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Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian by Ian Worthington
RRP: £19.99£17.13A major new history of Athens' remarkably long and influential life after the collapse of its empire. To many the history of post-Classical Athens is one of decline. True, Athens hardly commanded the number of allies it had when hegemon of its... -
Greek Island Myths: Kos : Hippocrates and Asclepius by Jill Dudley 9780993489075
£3.14In this booklet Jill Dudley writes about Hippocrates who was born on Kos, whose father was a temple priest-physician serving Asclepius, god of healing. She describes Hippocrates' pioneering approach to medicine, and his break with the traditional belief... -
Women in Ancient Greece by Insight Guides 9781781555620
RRP: £20.00£14.71This book is a companion volume to the authors Women in Ancient Rome, first published in 2013. It provides a much-needed analysis of how women behaved in Greek society, how they were regarded and the various restrictions imposed on their freedoms,... -
The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization by Anthony Everitt
RRP: £22.00£15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984989Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity by Johanna Hanink
RRP: £35.95£28.41Ever since the International Monetary Fund's first bailout of Greece's sinking economy in 2010, the phrase "Greek debt" has meant one thing to the country's creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite... -
Greek Mythology: Explore The Timeless Tales Of Ancient Greece, The Myths, History & Legends of The Gods, Goddesses, Titans, Heroes, Monsters & More by History Brought Alive 9781914312076
RRP: £19.99£12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914312076Author History Brought AliveFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Fortune PublishingPublisher Fortune PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)... -
Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts by Richard F. Buxton 9780198814573
RRP: £33.49£28.84This work brings together eleven of Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two, and their importance to the Greeks themselves. Situating and contextualizing topics and... -
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913: The Long Nineteenth Century by Thomas W. Gallant
RRP: £31.00£28.55Traces the rich social, cultural, economic and political history of the Greeks. Often referred to as the 'Long Nineteenth Century', this period in Greek history conventionally begins with the war of independence in 1821. However, this book adopts a... -
Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History by Alex R. Knodell
RRP: £30.00£22.82A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise... -
Kings and Queens of the Medieval World: From Conquerors and Exiles to Madmen and Saints by Martin J Dougherty
RRP: £19.99£13.74The Great, the Pious, the Fair; the Wise, the Lame, the Mad. Imprisoned, deposed, exiled. Excommunicated, assassinated; devout, debauched; loved, loathed - the Middle Ages produced a fascinating array of monarchs. From Britain to Russia, from Scandinavia... -
Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece by Debra Hamel 9780300107630
RRP: £18.99£18.48Neaira grew up in a Corinthian brothel in the fourth century B.C., became a high-priced courtesan and a sex slave, then settled into a thirty-year relationship with Stephanos of Athens. But next she found herself in court, charged with transgressing... -
Library of History: v. 7 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.88Remains 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 Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Brooke Holmes 9780691163406
RRP: £28.00£27.39The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with... -
Power & the People: Five Lessons from the Birthplace of Democracy by Alev Scott
RRP: £9.99£6.80Democracy was born in Athens. From its founding myths to its golden age and its chaotic downfall, it's rich with lessons for our own times. Why did vital civil engagement and fair debate descend into paralysis and populism? Can we compare Creon to Trump,... -
Miletos, the Ornament of Ionia: A History of the City to 400 B.C.E. by Vanessa B. Gorman
RRP: £33.95£27.99Situated on the southwest coast of modern Turkey, Miletos stood for centuries as one of the paramount cities in the Hellenic world, a gateway between the East and West. It became especially famous as the most prolific mother city in Greek history,... -
Greek Mythology: Captivating Tales of the Greek Gods, Goddesses, Heroes and Monsters by Matt Clayton 9781976265655
RRP: £13.36£11.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976265655Author Matt ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
From 'LUGAL.GAL' TO 'Wanax': Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean by Dr. Jorrit Kelder 9789088907982
RRP: £25.00£23.27In 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... -
The Field Campaigns of Alexander the Great by Stephen English 9781526796608
RRP: £17.99£12.95Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements). Most of his thirteen-year reign as king of Macedon... -
Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero by Seth Benardete 9781587310010
£8.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587310010Author Seth BenardeteFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's Press -
The Idea of Marathon: Battle and Culture by Sonya Nevin
£28.52The Battle of Marathon changed the course of history in ancient Greece. To many, the impossible seemed to have been achieved - the mighty Persian Empire halted in its advance. What happened that day, why was the battle fought, and how did people make... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome by Edward Bispham
RRP: £37.00£34.38The Edinburgh Companion, newly available in paperback, is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach, it demonstrates the multifaceted nature of classical civilisation and enables readers to gain guidance... -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems by Philippa Steele 9781785706448
RRP: £36.00£29.61Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems arises from a conference held in Cambridge in 2015. The question of how writing systems are related to each other, and how we can study those relationships, has not been studied in... -
A New History of the Peloponnesian War by Lawrence A. Tritle 9781405122511
RRP: £36.95£32.51This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and examines the realities of the war and its effects on the average Athenian. A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War... -
Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 1: The Great Mediations of the Classical World by Giuseppe Fornari
RRP: £33.95£27.35This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to understand what both unites and divides them.Mediation, understood as a collective, symbolic experience,... -
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire by Ian Worthington
RRP: £14.99£11.35Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded... -
Library of History: v. 11 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 Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC by Oliver Dickinson 9780415135900
RRP: £37.99£33.38Following Oliver Dickinson's successful The Aegean Bronze Age, this textbook is a synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, and the rise of the Greek civilization in the eighth... -
The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora by Mabel L. Lang 9780876616420
RRP: £6.50£6.27A concise introduction to the workings of ancient democracy, The Athenian Citizen has been a bestseller since the original edition was first published almost 60 years ago by Mabel Lang. Using archaeological evidence from excavations at the heart of... -
Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History by Sarah B. Pomeroy
£102.07Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety. Written by six leading authorities on the classical... -
Helots and Their Masters in Messenia and Laconia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures by Nino Luraghi 9780674012233
RRP: £24.95£19.48The name "Helots" evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek... -
Olympia - The Archaeological Site and the Museums by Manolis Andronicos 9789602130469
RRP: £14.99£12.55Olympia is part of the volume entitled "treasures of the Greek Museums" which introduces the reader to the priceless works of art housed in the museums of Greece. The texts, written by experts, furnish details of the historical and cultural context ... -
Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens by Hans van Wees 9781784534325
£24.65Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war... -
Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge by Jacques Brunschwig
RRP: £81.95£65.78Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this... -
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill
RRP: £19.00£11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495547Author Thomas CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Sparta by Michael Whitby 9780748612932
RRP: £31.00£28.15This volume introduces the reader to every important aspect of the society of Sparta, the dominant power in southern Greece from the seventh century BC and the great rival of democratic Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries. During this period Sparta... -
Library of History: v. 9 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;... -
Greek Orators VI: Apollodorus Against Neaira by Apollodorus 9780856685262
RRP: £25.29£22.66Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies ... -
Sailing to Classical Greece: Papers on Greek Art, Archaeology and Epigraphy presented to Petros Themelis by Olga Palagia 9781842174227
RRP: £32.00£26.44This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of... -
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule by Josiah Ober
RRP: £55.00£42.54How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition... -
Naxos Theseus & Ariadne Greek Islands: All You Need to Know About the Islands Myths, Legends, and its Gods by Jill Dudley 9780993489099
£3.14In this booklet Jill Dudley describes how, after he killed he Minotaur, Theseus came to Naxos with Ariadne and lived on the small offshore islet of Palatia now dominated by the great marble Portara (gateway). She explains how Dionysos, god of wine and...