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The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in HIstorical Outline D D Kosambi 9781032342894
RRP: £27.99£24.28First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. -
Ancient Greece: The Definitive Visual History DK 9780241668870
RRP: £30.00£25.50Embark upon a lavish visual journey through ancient Greece – from its rise and fall to its lasting legacy throughout the Western world.Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail... -
Mythica: The Untold History of the Real Women Behind Homer’s Myths Emily Hauser 9781529932485
RRP: £25.00£21.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mythica: The Untold History of the Real Women Behind Homer’s Myths Emily Hauser 9781529932492
RRP: £16.99£14.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529932492Author Emily HauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint DoubledayPublisher Transworld Publishers Ltd -
A Companion to Greek Warfare Waldemar Heckel 9781119438830
RRP: £45.50£38.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119438830Author Waldemar HeckelFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 666g -
Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon Professor Robert Holschuh Simmons 9781350214491
£29.35What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style... -
Heracles and Athenian Propaganda: Politics, Imagery and Drama Sofia Frade 9781350370678
RRP: £28.99£24.64Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how Greece's most important hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in religion, politics, architecture and literature, with a detailed study of Euripides' Heracles in relation to this interplay between the... -
A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity Paul Christesen 9781350460980
£29.07A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome’s celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths,... -
The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture Robin Sowerby 9781032489841
RRP: £130.00£110.50This fully revised, new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilisation from the age of Homer to the... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 Charles Freeman 9781803281964
RRP: £9.99£8.49A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek... -
What the Greeks Did for Us Tony Spawforth 9780300278699
RRP: £11.99£10.15An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the... -
New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese: History, Politics and Material Culture Dr Manolis Pagkalos 9781350228900
RRP: £90.00£76.50This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political history. The resurgence of interest in the Hellenistic... -
Standing Among the Spartans: Institutions and Status within the Spartiate Community Dr Philip John Victor Davies 9781350171633
RRP: £85.00£72.25Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality – each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination. This volume seeks to interrogate how rightly we may apply these... -
Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Greek Historiography Thomas Figueira 9781350358713
RRP: £90.00£76.50Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error and creating or confronting propaganda. Even the... -
Politics of Language: Foreign Nativeness and Identity in the Roman Empire Eleni Bozia 9781350430273
RRP: £85.00£72.25Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who used Attic Greek. Bozia argues that... -
Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean World Greg Gilles 9781802071856
£117.53Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Female agency in the ancient world has long been implicitly, and on a few occasions explicitly, examined in classical scholarship, but few of these studies begin with... -
Brief Histories: Ancient Greece Ellie Mackin Roberts 9781399622554
RRP: £12.99£9.09Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the warrior societies of The Bronze Age all the way to the... -
Ayia Irini Periods I-III: The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlements: Part 2: The Architecture and Stratigraphy David E. Wilson 9781957454078
RRP: £80.00£68.00Continuing the work of publishing the excavations at the site of Ayia Irini on the Cycladic island of Keos, this volume focuses on the architecture and stratigraphy of the site.Book InformationISBN 9781957454078Author David E. WilsonFormat... -
Ancient Greeks in Their Own Words Matthew Dillon 9781803997902
RRP: £20.00£15.04This volume offers an eyewitness account of life in the classical world. The author has selected a series of telling extracts from Greek literature to provide a picture of the customs, concerns and underlying values of the ancient Greeks. The Greeks... -
Die Zeit VOR Den Perserkriegen Karl Julius Beloch 9783112607992
RRP: £113.50£96.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112607992Author Karl Julius BelochFormat HardbackPage Count 438Imprint de GruyterPublisher de GruyterWeight(grams) 880g -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History Josephine Quinn 9781526605221
RRP: £12.99£11.04A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' THE TIMES 'A... -
The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture Robin Sowerby 9781032489858
£36.26This fully revised, new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilisation from the age of Homer to the... -
Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine Megan Nutzman 9781399502740
RRP: £29.99£27.79In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury made people willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial techniques,... -
The Tyrants of Corinth: Legends of Cypselus and Periander Daniel Ogden 9781032778433
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Tyrants of Corinth is the first monograph in English devoted to the archaic tyranny of Corinth and the engaging legends of Cypselus and Periander, which embrace such themes as hidden babies, animal helpers, arbitrary violence, necrophilia and... -
Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science Nicholas Nicastro 9781789149227
RRP: £15.99£11.61Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, Tesla - all revered him. As an engineer, Archimedes of Syracuse almost single-handedly held off the world's most powerful army. In an era of abacuses and sundials, he designed geared calculating devices that accurately modeled... -
Shifting the Moon from its Orbit: A Night at the Acropolis Museum Andrea Marcolongo 9781787705180
RRP: £12.99£8.56One day in late spring, Andrea Marcolongo walks into an outdoor store in Paris to buy a camp bed, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. Her destination, not a forest or mountain peak, but the deserted halls of one of the most famous museums in the world, the...