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The Downward Journey or the Tyrant: Zeus Catechized - Zeus Rants by Lucian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful... -
Moralia: v. 15: Fragments by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
The Verrine Orations: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31The young statesman's first major prosecution.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived ... -
Works: v. 13: Jewish Antiquities, Bk.XX by Flavius Josephus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and... -
The Orator's Education: v. 2, Bk. 3-5 by Quintilian
Booksplease Price: £25.31A central work in the history of rhetoric.Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria),... -
Rhetorica ad Herennium by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31Spurious composition.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the ... -
Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life by Morgan Housel 9781804090633
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When planning for the future we often ask, "What will the economy be doing this time next year?" Or, "What will be different ten years from now?" But forecasting is hard. The important events that... -
If I'd Known Then: Women in Their 20s and 30s Write Letters to Their Younger Selves by Ellyn Spragins 9780738213071
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Now in paperback, the popular second volume in the What I Know Now (TM) series offers wonderfully candid letters from women under forty, who give advice to the girls they once were. Readers will... -
Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo by Plato 9780674996878
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The fundamental tetralogy on Socrates' final days.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was... -
Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales by Jackie Elliott 9781107027480
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £119.88Ennius' Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely influential on Roman literature and culture. This book explores the genesis, in the ancient sources for Ennius' epic and in modern... -
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City Of Joy by Dominique Lapierre 9780099140917 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.99Living in the seeming hell of one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of Calcutta are the saints of today: saints such as Mother Teresa, saints such as Stephen Kovalski, an unkown Polish... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
In Catilinam: Bks. I-IV: Pro Murena: Pro Sulla: Pro Flacco by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31The statesman at the height of his powers.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived ... -
Natural History: v. 3: Bks.VIII-XI by Pliny the Elder
Booksplease Price: £25.31An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter ... -
Moralia: v. 9 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.03Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce, and the Formation of Identity by Bryan E. Burns 9780521119542
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93The impact of long-distance exchange on the developing cultures of Bronze Age Greece has been a subject of debate since Schliemann's discovery of the Shaft Graves at Mycenae. In Mycenaean Greece,... -
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882-Winter 1883/84): Volume 14 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780804728874
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95With this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's notebooks... -
Odes and Epodes by Horace
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Monumental verse.The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical... -
Autobiography and Selected Letters: v. 1 by Libanius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Pagans' advocate.A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causes-Libanius can... -
Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. by M. L. West
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Cyclic verse.Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They... -
The Roman Antiquities: v. 2 by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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 ... -
Images for Classicists by Kathleen M. Coleman
Booksplease Price: £17.41How did the Greeks translate tales into images? Why do artistic depictions of ancient myths sometimes "contradict" the textual versions that we think of as canonical? What caused the Romans to be... -
Heroicus. Gymnasticus. Discourses 1 and 2: Discourses 1 and 2 by Philostratus
Booksplease Price: £25.31How to cultivate Greek heroes and athletes.In the writings of Philostratus (ca. AD 170-ca. 250), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century AD reached its height. His Life of... -
Works: v. 6 by Philo
Booksplease Price: £25.31Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic ... -
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn 9781541724426
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Cult of the Dead Cow is the story of the oldest, most respected and most famous hacking group of all time. Its members invented the the concept of hacktivism, released both the top tool for... -
Understanding Macroeconomic Theory by Bradley T. Ewing 9780415701969
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94At each point in time, individuals make choices with respect to the acquisition, sale, and/or use of a variety of different goods. Such activity can be summarized by aggregate variables such as an... -
Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America by Gretchen Helmke 9780801883521
Booksplease Price: £33.84This volume analyzes the function of informal institutions in Latin America and how they support or weaken democratic governance. Drawing from a wide range of examples-including the Mexican dedazo,... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch 9780674994706
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar 9781107031012
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative... -
Proclus: Alcibiades I: A Translation and Commentary by Proclus 9789401727822
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.28This translation and commentary is based on the Critical Text and Indices of Proclus: Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato, Amsterdam 1954, by L. G. Westerink. Index II has been of great help... -
Prodicus the Sophist: Texts, Translations, and Commentary by Robert Mayhew 9780199607877
Booksplease Price: £117.42The past fifty years have witnessed the flourishing of scholarship in virtually every area of ancient Greek philosophy, but the sophists have for the most part been neglected. This is certainly true... -
School Administrator Succession Planning: Identifying High-Impact Practices, Programs, and Frameworks in P-12 Schools by Lou L. Sabina 9781648029301
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £67.30Across the United States and globally, school districts are regularly facing a shortage of both willing and highlyqualified candidates to assume positions as school leaders. A number of factors have... -
Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce, and the Formation of Identity by Bryan E. Burns
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £37.98The impact of long-distance exchange on the developing cultures of Bronze Age Greece has been a subject of debate since Schliemann's discovery of the Shaft Graves at Mycenae. In Mycenaean Greece,... -
Golden Ass: v. 2 by Apuleius
Booksplease Price: £25.03A beguiling tale of mistaken transformation.In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful... -
Moralia: v. 10 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative... -
The History of Alexander: v.2: Bks.V-X by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Adventurous history.Quintus Curtius was apparently a rhetorician who lived in the first century of the Roman empire and, early in the reign of Claudius (AD 41-54), wrote a history of Alexander the... -
Works: v. 10: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.XIV-XV by Flavius Josephus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and... -
Moralia: v. 6 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.03Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Moralia: v. 11 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.03Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming...