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Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome by James I. Porter
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.17The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading... -
Forgers and Critics, New Edition: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship by Anthony Grafton 9780691191836
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05The close links between forgery and criticism throughout historyIn Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling... -
Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together by Josiah Ober 9780691133942
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together... -
Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy by Rush Rehm 9780691656281
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.32The link between weddings and death-as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding-plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as... -
Prolegomena to Homer, 1795 by Friedrich August Wolf
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of writing and of the nature of Alexandrian scholarship... -
Politics and the Imagination by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.52In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of... -
Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play... -
The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso, Vol. III. Part 2: Commentary by Dante 9780691019130
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert E. Lerner 9780691172828
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the... -
Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy by S. Sara Monoson 9780691043661
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.51In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken... -
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober 9780691173146
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely... -
Outside Ethics by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.73Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691195964
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.15Who were the ancient Phoenicians-and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of... -
Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus by James Tatum 9780691606668
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43"If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, "...you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon's Education of Cyrus,... -
Nothing to Do with Dionysos?: Athenian Drama in Its Social Context by John J. Winkler 9780691015255
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £52.17These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor... -
The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece by Robin Osborne 9780691177670
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in... -
The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States by Alain Bresson 9780691183411
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.43A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson... -
Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography Giovanni Parmeggiani 9781108926423
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.01Ephorus of Cyme, who lived in the fourth century BC, is one of the most important historians of antiquity whose work has not survived and, according to Polybius, was the first to have written a... -
Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism by John Richard Ellis 9780691610344
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This book is a study in depth of the rise to power of Macedonia under the astute leadership of Philip II, whose diplomatic adroitness and military skill paved the way for the career of his son and... -
History of Rhetoric, Volume I: The Art of Persuasion in Greece by George A. Kennedy
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author... -
Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory by J. Peter Euben
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93In Corrupting Youth, Peter Euben explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern... -
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare,... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings... -
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert E. Lerner 9780691183022
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst... -
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780691203171
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £62.56The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly... -
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures by Leonard Barkan 9780691141831
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets--and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a... -
The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes by Nicole Loraux
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil... -
Trophies of Victory: Public Building in Periklean Athens by T. Leslie Shear 9780691170572
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.28The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture. By long tradition, the victors commemorated their... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in... -
Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays by James Allan Stewart Evans 9780691605852
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit for saving Greece from Persia, but also identified the city's... -
Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens by Ryan K. Balot 9780691048550
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.01In this original and rewarding combination of intellectual and political history, Ryan Balot offers a thorough historical and sociological interpretation of classical Athens centered on the notion of... -
Is History Fiction? by Ann Curthoys 9781742231716
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.01An original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is - and might be - written. It traces history's divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides,... -
Plutarch: Themistocles by John L. Marr 9780856686771
Booksplease Price: £31.43The commentary in this edition of one of Plutarchs Lives concentrates on the historical aspects of the work and includes much detailed comparison of Plutarch's narrative with those of other... -
Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.03Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men,... -
Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy by S. Sara Monoson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken... -
George Seferis: Collected Poems - Revised Edition by George Seferis 9780691014913
Booksplease Price: £35.01In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott 9780691169842
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings... -
The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens by Philip Brook Manville 9780691600925
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In this unusual synthesis of political and socio-economic history, Philip Manville demonstrates that citizenship for the Athenians was not merely a legal construct but rather a complex concept that... -
The Horsemen of Athens by Glenn Richard Bugh 9780691605746
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Glenn Bugh provides a comprehensive discussion of a subject that has not been treated in full since the last century: the history of the Athenian cavalry. Integrated into a narrative history of the... -
The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences by Eric Alfred Havelock 9780691655680
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87This volume brings together studies by a distinguished classical scholar that address specific problems associated with the development of literacy in ancient Greece. The articles were written over a...