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Works: v. 7 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... -
The Stoic Theory of Beauty by Aiste Celkyte 9781474461627
RRP: £20.99£19.25Aist? ?elkyt? shows us that Stoic views about beauty were robust and compelling. She examines the ways in which the Stoics used aesthetic vocabulary in their arguments to demonstrate that aesthetic concepts played an important role in their philosophy... -
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge 9781468316063
RRP: £30.00£18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468316063Author Paul CartledgeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. Abrams -
Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens by James Robson
RRP: £29.99£27.79This book offers a broad look at the sex lives and sexual beliefs of ancient Athenians 479-323 BCE. Within each of the five chapters James Robson focuses on a key area of the sexual life of the Athenians - Marriage, Same-Sex Relationships, Prostitution,... -
The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History by Greg Anderson 9780190886646
RRP: £96.00£61.85The 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... -
Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks by Robert Garland 9781624661297
RRP: £18.99£15.67Significantly expanded and updated in light of the most recent scholarship, the second edition of Garland's engaging introduction to ancient Greek society brings this world vividly to life--and, in doing so, explores the perspectives and morals of... -
Justin's Epitome of the Philippic Histories: : extracted from Gn us Pompeius Trogus by Justin 9780999140116
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999140116Author JustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Sophron EditorPublisher Sophron EditorWeight(grams) 499g -
Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism by Tim Whitmarsh
RRP: £30.00£23.29The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization... -
Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Evidence Joseph Roisman (Colby College, USA) 9781405127769
RRP: £33.95£31.58With fresh, new translations and extensive introductions and annotations, this sourcebook provides an inclusive and integrated view of Greek history, from Homer to Alexander the Great. New translations of original sources are contextualized by... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level by Dr. Malcolm Campbell
RRP: £32.99£31.65The OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination in 2017-2019, giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription... -
Greek Historiography by Simon Hornblower 9780198150725
£50.26The ancient Greek achievement in the writing of history has set the standard but the nature of this achievement is looking increasingly problematic in the light of recent work on such topics as literacy, orality, rhetoric, narrative technique, and the... -
Historical Miscellany by Aelian
RRP: £24.95£23.39A literary cabinet of curiosities.Aelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and enjoyable... -
The History of Alexander: v.2: Bks.V-X by Quintus Curtius Rufus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Adventurous history.Quintus Curtius was apparently a rhetorician who lived in the first century of the Roman empire and, early in the reign of Claudius (AD 41-54), wrote a history of Alexander the Great in ten books in clear and picturesque style for... -
The Timaeus and The Critias by Plato 9781609425166
RRP: £8.90£8.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609425166Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Publisher Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Medea by Euripides 9780872209237
RRP: £11.99£9.77This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far,... -
Coan Prenotions, Anatomical and Minor Clinical Writings: v. 9 by Hippocrates
RRP: £24.95£23.39The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine."This is the ninth volume in the Loeb Classical Library's ongoing edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and... -
Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: £23.99£19.52This new translation of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristotle series. Fitting seamlessly with the others in the series, it enables Anglophone readers to read... -
The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors by Fred Woudhuizen 9781784918279
£26.44In scholarly literature, there is much attention given to the Hittites and the Mycenaean Greeks, but the Luwians of Western Anatolia are notoriously neglected. Therefore, a study focussing on the latter is desirable. In this book, the presently available... -
Library of History: v. 4 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Remains 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;... -
Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts by Richard F. Buxton 9780198814573
RRP: £35.99£30.92This 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... -
Centaurs and Snake-Kings: Hybrids and the Greek Imagination Jeremy McInerney 9781009459105
RRP: £30.00£24.17Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich... -
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kirk Ormand
RRP: £29.99£26.90"Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, Controlling Desires is the only handbook on ancient sexuality that works persistently to offset modern readers' assumptions about sex and sexuality, to challenge the... -
Thucydides Historiae Vol. II: Books V-VIII by Thucydides 9780198145516
£37.65Thucydides Historiae Vol. II: Books V-VIIIBook InformationISBN 9780198145516Author ThucydidesFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 399g -
Women in Ancient Greece by Insight Guides 9781781555620
RRP: £20.00£15.04This 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,... -
Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader by Perez Zagorin 9780691138800
RRP: £25.00£19.59This 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'... -
Envy, Poison, & Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens by Esther Eidinow 9780198822585
£38.24This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. At the heart of this volume are three... -
The Library: v. 2 by Apollodorus
RRP: £24.95£24.54Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary... -
Alexander the Great by Ulrich Wilcken 9780393003819
RRP: £22.50£19.01The Norton edition of Ulrich Wilcken's distinguished biography has made available for almost three decades a classic study enhanced with a modern scholars notes, bibliography, and introduction to Alexander studies. Alexander the Great as an... -
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... -
Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation by Tim Rood 9780199275854
RRP: £73.00£59.26`War is a harsh teache' wrote Thucydides in the fifth-century BC. Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes harsh truths about how individuals and states behave... -
Library of History: v. 7 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Remains 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 Glorious Art of Peace: Paths to Peace in a New Age of War by John Gittings
RRP: £14.99£11.22Human 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 not by stories of peace but by tales of war. In this path-breaking study, former... -
Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History by Alex R. Knodell
RRP: £30.00£23.29A 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... -
Library of History: v. 6 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Remains 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;... -
Kings and Queens of the Medieval World: From Conquerors and Exiles to Madmen and Saints by Martin J Dougherty
RRP: £19.99£14.05The 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 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... -
Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden 9780859898386
RRP: £27.99£24.95What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean when the ancient writers told that Alexander had been... -
Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian by Ian Worthington
RRP: £20.99£17.94A 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... -
Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus by Beate Dignas 9780674027879
RRP: £16.95£13.85"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... -
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought by Emeritus Professor of Greek Richard Seaford 9781474427142
£26.91This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of...