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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot
RRP: $34.29$24.49The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and unable to unite. Yet, in spite of or even because of this... -
The Franco-Prussian War by Michael Howard 9780367705305
RRP: $34.29$31.03In 1870 the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the European continent but the whole climate of... -
Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics by Christopher Rowe 9780198838326
$68.78Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics was until recently treated as a poor cousin of the better-known Nicomachean Ethics - poor enough even to have to borrow its three central books (IV-VI) from the latter. The work has now emerged from its relative obscurity;... -
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $25.71$18.78Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for... -
A History of the Hellenistic World: 323 - 30 Bc by R.Malcolm Errington 9780631233886
RRP: $58.23$51.42A 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... -
Rhodes: The History and Legacy of the Greek Island from Ancient Times to Today by Charles River Editors
RRP: $22.71$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718727373Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Parmenides' Vision: A Study of Parmenides' Poem by Stuart B. Martin
RRP: $128.65$117.15This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called "the Truth,"... -
Knossos: Myth, History and Archaeology by James Whitley 9781472532848
RRP: $37.72$30.57Knossos is one of the most important sites in the ancient Mediterranean. It remained amongst the largest settlements on the island of Crete from the Neolithic until the late Roman times, but aside from its size it held a place of particular significance... -
Assassin's Creed: Atlas by Guillaume Delalande
RRP: $68.61$52.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419752759Author Guillaume DelalandeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint ABRAMSPublisher ABRAMS -
Killer of Men by Christian Cameron
RRP: $18.85$13.35In the epic clash of Greece and Persia, a hero is forged - a monumental novel from the author of the Tyrant series.Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing... -
Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction by Hugh Bowden
RRP: $15.42$11.06Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest empire that had ever existed, leading his army... -
State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm by Donald Haggis 9781842179673
RRP: $61.75$51.48State Formation in Italy and Greece offers an up-to-date and comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterranean. While comparative approaches to the emergence of political complexity have been applied... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: $29.14$21.06The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of... -
Republic by Plato 9780141442433
RRP: $18.85$13.33An authoritative new translation of Plato's The Republic by Christopher Rowe, with notes and an introduction.'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that if it was good we would find justice in it' The Republic,... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2024–2026 by Sam Baddeley
RRP: $51.44$47.77This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2024-26 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for... -
TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of Jose Luis Melena Jimenez by Julian Mendez Dosuna 9780674272576
RRP: $42.80$33.41TA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation marks and numbers in the Linear B to personal names and place names reflecting the ethnic composition of Mycenaean... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle 9780140444315
RRP: $18.85$13.33Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived... -
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great by James Romm
RRP: $42.88$29.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079674Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Girl Who Grew Wings by Anna Waterworth
RRP: $15.42$10.91A stunning YA romantasy inspired by Greek mythology by the acclaimed author of The Fandom duology. 'Gorgeous and deeply heartfelt' BEA FITZGERALD 'This book has it all' ALEXANDRA CHRISTO 'A triumph of a... -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
RRP: $37.74$25.82Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine & Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft by Cyndi Brannen
RRP: $34.29$27.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637225Author Cyndi BrannenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600-1100 BC by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $25.71$18.78More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. The richly decorated artefacts of the entombed warriors, whose bodies still lay in their graves, confirmed that Homer's epic... -
Babylon: 'Truly epic' Conn Iggulden by Robert Fabbri 9781838956127
RRP: $17.14$11.18'This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable' CONN IGGULDEN'Excellent . . . scintillating' THE TIMESWho will conquer the greatest city in the ancient world?Alexander the Great's sudden death has left his vast empire in chaos. War... -
The Seleucid Army of Antiochus the Great: Weapons, Armour and Tactics by Plessis, Jean Charl Du 9781399091794
RRP: $42.88$30.22*The Seleucid Empire was a superpower of the Hellenistic Age, the largest and most powerful of the Successor States, and it's army was central to the maintenance of that power. Antiochus III campaigned, generally successfully, from the Mediterranean to... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: $25.71$14.65Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineThe year 2022 marks 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This... -
The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: $20.57$14.46The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek letter lambda. 'This is Sparta!', bellows Leonidas on... -
A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9780190925369
RRP: $118.34$108.49Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of A Brief History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety. Written by six leading ancient... -
Understand Greek Mythology by Steve Eddy
RRP: $22.28$14.75Ancient Greek myths shaped and were shaped by one of the most important culture in the history of the world. Even today, stories such as Oedipus, Narcissus, Odysseus and the Golden Fleece reverberate through our popular culture.This is the ideal... -
A History of the Classical Greek World: 478 - 323 Bc by P. J. Rhodes
RRP: $58.23$52.11Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the 'classical' period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC... -
Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark
RRP: $20.58$14.48A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul... -
The Technique of Greek Sculpture by Chief Nurse Sheila Adam
RRP: $32.57$24.01They were told to hold the fort. They did far more than that.When the Second World War broke out, the task of keeping society afloat fell on the shoulders of the women left behind. Women the world over stepped into boots they'd never worn before -... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE by Judith Affleck
RRP: $32.57$28.99This is the OCR endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2018 to 2024. The texts covered are: Homer Odyssey 6:48-159 Iliad 3:1-112 Odyssey 7:184-297 Herodotus Histories 1.30-4, 86-7 and 6.125... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume Iv: Sophists by Glenn W. Most
RRP: $42.80$39.31A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: $48.01$41.27The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones 9780190931490
RRP: $37.72$26.78From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of... -
The Phaistos Disc and Antikythera Mechanism: The History of the Most Mysterious Artifacts from Ancient Greece by Charles River Editors 9781983846748
RRP: $22.71$18.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983846748Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Works: v. 5 by Demosthenes
RRP: $42.80$39.31The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw 9781472145673
RRP: $51.46$33.96Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineIn 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This astonishing... -
Aspects of Greek History 750-323BC: A Source-Based Approach by Terry Buckley
RRP: $63.45$56.48Aspects of Greek History 750- 323 BC: A Source-Based Approach offers an indispensable introduction to the central period of Greek History for all students of classics, from pre-university to undergraduate level. Chapter by chapter, the relevant... -
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
RRP: $29.14$19.86Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps,...