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Elementary Greek Exercises by A. E. Hillard 9780715615249
Booksplease Price: $48.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715615249Author A. E. HillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Bristol Classical... -
Archaeology Explained by Keith Branigan 9780715620113
Booksplease Price: $54.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715620113Author Keith BraniganFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Bristol Classical... -
Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology by P. J. Rhodes 9780715632208
Booksplease Price: $54.19How should we study the democracy of classical Athens? How, if at all, is it relevant to our own world with its different forms of democracy? Attitudes to Athenian democracy have always been affectd... -
Aeschylean Tragedy by Alan H. Sommerstein 9780715638248
Booksplease Price: $89.80Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his book Alan H. Sommerstein, analysing the seven extant... -
Gogol: "Government Inspector" by Michael Beresford 9781853994395
Booksplease Price: $48.59Gogol's "The Government Inspector" must be one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted plays in the history of drama. This work shows the wisdom, humour and subtlety that is missing in many... -
Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground" by Richard Peace 9781853993435
Booksplease Price: $50.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853993435Author Richard PeaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bristol Classical... -
Writing Ancient History by Neville Morley 9780715628805
Booksplease Price: $50.52How do ancient historians "do" ancient history? This book, aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, discusses key debates in the theory and philosophy of history in relation to the practice... -
Maeterlinck: Pelleas et Melisande with Les Aveugles, L'intruse, Interieur by Maurice Maeterlinck 9781853995514
Booksplease Price: $50.52Maeterlinck's plays typify the spirit of Symbolism and the fin de siecle ethos of the 1890s, but equally they herald in their minimalism the developments of certain features of the late 20th century... -
The Greek Philosophers by James Lesher 9781853995620
Booksplease Price: $48.59This study presents a collection of the influential Greek philosophical texts which provide a broad cross-section of ancient Greek thought. Full notes on the translation and the philosophical content... -
Alcidamas by Alcidamas 9781853996108
Booksplease Price: $54.39Alcidamas is an important figure in the development of Greek rhetoric early in the fourth century BC. Pupil of Gorgias, rival of Isocrates, and teacher of Aeschines, he also influenced Demosthenes... -
Histories: Bk.1 by Herodotus 9781853996283
Booksplease Price: $65.99Book I of the "Histories" provides a particularly good illustration of the discursiveness and diversity of Herodotus' materials and of the ingenuity with which he develops his narrative and welds it... -
De Bello Civili: Bk. 3 by Julius Caesar 9781853996368
Booksplease Price: $52.63Book III of Caesar's "de Bello Civili" is arguably the most interesting he ever wrote, containing as it does the two major campaigns of Dyrrachium and of Pharsalus - Caesar's titanic struggle with... -
Philip of Macedon by Nicholas Hammond 9780715628294
Booksplease Price: $66.57Philip was a genius of extraordinary versatility. Inheriting a kingdom near to collapse, he made Macedonia the greatest military power in the Western world and left to his son Alexander the strongest... -
The Invention of Ancient Slavery by Niall McKeown 9780715631850
Booksplease Price: $54.39Slavery was a fundamental institution in the world of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, but little agreement. The modern debate has sometimes been... -
Silvae: Bk. 4 by Publius Papinius Statius 9781853995828
Booksplease Price: $62.13The Roman poet Statius' 4th book of "Silvae", published in AD 95, follows its preface with nine poems celebrating occasions from the building of a road to the gift-giving Saturnalian... -
Suetonius Vespasian by Suetonius 9781853995842
Booksplease Price: $54.39The emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) is universally regarded as one of the better Roman emperors. Coming to the throne after the demise of Nero and the bitterness of a year-long civil war, he restored the... -
History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 6 by Thucydides 9781853995873
Booksplease Price: $65.99Book VI of Thucydides deals, through its speeches in particular, with Athenian motivation towards sending the great expedition to Sicily, with the attitudes of various factions involved, and with the... -
Greek Warfare: Myth and Realities by Hans van Wees 9780715629673
Booksplease Price: $66.57From the soldier's-eye view of combat to the broad social and economic structures which shaped campaigns and wars, ancient Greek warfare in all its aspects has been studied more intensively in the... -
Ostrovsky:"the Storm" by Alexander Ostrovsky 9781853996542
Booksplease Price: $42.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853996542Author Alexander OstrovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bristol Classical... -
