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Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition by Meredith E. Safran
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $185.27This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.Drawing on... -
The Roman Historians by Ronald Mellor
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The Romans' devotion to their past pervades almost every aspect of their culture. But the clearest image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past is found in their historical writings. This... -
Rebellion and Reconstruction : Galba To Domitian: An Historical Commentary On Cassius Dio's Roman History. Volume 9, Books 64-67 (A.D. 68-96) by Charles L. Murison 9780788505478
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $73.59Cassius Dio's Roman History is an important supplement to the Roman writers Tacitus and Suetonius for the period of empire-wide civil war after the death of Nero, but for 70-96 and the reigns of... -
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus by Paul Zanker 9780472081240
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $54.48Art and architecture are mirrors of a society. They reflect the state of its values, especially in times of crisis or transition. Upon this premise Paul Zanker builds an interpretation of Augustan... -
The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch by Polybius 9781108050784
Booksplease Price: $102.38The Histories of Greek-born, Roman historian Polybius (c.200-118 BCE) are reissued here in two volumes. Comprising the complete Books 1 to 5, the near complete Book 6, and fragments of Books 7 to 9,... -
The Emperor Domitian by Brian W. Jones 9780415101950
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $91.53Domitian, Emperor of Rome AD 81-96, has traditionally been portrayed as a tyrant, and his later years on the throne as a `reign of terror'. Brian Jones' biography of the emperor, the first ever in... -
Velleius Paterculus: Making History by Eleanor Cowan 9781905125456
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $123.63Velleius Paterculus' short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from... -
From Augustus to Nero: An Intermediate Latin Reader by Garrett G. Fagan 9780521528047
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $57.64This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his... -
Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen by Richard Hingley 9781852855161
Booksplease Price: $55.52Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then... -
The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch by Polybius 9781108050791
Booksplease Price: $94.69The Histories of Greek-born, Roman historian Polybius (c.200-118 BCE) are reissued here in two volumes. Comprising fragments of Books 10 to 39 (17, 19, and 37 are missing), a compendium of smaller... -
Rebellion (Eagles of Empire 22) by Simon Scarrow 9781472287076
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $29.76'Roman discipline clashes with ferocious hordes in Scarrow's epic mix of sword, sweat and savagery' THE SUN1st-century Britannia is the setting for an epic and action-packed novel of tribal... -
Death to the Emperor: The thrilling new Eagles of the Empire novel - Macro and Cato return! by Simon Scarrow
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64AD 60. Britannia. The Boudica Revolt begins . . .Macro and Cato - heroes of the Roman Empire - face a ruthless enemy set on revenge The Roman Empire's hold on the province of Britannia is fragile... -
Legions of the Moon by Peter Jackson 9781916261099
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.38AD180: Quintus Suetonius and his stepson Manius are frumentarii, the Roman Empire's secret police. Dispatched to Britannia on a mission whose purpose is kept veiled from them, they join forces with... -
Legions of the Moon by Peter Jackson 9781916261082
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.07In AD 180 Quintus Suetonius and his stepson Manius are frumentarii, the Roman Empire's secret police. Dispatched to Britannia on a mission whose purpose is kept veiled from them, they they join... -
The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian by Robert K. Sherk 9780521338875
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $88.55This is a collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions and papyri in English translation. They are all primary sources for our knowledge of the history of Rome from the first emperor, Augustus, to... -
Learned Emperors: Science, Technology, and Power at the Roman Imperial Court by Serena Connolly 9783119145329
RRP: $231.08Booksplease Price: $149.51Science and technology were a source of power to Julio-Claudian emperors: professions of knowledge, discernment, and mastery of them enabled emperors to delight, entertain, awe, and even terrify... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 90 by R. J. Tarrant 9780674379374
RRP: $118.85Booksplease Price: $96.76This volume of sixteen articles includes: T. D. Barnes, "The Significance of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus"; Wendell Clausen, "Cicero and the New Poetry"; Gregory Crane,... -
Early Classical Authors on Jesus Dr. Margaret H. Williams 9780567708656
Booksplease Price: $62.13Margaret H. Williams examines how classical writers saw and portrayed Jesus, engaging with the fact that as the originator of a new (and still existing) world religion, Jesus of Nazareth, otherwise... -
Biographical Writings by Gianozzo Manetti 9780674011342
