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Rhodes. the Queen of the Mediterranean and the Wall Street of Its Era: 411 B.C. - 44 A.D.: The Splendor of a Maritime Republic, 1500 Years Before Venice by Roberto Timo 9781718072770
RRP: £15.99£13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718072770Author Roberto TimoFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Herodotus and the Question Why by Christopher Pelling 9781477324257
RRP: £36.00£32.59In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive... -
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 -
Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple by Florin Leonte
£23.58With a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos' rule, 1391 1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.About the... -
Thucydides Bk. 1: A Students' Grammatical Commentary by H.D. Cameron 9780472068470
£30.42The first book of Thucydides is a compact masterpiece. Here he sets up the conditions that led to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 B.C. With great economy, he analyzes the origins of large-scale wars; integrates a sketch of the historical... -
The Mycenaeans: The History and Culture of Ancient Greece's First Advanced Civilization by Charles River Editors 9781511820813
RRP: £7.24£6.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511820813Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Broken Cities: A Historical Sociology of Ruins by Martin Devecka 9781421438429
£27.37A comparative study of cities that fell into ruin through human involvement.We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues that we should see them as processes... -
Slavery in Ancient Greece: The History of Slaves across the Greek City-States by Charles River Editors 9781540829535
RRP: £10.24£8.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540829535Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Euripides and the Politics of Form by Victoria Wohl 9780691202372
£23.29How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only... -
Archaic Greece: The Age of New Reckonings by Brian M. Lavelle
RRP: £30.95£27.45An introductory guide to the Archaic period in ancient Greece-the people, their society, and their culture. Excerpts from literary and other texts give voice to the interests, concerns, and emotions of the Archaic Greeks themselves. This book provides a... -
Greek Civilization: An Introduction by Brian A Sparkes 9780631205593
RRP: £45.95£40.51It covers all the major themes of Ancient Greek history, set in the context of both the preceding and following periods.About the AuthorBrian A. Sparkes received his training in classics and archaeology at Kings College London and at the British School... -
Localism in Hellenistic Greece by Sheila Ager 9781487548315
£57.33The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered... -
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox 9780465093441
£27.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465093441Author Robin Lane FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 145mm * 36mm -
Alexander the Great: From His Death to the Present Day by John Boardman 9780691181752
£21.80An illustrious scholar presents an elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great's representations in art and literature through the agesJohn Boardman is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greece, and his... -
Greek Mythology: A Complete Guide to Greek Mythology, Greek Gods, and Ancient Greece by Andrew Walsh 9781761035999 [USED COPY]
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The Ancient Greeks in 100 Facts by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £8.99£6.02Ancient Greece was never just one nation: it was a disparate collection of independent city-states, often embroiled in war with each other, with separate governments, their own armies and distinct politics, economies and societies. However, together... -
In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome by David Konstan 9780190887872
RRP: £24.49£24.27This book is about love in the classical world -- not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also extend to include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply... -
The Histories: A Norton Critical Edition by Herodotus 9780393933970
£20.79Herodotus's history is the earliest continuous prose narrative in Western literature. His long narrative-longer than either of the Homeric epics-continues to hold us spellbound because of the author's storytelling powers and intelligent curiosity. The... -
Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts 9780691029191
RRP: £45.00£40.81The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a... -
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens by Nicole Loraux
£17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951092Author Nicole LorauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources by Eric W. Robinson 9780631233947
RRP: £32.95£29.14This book invites readers to join in a fresh and extensive investigation of one of Ancient Greece's greatest inventions: democratic government. Provides an accessible, up-to-date survey of vital issues in Greek democracy.Covers democracy's origins,... -
Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture (Revised second edition) by Gideon Nisbet 9781904675785 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.99£4.46Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture (Revised second edition) by Gideon Nisbet 9781904675785
£31.58This revised and expanded second edition responds to new developments in the reception of Greece in contemporary popular culture, and particularly the impact of the film "300" (2006). Why, in a century of film-making, have so few versions of the story of... -
Slaves Tell Tales: And Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece by Sara Forsdyke 9780691140056
£35.32Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by... -
Ancient Greece: Discover the Secrets of Ancient Greece by Martin R Phillips 9781511886871
RRP: £11.99£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511886871Author Martin R PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Bronze Age Textiles: Men, Women and Wealth by Klavs Randsborg
£30.07In the ancient civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean, textiles were generally much more costly than foodstuffs, animals or bronzes; it is very likely that the same was the case throughout prehistoric Europe. In this study, the first for over... -
The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography by Paul Stephenson
£73.68The Serpent Column, a bronze sculpture that has stood in Delphi and Constantinople, today Istanbul, is a Greek representation of the Near Eastern primordial combat myth: it is Typhon, a dragon defeated by Zeus, and also Python slain by Apollo. The column... -
Chronology of Ancient Greece by Timothy Venning 9781473834286
RRP: £39.95£27.16This book offers a coherent narrative of the politico-military history of ancient Greece. It commences with the necessarily approximate course of events in Bronze and early Iron Age, as estimated by the most reliable scholarship plus the legendary... -
Thucydides by Walter Robert Connor 9780691102399
£27.74This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories. Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the... -
Aphrodite: The Origins and History of the Greek Goddess of Love by Andrew Scott 9781547148158
RRP: £10.24£8.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781547148158Author Andrew ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Attack on Troy by Rodney Castleden 9781526766762
RRP: £12.99£9.093300 years ago Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and the search for the truth behind the legend has... -
The Attack on Troy by Rodney Castleden 9781526766762 [USED COPY]
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Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: £29.95£21.29The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the... -
Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires by Rolf Strootman
RRP: £28.99£23.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474801Author Rolf StrootmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle S. Allen
£33.44For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of punishment in ancient Athens fueled conversations among... -
Agathokles of Syracuse: Sicilian Tyrant and Hellenistic King by Christopher de Lisle 9780198861720
RRP: £115.00£103.88Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues that Agathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career... -
Alexander the Great Failure: The Collapse of the Macedonian Empire by Dr. John D. Grainger 9781847251886 [USED COPY]
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Coan Prenotions, Anatomical and Minor Clinical Writings: v. 9 by Hippocrates
£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... -
Creating a Constitution: Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens by Federica Carugati
£27.74A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe live in an era of constitution-making. More than half of the world's constitutions have been drafted in the past half-century. Yet,... -
The New Politicians of Fifth-century Athens by W. Robert Connor 9780872201422
£14.91A reprint of the Princeton University Press edition of 1972, with new Preface by the author.In this powerful contribution to our understanding of politics in fifth-century Athens, Connor constructs models of Athenian political groupings to explain the...