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A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos by Jack L. Davis
RRP: £30.00£23.29A 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... -
Greek Tyranny by Sian Lewis 9781904675273
RRP: £16.45£15.19The tyrants of Greece are some of the most colourful figures in antiquity, notorious for their luxury, excess and violence, and provoking heated debates among political thinkers. Greek Tyranny examines the phenomenon of autocratic rule outside the law in... -
In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon by Eugene N. Borza
RRP: £45.00£40.41In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient... -
Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality by Tonio Holscher 9780520294936
RRP: £42.00£33.44Visual 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... -
Auschwitz - The Nazi Solution by Andrew Rawson 9781473827981
RRP: £12.99£11.50The camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau were an important part of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question. Over one million people were murdered in its gas chambers and tens of thousands of prisoners were worked to death in the nearby sub-camps. Others... -
Herodotus and the Question Why by Christopher Pelling 9781477324257
RRP: £31.00£27.36In 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... -
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... -
Herodotus by James S. Romm 9780300072303
£19.17Herodotus, widely known as the father of history, was also described by Aristotle as a mythologos, or "tale-teller." In this stylish and insightful book, intended for both general readers and students, James Romm argues that the author of the Histories... -
Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple by Florin Leonte
RRP: £25.99£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... -
Sparta and War by Stephen Hodkinson 9781905125111
£59.27This title includes ten new essays from a distinguished international cast that treat Spartas most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. Among the contributors, Thomas Figueira explores the paradox that Spartas cavalry was an... -
Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom by Mary P. Nichols
RRP: £48.00£41.72In Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, Mary P. Nichols argues for the centrality of the idea of freedom in Thucydides' thought. Through her close reading of his History of the Peloponnesian War, she explores the manifestations of this theme. Cities... -
The Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare Under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 B.C. 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... -
Aristarchus of Samos: The Ancient Copernicus by Thomas Little Heath 9781616407537
RRP: £20.99£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616407537Author Thomas Little HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction by A. B. Bosworth 9780199252756
RRP: £62.00£51.56This book collects together ten contributions by leading experts in the field of Alexander studies which represent the most advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and... -
Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History by George Cawkwell 9780199593286
£107.92This selection of papers, by the distinguished historian of ancient Greece George Cawkwell, reflects a half-century of outstanding scholarship that is of immense value to anyone studying the ancient world today. The articles range from early Greek... -
Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age by Richard M. Berthold
RRP: £29.99£26.50This book offers a detailed political history of Rhodes from the foundation of the Rhodian republic in the fifth century B.C. to the conclusions of Rhodes' alliance with Rome in the second, a period in which Rhodes was a major Mediterranean power... -
The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete by Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder
RRP: £78.00£73.68The excavation of a Minoan shipwreck dated to 1725/1700 BC is described. The cargo includes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete clay vessels from a single Middle Minoan IIB deposit. The transport boat provides interesting information... -
The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens by Jacqueline de Romilly 9780198238072
RRP: £54.00£47.17'a brilliant introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a major reinterpretation of the goals and effects of their thought. Engagingly written, this eminently accessible account deserves lasting popularity.' Choice 'This is a fine work,... -
Greek Civilization: An Introduction by Brian A Sparkes 9780631205593
RRP: £44.95£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
RRP: £62.00£53.96The 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... -
A Commentary on Herodotus: Volume I: Books I-IV by W. W. How 9780198143840
£33.80Ancient critics called Herodotus `the father of history'. He was in fact the first to research and verify the events of the past (historie) and then to relate their consequences to the present. His Histories focus on the struggle between Persia and... -
The Language of Atoms: Performativity and Politics in Lucretius' De rerum natura by W. H. Shearin 9780190202422
RRP: £88.00£69.96The Language of Atoms argues that ancient Epicurean writing on language offers a theory of performative language. Such a theory describes how languages acts, providing psychic therapy or creating new verbal meanings, rather than passively describing the... -
Hellenism, The History of a Civilization by Arnold Joseph Toynbee 9780313227424
£48.28The author surveys the development of Hellenism-- Graeco-Roman Culture--from its earliest beginnings at the end of the second millennium B.C. until its decline in the seventh century of the Christian era--a period of some 1800 years.Book InformationISBN... -
Greek Mythology: A Complete Guide to Greek Mythology, Greek Gods, and Ancient Greece by Andrew Walsh 9781761035999 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£10.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761035999Author Andrew WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Ingram PublishingPublisher Ingram PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Greek Mythology: A Complete Guide to Greek Mythology, Greek Gods, and Ancient Greece by Andrew Walsh 9781761035999
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761035999Author Andrew WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Ingram PublishingPublisher Ingram PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City by Nicole Loraux
RRP: £28.00£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951597Author Nicole LorauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm -
Broken Cities: A Historical Sociology of Ruins by Martin Devecka 9781421438429
RRP: £30.50£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... -
Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought Jennifer T. 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 Ancient Greeks at War Louis Rawlings 9780719056574
RRP: £85.00£69.28The ancient Greeks experienced war in many forms. By land and by sea, they conducted raids, ambushes, battles and sieges; they embarked on campaigns of intimidation, conquest and annihilation; they fought against fellow Greeks and non-Greeks.Drawing on a... -
The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man by Nicole Loraux
RRP: £50.00£39.12Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man... -
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens by Nicole Loraux
RRP: £22.00£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 -
Archaic Greece: The Age of New Reckonings Brian M. Lavelle (Loyola University of Chicago) 9781405198608
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... -
Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources Eric W. Robinson (Harvard University) 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
£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... -
Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece by Pausanias 9780195171327
RRP: £43.99£34.23Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description")... -
The Acropolis (English language edition): Through its Museum by Panos Valavanis
RRP: £18.00£15.28This is not simply a guidebook to the Acropolis Museum: by presenting the works of art exhibited in the museum, it endeavours to resynthesize the history of the Sacred Rock as part of the cultural and the wider historical process of Athens. Following the... -
Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought by Daniel Unruh
£111.61Talking to Tyrants breaks new ground in the study of Classical Greek history and political thought, exploring the previously unexamined question of how citizens of Greek city-states approached interaction with kings, tyrants, and other absolute rulers... -
Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World by G. W. Bowersock 9780674005983
£28.36The era of late antiquity-from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth-was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. In... -
Troy Between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power by Andrew Erskine 9780199265800
£54.30Troy linked Greece and Rome. It was once the subject of the greatest of Greek poems and the mother city of the Romans. It gave the Romans a place in the mythical past of the Greeks, it gave Greeks a way of approaching Rome, and it gave the emperor... -
The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography by Paul Stephenson
RRP: £92.00£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...