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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£11.78Apologies 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... -
Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome by Lauren Hackworth Petersen 9780292754348
RRP: £21.99£18.79Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield enormous influence as the reproductive bodies of society and, in many cases, of culture... -
Economics of Religion in the Mycenaean World by Lisa Bendall 9781905905027
RRP: £40.00£34.38The Mycenaean Linear B tablets include numerous references to religion, such as details of offerings, banqueting foodstuffs or land-tenure relating to cult personnel. While contributing significantly to our understanding of early Greek religion, the ... -
The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation by Roger S. Bagnall 9781405101332
RRP: £42.95£37.97This book presents in translation 175 of the most revealing documents that have survived on stone and papyrus from the Hellenistic period. Presents over 150 sources in translation. Captures the political, social, economic and religious dynamism of the... -
Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks by Esther Eidinow 9780199660667
£83.39How did ancient Greek men and women deal with the uncertainty and risk of everyday life? What did they fear most, and how did they manage their anxieties? Esther Eidinow sets side-by-side two collections of material usually studied in isolation: binding... -
Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient mediterranean world by Michela Spataro 9781789253412
RRP: £38.00£32.20The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but... -
A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos by Jack L. Davis
RRP: £30.00£22.82A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Although the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of excavations at the... -
Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State by Hans Beck
RRP: £35.00£33.91Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. While... -
Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality by Tonio Holscher 9780520294936
RRP: £42.00£32.83Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hoelscher explores the fundamental... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic by William A. Johnson
£38.54Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone... -
The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year by Jon D. Mikalson 9780691617572
RRP: £35.00£27.21From 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... -
Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Walter Burkert
RRP: £25.00£23.94We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of... -
Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2: Christianity and Modernity by Giuseppe Fornari
RRP: £33.95£27.04This 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,... -
Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature by Lesel Dawson
RRP: £28.99£26.39This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of... -
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall 9780393351163
RRP: £12.99£11.94The 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... -
Eratosthenes' Geography by Eratosthenes 9780691142678
RRP: £65.00£50.01This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of... -
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece by Claude Calame 9780691159430
RRP: £28.00£21.36The 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... -
Library of History: v. 12 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;... -
Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus by Beate Dignas 9780674027879
RRP: £16.95£13.54"What is a Greek priest?" The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual... -
Classical Mythology: The Basics by Richard Martin
RRP: £16.99£15.22This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they have fascinated and inspired artists, writers, musicians,... -
Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800-146 BC by David M. Lewis 9780198769941
£113.32The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome were its only 'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites. Other... -
The Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare Under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 B.C. by James R. Ashley 9780786419180
RRP: £28.99£24.45The Macedonian Empire lasted only 36 years, beginning with Philip II's assumption of the throne in 359 B.C. and ending with the death of his son Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. In that span, the two leaders changed the map in the known world. Philip...