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Roman Republics by Harriet I. Flower
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first century BC--has profoundly shaped how... -
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century by Kenneth S. Sacks 9780691600345
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.58Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus... -
Latin Historians T. A. Dorey 9781032608310
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79First 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... -
Latin Historians by T. A. Dorey 9781032608204
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55First 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... -
A History of Greek Political Thought (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 34) by T. A. Sinclair
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.96This book gives a general survey of political thought from Homer to the beginning of the Christian era. To the evidence of the philosophers is added that of Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Polybius... -
A Short History of the Greeks: From the Earliest Times to BC 146 by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh 9781107619357
Booksplease Price: £31.52Originally published in 1901, this book by Polybius scholar E. S. Shuckburgh was intended not only as a history of the Greeks from the time of the Homeric poems until the Roman conquest in 146 BC,... -
Greek and Roman Historians by Timothy Duff 9781853996016
Booksplease Price: £25.91What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans? This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It serves as an... -
A Commentary on Livy: Books XXXI-XXXIII by John Briscoe 9780198147381
Booksplease Price: £41.00Books XXXI - XXXIII of Livy cover the period of the second Macedonian War, the critical years which marked the beginning of Rome's domination of the Hellenistic World. This new paperback edition of... -
Ethnicity in the Ancient World – Did it matter? by Erich S. Gruen 9783110684780
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £49.80This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources,... -
Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter? by Erich S. Gruen 9783110995053
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.88This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources,... -
Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages by James M. Blythe 9780691602974
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.43Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the early modern period applied this idea to... -
Science and Politics in the Ancient World by Benjamin Farrington 9781138202634
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book, originally published in 1965, discusses the political implication of the spread of science in antiquity. It reveals how the real Greek spirit of scientific research was crushed by Plato... -
Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXXII by N Gonis 9780856982309
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £85.34The core of this volume is the biggest concentration of magical papyri published in some 25 years, giving a fascinating insight into approaches to averting and treating illnesses, and attracting a... -
The Rise and Fall of States According to Greek Authors by Jacqueline de Romilly 9780472081523
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £22.39The Rise and Fall of States According to Greek Authors is a masterful survey of the manner in which Greek historians, from Herodotus to Polybius, explained the conditions of a state's success and the... -
Aemilius Paullus: Conqueror of Greece by William A. Reiter
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Lucius Aemilius Paullus was largely responsible for the inclusion of Greece in the growing empire of the Republic. He is most often presented as a man of pristine virtue and philhellenic persuasion,... -
Selected Papers: Studies in Greek and Roman History and Historiography by Frank W. Walbank 9780521136808
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.94This volume contains a selection of the more important and influential of Professor F. W. Walbank's occasional papers. Published over a period of fifty years, they cover a wide range of classical... -
Who Will Believe My Verse?: The Code in Shakespeare's Sonnets by James Leyland 9781925588675
Booksplease Price: £16.22What little we know of the life of William Shakespeare is at odds with what would be expected of the greatest humanitarian writer of the Renaissance. Is Shakespeare a pseudonym? The answer lies in... -
White Wall of Spain: The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture by Allen Josephs 9780813010137
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56From the ancient Phoenicians through Maimonides to Pablo Picasso's retrospective exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1980, this study spans more than three thousand years of Spain's Andalusian... -
The Alps of Hannibal by William John Law 9781108079495
Booksplease Price: £29.55Controversial for centuries, the route across the Alps taken by Hannibal, his Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in 218 BCE formed the basis of an extended scholarly dispute between William... -
Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography by Christopher A. Baron 9781107000971
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Timaeus of Tauromenium (350-260 BC) wrote the authoritative work on the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean and was important through his research into chronology and his influence on Roman... -
Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy by J. M. Moore 9780520266056
