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Orations, Volume II by Aelius Aristides
RRP: £24.95£22.92Meticulous eloquence.Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated, versatile, and influential authors of the Second Sophistic era and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in AD 117,... -
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture: Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250 by Zahra Newby
RRP: £36.99£29.75Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new... -
Sparta: Beyond the Mirage by Anton Powell
RRP: £25.00£23.30The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks... -
Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Stephen M. Trzaskoma 9781624664977
RRP: £29.99£25.13This new edition of Anthology of Classical Myth offers selections from key Near Eastern texts-the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Epic of Creation (Enuma Elish), and Atrahasis; the Hittite Song of Emergence; and the flood story from the book of... -
Medea by Euripides 9780872209237
RRP: £11.99£9.52This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far,... -
Scripta Minora by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£22.92A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
Acropolis (English language edition): Visiting its Museum and its Monuments by Panos Valavanis
RRP: £9.00£7.4195 colour illustrations. The Athens Acropolis and its Museum constitute an integrated architectural and artistic unity, one of the most important in the history of global civilization. This informative and attractive guidebook is designed to be a... -
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization by J. C. McKeown 9780199982103
RRP: £14.99£13.15The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without them. And yet they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs,... -
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £21.99£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118299Author Donald KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 258g -
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon
RRP: £14.99£10.95By 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... -
Historicising Ancient Slavery by Kostas Vlassopoulos
RRP: £25.99£21.06A new framework for studying slaves and slavery in ancient societies Offers a new theoretical framework for the study of ancient slavery Employs a global historical perspective Focuses on the agency of ancient slaves Explores the link between... -
Aristotle for Everybody by Mortimer J. Adler
£11.12Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common... -
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones 9781786498946
£5.49 - £7.32In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped... -
Works: v. 2 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£22.92The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
A Brief History of the Mediterranean by Jeremy Black
RRP: £10.99£3.51A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home.'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk.1-2 by Thucydides
RRP: £24.95£22.92Classic 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 he... -
Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean by J. Donald Hughes
RRP: £27.50£23.64In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan's Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their... -
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom by James Romm
RRP: £12.99£8.18From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes-and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban... -
From 'LUGAL.GAL' TO 'Wanax': Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean by Dr. Jorrit Kelder 9789088908002
RRP: £75.00£70.51In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised through the prism of archaeology and contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) evidence.From the early 14th... -
Moralia: v. 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£22.92Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.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... -
In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal by David Constantine
RRP: £11.99£8.84In the Footsteps of the Gods traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspired those who travelled there. Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and... -
The Iliad Bk. 1 by Homer 9780472067923
£28.64Homer's Iliad has captivated readers and influenced writers and artists for more than two thousand years. Reading the poem in its original language provides an experience as challenging as it is rewarding. Most students encountering Homeric Greek for the... -
Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World by Peter Schultz 9781782977391
RRP: £38.00£31.60This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine... -
Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Dramatis personae.This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition... -
In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece by Helen Lovatt 9781350115125
RRP: £24.99£20.44Few classical stories are as exciting as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The legend of the boy, who discovers a new identity as son of a usurped king and leads a crew of demi-gods and famous heroes, has resonated through the ages, rumbling like the... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott
RRP: £25.00£19.58The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to... -
Spartan Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9780195130676
RRP: £32.99£26.30Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in... -
A Companion to the Classical Greek World by Konrad H. Kinzl 9781444334128
RRP: £39.95£36.04This Companion provides scholarly yet accessible new interpretations of Greek history of the Classical period, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. Topics covered range from the political and... -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: £16.99£13.34A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents... -
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture by Professor Jason Koenig
RRP: £38.00£29.84A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquityThe mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
RRP: £55.00£26.34In 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... -
Library of History: v. 5 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober 9780691173146
RRP: £16.99£13.18Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly... -
Everyday Life in Ancient Greece by Nigel Rodgers
RRP: £8.99£6.85From the daily life of slaves and citizens to the importance of sport and Olympic Games, this is an absorbing account of every aspect of Greek society. Discover the glory that was Greece and how the people of Athens and Sparta lived and worked during... -
Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica by Robert Garland
RRP: £21.00£18.28Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes' victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad... -
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £27.99£24.06Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian... -
Lives: v.1 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£22.92Comparative 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... -
Daily Life in Ancient Greece by Don Nardo
RRP: £8.99£6.45This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in Ancient Greece. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, it uncovers some fascinating insights and explodes some myths. Supported by timelines, maps and... -
A Short History of the Phoenicians: Revised Edition by Mark Woolmer
RRP: £14.99£13.45Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet,... -
Library of History: Bk. IV,59-VIII, v. 3 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;...