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The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Fragments by Polybius
Booksplease Price: $49.10Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many... -
Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories Regina M. Loehr 9781032423630
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $80.71This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius' conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history.How and why did ancient... -
Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius by Arthur M. Eckstein 9780520085206
Booksplease Price: $119.01Arthur Eckstein's fresh and stimulating interpretation challenges the way Polybius' Histories have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius evaluates people and events as much from a moral viewpoint... -
Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections by Frank W. Walbank 9780521034944
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $88.55This volume contains nineteen of the more important of Frank Walbank's essays on Polybius and is prefaced by a critical discussion of the main aspects of work done on that author. Several of these... -
Consolations: To Helvia, Marcia and Polybius (Easy to Read Layout) by Seneca 9791029914959
Booksplease Price: $21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791029914959Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint DP EditionsPublisher DP... -
The History of Polybius the Megalopolitan: Containing a General Account of the Transactions of the World, and Principally of the Roman People, During the First and Second Punick Wars, &C: Volume 2 by Polybius 9780371559260
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $34.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371559260Author PolybiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress Ltd -
The Shadow of Polybius: Intertextuality as a Research Tool in Greek Historiography by Guido Schepens 9789042916586
Booksplease Price: $151.28For students of ancient Greek historiography the "Histories" of Polybius, devoted to the important theme of Rome's rise to world power in the second century B.C., are a unique source of information... -
Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections by Frank W. Walbank 9780521812085
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $204.93This volume contains nineteen of the more important of Frank Walbank's essays on Polybius and is prefaced by a critical discussion of the main aspects of work done on that author. Several of these... -
The Greek World Under Roman Sway, from Polybius to Plutarch. by John Mahaffy 9781241451134
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $43.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241451134Author John MahaffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint British Library, Historical... -
Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction by Emma Nicholson 9780192866769
RRP: $238.88Booksplease Price: $220.62Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both... -
Scipio Africanus: The First Imperator Dexter Hoyos 9781836390992
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.97Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC) commanded his first army at the age of 25, led a daring invasion in Africa to personally defeat Hannibal and secured Rome's dominance over the Mediterranean. In ten... -
The Diary of Hannibal Barca: A Chronological Retrospect Centered on Polybius' Histories III by Hutan Ashrafian 9781999798222
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999798222Author Hutan AshrafianFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Institute of Civilisation... -
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer's People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers.For the 'serious... -
A Hellenistic Ethical Lexicon: Three Hundred and Seven Rules of Conduct of Expanding Empires Professor Doron Mendels 9780567718273
Booksplease Price: $176.61Building on his previous work on Hellenistic Interstate Political Ethics (T&T Clark, 2022) leading historian Doron Mendels presents three hundred interstate ethical rules of conduct which he has... -
The Essential Greek Historians by Stanley Burstein
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57"Burstein's The Essential Greek Historians is an excellent collection of texts representing the development of historiography in the ancient Greek world. Each text is presented in an engaging and... -
A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXX (Forty-Five Volumes); Polybius-Read by Charles Dudley Warner 9781605202242
Booksplease Price: $44.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605202242Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Cosimo... -
The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek Robert Crellin (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781119243540
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $42.57The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions to present a unified semantic description of... -
A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. XXX (Forty-Five Volumes); Polybius-Read by Charles Dudley Warner 9781605202259
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $48.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605202259Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher... -
Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography Giovanni Parmeggiani 9781108926423
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.12Ephorus of Cyme, who lived in the fourth century BC, is one of the most important historians of antiquity whose work has not survived and, according to Polybius, was the first to have written a... -
The Constitution of the Roman Republic (287-133 BC): A Mixed Polity Antonios Emmanuel Platsas 9781399545822
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $158.05This book explores the apex of the Roman Republic, positing that the Republic has been one of mixed characteristics combining monarchic, oligarchic, aristocratic and democratic elements in its... -
Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography by Giovanni Parmeggiani 9781108831185
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $217.11Ephorus of Cyme, who lived in the fourth century BC, is one of the most important historians of antiquity whose work has not survived and, according to Polybius, was the first to have written a... -
Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt 9781439102183
Booksplease Price: $30.83Hannibal is "an exciting biography of one of history's greatest commanders...a thrilling page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps... -
Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39 Patrick Sims-Williams 9781405145701
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $43.15An original study revealing the history of place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas. Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new... -
Views of Rome: A Greek Reader by Adam Serfass 9780806157931
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Who were the ancient Romans? Views of Rome addresses this question by offering a collection of thirty-five annotated excerpts from Greek prose authors. As Adam Serfass explains in his introduction,... -
Quantifying Mentalities: The Use of Numbers by Ancient Greek Historians by Catherine Rubincam 9780472132409
Booksplease Price: $154.54Groundbreaking study of numbers in the works of five major ancient Greek historians Book InformationISBN 9780472132409Author Catherine RubincamFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint The University of... -
Greek Historiography by Thomas F. Scanlon 9781405145220
RRP: $99.35Booksplease Price: $90.95This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman... -
Dissidence and Literature Under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricization by Vasily Rudich 9780415095013
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $163.96This work inquires into the impact of dissident sensibilities on the writings of the major Neronian authors. It offers a detailed and innovative analysis of essays, poetry and fiction written by... -
Evermore: An Introduction by Brewin 9780956588098
Booksplease Price: $34.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956588098Author BrewinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint IgnisPublisher Polybius Books -
Dissidence and Literature Under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricization Vasily Rudich 9780415867276
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $68.74This work inquires into the impact of dissident sensibilities on the writings of the major Neronian authors. It offers a detailed and innovative analysis of essays, poetry and fiction written by... -
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXXI J. H. Brusuelas 9780856982293
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $167.91A collection of assorted `firsts', GRM 102 publishes fragments of Pauline literature (Ephesians, 1 Timothy, the Hymn of the Cross) until now not known from Oxyrhynchus, along with parts of the... -
Health in Antiquity by Helen King
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health?For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these... -
History as Wonder: Beginning with Historiography Marnie Hughes-Warrington 9781138846227
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder.From Ancient Greek histories and... -
The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin Dan Edelstein 9780691231853
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to... -
Dictator: The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship by Mark Wilson 9780472132669
Booksplease Price: $139.52Roman consuls were routinely trained by background and experience to handle the usual problems of a twelve-month turn in office. But what if a crisis arose that wasn't best met by whoever happened to... -
Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean Victor J. Katz 9780691202815
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $160.78An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquityEuclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar names to many of us, and their contributions have shaped mathematical practice up to... -
Rise of the Roman Empire: The Will to Endure by Thomas L. Dynneson 9781433162855
RRP: $171.41Booksplease Price: $152.08Rise of the Roman Empire: The Will to Endure is a daring interpretation of the ways and means that the Roman Empire became the greatest military power of the ancient world, and how the vastness of... -
The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings by Ronald Mellor
Booksplease Price: $102.39The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical... -
The Tyranny of the Majority: History, Concepts, and Challenges by Tamás Nyirkos
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83Tamas Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the "tyranny of the majority" for the study of democracy today. The analysis is divided into three parts: the first... -
Latin Historians T. A. Dorey 9781032608310
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.19First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians. There are chapters on Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Ammianus Marcellinus, together with an... -
Fifty Key Classical Authors by Alison Sharrock
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $217.72A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including...