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Aphrodite's Kephali by Philip P. Betancourt 9781931534710
RRP: €89.25€84.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931534710Author Philip P. BetancourtFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Institute for Aegean PrehistoryPublisher Institute for Aegean Prehistory -
Hagios Charalambos: A Minoan Burial Cave in Crete: II.The Pottery by Louise C. Langford-Verstegen 9781931534833
RRP: €92.82€87.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931534833Author Louise C. Langford-VerstegenFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Institute for Aegean PrehistoryPublisher Institute for Aegean Prehistory -
Pseira: Volume 10: Pseira X by Philip P. Betancourt 9781931534567
RRP: €89.25€84.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931534567Author Philip P. BetancourtFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Institute for Aegean PrehistoryPublisher Institute for Aegean Prehistory -
The Bronze Age Begins: The Ceramics Revolution of Early Minoan I and the New Forms of Wealth that Transformed Prehistoric Society Philip P. Betancourt 9781931534529
RRP: €35.11€33.39This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the... -
Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 by James Wiseman 9780876615324
RRP: €73.78€69.96The first in an anticipated two-volume set presents the results of the Nikopolis Project that was conducted between 1991 and 1996; the first large-scale, systematic survey in this region of Greece. The project employed intensive archaeological survey and... -
The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania II: Pottery from Gournia by Philip P. Betancourt 9780924171062
RRP: €70.45€66.91The Minoan town at Gournia flourished from the Early Bronze Age until its destruction at the end of the Late Minoan IB period. It was later resettled before being abandoned again in LM IIIB. The town was substantial, with houses arranged in irregular... -
The Sacred Landscape at Leska and Minoan Kythera by Mercourios Georgiadis 9781931534376
RRP: €92.23€86.44This volume presentes the results of the survey and excavation of a second peak sanctuary on Minoan Kythera at Leska. An introduction to the archaeological background of the island is provided, as well as a discussion on peak sanctuaries there and in... -
Seven Against Thebes: The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven Stephen Dando-Collins 9781684428939
RRP: €28.55€19.15An exploration of myth, legend, and origin stories passed from generation to generation.In the thirteenth century BC, a quarter of a century before the Trojan War, seven Greek warrior heroes went against the Greek city of Thebes to restore one of their... -
Pseira: v. 2: Building AC (the shrine) and Other Buildings in Area A by Philip P. Betancourt 9780924171444
RRP: €73.78€69.96Pseira, in northeast Crete, was a port dating from the end of the Neolithic until the Late Minoan. This, the second volume on the recent joint American-Greek archaeological excavations, reports on the new researches on building AC, the Late Minoan I... -
Pseira: v. 1: The Minoan Buildings on the West Side of Area A by Philip P. Betancourt 9780924171406
RRP: €63.07€60.17Pseira, a tiny islet near the coast of eastern Crete, has been called a priceless jewel in Crete's archaeological crown. In 1906 and 1907, the American archaeologist Richard Seager unearthed the extensive remains of a Bronze Age village here. Little was... -
Eusebius by Aaron P. Johnson 9781780765563
€29.93Eusebius of Caesarea (263-339 CE) is one of the most important intellectuals whose writings survive from late antiquity. His texts made lasting and wide-ranging contributions, from history-writing and apologetics to biblical commentary and Christian... -
In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns Christian Brockmann 9783161536595
RRP: €66.76€66.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161536595Author Christian BrockmannFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 379g -
Slaves and Other Objects by Page DuBois 9780226167879
RRP: €95.20€91.17Page duBois, a classicist known for her daring and originality, turns in this book to one of the most troubling subjects in the study of antiquity: the indispensability of slaves in ancient Greece. DuBois here explores both the material culture of... -
The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past Matteo Barbato 9781474466424
RRP: €119.00€96.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466424Author Matteo BarbatoFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Deleuze, a Stoic by Ryan J Johnson 9781474462150
RRP: €124.95€101.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474462150Author Ryan J JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 612g -
Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese During the First Millennium BC: Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference by Manolis I. Stefanakis 9781803274515
RRP: €65.45€65.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803274515Author Manolis I. StefanakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 376g -
Greek Tyranny by Sian Lewis 9781904675532
€132.22The 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... -
Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis: Reading through Pandemic Times by Professor Mario Telò 9781350348110
RRP: €77.35€72.04What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Telò, brings together a deep understanding... -
The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch Mary Lefkowitz 9781984854322
RRP: €22.60€15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984854322Author Mary LefkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Greek Tyrants by A. Andrewes 9781032581057
RRP: €103.52€89.89First Published in 1956 The Greek Tyrants is concerned primarily with an early period of Greek history, when the aristocracies which ruled in the eighth and seventh centuries were losing control of their cities and were very often overthrown by a... -
Thrace Through the Ages: Pottery as Evidence for Commerce and Culture from Prehistoric Times to the Islamic Period by Zeynep Koçel Erdem 9781803274614