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.77This collection contains: Aristotle's "The Constitution of Athens"; Xenophon's "The Politeia of the Spartans"; "The Constitution of the Athenians" ascribed to Xenophon the Orator; and, "The Boeotian... -
Luke-Acts and 'Tragic History': Communicating Gospel with the World by Doohee Lee 9783161525513
Booksplease Price: £99.33This volume is the result of an interdisciplinary study that delves into both ancient historiography and the New Testament. DooHee Lee surveys characteristics of the 'tragic history' style employed... -
Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC Arthur M. Eckstein (University of Maryland) 9781118255360
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.87This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to... -
Commenting on the Past: Essays in Honor of Christina Shuttleworth Kraus by Jane D. Chaplin 9783110777819
RRP: £121.50Booksplease Price: £78.54This Festschrift celebrates the career of Christina S. Kraus. For nearly four decades, Professor Kraus has been an influential voice, contributing to and sometimes defining numerous sub-fields in the... -
The Alps of Hannibal by William John Law 9781108079501
Booksplease Price: £30.55Controversial for centuries, the route across the Alps taken by Hannibal, his Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in 218 BCE formed the basis of an extended scholarly dispute between William... -
The Constitution of the Roman Republic by Andrew Lintott 9780199261086
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £57.36There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the... -
The Greek Historians by T. James Luce
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century B.C. The first historians owed much to Homer and adopted his vivid and direct style in narrating historical events. Yet, despite... -
The Preface to Luke's Gospel by Loveday Alexander 9780521018814
Booksplease Price: £32.12Luke's two-volume work begins with a formal preface unlike anything else in the New Testament, and it has long been academic orthodoxy that Luke's choice of style, vocabulary, and content in this... -
Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC by Arthur M. Eckstein 9781405160728
RRP: £115.95Booksplease Price: £105.52This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to... -
Livy Ab Urbe Condita Books XXXVI-XL: Latin text with apparatus criticus by P. G. Walsh 9780198146643
Booksplease Price: £49.45This is the sixth volume in the Oxford Classical Texts series of Livy and contains a Latin text (without translation), together with full apparatus criticus and Latin introduction, of Books 36-40,... -
Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources Craige B. Champion (Syracuse University, USA) 9780631231196
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.42This broad-ranging reader on Roman imperialism brings together ancient documents in translation and a selection of the best recent scholarly essays, in order to introduce students to the major... -
The Peace of the Gods: Elite Religious Practices in the Middle Roman Republic by Craige B. Champion 9780691174853
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25The Peace of the Gods takes a new approach to the study of Roman elites' religious practices and beliefs, using current theories in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as cultural and... -
The Historians of Greece and Rome by Stephen Usher 9780862921521
Booksplease Price: £31.86Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in considerable measure a product of the intelligence and literary skills of its historians. Writing at different times and from different vantage... -
The Greek Attitude to Poetry and History by A. W. Gomme 9780520360563
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89SATHER 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,... -
Caesar: Bellum Gallicum Book VII by Christopher B. Krebs 9781009177146
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.69This is the first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. It attempts a contextualized reading of the work through the eyes of a contemporary Roman reader, who was... -
Caesar: Bellum Gallicum Book VII by Christopher B. Krebs 9781009177122
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £84.11This is the first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. It attempts a contextualized reading of the work through the eyes of a contemporary Roman reader, who was... -
Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis by Katherine Clarke 9780199694983
Booksplease Price: £47.36This book has two main and connected themes - the conception and articulation of time in the Greek world and the creation of history, especially in the context of the Greek city. Both how time is... -
Roman Siege Warfare by Josh Levithan 9780472118984
Booksplease Price: £74.75Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army. Sieges are typically sorted by the techniques and technologies that attackers... -
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction by A. B. Bosworth 9780198152873
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £114.91This book collects together ten contributions by leading scholars in the field of Alexander studies which represent the most advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical... -
The Thebaid in Times of Crisis: Revolt and Response in Ptolemaic Egypt by Ralph Birk 9783111607849
RRP: £45.50Booksplease Price: £30.74This collective volume explores societal crises in Hellenistic Egypt, focussing regionally on the Thebaid, from small-scale insurgencies to full-fledged secession. As a result of an international...