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The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence by Ilaria Marchesi 9780521882279
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99In this book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites an alternative reading of Pliny's collection of private epistles: the letters are examined as the product of an... -
Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire by Gordon Williams 9780520336865
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.17Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire offers a nuanced exploration of the transformation and challenges faced by Roman literary culture during the so-called "Silver Age" of Roman... -
On the Fall of the Roman Republic: Lessons for the American People by Thomas E. Strunk 9781839988394
Booksplease Price: £20.89Violence exploding in public spaces, corruption by political figures and economic elites, the will of the people thwarted in both elections and votes in the senate, military misadventures abroad, and... -
Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine by Dean Hammer 9780521124089
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05Roman Political Thought is the first comprehensive treatment of the political thought of the Romans. Dean Hammer argues that the Romans were engaged in a wide-ranging and penetrating reflection on... -
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Classical Literary Criticism by D. A. Russell 9780199549818 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.44This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and... -
Letters: v. 1: Bks.I-VII by Pliny the Younger
Booksplease Price: £25.18Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and... -
Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography by Eric Adler
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centered on the... -
This Jesus by Markus Bockmuehl 9780567082961
Booksplease Price: £61.62This concise but very thought-provoking work on the historical Jesus by Markus Bockmuehl posits that the historical man of Jesus cannot be separated from the Christ of faith. Taking a traditional... -
Volume 3: Kierkegaard and the Roman World by Jon Stewart
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89While Kierkegaard's use of the Greek authors, particularly Plato and Aristotle, has attracted considerable attention over the years, his use of the Roman authors has, by contrast, remained sadly... -
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore by Elaine Fantham 9780199263158
Booksplease Price: £86.41The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus: The Invention of Literary History by Christopher S. van den Berg
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
Booksplease Price: £25.18Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home... -
Classical Literary Criticism by D. A. Russell 9780199549818
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and... -
Biblical Scholarship in Louvain in the 'Golden' Sixteenth Century by Antonio Gerace 9783525593783
RRP: £104.99Booksplease Price: £85.95Antonio Gerace dealt with the development of biblical scholarship in Louvain by analysing with seven authors who worked in the first part of the Sixteenth century and who are strictly linked to the... -
Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine by Dean Hammer 9780521195249
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.72Roman Political Thought is the first comprehensive treatment of the political thought of the Romans. Dean Hammer argues that the Romans were engaged in a wide-ranging and penetrating reflection on... -
Beethoven and Greco-Roman Antiquity Jos van der Zanden 9781032047102
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Ludwig van Beethoven had a life beyond music. He considered it his duty to spend leisure-time improving his Bildung (sophistication). To this end he familiarised himself with tangible manifestations... -
Form and Function in Roman Oratory by D. H. Berry 9780521768955
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09In this book Roman oratory is explored from the perspective of form and function. Leading scholars in the field of Latin prose consider not only the speeches of Cicero, Pliny, Apuleius and the later... -
Latinity and Literary Society at Rome by W. Martin Bloomer 9780812233902
Booksplease Price: £60.74For centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, the ability to write and speak pure Latin was the mark of the true scholar. But although such skill was esteemed in medieval times, the language of... -
From Augustus to Nero: An Intermediate Latin Reader by Garrett G. Fagan 9780521821209
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £87.55This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his... -
Seal of Rome by Eden Maddox 9781648985614
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.35Every subject serves Rome. Only a few can save it. An aristocrat. A slave. A pair of disgraced soldiers. And a legendary general. Five strangers. One secret war. When an elite... -
Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance by Moses Hadas
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36"Upon a rock sat a maiden of such inexpressible beauty as to be supposed divine. . . . Her head inclined forward without moving, for she was looking fixedly at a young man who lay at her feet. The... -
The Cambridge Companion to Catullus by I. M. Le M. Du Quesnay
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.43Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this... -
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore by Elaine Fantham 9780199207732
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £60.68The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a... -
Germania: The Ancient Germans in Greek and Roman Sources: Geography, Society, Warfare, Religion, and Customs by Raoul McLaughlin 9781036132811
Booksplease Price: £25.60The ancient Germans occupied lands extending from the river Rhine east to the Vistula and from the Danube north to Scandinavia. Their homelands formed the northern frontiers of the Roman Empire, but... -
The Death of Christ: The Bible and Popular Culture vs Archaeological and Historical Evidence Steven Rutledge 9781399088770
Booksplease Price: £22.69What was the world like, and what was going on in it, around the time of Jesus' death? This study examines this very question, and also seeks to place Jesus in his larger historical context, as a... -
Religion in the Roman Empire James B. Rives (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) 9781405106566
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £31.16This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western... -
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome by Chris Scarre
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.80This is a highly readable history and a unique work of reference. Focusing on the succession of the rulers of imperial Rome, it uses timelines with at-a-glance visual guides to each reign and its... -
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère 9781408715154
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who... -
Comics and Archaeology by Zena Kamash 9783030989217
Booksplease Price: £38.10This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in... -
Comics and Archaeology by Leen Van Broeck
Booksplease Price: £38.10This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in... -
London: the Autobiography Jon E. Lewis 9781845299422
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to the 21st century, Londoners and visitors to the... -
In Praise of Flattery by Willis Goth Regier 9780803239692
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Where would we be without flattery? Hobbes deemed it an honorable duty and Meredith called it the "finest of the arts." Alexander the Great applied it as imperial policy; Caesar and Cleopatra were... -
The Roman Empress Ulpia Severina: Ruler and Goddess by Margherita Cassia 9783031286506
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £112.12Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called "military anarchy" (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the "Illyrian" emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of... -
Ireland and the Classical World by Philip Freeman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68On the boundary of what the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the habitable world, Ireland was a land of myth and mystery in classical times. Classical authors frequently portrayed its people as... -
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51DISCOVER 2,000 YEARS OF SCOTTISH HISTORY TOLD BY THOSE WHO LIVED IT - FROM THE ROMAN INVASION TO THE SNP PARLIAMENTARY VICTORY IN 2007.Featuring writing from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver... -
The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor Justin Stover 9781474492874
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £112.80A radical rewriting of the history of fourth-century Latin literature Demonstrates for the first time both the contemporary and lasting influence of Victor's historiography Discusses a wide range... -
Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance by Debora Kuller Shuger 9780691603285
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms... -
Inventing the Novel: Bakhtin and Petronius Face to Face by R. Bracht Branham 9780198841265
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of... -
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Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen by Rosemary Goring 9780241969168 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.69DISCOVER 2,000 YEARS OF SCOTTISH HISTORY TOLD BY THOSE WHO LIVED IT - FROM THE ROMAN INVASION TO THE SNP PARLIAMENTARY VICTORY IN 2007.Featuring writing from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver... -
Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain by Richard Hingley
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £22.46An authoritative new history of the Roman conquest of Britain Why did Julius Caesar come to Britain? His own account suggests that he invaded to quell a resistance of Gallic sympathizers in the...