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Hellenica: Bks. 1-4 by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39A continuation of Thucydides.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. After... -
The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton 9780393002317
RRP: £18.50£15.10The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of distant and forgotten... -
Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste.Croix 9780715617014
RRP: £37.99£36.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715617014Author G. E. M. De Ste.CroixFormat PaperbackPage Count 746Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)... -
Library of History: v. 10 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
Greek History: The Basics by Robin Osborne
RRP: £18.99£16.87Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome.With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece's ancient history, the book covers the key topics, approaches... -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
RRP: £22.00£15.05Thucydides 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,... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean by Eric H. Cline
RRP: £57.00£52.61The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media,... -
War Stories: Experiences of Women in the Second World War by David Bolton
RRP: £17.99£13.64After listening to his mother-in-law talking about her experiences in the Second World War, David Bolton set out to record the wartime memories of British women before it was too late. Many of those he interviewed were child evacuees, some were single... -
Description of Greece: v. 5: Maps, Illustrations & Index by Pausanias
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, ... -
The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Thonemann
RRP: £8.99£6.45The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus... -
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
RRP: £22.00£14.31There is not just one story of silk.In silk is science, history and mythology.In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 by Charles Freeman 9781803281957
RRP: £30.00£20.95The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some sixty years later,... -
How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser 9780691201078
RRP: £35.00£27.74How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one-aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words,... -
The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354447
RRP: £12.99£9.95A perennial favourite, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (The New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the... -
The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton 9780674035720
RRP: £70.95£58.43"A vast cabinet of curiosities."-Stephen Greenblatt"Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet."-Frederic Raphael, Literary ReviewHow do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus's sirens to those of an ambulance? The... -
Thermopylae: Great Battles by Chris Carey 9780198754107
RRP: £23.49£17.47During the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 faced the biggest army ever seen in the Greek peninsula. For three days, the Persians--the greatest military force in the world--were stopped in their tracks by a vastly... -
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson 9780812969702
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969702Author Victor Davis HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)... -
Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State by Richard Seaford 9780198150367
RRP: £69.00£65.93This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and the close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman
RRP: £28.00£22.20An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrecognizable, the customs... -
Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality by Andrew Shapland
RRP: £25.00£16.47Crete was famous in Greek myth as the location of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was confined in a palace at somewhere called 'Knossos'. From the Middle Ages travellers searched unsuccessfully for the Labyrinth. A handful of clues that survived,... -
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation by Margalit Fox
RRP: £12.99£9.09The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the... -
The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus: 3rd Century BC by Nicholas Sekunda
RRP: £11.99£8.43Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire. After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion,... -
Greek Art by John Boardman
RRP: £12.95£8.98John Boardman has updated his classic account of one of the most popular historic artistic traditions among Western audiences. In the twenty years since the last edition was released, valuable evidence has come to light which has dramatically enhanced ... -
The Athenian Empire by Robin Osborne 9781009383646
RRP: £15.99£14.28This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory... -
Athenian Hoplite vs Spartan Hoplite: Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: £13.99£9.75The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies, involved some of the most important developments in ancient warfare. A life-and-death struggle between the two most powerful Greek city-states in the wake of... -
The Battles of Antiochus the Great: The failure of combined arms at Magnesia that handed the world to Rome by Wrightson, Graham 9781526793461
RRP: £20.00£14.29Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India to Egypt, and he lost almost as many. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato 9780140455496
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues,... -
Greek Slavery by Deborah Kamen 9783110637595
RRP: £25.00£17.95Slavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable... -
Medusa: In the Mirror of Time David Leeming 9781780230955
RRP: £20.00£14.29Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante she was the erotic power that could destroy men; Freud saw in her hair a... -
The Greeks And Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality In Ancient Greece James Davidson 9780753822265
RRP: £16.99£11.94A radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, by a young historian described as 'the best thing to happen to ancient history for decades' (Andrew Roberts, MAIL ON SUNDAY)Kenneth Dover's 1978 GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY remains the most recent... -
War And The Iliad by Simone Weil
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171455Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm)... -
In Search of the Greeks (Second Edition) James Renshaw (Godolphin and Latymer School, London, UK) 9781472530264
RRP: £27.99£25.44In Search of the Greeks offers an engaging introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrated with some hundred and fifty photographs, drawings, maps and plans, many now for the first time in... -
Lord Elgin and the Marbles by William St. Clair 9780192880536
£66.50`The British say they have saved the Marbles. Well, thank you very much. Now give them back.' Melina Mercouri, actress and politician Ever since the sculptures from the Parthenon arrived in England at the beginning of the last century, they have... -
Socrates in Love by Armand D'Angour
RRP: £10.99£7.77An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought,... -
Leuctra 371 BC: The Destruction of Spartan Dominance by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: £15.99£11.61This detailed new study explores the battle of Leuctra and the tactics that ultimately led to the complete defeat of Sparta, and freed Greece from domination by Sparta in a single afternoon. The battle of Leuctra, fought in early July in 371 BC was... -
Sparta: Beyond the Mirage by Anton Powell
RRP: £25.00£23.78The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks... -
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (World of Art) by T. H. Carpenter
RRP: £16.99£11.94The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources - vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone - often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or... -
Greek Hoplite, 480-323 BC: Weapons, Armour, Tactics by Nick Sekunda
RRP: £14.99£12.55A study of the Greek Hoplite in the "Golden Age" of Ancient Greek civilization, from the victory at Marathon over Darius of Persia, through bitter inter-state warfare, to the rise of Philip of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great. It was during this... -
The Last Greek by Christian Cameron
RRP: £9.99£6.80Few writers are better at conjuring up a vision of Ancient Greece' THE TIMES* * * * * * *210BCE.The most powerful empires in the world brawl over the spoils of a declawed Greece.Philopoemen has a vision to end the chaos and anarchy that consumes his... -
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction by Eric H. Cline
RRP: £8.99£6.45Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has given rise to countless scholarly articles and...