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The Laws of Ancient Crete, c.650-400 BCE by Michael Gagarin 9780198832515
£35.23This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE. The texts of the inscriptions, many of which are fragmentary and relatively unknown,... -
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... -
Diseases in the Ancient Greek World by Mirko D. Grmek
RRP: £28.00£24.94What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different... -
Herodotus - The Concise Histories by Stamati Julian Crook 9780955685941
RRP: £8.99£6.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955685941Author Stamati Julian CrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Concise PressPublisher Concise PressWeight(grams) 181g -
Power & the People: Five Lessons from the Birthplace of Democracy Alev Scott 9781529402858
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,... -
The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity by Johanna Hanink
RRP: £35.95£28.96Ever 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... -
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... -
Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity: Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate by Michael Bland Simmons 9780190202392
RRP: £127.50£102.06This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for... -
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913: The Long Nineteenth Century by Thomas W. Gallant
RRP: £31.00£29.09Traces 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... -
Ancient Epic Katherine Callen King (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9781118255346
RRP: £25.95£22.60Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the... -
A New History of the Peloponnesian War Lawrence A. Tritle (Loyola Marymount University, USA) 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... -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems by Philippa Steele 9781785706448
£42.39Understanding 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... -
Men And Gods by Rex Warner 9781590172636
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172636Author Rex WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm)... -
Classical Traditions in Science Fiction by Brett M. Rogers 9780190228330
RRP: £45.49£33.44For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively... -
Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought: From Mourning to Creativity Marcia Dobson 9781032375526
RRP: £29.99£26.64This unusual book explores the transformative power of liminal experiences in ancient Greek texts, psychoanalytic theory, and the author's own life, to demonstrate how a contemporary understanding of ancient thought can illuminate modern psychoanalytic... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.39Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
Olympia: The Olympic Games by Jill Dudley 9780993537844
RRP: £2.99£2.48Jill Dudley relates the various myths regarding the founding of the Olympic Games. She takes the reader around the main buildings on the site where the athletes took their vows, and the victors were crowned before the cult statue of the supreme god Zeus... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: £22.99£22.85For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and... -
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £18.00£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078851Author Paul CartledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Pope, Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning Carolyn D. Williams 9781138979062
RRP: £43.99£38.44The author here reassesses the concept of 'masculinity', and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models. The argument is sustained by a close reading of the... -
The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man's Wealth Shaped the World by Frank L. Holt 9780199950966
RRP: £32.49£23.80War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth violently from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions, massacres, confiscations, deportations, the sacking of cities, and the selling of survivors into slavery all... -
Sparta by Michael Whitby 9780748612932
RRP: £31.00£28.69This 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... -
Black Athena Revisited by Mary R. Lefkowitz 9780807845554
RRP: £55.00£51.99In this collection of 20 essays, scholars in a broad range of disciplines confront the claims made by Martin Bernal in ""Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization"". In that work, Bernal proposed a radical reinterpretation of the... -
Hercules: The First Superhero by Philip Matyszak 9780988106659
RRP: £15.52£13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988106659Author Philip MatyszakFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Monashee Mountain PublishingPublisher Monashee Mountain PublishingWeight(grams) 327g -
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... -
Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C. by Samuel D. Gartland
£64.98The region of Boiotia was one of the most powerful regions in Greece between the Peloponnesian War and the rise of Macedonian power under Philip II and Alexander the Great. Its influence stretched across most of the Greek mainland and, at times, across... -
The Idea of Marathon: Battle and Culture by Sonya Nevin
£29.07The 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... -
Library of History: v. 9 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;... -
Olympia - The Archaeological Site and the Museums by Manolis Andronicos 9789602130469 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.26Olympia 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 ... -
Olympia - The Archaeological Site and the Museums by Manolis Andronicos 9789602130469
RRP: £14.99£13.98Olympia 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 ... -
A History of the Classical World: The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome by Elizabeth Wyse 9781398824508
RRP: £24.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398824508Author Elizabeth WyseFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
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... -
Library of History: v. 11 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;... -
Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens by Hans van Wees 9781784534325
£25.15Historians 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... -
Alexander the Great: A Reader by Ian Worthington
RRP: £45.99£40.53This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters... -
Helots and Their Masters in Messenia and Laconia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures by Nino Luraghi 9780674012233
RRP: £24.95£19.89The 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... -
The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora by Mabel L. Lang 9780876616420 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.50£5.96A 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... -
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... -
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule by Josiah Ober
RRP: £55.00£43.31How 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...