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Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great by Robert Garland 9780691173801
RRP: £30.00£23.29Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement... -
On Greek Religion by Robert Parker 9780801477355
RRP: £29.99£26.50"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... -
The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes by Christian A Thomsen
RRP: £20.99£19.25Christian 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 Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture by Professor Jason Koenig
RRP: £38.00£30.41A 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... -
War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History 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... -
The Archidamian War by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £25.99£22.89This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that... -
The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: £16.99£14.13Thucydides 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... -
Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple: Ancient Acharnai by Danielle L. Kellogg 9780199645794
£98.42In ancient Athenian democracy there were one hundred and thirty-nine official demes, or recognized population centres, which formed the foundation of the political system introduced by Kleisthenes in 508/7 BC. Enrolment in one of these demes was a... -
Orations, Volume II by Aelius Aristides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meticulous 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,... -
A Companion to Archaic Greece Kurt A. Raaflaub (Brown University, USA) 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... -
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober 9780691173146
RRP: £16.99£12.70Lord 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... -
Iliad - Imperium Press by Homer 9780648690504
RRP: £22.95£16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648690504Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 35mm -
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall 9780393351163
RRP: £12.99£11.40The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient... -
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... -
The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives by Professor Daniel Ogden
RRP: £25.00£23.78The 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 Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought by Bruno Snell 9781621380337
£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380337Author Bruno SnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq by John Gittings 9780199575763 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.49£3.56Human 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... -
The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq by John Gittings
RRP: £22.49£17.17Human 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... -
Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis by Robin Osborne 9780198149927
£94.21This 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 Greek Hoplite Phalanx: The Iconic Heavy Infantry of the Classical Greek World by Taylor, Richard 9781526788566
RRP: £30.00£17.62The Greek hoplite and the phalanx formation in which he fought have been the subject of considerable academic debate over the past century. Dr Richard Taylor provides an overview of the current state of play in the hoplite debate in all its aspects, from... -
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm 9780300274165
RRP: £10.99£9.37A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again "This colorful biography of Demetrius . . . explores his rich inner life and reveals an ancient world of violence and intrigue."-New... -
Herodotus: Histories, Books 5-9 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri V-IX) by N. G. Wilson 9780199560714
£47.32In 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... -
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays by Helene P. Foley
RRP: £45.00£35.32The 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... -
Early Aegean Warrior 5000–1450 BC by Dr Raffaele D’Amato 9781780968582
RRP: £14.99£12.55The mainland and islands of Greece were extensively settled by peoples moving from Asia Minor in c.5000 BC, while a further wave in c.5000 BC introduced bronze-working to the region. It is form this point on that it is possible to discern a distinct... -
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: III. The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato by Werner Jaeger 9780195040487
RRP: £44.49£30.82This book is intended for Prizes won etc.Book InformationISBN 9780195040487Author Werner JaegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 526g -
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £28.00£22.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299199Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Greek Mythology Explained: A Deeper Look at Classical Greek Lore and Myth by Marios Christou 9781633538962
RRP: £14.99£10.98Ancient Greek Gods and Mythology Explored Like Never Before#1 Bestseller in Ancient & Classical LiteratureDiscover six classic stories of Greek mythology in this exciting retelling that paints both famous and lesser-known Greek gods in a whole new light... -
Anabasis (The Persian Expedition) by Xenophon 9781420964912
£9.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964912Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 240g -
Music in Ancient Greece: Melody, Rhythm and Life by Spencer Klavan
£20.97Life in ancient Greece was musical life. Soloists competed onstage for popular accolades, becoming centrepieces for cultural conversation and even leading Plato to recommend that certain forms of music be banned from his ideal society. And the music... -
Ancient Greeks at War: Warfare in the Classical World from Agamemnon to Alexander by Simon Elliott 9781612009988
RRP: £30.00£29.45Ancient Greeks at War is a lavishly illustrated tour de force covering every aspect of warfare in the Ancient Greek world from the beginnings of Greek civilization through to its assimilation into the ever expanding world of Rome. As such it begins with... -
Literary Papyri Poetry: Selections: v. 3 by D. L. Page
RRP: £24.95£23.39Scraps of verse from the sands of Egypt.The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th-4th centuries BC fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play) by Aeschylus; of... -
The Origins of Greek Thought by Jean-Pierre Vernant
£21.48Jean-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... -
Mycenae: From Myth to History by Robert McCabe
RRP: £28.99£20.40The Mycenaean civilization flourished more than 800 years before the classical Greeks, with a complex society, strong artistic tendencies, and a distinct system of writing. Famous for its lion gate and citadel, Mycenae was long believed to be the city... -
The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies by Michael MacDonald 9780197503607
£53.12One 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... -
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B Strassler
RRP: £36.00£34.73From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika covers... -
Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £50.00£39.12Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between... -
A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories by Sean Sheehan 9781474292665
RRP: £25.99£21.22Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the... -
Thucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IV by H. Stuart-Jones 9780198145509
£26.91Thucydides 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 -
The Song Of Troy by Colleen McCullough
RRP: £9.99£7.16The tale of the Trojan War brilliantly retold by the bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS.The tragic and terrible drama of the war between Greeks and Trojans, the long siege of Troy, and the impact of one woman's beauty on the fate of two nations, is... -
Works: v. 4 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The 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...