€71.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803274614Author Zeynep Koçel ErdemFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 694g -
Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance by D Raeburn 9781119089858
RRP: €103.47€90.34This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition. * Written by a scholar who combines his academic... -
A History of the Hellenistic World: 323 - 30 BC R. Malcolm Errington (University of Marburg) 9780631233879
RRP: €116.56€101.47A History of the Hellenistic World provides an engaging look at the Macedonian monarchies in the period following the reign of Alexander the Great, and examines their impact on the Greek world. Offers a clearly organized narrative with particular... -
05 Achilles and Hector - Homeric Hero Seth Benardete 9781587310003
RRP: €16.66€16.61Benardete's 1955 doctoral dissertation in social thought for the University of Chicago was published in two parts in the St. John's Review in the spring and summer of 1985. The parts do not take the opposing hero's of Homer's Iliad in turn, as might be... -
A New History of the Peloponnesian War Lawrence A. Tritle (Loyola Marymount University, USA) 9781405122504
RRP: €103.47€90.34This 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... -
Eleusis: Demeter and Kore. All You Need to Know About This Sacred Site, its Myths, Legends and its Gods by Jill Dudley 9780993537851
€3.74Jill Dudley writes about the abduction of the goddess Demeter's daughter Persephone (otherwise known as Kore) by Hades, god of the underworld. She describes how Demeter came to Eleusis in search of her daughter, and why she chose it as the site for her... -
Corinth: St. Paul and the Goddess of Love. All You Need to Know About the Site's Myths, Legends and its Gods Jill Dudley 9780993537875
RRP: €3.56€2.95Jill Dudley writes about the clash of St. Paul's concept of love with the sexual pleasures which the pagans enjoyed at the great temple of Aphrodite on Acrocorinth. She describes how the Apostle spent his time at nearby Old Corinth observing, preaching... -
Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese by Anton Powell 9781910589830
RRP: €95.20€91.01A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and... -
Humanism: The Greek Ideal and Its Survival by Moses Hadas 9781032189895
RRP: €34.50€29.86Originally published in the UK in 1961 this was an unconventional book when first published but a powerful interpretation of Greek individualism. The author examines the influence of the Greeks on European philosophy, religion, literature, art and... -
Attic Grave Reliefs That Represent Women in the Dress of Isis by Elizabeth J. Walters 9780876615225
RRP: €47.60€45.29The author investigates the appearance of a fashion in clothing, involving a knotted mantle worn across the chest, on many Attic stelae of the Roman period. She suggests that this style can be traced to Egyptian roots, and might have been particularly... -
Ancient Greece: A Concise Overview of the Greek History and Mythology Including Classical Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Roman Greece and The Byzantine Empire by Eric Brown 9781951103095
RRP: €14.22€10.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951103095Author Eric BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Guy SalonikiPublisher Guy SalonikiWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm -
Classical Mythology: The Basics by Richard Martin 9781032117287
RRP: €101.14€87.88A concise guide to Classical Mythology by a well respected expert in the field which allows students to contextualize primary sources with information about the culture and society in which they were conceived. A new chapter focuses on the use of myth in... -
Horses and Horsemanship in the Athenian Agora by John McK. Camp, II 9780876616390
RRP: €7.74€7.46This concise and beautifully illustrated book demonstrates the many roles played by the horse in the lives of the Greeks, from its place in myth and early history to its significance as a marker of social status and its use in warfare, transportation,... -
The Games at Athens Jenifer Neils 9780876616413
RRP: €5.95€5.88This attractive book presents a general introduction to the Greater Panathenaia, the week-long religious and civic festival held at Athens every four years in honour of the city's patron goddess, Athena. The highlight of the city's festival calendar,... -
Hidden Treasures at the Gennadius Library by Maria Georgopoulou 9789609994507
RRP: €20.17€19.15The New Griffon volume 12 seeks to highlight several discoveries in a variety of areas and time periods: Father Konstantinos Terzopoulos explores 16 manuscripts of Byzantine chant; Leonora Navari presents the published works of Cardinal Bessarion, one of... -
Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and Its Afterlife by Han Baltussen
RRP: €71.40€67.84Ancient consolatory writings offer us a window onto alien forms of loss and grief, as experienced in a world where death happened, in most cases, much earlier and with less reliable warning than in developed countries today. Here, eight original studies... -
Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora by Carol L. Lawton
RRP: €7.74€7.46The 5th-century B.C. poet Pindar remarked on the rich sculptural decoration of the Athenian Agora, and, indeed, over 3,500 pieces of various types of sculpture have been uncovered during its excavation. This full-color guide sheds new light on the marble... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780143107545
RRP: €30.94€20.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107545Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 913gDimensions(mm)... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson 9780374610104
RRP: €38.08€21.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374610104Author Adam NicolsonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g -
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
RRP: €22.60€14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063314672Author Natalie HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 213g