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The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents by Erik Jensen
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.45Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audience. This edition, The Greco-Persian... -
Greek History: The Basics by Robin Osborne 9780415644655
Booksplease Price: $142.40Greek 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... -
!["Protagoras" and "Meno" by Plato](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/737313/737025/9780801488658__52221.1687560276.jpg?c=1 ""Protagoras" and "Meno" by Plato")
"Protagoras" and "Meno" by Plato
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23This volume contains new translations of two dialogues of Plato, the Protagoras and the Meno, together with explanatory notes and substantial interpretive essays. Robert C. Bartlett's translations... -
Ancient Medicine Vivian Nutton (University College London, UK) 9781032282824
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $47.91The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made... -
Greek History: The Basics by Robin Osborne
Booksplease Price: $27.08Greek 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... -
The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, Cultural and Economic Impacts by Matthew Adam Cobb 9780367665708
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57The period from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Islam (c. late fourth century BCE to seventh century CE) saw a significant growth in economic, diplomatic and cultural exchange... -
Milton's Socratic Rationalism: The Conversations of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost by David Oliver Davies 9781498532624
Booksplease Price: $110.49The conversation of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, that most obvious of Milton's additions to the Biblical narrative, enacts the pair's inquiry into and discovery of the gift of their rational nature... -
Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary... -
Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece by Sara Forsdyke 9780691119755
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $85.97This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic... -
Milton's Socratic Rationalism: The Conversations of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost by David Oliver Davies 9781498532648
Booksplease Price: $48.27The conversation of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, that most obvious of Milton's additions to the Biblical narrative, enacts the pair's inquiry into and discovery of the gift of their rational nature... -
Callimachus and His Critics by Alan Cameron 9780691606125
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $85.58Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by... -
Spartan Society by Thomas J. Figueira 9780954384579
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $85.36This is the latest volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Figueira is here the editor of sixteen papers; among the authors are most... -
Kierkegaard's Writings, XII, Volume II: Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.22In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the... -
Greek Prose Usage by George Stephen Thompson 9781853995545
Booksplease Price: $38.55First published in 1955, this is a comprehensive, compact and concise guide to the syntax of Attic Greek as written by Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato and Demosthenes. It is suitable for anyone who... -
Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius by Shadi Bartsch 9780691606910
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.44Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view... -
The Composition of Plato's Apology by R. Hackforth 9781107438125
Booksplease Price: $35.60Originally published in 1933, this book examines the arguments surrounding the relation of Plato's Apology to the actual speech delivered by Socrates at his trial. Hackforth compares Plato's account... -
Between Thucydides and Polybius: The Golden Age of Greek Historiography by Giovanni Parmeggiani 9780674428348
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $23.30Historians like Ephorus, Theopompus, or Aristotle's great-nephew Callisthenes, to say nothing of Xenophon, counted among the most acclaimed in antiquity. But with the exception of Xenophon, their... -
Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.87Machiavelli'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,... -
The Horsemen of Athens by Glenn Richard Bugh 9780691605746
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.22Glenn 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... -
Ridden by Ulrike Thiel 9781908809087
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.05What does the horse feel when a rider is crooked in the saddle? What is it like to go faster or slower, to round curves and travel straight, with an unbalanced load to carry? What goes through the... -
Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates Alexander Nehamas 9780691001784
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.70The eminent philosopher and classical scholar Alexander Nehamas presents here a collection of his most important essays on Plato and Socrates. The papers are unified in theme by the idea that Plato's... -
Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I: The Presocratics by Gregory Vlastos
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $76.73Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that... -
Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives Robert Shor 9780202308562
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $73.07Although research and practice in hypnosis has seen unprecedented expansion, there has been a definite lack of inclusive and comprehensive surveys to aid the student and researcher. This collection... -
The Form of Greek Romance by B. P. Reardon 9780691604640
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.44In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance. Broadly defined as a love story that offers adventure and a romantic vision of... -
Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives by James W. VanStone
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $112.54This thorough revision of the first edition, updates and expands, with 25 percent new material, what was generally recognized as a major survey of contemporary scientific research in hypnosis. In... -
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century by Kenneth S. Sacks 9780691600345
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.31Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus... -
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXIX: Winter 2005 by David Sedley 9780199287444
Booksplease Price: $72.94Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 71 by Harvard University Department of Classics 9780674379176
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $45.43This volume offers an unusual diversity of articles by contributors from Europe, America, and the Far East. Among the articles are: "Politics and Early Attic Tragedy," by John H. Finley, Jr.;... -
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXIX: Winter 2005 by David Sedley 9780199287451
Booksplease Price: $71.83Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books... -
Greek and Roman Historians by Timothy Duff 9781853996016
Booksplease Price: $33.42What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans? This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It serves as an... -
The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece Carol Atack (University of Oxford, UK) 9781032240060
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity... -
How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691167701
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.69Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and... -
Machiavelli’s Art of Politics by Alejandro Barcenas 9789004298002
Booksplease Price: $78.75In Machiavelli’s Art of Politics Alejandro Bárcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolò Machiavelli’s political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas... -
John Ruskin's Political Economy by William Henderson
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics. Willie Henderson uses notions derived from literary... -
Socratic Testimonies by Luis E. Navia 9780761823339
Booksplease Price: $91.44Socratic Testimonies offers a well-structured introduction to the study of Socrates by way of exploring some of the main writings about him from Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato. In this second... -
Arms and the Self: War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing by 9780873389105
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52War, armed conflict, and military service have likely inspired more textual testimonies than any other human event. With contributing authors such as Lynn Z. Bloom, Margaretta Jolly, Robert... -
Historia Animalium: Bk. 7-10 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $25.74Inductive zoology.In History of Animals Aristotle analyzes "differences"-in parts, activities, modes of life, and character-across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes,... -
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia by Paul R. McKechnie 9780856683589
Booksplease Price: $40.54The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, substantial fragments of history by an anonymous 4th century writer, cover the years 410 BC and 396 BC a period which is at the heart of most students' study of Greek... -
Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative by Alex C. Purves 9781107647909
Booksplease Price: $58.45In this wide-ranging survey of ancient Greek narrative from archaic epic to classical prose, Alex Purves shows how stories unfold in space as well as in time. She traces a shift in authorial... -
Plato and the Stoics by A. G. Long 9781107040595
Booksplease Price: $128.26Plato was central both to the genesis of Stoic theory and to subsequent debates within the Stoa. These essays provide new and detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and the...