Greek for Beginners by L.A. Wilding 9780715626467
Booksplease Price: $43.82Wilding's Greek for Beginners has long been recognised as one of the very best introductions to the Ancient Greek language, covering all points of grammar and syntax with exercises and readings. ... -
Learn Ancient Greek by Peter Jones
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $33.13Based on the same principles that lay behind the book "Learn Latin", this book provides the chance to read real ancient Greek. It teaches the reader enough Greek in 20 chapters to be able to read... -
Wisdom in the Ancient World by Trevor Curnow
Booksplease Price: $58.27'But where shall wisdom be found?' asked Job, and from across the ancient world came many different replies. Some conceived of wisdom in supernatural personified form and answered the question in... -
Poems by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781853994975
Booksplease Price: $65.99Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he... -
Trojan Women by Euripides 9781853991868
Booksplease Price: $62.13With its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect women and children on the losing side, Euripides Troades has been one of the most regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek... -
Cherry Orchard by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 9781853992568
Booksplease Price: $53.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853992568Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bristol Classical... -
The Presocratics by Edward Hussey 9781853994852
Booksplease Price: $50.52The origins both of modern science and modern philosophy lie in Greek civilization of the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. It was then that a series of thinkers, usually known as "the Presocratic... -
History of Cynicism: From Diogenes to the Sixth Century A.D. Donald R. Dudley 9781853995484
Booksplease Price: $58.27A general introduction to the Hellenistic philosophy of Cynicism. In the BRISTOL CLASSICAL PAPERBACK series.Book InformationISBN 9781853995484Author Donald R. DudleyFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
Booksplease Price: $50.52For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and... -
Latin Comprehensions for Schools by Martin Hiner 9781853996238
Booksplease Price: $44.71This volume contains 80 comprehension exercises for use in schools. They are graded by length and difficulty so that they can profitably be used in the run-up to GCSE and then on through to A-Level... -
Latin Poets and Roman Life by Jasper Griffin 9781853994302
Booksplease Price: $58.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853994302Author Jasper GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Bristol Classical... -
Psychiatric Patient Violence by John H.M. Crichton 9780715626610
Booksplease Price: $187.88Georgina Robinson was a mental health worker murdered by a patient. This work comes from the public enquiry investigating her death. Leading academics and practitioners, from a wide range of... -
Greek Through Reading by J.A. Nairn 9781853990373
Booksplease Price: $79.54Greek Through Reading stresses the importance of early reading of good and varied Greek to give the student a sense of idiom. The Greek selections come from twenty-five authors ranging from Homer to... -
Sophocles: Philoctetes by Hanna M. Roisman 9780715633847
Booksplease Price: $54.39Like other classical Greek tragedies, Sophocles' Philoctetes is an extraordinarily timely and timeless play. Dramatising the efforts of people who had wronged him to bring the play's hero,... -
Artifacts by Henry Hodges 9780715623169
Booksplease Price: $73.73Our understanding of the daily life of early man depends to a large extent on our knowledge of the materials and manufacturing techniques that were used in the production of ancient artifacts. Such a... -
Frege: Making Sense by Michael Beaney 9780715627129
Booksplease Price: $60.78In this investigation into Frege's philosophical views as a whole, the central focus is on his notion of sense, the conception that has proved most influential in the development of analytical... -
Euripides: Hippolytus by Sophie Mills 9780715629741
Booksplease Price: $54.19"Hippolytus" is generally acknowledged to be one of Euripides' finest tragedies, for the construction of its plot, its use of language and its memorable characterisations of Phaedra and... -
Goodbye to the Vikings?: Re-Reading Early Medieval Archaeology by Richard Hodges 9780715634295
Booksplease Price: $73.73"In Goodbye to the Vikings?", Richard Hodges uses new archaeological evidence to re-read the familiar history of the early Middle Ages. Taking his examples from the fifth to the tenth... -
Olynthiacs by Demosthenes 9780862920739
Booksplease Price: $56.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862920739Author DemosthenesFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher... -
Roman Empire by Peter Garnsey 9780715621479
Booksplease Price: $62.13During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the... -
Josephus by Tessa Rajak 9780715631706
Booksplease Price: $62.13Josephus, author of the "Jewish War" and the "Jewish Antiquities", belongs equally to Jewish and to Greco-Roman history. A well-to-do priest and Pharisee at Jerusalem, he was a contemporary and...