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Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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... -
Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy by N.J. Sewell-Rutter 9780199227334
RRP: £140.00£109.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
RRP: £16.99£14.61Alexander the Great is remembered as a brilliant conqueror, but his father's achievements as a leader were greater still Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and... -
The Histories: No. 1 by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was... -
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon
RRP: £19.99£17.37A 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... -
King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great by Matt Waters (Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) 9780190927172 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.49£14.54The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest... -
King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great by Matt Waters
RRP: £26.49£22.39The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest... -
Greece in the Ancient World by Jeremy McInerney
RRP: £35.00£33.33Spanning the Minoan and Mycenaean origins of Greece to its eventual conquest by Rome, this new single-author survey combines an authoritative and engaging retelling of the history of ancient Greece with an assessment of the relevance of the Greeks today... -
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks Simone Weil 9781032533995
RRP: £16.99£15.22Simone Weil (1909-1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist... -
The Legacy of Alexander: Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda under the Successors by A. B. Bosworth 9780198153061
£74.17This major study by a leading expert is dedicated to the thirty years after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. It deals with the emergence of the Successor monarchies and examines the factors which brought success and failure. Some of the... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Western Greek Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: £24.95£23.39A 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... -
Ashes, Images, and Memories: The Presence of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens by Nathan T. Arrington 9780199369072
RRP: £100.00£70.36Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties in fifth-century Athens. In a period... -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £16.99£14.13Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the... -
Greece and Rome at War by Peter Connolly 9781848329416
RRP: £19.99£18.62In this sumptuous guide to twelve centuries of military development, Peter Connolly combines a detailed account of the arms and armies of Greece and Rome with his superb full-colour artwork. Making use of fresh archaeological evidence and new material on... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower 9780198706779 [USED COPY]
RRP: £45.99£5.89What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called? For over... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower
RRP: £45.99£40.81What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called? For over... -
Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome Caroline Vout 9780714122786
RRP: £25.00£17.38The Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Drinking cups, oil-lamps and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction and sexual intercourse which make the modern viewer blush; models of penises were worn around the neck or hung from doorways. In... -
Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There by Tiffany Jenkins
RRP: £16.99£12.59The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many... -
The Bull of Minos: The Great Discoveries of Ancient Greece by Leonard Cottrell
RRP: £16.99£10.47The cities of Troy and Knossos are the stuff of legend. One, the city of Homer's "Iliad", of Paris, Hector and Helen; the other home to a king who built a labyrinth in which to hide his monstrous son. This is the story of two of the most heroic, and... -
Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC by Robin Osborne
RRP: £43.99£38.84Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic... -
Warriors of the Ancient Greek World by Kevin L Giles
RRP: £25.00£17.62This in-depth visual guide, Warriors of the Ancient Greek World, boasts over 140 lavishly detailed photographed and illustrated recreations of the warrior panoplies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. It covers the heavy infantry and cavalry of... -
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge 9780192803887 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£1.95This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks... -
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £18.99£13.61This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks... -
Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet by Peter Thonemann 9780198868248
RRP: £105.00£104.64Lucian's Alexander Or The False Prophet is a satiric biography of the religious entrepreneur and career fraudster Alexander of Abonouteichos. It recounts how, during the reign of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), Alexander succeeded in setting up a fraudulent... -
The Quest For Hermes Trismegistus: From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World by Gary Lachman 9780863157981
RRP: £20.00£14.29From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis, to our own times, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influence of Hermes Trismegistus -- the 'thrice-great one', as he was often called -- on the western mind. For... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: £24.95£23.39A 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 Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: £8.99£6.45'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them.' The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life... -
Looking at Agamemnon by David Stuttard
£30.33Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus' greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding... -
Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Two sophists on the history of sophistry.Flavius Philostratus, known as "the Elder" or "the Athenian," was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who... -
The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter by Melissa Lane
£18.94In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of... -
Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Sandra Boehringer
RRP: £36.99£32.53This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary,... -
The Dissociative Mind Lawrence M. Kowerski 9780881634952
RRP: £42.99£37.59Drawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of the dissociative mind. Dissociation, for her, suffuses everyday life; it is a... -
The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East by Robert Drews
RRP: £35.00£27.74When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence--historical, linguistic, and archaeological--to tackle these... -
The Bronze Lie by Myke Cole
RRP: £15.99£11.61Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy. The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their toughness, stoicism and martial prowess - but was this... -
Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apology by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39Socrates without Plato.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC), a member of a wealthy but politically quietist Athenian family and an admirer of Socrates, left Athens in 401 BC to serve as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger of Persia, then joined the... -
Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture: An Introduction by Mary Emerson
RRP: £19.99£17.73Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way. Intended for college-level students and the interested general reader, this book... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533... -
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. Engels
RRP: £23.00£18.10'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... -
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great by Rachel Kousser 9780062869685
RRP: £35.00£20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062869685Author Rachel KousserFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g -
Histories: Bk. VIII-IX by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the...