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The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC by Tristan Hughes 9781399020701
RRP: £16.99£10.95On 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Alexander the Great’s death in Babylon that fateful day in June 323 BC triggered an... -
Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity by John Ma 9780691155388
RRP: £42.00£35.91A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging... -
Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece by Maria G. Spathi 9781803277493
£65.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803277493Author Maria G. SpathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 726g -
The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece by Margaret Foster 9780520401426
RRP: £30.00£25.95Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city’s... -
Democracy and Empire: The Athenian Invasion of Sicily, 415-413 BCE by Alexander O. Boulton 9780761872979
RRP: £30.00£26.68Athens' decision to invade Sicily in 415 BCE ), and articles for The William and Mary Quarterly, American Quarterly, and American Heritage Magazine marked an important turning point in its war with Sparta, which led ultimately to Athens' defeat and the... -
The A to Z of Ancient Greek Warfare by Iain Spence 9780810876286
RRP: £45.00£39.89The A to Z of Ancient Greek Warfare strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars. Read how... -
Ancient Akamas, Part 1: Settlement & Environment by Jane Fejfer 9788772884813
RRP: £30.50£18.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772884813Author Jane FejferFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Failaka/Ikaros -- The Hellenistic Settlements, Volume 3: Danish Archaeological Investigations in Kuwait -- The Sacred Enclosure in the Early Hellenistic Period by Kristian Jeppesen 9788772880532
RRP: £24.00£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772880532Author Kristian JeppesenFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Athens-Sparta: Contributions to the Research on the History and Archaeology of the Two City-States. Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Onassis Cultural Center on Saturday, April 21, 2007 by Nikolaos Kaltsas 9780977659852
RRP: £20.00£17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977659852Author Nikolaos KaltsasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (US)Publisher Alexander S. Onassis... -
Hellenistic Seal Impressions in the Yale Babylonian Collection by Ronald Wallenfels 9781934309681
RRP: £55.95£53.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309681Author Ronald WallenfelsFormat HardbackPage Count 287Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1247g -
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes 9780063377097
RRP: £30.00£19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063377097Author Natalie HaynesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 399g -
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin 9780691143699
£18.57Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism - gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium -... -
Travelling Heroes: In the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox 9780679763864
RRP: £25.00£18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679763864Author Robin Lane FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 456gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Middle Assyrian Seal Motifs from Tell Fekheriye (Syria) by Dominik Bonatz 9783110691238
£102.77Despite ongoing interest in Middle Assyrian glyptic art, the publications of Middle Assyrian seals and seal impressions from excavated sites in the Near East are very rare. The book is the first to offer a comprehensive study on the seal corpus from an... -
Death to Tyrants!: Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle against Tyranny by David Arlo Teegarden 9780691156903
RRP: £48.00£38.00Death to Tyrants! is the first comprehensive study of ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation--laws that explicitly gave individuals incentives to "kill a tyrant." David Teegarden demonstrates that the ancient Greeks promulgated these laws to harness... -
Wars and Battles of Ancient Greece by Paul Chrystal 9781781556818
RRP: £20.00£18.89One of the most popular areas of ancient history is war in the Greek world. The number of books, articles, web pages and blogs on every conceivable aspect of war in ancient Greece is endless, and continues to grow. So why add to the pile? Wars &... -
The Tyrant's Writ: Myths and Images of Writing in Ancient Greece by Deborah Tarn Steiner 9780691632018
£110.30Covering material as diverse as curse tablets, coins, tattoos, and legal decrees, Deborah Steiner explores the reception of writing in archaic and classical Greece. She moves beyond questions concerning ancient literacy and the origins of the Greek... -
Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens by Cheryl Anne Cox 9780691631622
£106.32Household Interests is one of the first books to explore in-depth the nature of the Greek household (oikos) in classical Athens. Whereas the oikos traditionally has been defined as the household of the nuclear family in Greece, Cheryl Anne Cox reveals it... -
Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus by Emily Baragwanath 9780199693979
£105.40Herodotus, the 'Father of History', is infamously known for having employed elements more akin to mythological tales than to unvarnished 'truth' in translating his historical research into narrative form. While these narratives provide valuable source... -
Lives of the Attic Orators: Texts from Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius, and the Suda by Joseph Roisman 9780199687671
