucydides by Robert B Strassler 9781416590873
RRP: €41.65€38.75Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
RRP: €15.46€10.19In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two... -
Spartan Warrior 735–331 BC by Duncan B Campbell
RRP: €17.84€14.93Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best-trained, -organized and most-feared warriors of the... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 5-6 by Thucydides
RRP: €29.69€27.83Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that ... -
Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World by Duane W. Roller
RRP: €29.14€24.26What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the... -
A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt - And Why They Shouldn't by William B. Irvine
RRP: €16.65€11.60Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others? In A Slap in... -
Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams by Callimachus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped... -
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus by Barry B. Powell 9780520302877
RRP: €24.99€19.79The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally... -
A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations by Marinos Yeroulanos 9781784534929
€67.04'Human wisdom is of little or no value', wrote Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for... -
Geography: v. 5 by Strabo
RRP: €29.69€27.83The 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, ... -
Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth Richard Stoneman 9780712354479
RRP: €35.70€23.09Accompanying the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age of 20,... -
Hygiene, Volume I: Books 1-4 by Galen
RRP: €29.69€27.83Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian, theoretician, and practitioner who wrote... -
Killer of Men by Christian Cameron 9780752883939
RRP: €13.08€8.13In the epic clash of Greece and Persia, a hero is forged - a monumental novel from the author of the Tyrant series.Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing... -
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity by Ian Morris 9780521376112
RRP: €44.02€37.78In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Burials have a far wider geographical and social... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
RRP: €69.02€31.34In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Since its discovery, scholars relying on direct... -
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion by Esther Eidinow
€48.43This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores... -
Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh
RRP: €13.08€8.63'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time ... The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ' IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES ... -
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon
RRP: €17.84€13.03By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was the Sophists who understood the art of rhetoric and the... -
The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: €15.46€11.31The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek letter lambda. 'This is Sparta!', bellows Leonidas on... -
Aristophanes: Clouds Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)) 9780856682100
RRP: €33.31€29.69Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics by Neil Faulkner
RRP: €20.22€19.83An essential book for the 21st-century citizen who seeks a lively guided tour of the ancient Greek Olympics What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable... -
Assassin's Creed: Atlas by Guillaume Delalande
RRP: €47.60€35.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419752759Author Guillaume DelalandeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint ABRAMSPublisher ABRAMS -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf 9780199664740 [USED COPY]
RRP: €26.76€13.54The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf
RRP: €26.76€18.97The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations... -
The Last Greek Christian Cameron 9781409176596
RRP: €24.98€18.25Few writers are better at conjuring up a vision of Ancient Greece' THE TIMES* * * * * * *210BCE. The most powerful empires in the world brawl over the spoils of a declawed Greece.Philopoemen has a vision to end the chaos and anarchy that consumes his... -
TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of Jose Luis Melena Jimenez by Julian Mendez Dosuna 9780674272576
RRP: €29.69€23.67TA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation marks and numbers in the Linear B to personal names and place names reflecting the ethnic composition of Mycenaean... -
Mycenae: Agamemnon's Capital by Elizabeth French 9780752419510
RRP: €32.73€24.13Famous from ancient Greek literature as King Agamemnon's capital, Mycenae was the site of almost unbroken excavation during the 20th century, and this continues today. In presenting a full up-to-date account of the site and placing it in its geographical... -
Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC: The Imperial Republic Rosenstein 9780748623228
RRP: €38.08€31.46Rome's stunning rise to mastery of the ancient Mediterranean Nathan Rosenstein charts Rome's incredible journey and command of the Mediterranean over the course of the third and second centuries BC. He describes the Republic's great wars - against... -
Herodotus and the Persian Wars by John Claughton 9780521689434
RRP: €27.31€24.37An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Herodotus, writing in the second half of the 5th century BC, is the first historian of western civilisation... -
Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki (English language edition) by Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou
RRP: €25.59€20.94Thessaloniki, the most important city in the Byzantine empire after Constaninople, experienced periods of great economic prosperity and cultural and artistic flowering that created monuments of great importance in the development of Byzantine... -
Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire by Mark Bradley 9780199584727
€117.12While the study of Classics in postcolonial worlds has received a great deal of recent attention, this is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between classical ideas and British colonialism. In this collection of essays, classical scholars... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 1: From Thales to Euclid by I. Thomas
RRP: €29.69€27.64Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.83The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
Parallel Lives: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus by Plutarch
RRP: €29.69€27.83Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1 by Andre Laks
RRP: €29.69€27.83A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert
RRP: €32.07€25.48At 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 Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason by Josiah Ober
RRP: €35.70€31.36Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains... -
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: €20.22€17.86A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most... -
Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC to AD 30: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781526730299
RRP: €23.79€18.90This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great's death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his ambitious generals,... -
A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies by Spiros Tsoutsoumpis 9781526143495
RRP: €35.70€31.75A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle...