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Figuring Death in Classical Athens: Visual and Literary Explorations Emily Clifford 9780198947905
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £85.25Figuring Death in Classical Athens puts art and literature in conversation to explore how ancient Athenians grappled with the uncertainties of death. How did objects and texts generate thinking about... -
Political Judgement: Essays for John Dunn by Richard Bourke 9781108436540
Booksplease Price: £41.37From Plato to Max Weber, the attempt to understand political judgement took the form of a struggle to define the relationship between politics and morals. This book by leading international scholars... -
Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Moliere, Beckett by Angelica Nuzzo 9781438472041
Booksplease Price: £28.53An unprecedented reading of Hegel's Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts.Winner of the 2020 Hegelpd-Prize presented by the University of Padova Research Group In this... -
AEthelflaed: A Ladybird Expert Book: England's Forgotten Founder by Tom Holland
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50DISCOVER THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMAN THAT ENGLISH HISTORY FORGOTPart of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.- Who was AEthelflaed?- What role did she play in the founding of England?- How has her... -
International Political Thought: An Historical Introduction Edward Keene (Georgia Institute of Technology) 9780745623054
Booksplease Price: £19.71This volume offers an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the history of international political thought. Taking as its starting-point the various concepts people have used to think about... -
The Ancient Lives of Virgil: Literary and Historical Studies by Philip Hardie 9781910589618
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.74The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for... -
Similes in the Bible (A Compendium) by John E. Ziolkowski 9781800796737
RRP: £74.50Booksplease Price: £66.46This book lists all the similes in the Bible in three different versions (Greek, Latin and English), noting especially the variation in the use of introductory words (protheses). There are over 1000... -
International Political Thought: An Historical Introduction by Edward Keene
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05This volume offers an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the history of international political thought. Taking as its starting-point the various concepts people have used to think about... -
The Athenian Constitution Written in the School of Aristotle Peter J. Rhodes 9781786948373
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £39.91This book is an edition of the Athenian Constitution, the only one to survive of 158 Constitutions written in the school of Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., of which a text on papyrus was found... -
Political Theory: An Introduction by Andrew Heywood 9781350328563
Booksplease Price: £42.67While Western modern political thought has been a story of inclusion, it has also been one of continued exclusion and new forms of political oppression and silencing. This is why political theory is... -
An Anthology of Greek Prose by D. A. Russell 9780198721222
Booksplease Price: £82.82BL With Greek texts and English commentary This anthology fills a gap which has been widely felt. It gives students - at sixth-form, undergraduate, or junior graduate level - the opportunity of... -
Partisan Virtue: The Politics of Inclusion in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Political Thought Geertje J. Bol 9780198989349
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £80.49Historians of political thought interested in partisanship have long privileged the perspective of male canonical thinkers. Scholars have turned to Thucydides and Plato for insights on stasis,... -
Cyropaedia: Bks. 1-4 by Xenophon
Booksplease Price: £25.31A royal education.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian... -
Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture by Martin Ostwald 9780812241495
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82Spanning forty years, this collection of essays represents the work of a renowned teacher and scholar of the ancient Greek world. Martin Ostwald's contribution is both philological and historical:... -
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and... -
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination by Jan Assmann
Booksplease Price: £83.98Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human... -
The Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt by Harry Berger 9780823245178
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls "structural misanthropology." Beginning with a... -
Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War Through the Classics by Victor Caston
Booksplease Price: £93.42Many famous texts from classical antiquity-by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer-present... -
Euripides' Hippolytus Volume 64: A Commentary for Students by Hanna M. Roisman 9780806193656
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Euripides' Hippolytus is a fascinating play about passion, innocence, rejection, betrayal, and the tragic breakdown of a family. This commentary, designed for intermediate and advanced students of... -
Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC by Paul Rahe 9781641774130
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.05When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up their navy, focused on the conflict at hand, and refrained from... -
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England by Tom Holland
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackThe formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival... -
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times by Christopher Pelling
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.47Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and... -
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over a vast empire... -
Christological Hellenism: A Melancholy Proposal by Lewis Ayres 9781626005181
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Ayres examines the relationship between early Christian thought and Hellenic philosophical traditions by considering the extent to which fundamental Christian beliefs were formulated in a Hellenic... -
On Oligarchy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics by David E. Tabachnick 9781442609860
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Economic power is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few, even as democratic movements worldwide allow for political power to be dispersed among the many. With their access to... -
Hindsight in Greek and Roman History by Anton Powell 9781905125586
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.38One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 100 by Charles Segal 9780674006560
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.43This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students, and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays... -
Dr. Seuss and the Art of War: Secret Military Lessons Montgomery McFate 9781538193617
Booksplease Price: £90.87If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But what about the books of the underappreciated military... -
Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind Michael Scott 9780300256598
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54A portrait of the Athenian politician and general Themistocles, tracing his political development, his victory at the Battle of Salamis, and his exile in Persia Themistocles (524-459 BC) came of age... -
Myth, Philosophy, and Literature: Exploring Thought, Story, and Culture Olivier Serrat 9789819528967
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.54This book explores significant literary and critical thinking achievements that have shaped our world. This slim yet comprehensive guide is divided into three parts: Dawn of the Western Tradition,... -
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes by Timothy Raylor 9780198829690
Booksplease Price: £115.18Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy (political science). The claim did not go uncontested and in recent years the relationship of philosophical reasoning to... -
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath... -
Present Shock in Late Fifth-century Greece by Francis M. Dunn 9780472116164
Booksplease Price: £79.40Francis M. Dunn's Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece examines the widespread social and cultural disorientation experienced by Athenians in a period that witnessed the revolution of 411 B.C.E... -
Pliny's Defense of Empire by Thomas R. Laehn
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, the world's first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for... -
A Fundamental Greek Course by James I. A. Eezzuduemhoi 9780761848615
Booksplease Price: £81.03A Fundamental Greek Course is designed primarily for those who aim at laying a sound foundation for the study of Classical Greek, and for use by everyone who is fascinated with ancient Greek culture... -
International Relations and Political Philosophy by Martin Wight 9780198848219
Booksplease Price: £117.42This book collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations. He conducted research on many topics, including British colonial... -
Herodotus: Histories Book V by Peter J. Rhodes 9781789620153
Booksplease Price: £33.78Herodotus is a colossus of ancient history, from whose major work the Histories, much of our knowledge of the Persian Wars and other events of the period derives. Writing in the third quarter of the... -
The Sources of Great Power Competition: Rising Powers, Grand Strategy, and System Dynamics by J. Patrick Rhamey Jr. (Virginia Military Institute, USA) 9781032500003
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This volume explores the determinants of state power, the strategic options of rising powers, the drivers of conflict in dynamic international systems, and American grand strategy past and present to... -
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Since Kate Beaton appeared on the comics scene in 2007 her cartoons have become fan favourites and gathered an enormous following, appearing in the New Yorker, Harper and the LA Times, to name but a... -
The Vampyre by Tom Holland 9780349120461
Booksplease Price: £21.69'Ingenious and entertaining' Sunday Times' Byron himself would have been pleased by such an eerie, erudite addition to his myth' Time OutInfamous poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary...