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Architectural Networks in the North Aegean: Thasos, Samothrace, and the Formation of Hellenistic Design William Aylward 9780299350109
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $98.94During the Hellenistic period, the North Aegean Sea was a dynamic and diverse area, linked by robust trading networks and sometimes precarious political allegiances. The islands of Thasos,... -
The Birdcage of the Muses: Patronage of the Arts and Sciences at the Ptolemaic Imperial Court, 305-222 BCE by R. Strootman 9789042933507
RRP: $119.97Booksplease Price: $112.80In the third century BCE, the Ptolemaic imperial court at Alexandria was the unchallenged center of culture and learning in the Hellenistic world. Backed by the vast wealth and... -
Aristo of Ceos: Text, Translation, and Discussion by William Fortenbaugh
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $60.36Volume 13 in the RUSCH series continues work already begun on the School of Aristotle. Volume 9 featured Demetrius of Phalerum, Volume 10, Dicaearchus of Messana, Volume 11, Eudemus of Rhodes, and... -
Imagination of a Monarchy: Studies in Ptolemaic Propaganda by R.A. Hazzard 9780802043139
RRP: $81.27Booksplease Price: $66.58Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC. The queens of that dynasty started as subordinates of the kings but ended as their... -
Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship by Branko F. Van Oppen de Ruiter 9781137494610
RRP: $90.29Booksplease Price: $85.09Berenice II Euergetis (267/6-221 BCE), the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (Libya) and wife of King Ptolemy III of Egypt, was queen at an important juncture in Hellenistic history. This collection... -
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, Revised Edition C. P. Cavafy 9780691264646
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.28The acclaimed translation of the most important modern Greek poetC. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most... -
Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth: 338-196 BC by Michael D. Dixon
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth, 338-196 B.C. challenges the perception that the Macedonians' advent and continued presence in Corinth amounted to a loss of significance and autonomy... -
Mirror of the World: Literature, Maps, and Geographic Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Meg Roland 9780367560584
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy's second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era-the production... -
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as... -
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend off heretics. Today it's a timebomb ticking in the... -
Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic by Natale Barca
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $33.28This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women, in the complex social and political system of the time, to provide a full context to the historical events... -
Eratosthenes' Geography by Eratosthenes 9780691142678
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $80.06This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this... -
Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius 9781032003610
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe's east as a socio-political and cultural entity. This book probes... -
Alexander the Great: From His Death to the Present Day by John Boardman 9780691181752
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.38An illustrious scholar presents an elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great's representations in art and literature through the agesJohn Boardman is one of the... -
Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas Dr. Neal Asbury 9781954641341
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.23A stunning journey through the Holy Land, as told by the rare maps and prints that have long inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages.From the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the... -
Alexander the Great: From His Death to the Present Day by John Boardman
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.47An elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great's representations in art and literature through the agesIn this book, John Boardman, one of the world's leading... -
Kepler and the Universe: How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy by David K. Love 9781633889477
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy. This colorful,... -
Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook: The View from AD 1001 by CBE, DSc, FRAS, Sir Patrick Moore 9781852336196
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.69In a characteristically off-beat approach, Patrick Moores Millennium Yearbook celebrateswell, the wrong millennium. Articles on Bodes observations, King Alfreds chronological work, reviews of a new... -
The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science by Jed Z. Buchwald
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.61The Dendera zodiac--an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets--was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly... -
Kepler and the Universe: How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy by David K. Love 9781633881068
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.05A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy. This colorful,... -
To the Ends of the Earth: How the greatest maps were made Philip Parker 9780711282643
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age. Britain's leading cartographic author takes... -
The Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World by G. T. Griffith 9781107419308
