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Boudicca's Daughter: the dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper 9781804544648
Booksplease Price: £13.10***PRE-ORDER THE EPIC NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY***'Boudicca's Daughter is Elodie Harper's masterpiece.' Costanza Casati, bestselling author of... -
Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire by Beth Severy
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within... -
Nero: The End of a Dynasty by Miriam Griffin
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £36.79Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. However, his reign also illuminates the nature of the Julio-Claudian Principate. Nero's suicide brought to an... -
Boudicca's Daughter Elodie Harper 9781804544631
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84***PRE-ORDER THE EPIC NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY***'Boudicca's Daughter is Elodie Harper's masterpiece.' Costanza Casati, bestselling author of... -
Rome and Provincial Resistance by Gil Gambash
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This book demonstrates and analyzes patterns in the response of the Imperial Roman state to local resistance, focusing on decisions made within military and administrative organizations during the... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the... -
Early Rome: Myth and Society Jaclyn Neel 9781119083801
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £35.41The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern... -
Ancient Rome: Social and Historical Documents from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus Matthew Dillon 9780415726993
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.14In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapters on the Second Triumvirate and The Age of Augustus... -
Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Joerg Ruepke
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.38From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book,... -
Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic by Anthony Corbeill
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.05Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real... -
Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries by George Emmanuel Mylonas
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £53.05The most famous conspiracy of silence in the history of antiquity is examined here by one of the three archaeologists entrusted by the Archaeological Society of Athens with the final excavations of... -
The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster by Carlin A. Barton 9780691010915
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. Carlin Barton... -
Annals: Bk.14 by Cornelius Tacitus 9781853993152
Booksplease Price: £25.62This edition of the fourteenth book of Tacitus' Annals remains one of the most thorough editions of any book of Tacitus for use by school adn undergraduate students. Its meticulous commentary and... -
Intellectual Property: Learned Slaves and Educated Freedmen in Republican Rome by Harriet I. Flower 9780691266169
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient RomeSlaves and freedmen played an important yet understudied role in the literary culture of the Roman... -
Early Rome: Myth and Society by Jaclyn Neel 9781119083795
Booksplease Price: £94.55The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence 9780691227184
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the... -
Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition by Torrey James Luce 9780691602219
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth... -
The War for Gaul: A New Translation by Julius Caesar 9780691216690
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.76A translation that captures the power of one of the greatest war stories ever told-Julius Caesar's account of his brutal campaign to conquer GaulImagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the... -
The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud by Marc-Alain Ouaknin
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90In a profound look at what it means for new generations to read and interpret ancient religious texts, rabbi and philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin offers a postmodern reading of the Talmud, one of the... -
A Defense of Hume on Miracles by Robert J. Fogelin 9780691122434
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of... -
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands Helen Pfeifer 9780691224947
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the... -
The War for Gaul: A New Translation by Julius Caesar 9780691174921
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40A new translation that captures the gripping power of one of the greatest war stories ever told-Julius Caesar's pitiless account of his brutal campaign to conquer GaulImagine a book about an... -
A New History of Classical Rhetoric by George A. Kennedy 9780691000596
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion... -
How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Horace
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.29What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been... -
The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction by James S. Romm 9780691037882
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth" became the... -
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen 9780691195926
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories-from myths and fairy tales to jokesCaptured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,... -
The Eagle and the Bear: A New History of Roman Scotland by John H. Reid
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.37For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world. This richly illustrated new... -
Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome by Maud W. Gleason 9780691137346
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.05The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly... -
Constructing Autocracy: Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome by Matthew B. Roller 9780691171418
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Rome's transition from a republican system of government to an imperial regime comprised more than a century of civil upheaval and rapid institutional change. Yet the establishment of a ruling... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11: January 1787 to August 1787 by Thomas Jefferson
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £116.51Volumes 11 and 12, cover the period from January 1787 through March 1788 and deal with Jefferson's stay in France, as American Minister there. This is a rich period of personal correspondence and... -
The Historical Jesus in Context by Amy-Jill Levine 9780691009926
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.98The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized... -
Reason and the Lover by John V. Fleming 9780691612645
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.63This textual and intertextual analysis of the dialogue in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose combines specific close readings of texts with a rich theoretical argument to establish Reason's moral... -
Roman Sexualities Judith P. Hallett 9780691011783
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.55This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture... -
Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes by Robert Lamberton 9780691656274
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven... -
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen 9780691211510
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuriesThe Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and... -
Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen 9780691655246
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £62.37Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A... -
Adoption in the Roman World by Hugh Lindsay 9780521760508
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures... -
The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings by Ronald Mellor
Booksplease Price: £54.58The 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... -
Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jorg Rupke
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean world In this ambitious and authoritative book,... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many...