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'Economy' in European History: Words, Contexts and Change over Time by Luigi Alonzi 9781350276765
Booksplease Price: £31.52Prompted by the ‘linguistic turn’ of the late 20th century, intellectual and conceptual historians continue to devote a great deal of attention to the study of concepts in history. This innovative... -
Acts in Its Ancient Literary Context: A Classicist Looks at the Acts of the Apostles by Loveday Alexander 9780567082190
Booksplease Price: £90.57Here, gathered for the first time, is a collection of Loveday Alexander's critically acclaimed essays on the "Acts of the Apostles". In this collection of essays, Alexander addresses the central... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato by Professor Gerald A. Press 9781350347908
Booksplease Price: £43.63This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned... -
Exemplary Spenser: Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene Jane Grogan 9781138376328
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" and examining... -
Greek and Macedonian Land Battles of the 4th Century B.C.: A History and Analysis of 187 Engagements by McFarland & Co 9780786469734
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19With its mixture of famous battles and storied commanders, warfare in 4th century B.C. Greece has long held a fascination for military enthusiasts and the general public alike. Histories,... -
'Economy' in European History: Words, Contexts and Change over Time by Luigi Alonzi 9781350273337
Booksplease Price: £96.35Prompted by the 'linguistic turn' of the late 20th century, intellectual and conceptual historians continue to devote a great deal of attention to the study of concepts in history. This innovative... -
The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens by Kate Gilhuly 9781107404977
Booksplease Price: £43.34In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests... -
Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays by Lindsay Judson 9780199276134
Booksplease Price: £100.94Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought... -
Medea by Euripides 9780393265453
Booksplease Price: £13.26This Norton Critical Edition includes: Sheila Murnaghan's new translation of the great Greek tragedy of betrayal, revenge, and murder, set in Corinth in the fifth-century B.C.E. A full... -
Hannibal Crosses The Alps: The Invasion Of Italy And The Punic Wars by John Prevas 9780306810701
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.49When he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100,000-man army of mercenaries, officers, and elephants, Hannibal was launching not just the main offensive of the Second Punic War... -
Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays by Lindsay Judson 9780199558124
Booksplease Price: £52.80Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought... -
Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare: Temples, Sanctuaries and Conflict in Antiquity by Sonya Nevin 9781350247130
Booksplease Price: £34.47The ancient Greeks attributed great importance to the sacred during war and campaigning, as demonstrated from their earliest texts. Among the first four lines of the Iliad, for example, is a... -
The Battle Rhetoric of Crusade and Holy War, c. 1099–c. 1222 by Connor Christopher Wilson 9781032365305
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and challenges the narrative of supposed brutality and amorality of warfare in this period--instead focusing on the... -
The Greek Attitude to Poetry and History by A. W. Gomme 9780520310445
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29SATHER CLASSICAL LECTURES, Volume Twenty-seven: The Greek Attitude to Poetry and History examines the interplay between poetry and history in ancient Greece, focusing on figures like Homer,... -
Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought by Daniel Unruh 9781836243465
Booksplease Price: £33.78Talking to Tyrants breaks new ground in the study of Classical Greek history and political thought, exploring the previously unexamined question of how citizens of Greek city-states approached... -
The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" by Thomas L. Pangle 9781501769238
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral... -
The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science by Dustin Sebell 9780812247800
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78The Socratic Turn addresses the question of whether we can acquire genuine knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong. Reputedly, Socrates was the first philosopher to make the attempt. But Socrates... -
The Historians of Greece and Rome by Stephen Usher 9780862921521
Booksplease Price: £31.86Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in considerable measure a product of the intelligence and literary skills of its historians. Writing at different times and from different vantage... -
Dogs in Antiquity: Anubis to Cerberus by Douglas J. Brewer 9780856687044
Booksplease Price: £33.78Unlike cats which have remained almost uniform in shape throughout their history, dogs have developed into a myriad of different breeds, ranging from the diminutative Chihuahua to the massive... -
The Greek Attitude to Poetry and History by A. W. Gomme 9780520360563
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89SATHER CLASSICAL LECTURES, Volume Twenty-seven: The Greek Attitude to Poetry and History examines the interplay between poetry and history in ancient Greece, focusing on figures like Homer,... -
Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative by Alex C. Purves 9780521190985
Booksplease Price: £95.79In 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... -
A Storm of Spears: Understanding the Greek Hoplite at War by Matthew, Christopher 9781399013468
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The backbone of classical Greek armies was the phalanx of heavily armoured spearmen, or hoplites. These were the soldiers that defied the might of Persia at Marathon, Thermopylae and Plataea and,... -
Enlightenment and Secularism: Essays on the Mobilization of Reason by Christopher Nadon 9780739177471
Booksplease Price: £103.41Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the... -
The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts by Plato 9780872205895
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of about five hundred of his peers, and... -
Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1 by Peter Adamson
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.05Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In... -
Aspects of Greek History 750-323BC: A Source-Based Approach by Terry Buckley
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.44Aspects of Greek History 750- 323 BC: A Source-Based Approach offers an indispensable introduction to the central period of Greek History for all students of classics, from pre-university to... -
The Essence of Socrates by Hunter Lewis 9781604191103
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Socrates is important to us for many reasons. First, he recognized the value of logic and showed us how to use it to discover truth. Second, he led an exemplary and courageous life which cannot fail... -
The Arts of Rule: Essays in Honor of Harvey C. Mansfield by Sharon R. Krause 9780739119723
Booksplease Price: £61.34Two generations of students inspired by Harvey Mansfield come together here to demonstrate how their diverse approaches illuminate the topic of the arts of rule and speak to the wide scope of... -
Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis by Robert Sing 9789004467217
Booksplease Price: £112.53We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and... -
Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God: Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding by Dustin A. Gish 9781498515467
Booksplease Price: £51.70Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have had a profound impact on the foundation and formation of the American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness, and depth of... -
Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and... -
The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights by Rachel Hall Sternberg 9781477322918
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.832022 PROSE Award Finalist in ClassicsAlthough the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane discourse date... -
Enlightenment and Secularism: Essays on the Mobilization of Reason by Christopher Nadon 9781498510950
Booksplease Price: £61.92Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the... -
The Romance between Greece and the East by Tim Whitmarsh
Booksplease Price: £116.40The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned... -
Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates Robert C. Bartlett 9780226394282
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon "truths." As Nietzsche observed in his Will to Power, the... -
The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" by Thomas L. Pangle 9781501769221
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £79.80The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral... -
Aristotle and The Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality: The Plurality of Rule by Dr Zoli Filotas 9781350160866
Booksplease Price: £102.21Connecting several strands of Aristotle's thought, Zoli Filotas sheds light on one of the axioms of Aristotle's ethics and political philosophy - that every community has a ruler - and demonstrates... -
Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition by Christina-Panagiota Manolea 9783111673097
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80Plato's famous and infamous criticism of Homer was the climax of a series of attacks by early thinkers on the first and greatest Greek poet Homer. It triggers an even longer series of responses... -
Sparta: Beyond the Mirage by Anton Powell
Booksplease Price: £34.04The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on... -
Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to Desire by Rachel Bird 9781350193147
Booksplease Price: £33.84This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their...