Booksplease Price: $40.67Originally published in 1935, this book provides a detailed history of the employment of mercenaries in the Hellenistic period. Griffith discusses how and why mercenaries were used after the death of... -
Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa by Victor J. Katz 9780691156859
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $104.37Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the... -
The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics - Third Edition by George Gheverghese Joseph 9780691135267
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.76From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, The Crest of the Peacock makes it clear that human beings everywhere have been capable... -
Roman Rule in Asia Minor, Volume 1 (Text): To the End of the Third Century After Christ by David Magie 9780691627403
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $106.19What is known of the expansion of the Roman Empire in Asia and adjacent lands to the East between 133 B.C. and A.D. 285 is presented here in a comprehensive organization of all the existing... -
Cleopatra Natasha Solomons 9781786583536
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.93Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of the Pharoah, hiding amongst the scrolls in the great library of Alexandria with her beloved slave Charmain, longing for the chance one... -
Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Tome X: Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt by Csaba Attila Lada 9789042911956
Booksplease Price: $128.06Under the Ptolemies thousands of Greek-speaking foreigners were resident in Egypt: they were active in the armed forces, in the administration, in commerce. In official and notarial documents they... -
A History of Western Astrology by S.J. Tester 9780851152554
Booksplease Price: $39.00`Superb general account.' Times Literary Supplement The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. To the magic and stargazing of Egypt... -
The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems by Jan Haluska 9780367394707
RRP: $87.71Booksplease Price: $81.19The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems patterns a unified theory defining the tone system in functional terms based on the principles and forms of uncertainty theory. This title uses geometrical... -
Greek Science After Aristotle by G. E. R. Lloyd 9780393007800
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $19.07In this volume, the author discusses the fundamental Greek contributions to science, drawing on the rich literary and archaeological sources for the period after Aristotle. Particular attention is... -
The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume V: The Site's Architecture, Its First Six Hundred Years of Development by Donald White 9780924171178
RRP: $81.92Booksplease Price: $79.21This volume focuses on the architectural development of the sanctuary from its foundation in the late seventh century B.C. to the end of the pre-Imperial Roman phase (31 B.C.). The main periods of... -
The Sand-reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw 9780312875817
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.49Gillian Bradshaw is a consummate writer, as is evidenced by her intelligent, exciting historical novels. Now Bradshaw presents us with a fictional account of Archimedes, one of the most innovative... -
Nomadic Visions: Tribal Weavings from Persia and the Caucasus by Michael Rothberg 9781898113829
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $58.84"Extensive text, beautifully-written and well-researched, this book leads us through many historical and geographical adventures and towards a plethora of full-colour plates...These pages ground us... -
Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC Sitta von Reden (Universitat Augsburg) 9780521852647
RRP: $89.01Booksplease Price: $85.24This book explores the impact of Alexander the Great's introduction of coined money on the economy and society of Egypt and its political implications for the formation of the Ptolemaic state. It... -
Stars and Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds by Paul Kunitzsch 9781138375680
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86The studies brought together in this second collection of articles by Paul Kunitzsch continue the lines of research evident in his previous volume (The Arabs and the Stars). The Arabic materials... -
The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science by David Creese 9780521843249
RRP: $140.61Booksplease Price: $135.57Among the many instruments devised by students of mathematical sciences in ancient Greece, the monochord provides one of the best opportunities to examine the methodologies of those who employed it... -
Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC by Sitta von Reden 9780521130547
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $58.97This book explores the impact of Alexander the Great's introduction of coined money on the economy and society of Egypt and its political implications for the formation of the Ptolemaic state. It... -
Inversions I.Y. Bakelman 9780226034997
Booksplease Price: $31.99In this book, I. Ya. Bakel'man introduces inversion transformations in the Euclidean plane and discusses the interrelationships among more general mathematical concepts. The author begins by defining... -
A History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall 9781108012690
Booksplease Price: $48.30This is the seventh of eight volumes on the history of Greece, first published in 1840. The volumes were aimed at two audiences: those people who wanted more than a superficial knowledge of the... -
Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks David Weston Marshall 9781682682111
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.12Tales of the forty-eight classical constellations have captured the human imagination from ancient times to the present. Compiled from literature spanning from Homer to Claudius Ptolemy, with...