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The Library, Books 16-20: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors by Diodorus Siculus
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.69Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe The Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our most valuable sources from ancient times. His history, in forty volumes, was intended to range from... -
The Anger of Achilles: The Iliad by Homer
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.03War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved... -
Brill's Companion to Herodotus by Egbert J. Bakker 9789004169661
Booksplease Price: $106.95Herodotus' Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been... -
Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams by Callimachus
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.37The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped... -
Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston 9780520280182
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $51.16During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to... -
The War Nerd Iliad by John Dolan 9781627310505
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $33.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310505Author John DolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Aristophanes and His Theatre of the Absurd by Paul Cartledge 9781853991141
Booksplease Price: $42.08Aristophanes, the Athenian comic dramatist, remains popular despite historical changes in attitude and belief. Placing the plays in their total civic, religious and dramatic context, this account explores their significance for contemporary audiences,... -
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. Engels
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $40.57'The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again...Engels at last uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it... -
Menander in Antiquity: The Contexts of Reception by Sebastiana Nervegna 9781107004221
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $178.25The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end of antiquity employing a broad range of sources such as portraits, illustrations of his... -
Historicising Ancient Slavery by Kostas Vlassopoulos
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.39A new framework for studying slaves and slavery in ancient societies Offers a new theoretical framework for the study of ancient slavery Employs a global historical perspective Focuses on the agency of ancient slaves Explores the link between... -
The Ancient City - Imperium Press by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges 9780648690542
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $26.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648690542Author Numa Denis Fustel De CoulangesFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 449g -
Greek Art by John Boardman
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $19.59John 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 ... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.89Praise 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 World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture by Joint Association of Classical Teachers 9780521698535
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $57.48Classical 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... -
Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation: An Introduction to Iconology, Semiotics and Image Studies in Classical Art History by Katharina Lorenz
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $47.31When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic... -
The Art of Resilience: The Lessons of Aeneas by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.11Lucid, compelling, enlightening "Marcolongo is today's Montaigne."-Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name "Shows how languages gives us new ways of seeing and understanding the world."-The Guardian "Marcolongo uses the secrets of the Ancient... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson 9780198728023
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $49.62Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics,... -
Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch 9781849025799
Booksplease Price: $75.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849025799Author PlutarchFormat HardbackPage Count 1008Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 1574gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Wars of Alexander's Successors 323 - 281 BC: Volume 2: Battles and Tactics by Bob Bennett 9781526760791
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.03When 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... -
Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens: Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE) by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $51.81Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great-the Bibliotheke, or "Library," produced by Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca... -
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.16A major new history of battle in the ancient world, from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age... -
The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic by Francisco Pina Polo 9783110763706
RRP: $55.65Booksplease Price: $49.58The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship... -
To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World by Raimund J. Schulz 9780197668023
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $46.12A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense... -
Works: v. 7 by Demosthenes
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.37The 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... -
War And The Iliad by Simone Weil
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies 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)... -
The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $48.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541618299Author Roderick BeatonFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 162mm * 47mm -
A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE by Jonathan M. Hall 9781118301272
RRP: $88.10Booksplease Price: $78.41A History of the Archaic Greek World offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE. Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections, expanded geographical coverage, a guide to electronic... -
Greek Mythology for Beginners by Joe Lee 9781934389836
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389836Author Joe LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
The If Odyssey: A Philosophical Journey Through Greek Myth and Storytelling for 8 - 16-Year-Olds by Peter Worley
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $32.07The If Odyssey draws out the philosophy that lies behind each story in Homer's epic tale to introduce children not only to the exciting fables of Odysseus, but also to that other great Ancient Greek tradition, philosophy. Explore with Odysseus the value... -
Greek and Roman Medicine by Helen King 9781853995453
Booksplease Price: $50.21This introduction to ancient medical systems asks how the experience of illness and the role of medicine were understood in the Greek and Roman worlds. Although topics such as the development of anatomical knowledge are covered, the book focuses on the... -
Theseus and the Minotaur by Graeme Davis 9781472804051
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.48Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Greek Island Myths: Kos : Hippocrates and Asclepius by Jill Dudley 9780993489075
RRP: $8.38Booksplease Price: $7.54In this booklet Jill Dudley writes about Hippocrates who was born on Kos, whose father was a temple priest-physician serving Asclepius, god of healing. She describes Hippocrates' pioneering approach to medicine, and his break with the traditional belief... -
The Seleukid Empire of Antiochus III, 223-187 BC by John D Grainger 9781526774934
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.27The second volume in John Grainger's history of the Seleukid Empire is devoted to the reign of Antiochus III. Too often remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at Magnesia, Antiochus is here revealed as one of the most powerful and capable... -
Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece by Mireille M. Lee 9781107662537
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $73.65This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient... -
Works: v. 4 by Demosthenes
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.37The 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... -
The Neolithic Settlement by Elizabeth C. Banks 9780876613078
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $244.25This volume complements Lerna V: The Neolithic Pottery of Lerna, by K. D. Vitelli, and completes the primary publication of the results of the Neolithic remains retrieved during the excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at... -
Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life by Eve MacDonald
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.36If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors? Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A... -
Works: v. 5 by Demosthenes
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.37The 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... -
Athenian Hoplite vs Spartan Hoplite: Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.42The 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... -
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation by Margalit Fox
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.03The 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...