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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the... -
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
RRP: £12.99£8.56How new is atheism?Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, so the lively free-thinking voices of... -
Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Dentition by Hippocrates 9780674997585
RRP: £24.95£23.39The definitive English edition of the “Father of Medicine.”This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s complete edition of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and... -
The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs by Timothy Freke
RRP: £9.99£8.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426928Author Timothy FrekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 16mm -
OCR Ancient History AS and A Level Component 1: Greece by Charlie Cottam
RRP: £17.99£17.05This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies: Period... -
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99£9.09'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in... -
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £12.99£8.78'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and... -
The Parthenon by Mary Beard
RRP: £10.99£7.77The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning... -
A History of My Times by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99£9.09Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the... -
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence by Martin Bernal 9781978804296
RRP: £43.00£38.50Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he... -
On Sparta by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli 9780241635049
RRP: £16.99£12.28A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of... -
Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses by Jean Menzies
RRP: £10.99£7.40The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged... -
Theaetetus by Plato 9780199646166
RRP: £11.99£8.43'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student, Theaetetus, it explores one of... -
Complete Ancient Greek: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Ancient Greek, with Original Texts by Gavin Betts
RRP: £39.99£27.15Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Ancient Greek offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the writings of... -
Anabasis by Xenophon 9780674991019
RRP: £24.95£23.23Greek mercenaries on the march.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
RRP: £11.99£8.43'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of... -
Ancient Greek Housing by Lisa C. Nevett
RRP: £24.99£21.58The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek... -
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard 9780674660441
RRP: £24.95£20.29Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial... -
The Greeks: A Global History by Professor Prof Roderick Beaton
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.' Financial TimesThe... -
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £11.99£8.43This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the division of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece in... -
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece by Dennis D. Hughes 9780415755276
RRP: £53.99£46.87Numerous ancient texts describe human sacrifices and other forms of ritual killing: in 480 BC Themistocles sacrifices three Persian captives to Dionysus; human scapegoats called pharmakoi are expelled yearly from Greek cities, and according to some... -
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99£7.77Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This Penguin Classics edition is... -
Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask Peter Jones (Author) 9781782395164
RRP: £10.99£7.32The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated... -
The Shadow King: The brand new 2023 historical epic about Alexander The Great from the Sunday Times bestseller by Harry Sidebottom 9781838777975
RRP: £20.00£14.05FOR A KING TO RISE, ALEXANDER THE GREAT MUST FALL . . .The new historical fiction epic from one of Britain's best-loved authors shines new light on the greatest hero of the Ancient World, Alexander The Great._____________________334 BC. Alexander the... -
To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World by Raimund J. Schulz 9780197668023
RRP: £22.99£19.56A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense... -
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price 9780140274851
RRP: £19.99£14.28'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanTo an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political... -
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
RRP: £12.99£9.09The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over a vast empire of his own making, translated from the Greej by Aubrey... -
The Returning Hero: nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement by Simon Hornblower 9780198811428
£118.90A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly the most 'marked', ancient Greek word for 'return' is nostos... -
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by Peter Jones 9781786494825
RRP: £9.99£5.13In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two... -
A History of Crete by Chris Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.99Known by the Greeks as 'Megalonisos', the 'Great Island', Crete has been of paramount strategic importance for thousands of years thanks to its location close to the junction of three continents and the heart of the eastern Mediterranean. The island has... -
Guide to Greece: Central Greece by Pausanias
RRP: £14.99£10.95Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings, traditions and myth, it describes with precision and... -
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
RRP: £7.99£5.79What do we really need in order to live a happy life? An Epicurean antidote to anxietyOver two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really want is pleasure. Today we tend to associate the word... -
24 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Dr Philip Matyszak
RRP: £8.99£6.22'Accessible, informative, enjoyable' - All About History _____________________Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age.Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous... -
The Rise And Fall of Athens by Plutarch 9780140449051
RRP: £16.99£12.28Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine... -
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours by Noga Arikha 9780060731175
RRP: £12.99£9.59Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body-blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler-determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the anatomy begin to... -
How to Read a Rock: Our Planet's Hidden Stories by Jan Zalasiewicz 9780750999953
RRP: £20.00£15.04Earth's history is embedded in its rocks, from dinosaur-trodden landscapes to new plastic-and-rock combinations. How to Read a Rock unearths stories buried in everything from grains of sand to mountain ranges, featuring over one hundred breathtaking... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780199554027
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially... -
A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard
RRP: £12.99£8.60The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But who were these people, what do we know of their lives... -
The Macedonian Army of Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359 323 BC by Esposito, Gabriele 9781526787354
RRP: £20.00£14.29This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment of the Macedonian army built by Philip II and later employed to world-changing effect by his son, Alexander III (the Great). This work explains how Philip took the...