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Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians by Catalina Balmaceda 9781469668628
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end... -
Volume 15, Tome V: Kierkegaard's Concepts: Objectivity to Sacrifice Steven M. Emmanuel 9781032098814
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74Kierkegaard's Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard's writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship,... -
The Textile Reader by Professor Jessica Hemmings
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €44.73Addressing textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and field of scholarly research, The Textile Reader introduces students to the key issues essential to the exploration of the textile... -
Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical Survey by M. L. Clarke
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66This new edition of M.L. Clarke's 1953 classic study of Roman rhetoric incorporates corrections and a new introduction by D.H. Berry. The bibliography has been substantially updated and supplemented... -
Volume 17: Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms Katalin Nun 9781032098647
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74One of the elements that many readers admire in Kierkegaard's skill as a writer is his ability to create different voices and perspectives in his works. Instead of unilaterally presenting clear-cut... -
Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity: Soren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology by Harvie Ferguson
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88The connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy are explored through a comprehensive re-examination of Soren Kierkegaard's rich and insightful writings.About... -
Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice by Wendy Heller
RRP: €84.49Booksplease Price: €67.52Opera developed during a time when the position of women--their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality--was constantly debated. Many of... -
Volume 16, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs: Gulliver to Zerlina Katalin Nun 9781032098845
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and ideas by using... -
Volume 15, Tome VI: Kierkegaard's Concepts: Salvation to Writing Steven M. Emmanuel 9781032098487
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74Kierkegaard's Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard's writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship,... -
The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings by Ronald Mellor
Booksplease Price: €62.49The 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... -
Volume 4: Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions Jon Stewart 9781032099637
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74This volume features articles which employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Patristic and Medieval traditions. It covers an extraordinarily long... -
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B Strassler
Booksplease Price: €36.16From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and... -
Volume 7, Tome III: Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries - Literature, Drama and Aesthetics by Dr. Jon Stewart 9781032099460
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74The period of Kierkegaard's life corresponds to Denmark's "Golden Age," which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering roughly the first half of the nineteenth century, when Denmark's... -
Boudicca's Daughter: the dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper 9781804544648
Booksplease Price: €15.80***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... -
Volume 5, Tome III: Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions - Literature, Drama and Music by Dr. Jon Stewart 9780754668206
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €105.16The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields. The present, rather heterogeneous volume covers... -
Volume 1, Tome I: Kierkegaard and the Bible - The Old Testament by Dr. Jon Stewart 9781138253506
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €59.37Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate... -
Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire by Beth Severy
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €63.00In 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... -
Europe: A New History by Roderick Beaton 9780241624500
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.35A new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the present'A magisterial history, written with great panache, that is both enlightening and deeply readable. A true tour de force - Peter... -
The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography by Arnaldo Momigliano
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €27.10Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano, In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those... -
Volume 15, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Concepts: Individual to Novel Steven M. Emmanuel 9781032098883
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74Kierkegaard's Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard's writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship,... -
Exploratio: Military & Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople by N. J. E. Austin 9780415183017
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Exploratio is the first ever survey of Roman military and civil intelligence. The authors examine in detail the operation and gradual development of Roman intelligence-gathering from shaky beginnings... -
The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the... -
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition... -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.10One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth... -
Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor by Frank McLynn
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.52Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved... -
Roman Odes, Elegies & Epigrams by Peter Washington
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a... -
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us ... without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry'For several years of his turbulent life, in which he was dogged by ill health, exile... -
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca 9780141395852
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.90Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature... -
Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology George Pattison 9780415868310
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €63.00George Pattison provides a bold and innovative reassessment of Kierkegaard's neglected Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses and reading of his work as a whole. The first full length assessment of the... -
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The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger 9780140441277 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €4.21Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition... -
Boudicca's Daughter Elodie Harper 9781804544631
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.66***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 in the Third Century: A Troubled Empire Michael Sage 9781399063128
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.88For its first two centuries the Roman Empire enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence. There were short periods of trouble and instability, but they had no lasting effect. At the end of the second... -
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98Sallust (86-c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline's War... -
The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster by Carlin A. Barton 9780691010915
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €46.22This 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... -
How to Travel: An Ancient Guide for the Modern Tourist by Herodotus 9780691259062
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.74A transporting anthology of ancient Greek and Roman travel writings that capture the thrill of exploration and discovery-from Europe to the Holy Land and Egypt to IndiaAt long last, a travel guide to... -
Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing Catherine H. Lusheck 9780367334086
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) in light of early modern traditions of... -
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over a vast empire... -
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition by Erich Auerbach
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €22.36More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration... -
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.85Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their... -
The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid by Gilbert Highet 9780691619491
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €55.32In the Aeneid men, women, gods, and goddesses are characterized by the speeches assigned to them far more than by descriptions of their appearance or behavior. Most of the speeches are highly...