£55.15This volume provides a complete translation of, and historical and historiographical commentary on, the lives of the ten Attic orators written by Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius, and the Suda. Assessing these works as important historical sources for the... -
Patterns of the Past: Epitedeumata in the Greek Tradition by Alfonso Moreno 9780199668885
£112.57Classical Greek consistently uses epitedeumata to signify 'way of life' or even 'everyday habits', but always refers to practices that are deliberately pursued, not traditions and customs that are passively carried on. In this volume, an international... -
Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC by Alfonso Moreno 9780199656943
RRP: £42.99£42.73The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the... -
Thucydidean Themes by Simon Hornblower 9780199562336
£107.92Thucydidean Themes is a collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; but other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. The chapters are arranged thematically, in three... -
Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece by Roger Brock 9780199258109
£69.52In 1993 the world celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, whose polis - or citizen state - is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. In an age when democracy has apparently triumphed following the collapse... -
Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language, and Civilization by Deborah Levine Gera 9780199256167
£72.16The source and nature of earliest speech and civilization are puzzles which have intrigued people for many centuries. This study explores ancient Greek views on the source and nature of the world's first society and first language. Two of the book's... -
Book VII by Thucydides 9780198720980
£15.23Greek text with introduction and commentaryBook InformationISBN 9780198720980Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 187mm * 122mm * 10mm -
Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece by Theodora Suk Fong Jim 9780198706823
£102.88Sharing with the Gods examines one of the most ubiquitous yet little studied aspects of ancient Greek religion, the offering of so-called 'first-fruits' (aparchai) and 'tithes' (dekatai), from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic. While most existing... -
Thucydides: Book VI by Thucydides 9780198318323
£17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198318323Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm)... -
Theopompus of Chios: History and Rhetoric in the Fourth Century BC by Michael Attyah Flower 9780198152439
£100.74Theopompus of Chios was one of the most important ancient Greek historians of the fourth century BC. Although his work has survived only in fragments - as quotations and paraphrases in later writers - these are still a rich and vital source of... -
The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece by Sviatoslav Dmitriev 9780195375183
£110.45The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece elucidates the main steps and ways in which the slogan of freedom emerged and developed into the fundamental principle of Greek diplomacy and politics, long before the Romans appropriated and... -
Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens by Ryan K. Balot 9780190879525
RRP: £43.49£36.59In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to reinterpret courage as a specifically democratic virtue. Ranging from Thucydides and Aristophanes to the Greek... -
How to Do Things with History: New Approaches to Ancient Greece by Danielle Allen 9780190649890
RRP: £100.00£70.36How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most... -
Acropolis Restored by Charalampos Bouras 9780861591879
£38.28The individual contributors to these papers tell the story of the dedicated and detailed efforts to understand the work of previous generations on the Acropolis and then to restore the buildings as nearly as possible to their original architectural ... -
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece by Claude Calame 9780691043418
£95.41The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological... -
The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year by Jon D. Mikalson 9780691644691
£92.17From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian festivals, religious ceremonies, and legislative assemblies. This information has been used to revise and... -
Studies in the Antiquities of Stobi, Volume 2 by James Wiseman 9780691641584
£83.86The description for this book, Studies in the Antiquities of Stobi, Volume 2, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691641584Author James WisemanFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University... -
Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays by James Allan Stewart Evans 9780691634753
£81.07Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit for saving Greece from Persia, but also identified the city's expansion as a new manifestation of imperialist aggression... -
The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire by Kirk Freudenburg 9780691631585
£106.03In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situations and characters created by Horace, one of Rome's earliest and most influential satirists. Critics tend to... -
The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry by Bonnie Maclachlan 9780691630762
£80.85Although "grace" in today's secular usage often connotes beauty or good manners, to the ancient Greeks it was both an aesthetic and a moral concept central to social order--a transformative power grounded in favor, thanks, repayment, delight,... -
The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens by Philip Brook Manville 9780691600925
RRP: £40.00£36.07In this unusual synthesis of political and socio-economic history, Philip Manville demonstrates that citizenship for the Athenians was not merely a legal construct but rather a complex concept that was both an institution and a mode of social behavior...