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Works by Florus
Booksplease Price: £25.31A very short introduction to Roman history.Florus, born apparently in Africa, lived in Spain and in Rome during Hadrian's time. He wrote, in succinct rhetorical style, a summary of Roman history... -
Laches by Rosamond Kent Sprague 9780872201354
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Rosamond Kent Sprague's translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. This edition includes notes by Sprague and an updated... -
Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars by Julius Caesar
Booksplease Price: £25.31Arrivals, inspections, victories.In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), but not written by him. The Alexandrian... -
Albert's Anthology by Kathleen M. Coleman
Booksplease Price: £17.41Albert's Anthology comprises 76 brief and informal reflections on a line or two of Greek or Latin poetry-and a few prose quotations and artistic objects-composed by colleagues and students of Albert... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VIII: Sophists, Part 1 by Andre Laks
Booksplease Price: £25.31A 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 ... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Western Greek Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
Booksplease Price: £25.31A 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 ... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume III: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
Booksplease Price: £25.31A 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 ... -
Epigrams: v. 1 by Martial
Booksplease Price: £25.31Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a... -
Roman History, Volume IV: Civil Wars, Books 1-2 by Appian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome's internal conflicts, from the Gracchi to the Empire.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC,... -
Roman History, Volume VI: Civil Wars, Book 5. Fragments by Appian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome's internal conflicts, from the Gracchi to the Empire.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC,... -
Roman History, Volume III by Appian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only... -
Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide by Keith Ansell-Pearson 9781108796484
Booksplease Price: £25.04Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution because it proposes solutions to the problems and questions he poses in his later books - for example, his... -
Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide by Keith Ansell-Pearson
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution because it proposes solutions to the problems and questions he poses in his later books - for example, his... -
Roman History, Volume II by Appian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only... -
Amphitryon: v. 1: WITH The Comedy of Asses AND The Pot of Gold AND The Two Bacchises AND The Captives by Titus Maccius Plautus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of... -
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics Ruth Wodak 9781032096483
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study and research. Language is indispensable to initiating, justifying,... -
Historia Augusta: Volume I by David Magie
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.34March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from... -
History of Rome, Volume X: Books 35-37 by Livy
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17.Livy's history, composed as... -
Lucian Opera Tomus IV (Books LXIX-LXXXVI) by M. D. Macleod 9780198145967
Booksplease Price: £48.42This volume completes the Oxford Classical Text of Lucian by adding eleven works of the Lucianic corpus proper, four other works wrongly attributed to Lucian in a few manuscripts, and those epigrams... -
Description of Greece: Bk. 1 & 2, v. 1: Attica & Corinth L093 by Pausanias
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt,... -
Description of Greece: v. 4: Bks.VIII, xxii-X by Pausanias
Booksplease Price: £25.31Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine,... -
Description of Greece: v. 3: Bks.VI-VIII, xxi by Pausanias
Booksplease Price: £25.31Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine,... -
Philippics 1-6 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the... -
The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments by Hesiod
Booksplease Price: £25.03Antiquity's original didactic poet.Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been... -
Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin 9781250256690
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the... -
Roman History, Volume V: Civil Wars, Books 3-4 by Appian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome's internal conflicts, from the Gracchi to the Empire.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC,... -
Roman History, Volume I by Appian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only... -
Jews and Sciences in German Contexts: Case Studies from the 19th and 20th Centuries by Ulrich Charpa 9783161491214
Booksplease Price: £85.56In diesem Sammelband wird die Beziehung zwischen der kulturellen, religioesen und sozialen Situation deutschsprachiger Juden zu deren wissenschaftlicher Tatigkeit untersucht. Die Autoren diskutieren... -
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.1 by Diogenes Laertius
Booksplease Price: £25.03Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean... -
Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness by Harold Schechter 9781609388539
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her... -
Daphnis and Chloe: AND Anthia and Habrocomes - Xenophon of Ephesus by Longus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Two racy Greek romances.In Longus' ravishing Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century AD), one of the great works of world literature, an innocent boy and girl gradually discover their... -
Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society by Clarence Darrow 9780821416327
Booksplease Price: £49.68Clarence Darrow, son of a village undertaker and coffinmaker, rose to become one of America's greatest attorneys-and surely its most famous. The Ohio native gained renown for his central role in... -
Library of History: v. 2 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical... -
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal (Media tie-in) Dick Lehr 9781610395533
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp A New York Times Bestseller A Boston Globe Bestseller An ABA Indie Bestseller James Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US... -
Reconsidering Ian McHarg Ignacio Bunster-Ossa 9781611901238
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning. His seminal work, Design by Nature, blazed the trail for sustainable urban development. The road was paved with good intentions. But... -
Judaism Viewed from Within and from Without: Anthropological Studies by Harvey E. Goldberg 9780887063565
Booksplease Price: £27.36Judaism Viewed from Within and from Without presents three themes. The first applies anthropological analyses to classic textual material in Judaism, the second presents studies of different... -
Library of History: v. 8 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical... -
Library of History: v. 10 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical... -
The Attic Nights: v. 2: Bks.VI-XIII by Aulus Gellius 9780674992207
Booksplease Price: £25.31Refined midnight oil.Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123-170) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, "Attic Nights," so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work... -
Library of History: v. 5 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical...