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The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies by Michael MacDonald 9780197503607
£72.80One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once... -
A Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity by Prof. Douglas Cairns
RRP: £26.99£23.44This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire. This is a wide remit, dealing... -
The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States by Alain Bresson 9780691183411
RRP: £38.00£31.94A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field,... -
Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World by David Phillips
RRP: £25.00£23.70First launched at the time of the Athens Olympics, "Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World" has become a classic study in its field. The 15 illustrated chapters of this collection not only explore many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the rich... -
On Greek Religion by Robert Parker 9780801477355
RRP: £34.00£30.87"There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more... -
Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £22.00£19.18Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century,... -
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire by Paul J. Kosmin
RRP: £25.95£20.22Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award"Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from there, rather than starting a new count, as other states did, each time a new... -
Sparta's Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C. by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: £32.50£27.55The latest volume in Paul Rahe's expansive history of Sparta's response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy"Paul Rahe stands out as one of the world's leading scholars on the Peloponnesian War. His latest volume on Sparta's protracted struggle... -
Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom by Mary P. Nichols
RRP: £52.00£44.29In Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, Mary P. Nichols argues for the centrality of the idea of freedom in Thucydides' thought. Through her close reading of his History of the Peloponnesian War, she explores the manifestations of this theme. Cities... -
Slave-Wives, Single Women and "Bastards" in the Ancient Greek World: Law and Economics Perspectives by Morris Silver 9781785708633
RRP: £38.00£31.20Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status... -
The Battle of Marathon: 2011 Ancient Warfare Special Edition by Jasper Oorthuys 9789490258009
RRP: £14.99£9.36Ancient Warfare Special 3: 'The Battle of Marathon' revolves around the climactic battle of the first Graeco-Persian War. 100 Pages of Ancient Warfare dedicated to a single theme, written by experts, illustrated with dozens of maps, photographs and... -
War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History by Prof. Dr. Angelos Chaniotis 9780631226086
RRP: £33.95£29.98Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. An overview of war and society in the Hellenistic world. Highlights the interdependence of warfare and social phenomena... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 7-8 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 ... -
The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes by Christian A Thomsen
RRP: £20.99£18.58Christian Thomsen offers a study of political institutions on the island state of Rhodes an important power in the eastern Mediterranean and the first city of the Hellenistic world. Using Aristotle's notion of the polis as an 'association of... -
The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: £15.99£13.81Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence... -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets by Philip J. Boyes 9781789250923
RRP: £50.00£41.11Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of... -
A Companion to Archaic Greece by Kurt A. Raaflaub 9781118451380
RRP: £38.95£35.20A systematic survey of archaic Greek society and culture which introduces the reader to a wide range of new approaches to the period. The first comprehensive and accessible survey of developments in the study of archaic GreecePlaces Greek society of c... -
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon 9781544705491
RRP: £10.20£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544705491Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives by Professor Daniel Ogden
RRP: £25.00£23.30The Hellenistic World assembles fourteen new papers, by an international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII. Subjects range from settlement patterns, non-Greek populations and marginal... -
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober 9780691140919
RRP: £30.00£23.22Lord 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... -
The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq by John Gittings
£21.70Human progress and prosperity depend on a peaceful environment, and most people have always sought to live in peace, yet our perception of the past is dominated too often by a narrative that is obsessed with war. In this ground breaking study, former... -
Thucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IV by H. Stuart-Jones 9780198145509
RRP: £24.49£24.27Thucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IVBook InformationISBN 9780198145509Author H. Stuart-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 128mm * 23mm -
Olympia: The Olympic Games by Jill Dudley 9780993537844
RRP: £2.99£2.48Jill Dudley relates the various myths regarding the founding of the Olympic Games. She takes the reader around the main buildings on the site where the athletes took their vows, and the victors were crowned before the cult statue of the supreme god Zeus... -
Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis by Robin Osborne 9780198149927
£80.44This book is a celebration of two thousand five hundred years of democracy. At the same time it is a collection of essays to honour the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. The book brings... -
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy by James M. Redfield
RRP: £95.00£73.25Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the... -
Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry by Amy Lather 9781474462365
RRP: £20.99£18.58Illuminates the reciprocal interaction between minds and materials as a fundamental feature of ancient Greek aesthetics Illustrates the cognitive vibrancy attributed to objects such as armor, textiles, and jewelry in Greek texts Combines new... -
Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens by David Stuttard
RRP: £30.95£24.33A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearA vivid, novelistic history of the rise of Athens from relative obscurity to the edge of its golden age, told through the lives of Miltiades and Cimon, the father and son whose defiance of Persia vaulted... -
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... -
The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey 9780199602698
£18.80The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek... -
Herodotus: Histories, Books 5-9 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri V-IX) by N. G. Wilson 9780199560714
£43.91In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1906 and last revised in 1927. As well as incorporating much of the valuable work on the text that has... -
Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Alexander R. Jones 9780691174402
RRP: £50.00£39.41The Greeks and Romans lived according to a distinctively Hellenic conception of time as an aspect of cosmic order and regularity. Appropriating ideas from Egypt and the Near East, the Greeks integrated them into a cosmological framework governed by... -
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays by Helene P. Foley
RRP: £42.00£34.67The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess... -
The Antikythera Mechanism: The History and Mystery of the Ancient World's Most Famous Astronomical Device by Charles River Editors 9781519706133
RRP: £10.24£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519706133Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
£14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967401Author Peter GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 179gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Laws of Ancient Crete, c.650-400 BCE by Michael Gagarin 9780198832515
£35.00This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE. The texts of the inscriptions, many of which are fragmentary and relatively unknown,... -
Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader by Perez Zagorin 9780691138800
RRP: £22.00£19.18This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides'... -
The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History by Greg Anderson 9780190886646
RRP: £79.00£72.18The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non-modern peoples, western and non-western, and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our... -
The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780226609157
RRP: £36.00£35.23Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views on erotic experience and sexual ethics. The Sleep of Reason brings... -
The Origins of Greek Thought by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £22.99£19.60Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived... -
Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C. by Samuel D. Gartland
£67.53The region of Boiotia was one of the most powerful regions in Greece between the Peloponnesian War and the rise of Macedonian power under Philip II and Alexander the Great. Its influence stretched across most of the Greek mainland and, at times, across...