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $49.65The Renaissance recovery of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance authors from Petrarch to Machiavelli. The orator, diplomat,... -
Saturnalia: v. 1, Bks. 1-2 by Macrobius
Booksplease Price: $49.10An antiquarian's festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius' encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of... -
Saturnalia: v. 3, Bk. 6-7 by Macrobius
Booksplease Price: $49.10An antiquarian's festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius' encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of... -
Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present by B. R. Burg 9780814798850
Booksplease Price: $176.61In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from... -
Fame and Infamy: Essays for Christopher Pelling on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography by Rhiannon Ash 9780199662326
Booksplease Price: $220.17Fame and Infamy honours Christopher Pelling, reflecting the range of his interests and demonstrating the extent of his influence in spearheading the so-called literary turn in the study of ancient... -
Saturnalia, Volume II: Books 3-5 Macrobius 9780674996717
Booksplease Price: $49.10An antiquarian's festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius' encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106 by Kathleen M. Coleman 9780674072015
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $67.88This volume includes Natasha Bershadsky, "A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod's Cult in the Works and Days"; Alexander Dale, "Sapphica"; Andrew Faulkner, "Fast, Famine, and Feast: Food for Thought... -
Early Classical Authors on Jesus by Dr. Margaret H. Williams 9780567683151
Booksplease Price: $201.06Margaret H. Williams examines how classical writers saw and portrayed Jesus, engaging with the fact that as the originator of a new (and still existing) world religion, Jesus of Nazareth, otherwise... -
The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378) by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus'... -
Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power by Edward Champlin 9780691139241
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $51.87A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperorRome’s second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE–CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite—treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: Volume 108 by Richard F. Thomas 9780674417540
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $68.46This volume includes Miguel Herrero de Jauregui, "'Trust the God': Tharsein in Ancient Greek Religion"; Jordi Pamias, "Acusilaus of Argos and the Bronze Tablets"; Karen Rosenbecker, "'Just Desserts':... -
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Tacitus: Annals V and VI by Ronald Martin 9780856687211 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $2.44Books V and VI of Tacitus' Annals, when complete, carried the narrative of Tiberius' reign from AD 29 to 37. Unfortunately most of Book V has been lost, and, with it, Tacitus' account of the... -
The Roman Search for Wisdom by Michael K. Kellogg 9781616149253
Booksplease Price: $41.26The Roman "philosophy of life" as mirrored in the literature of ten outstanding representative authors Though Rome conquered much of the world and established an empire that lasted more than a... -
The Roman Army and the Expansion of the Gospel: The Role of the Centurion in Luke-Acts by Alexander Kyrychenko 9783110344028
RRP: $223.28Booksplease Price: $144.05Although Roman centurions appear at crucial stages in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the significance of the centurion's office for the development of Luke's story has not been... -
Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction by Geoffrey Bennington
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $41.69This book deconstructs the whole lineage of political philosophy, showing the ways democracy abuts and regularly undermines the sovereignist tradition across a range of texts from the Iliad to... -
Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus...' In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part... -
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin 9781801102605
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the... -
Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction by Geoffrey Bennington 9780823289929
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $172.24This book deconstructs the whole lineage of political philosophy, showing the ways democracy abuts and regularly undermines the sovereignist tradition across a range of texts from the Iliad to... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
Booksplease Price: $49.10Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home... -
Letters: v. 1: Bks.I-VII by Pliny the Younger
Booksplease Price: $49.10Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and... -
The Language of Roman Letters: Bilingual Epistolography from Cicero to Fronto by Olivia Elder
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $168.56Roman letters demonstrate that language has imperium: the power to resolve problems, to negotiate relationships and to construct identities. This book combines sociolinguistic and historical... -
From Augustus to Nero: An Intermediate Latin Reader by Garrett G. Fagan 9780521821209
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $170.72This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his...