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The Ancient Greeks: New Perspectives by Stephanie Lynn Budin 9781576078143
Booksplease Price: £72.35The ancient Greeks established the very blueprint of Western civilization-our societies, institutions, art, and culture-and thanks to remarkable new findings, we know more about them than ever, and... -
The Treatment of the War Dead in Archaic Athens: An Ancestral Custom by Dr Cezary Kucewicz 9781350191631
Booksplease Price: £33.84Exploring the representations of the war dead in early Greek mythology, particularly the Homeric poems and the Epic Cycle, alongside iconographic images on black-figure pottery and the evidence of... -
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,... -
Roman Antiquities: v. 6 by Dionysius of Halicarnassus 9780674994164
Booksplease Price: £25.31Roman history for a Greek audience.Dionysius of Halicarnassus was born before 53 BC and went to Italy before 29 BC. He taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting ... -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
Booksplease Price: £25.31Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the... -
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 Peloponnesian War Professor J F Lazenby 9780415443951
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98The range and extent of the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century BC has led to it being described as a 'world war' in miniature. With the struggle between Athens and Sparta at its core, the... -
Modern Trends in Human Leukemia VIII: New Results in Clinical and Biological Research Including Pediatric Oncology by R. Neth 9783540509677
Booksplease Price: £90.86You see things, and sa)' why? But I dream 1hings that never were, and I say, 11'hy 110t? George Bernhard Shaw Far ahead of his time, June 1st, 1909, Alexander Maximov communicated in a lecture, given... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought by Stephen M. Salkever
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.78The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and... -
Ancient and Medieval Siege Weapons: A Fully Illustrated Guide To Siege Weapons And Tactics by Konstantin S. Nossov 9780762782642
Booksplease Price: £16.11In this richly illustrated guide, author Konstantin Nossov masterfully analyzes and recreates the weaponry, tactics, and stratagems of the ancient world. He offers first a comprehensive history of... -
Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists by Michael Gagarin 9780521431927
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £96.16This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors. There is a particular emphasis on the sophists, with the inclusion of all of their... -
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... -
Oedipus Tyrannus: A Norton Critical Edition Sophocles 9780393098747
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen background materials and essays. "Passages from Ancient Authors" includes selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague,... -
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... -
Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists by Michael Gagarin 9780521437684
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £38.17This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors. There is a particular emphasis on the sophists, with the inclusion of all of their... -
The Greek Search for Wisdom by Michael K. Kellogg 9781616145750
Booksplease Price: £21.33The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an... -
Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard M. W. Knox
Booksplease Price: £29.07Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, the twenty-five chapters of "Essays Ancient and Modern" cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the... -
Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices by Gary Alan Scott
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Traditional Plato scholarship, in the English-speaking world, has assumed that Platonic dialogues are merely collections of arguments. Inevitably, the question arises: if Plato wanted to present... -
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,... -
Realism and International Relations by Jack Donnelly 9780521597524
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.43Realism and International Relations provides students with a critical yet sympathetic survey of political realism in international theory. Using six paradigmatic theories - Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth... -
China And Its Embrace of Offensive Cyberespionage by Kristan Stoddart 9783111575100
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £57.30The West is under challenge from the rise of China as a global power. Cyberespionage has enhanced China's economy, military, and political influence, and it is now a peer rival to the American-led... -
Periclean Athens by P. J. Rhodes 9781350014954
Booksplease Price: £18.18In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles was the leading figure in the city's public life. At... -
Selections from the Attic Orators: Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus by R.C Jebb 9781904675075
Booksplease Price: £40.21This edition was designed by R.C. Jebb - one of the greatest classical scholars Britain has ever produced - as a companion to his two-volume monograph Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (1876)... -
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 9780141395098
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.55'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop... -
An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics Jonathan Kirshner 9780691239217
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the... -
Realism and International Relations by Jack Donnelly 9780521592291
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.43Realism and International Relations provides students with a critical yet sympathetic survey of political realism in international theory. Using six paradigmatic theories - Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth... -
Pushing the Boundaries of Historia by Mary English 9780367732691
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Pushing the Boundaries of Historia collects together 20 chapters, whose coverage extends from the prehistory of Greece through early Christianity in the Roman Empire to the reception of classical... -
Greek Historiography by Simon Hornblower 9780198150725
Booksplease Price: £57.69The ancient Greek achievement in the writing of history has set the standard but the nature of this achievement is looking increasingly problematic in the light of recent work on such topics as... -
South China Sea Disputes And The Us-china Contest, The: International Law And Geopolitics by James Chieh Hsiung
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50This book focuses on a region that, next to the Middle East, has become a dragnet of international conflicts in the world. The South China Sea (SCS) region, furthermore, is the subject over which a... -
The Histories: A Norton Critical Edition by Herodotus 9780393933970
Booksplease Price: £22.52Herodotus's history is the earliest continuous prose narrative in Western literature. His long narrative-longer than either of the Homeric epics-continues to hold us spellbound because of the... -
Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius by Robin Mitchell-Boyask 9780521873451
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £56.92The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor... -
Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris by Olivier Wieviorka 9780674047471
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, have assumed legendary status in the annals of World War II. But in overly romanticizing D-day, Olivier Wieviorka argues, we have lost... -
The Ancient Greeks in 100 Facts by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Ancient Greece was never just one nation: it was a disparate collection of independent city-states, often embroiled in war with each other, with separate governments, their own armies and distinct... -
Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens by Hans van Wees 9781784534325
Booksplease Price: £25.62Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's... -
The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors by Shane Butler
Booksplease Price: £29.66Timely lessons for the digital age about the relation between authors and the materials with which they write, how creativity works, and why literature matters. Ancient and medieval literary texts... -
The 'Old Oligarch' The Constitution of the Athenians Attributed to Xenophon by John L. Marr 9780856687815
Booksplease Price: £31.43'Old Oligarch' is a label often applied to the unknown author of the Athenian Constitution preserved with the works of Xenophon. Probably written in the mid 420s B.C., it is the earliest... -
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 9780393961881
Booksplease Price: £14.43The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England... -
Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple: Ancient Acharnai by Danielle L. Kellogg 9780199645794
Booksplease Price: £109.82In ancient Athenian democracy there were one hundred and thirty-nine official demes, or recognized population centres, which formed the foundation of the political system introduced by Kleisthenes in... -
Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation by Michael Grant
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.75It is today widely accepted that we do not get the whole truth from any historian. Greek and Roman Historians considers the work of ancient historians such as Herotudus, Tacitus and Thucydides in the... -
The Spartan Supremacy 412-371 BC by Mike Roberts
Booksplease Price: £18.75Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her warriors were...