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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: €20.22€16.24A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents... -
Greek Homosexuality: with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson by Sir Kenneth J. Dover
RRP: €41.64€36.82Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient... -
Athens: City of Wisdom Bruce Clark 9781788548144
RRP: €29.75€27.12A 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... -
Athens: A History by Bruce Clark 9781788548144 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€7.77A 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... -
Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: Essay on the Constitutive Imagination by Paul Veyne 9780226854342
RRP: €27.37€26.33"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is built up and changes over the centuries. . . . The... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
RRP: €41.64€34.25This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the... -
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths by Robin Waterfield
RRP: €15.46€10.19Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble man was put to death in... -
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: €29.74€26.26The 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... -
Greek and Roman Political Ideas: A Pelican Introduction by Melissa Lane
RRP: €13.08€9.25Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans?How should we exercise power?Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where... -
The Greeks: Lost Civilizations by Philip Matyszak 9781780239002
RRP: €21.42€15.42This is ancient Greece - but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East, and that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas. This book tells the story of the Greeks outside... -
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom by James Romm
RRP: €34.51€21.79From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes-and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit... -
The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture by Joint Association of Classical Teachers 9780521698535
RRP: €34.50€31.20Classical Athens boasted some of the most original and influential achievements in literature, art, philosophy, medicine and politics. This best-selling book, now issued in a second edition, provides a comprehensive and highly illustrated introduction to... -
Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
RRP: €28.56€25.20This best-selling translation of Hesiod's the Theogony, the Works and Days, and the Shield has been updated into the most indispensable edition yet for students of Greek mythology and literature.Next to the works of Homer, Hesiod's poems are foundational... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2021-2023 Simon Allcock (Head of Classics & Humanities, Wellington College, UK) 9781350060425
RRP: €35.69€32.43PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect. An errata slip has been included. ----- ... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume Iv: Sophists by Glenn W. Most
RRP: €29.69€27.83A 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 Perdiccas Years, 323 320 BC by Hughes, Tristan 9781526775115
RRP: €29.75€22.16At around 4.00pm 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Surrounding the king's deathbed were his highest subordinates: young,... -
The Life of Alexander the Great Plutarch 9780812971330
RRP: €11.89€8.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971330Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Wars of Alexander's Successors 323 - 281 BC: Volume 2: Battles and Tactics by Bob Bennett 9781526760791
RRP: €15.46€10.82When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied to the strongest. There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these vast territories. Most of these... -
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds
RRP: €49.97€46.98One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to... -
Herodotus and the Question Why by Christopher Pelling
RRP: €58.31€47.10In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive... -
The Archaeology of Athens by John M. Camp 9780300101515
RRP: €41.65€40.83The definitive work on the monuments of ancient Athens and Attica In this book, a leading authority on the archaeology of ancient Greece presents a survey of the monuments-first chronologically and then site by site. John M. Camp begins with a... -
The Ptolemies, Rise of a Dynasty: Ptolemaic Egypt 330 246 BC by Grainger, John D 9781399090223
RRP: €29.75€21.44In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great's death. Egypt had been independent for most of the fourth century BC, but was... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume V: Western Greek Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: €29.69€27.83A 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... -
Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State by Mogens Herman Hansen 9780199208500
RRP: €51.16€36.53From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban centre and its hinterland. A region settled with... -
Athenian Trireme vs Persian Trireme: The Graeco-Persian Wars 499-449 BC by Nic Fields
RRP: €17.84€13.03A fascinating and detailed exploration of one of the most famous warships of the Ancient world - the trireme - and its tactical employment by the opposing sides in the 5th-century BC Graeco-Persian Wars. You may be familiar with the Athenian trireme -... -
Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts
€18.41Cunning, seductive, monstrous, virtuous - whether in divine or mortal form, women shape the foundations of ancient Greek mythology, but have long been eclipsed by their male counterparts. Now, it's time for their stories to be told.Heroines of Olympus... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume III: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: €29.69€27.83A 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 World of Odysseus by Professor M I Finley
RRP: €20.17€11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170175Author M. I. FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy
RRP: €28.50€26.01What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The... -
A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between Ute Lotz-Heumann (University of Arizona, USA) 9780815373537
RRP: €47.59€41.72A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English, it also offers students a concise explanation of their context and meaning.By covering different areas of... -
Philosophy of Epicurus by ,George,K. Strodach
RRP: €11.89€7.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486833033Author George K StrodachFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth
RRP: €15.46€13.64The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: €20.22€14.88The 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... -
The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: €32.73€27.24An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a... -
The Little Book of Kent by Alex Tulloch 9780752458342
RRP: €17.84€13.74The Little Book of Kent is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric... -
Greek Unseen Translation Dr John Taylor 9781350336179
RRP: €22.60€20.11This is a useful collection of 130 passages from Greek authors, ideal for students from pre-GCSE to A Level. Part 1 contains ten passages for the new Intermediate Certificate and twenty at GCSE level. Part 2 contains thirty lightly adapted post-GCSE... -
Olympia: A Cultural History by Professor Judith M. Barringer
RRP: €41.65€33.01A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient... -
History of Ancient Egypt by John Romer
RRP: €47.59€30.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250030115Author John RomerFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece Robin Waterfield (Writer and translator) 9780199656462
RRP: €27.36€19.85The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and... -
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt 9780375758959
RRP: €26.18€15.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758959Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...