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Sallust: Bellum Catilinae by A. J. Woodman 9781009371490
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.35Sallust is the first Roman historian whose work has survived, and his Bellum Catilinae is an excellent text for students. It provides a riveting narrative of a significant event in an important... -
The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid by Gilbert Highet 9780691619491
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $60.04In 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... -
Agricola: Architect of Roman Britain by Simon Turney
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a man fated for conquest and tied to the island of Britannia. He cut his teeth on military command during the revolt of Boudicca, later commanded a legion against the... -
Commenting on the Past: Essays in Honor of Christina Shuttleworth Kraus by Jane D. Chaplin 9783110777819
RRP: $156.74Booksplease Price: $101.32This 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... -
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity by Erich S. Gruen 9780691148526
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $74.18Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians,... -
The Eagle and the Bear: A New History of Roman Scotland by John H. Reid
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $14.11For 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... -
Studies in Latin Language and Literature by Thomas Cole 9780521124614
Booksplease Price: $40.30This book covers a wide range of subjects from Latin literature and language to textual history and criticism. E. D. Francis gives a history of the words prae and pro, as adverb, preposition and... -
Rome: The Autobiography Jon E. Lewis 9781849010832
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75The history of Ancient Rome has been passed down to us through official accounts, personal letters, annotated words of great orators and the considered histories of powerful men. It is found on... -
Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton by David Quint
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $68.82Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an... -
The T'ang Code, Volume I: General Principles by Wallace Johnson 9780691656472
RRP: $193.50Booksplease Price: $152.87Contents include:PrefaceAbbreviationsWeights and MeasuresPart One: Introduction Chapter I: Background Chapter II: General Prniciples of The T'ang Code Chapter III: The Text of the T'ang... -
The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction by James S. Romm 9780691037882
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.25For 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 Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen 9780691211510
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61A 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... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.64A 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... -
Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome by Anthony Corbeill 9780691074948
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $91.01Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell 9780691221250
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52A 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... -
Kindred By Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800 by H. Glenn Penny 9781469626444
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $38.06How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates,... -
The T'ang Code, Volume I: General Principles by Wallace Johnson 9780691606323
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.08Contents include:PrefaceAbbreviationsWeights and MeasuresPart One: Introduction Chapter I: Background Chapter II: General Prniciples of The T'ang Code Chapter III: The Text of the T'ang... -
Constructing Autocracy: Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome by Matthew B. Roller 9780691171418
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.83Rome'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 Passions in Roman Thought and Literature by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521030908
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $52.86Essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or 'passions') in Roman thought and literature. Building on work on... -
Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times by Donald Bruce Redford
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.61Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between... -
Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays by James Allan Stewart Evans 9780691605852
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.48Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit for saving Greece from Persia, but also identified the city's... -
Literary Criticism in Antiquity: A Sketch of Its Development: Graeco-Roman by J. W. H. Atkins
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $39.10Originally published in 1934, this book contains the second volume of Atkins' 'sketch' of the development of ancient literary criticism. Atkins concludes his history with a look at the styles of... -
Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine by Michael Koortbojian
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.70A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient RomeThe ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a... -
State and Commonwealth: The Theory of the State in Early Modern England, 1549-1640 by Noah Dauber 9780691170305
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.64In the history of political thought, the emergence of the modern state in early modern England has usually been treated as the development of an increasingly centralizing and expansive national... -
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life by Seneca 9780691175577
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He... -
On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru by Sabine MacCormack 9780691140957
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.38Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691153186
RRP: $188.34Booksplease Price: $149.95Volume eight of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 591 documents dated from 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815. Jefferson is overjoyed by American victories late in the War... -
Stoics and Neostoics: Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius by Mark P. O. Morford 9780691608860
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.77In a vivid re-creation of late sixteenth-century Flemish intellectual life, Mark Morford explores the intertwined careers of one of the period's most influential thinkers and one of its most original... -
Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction by Karl Galinsky
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.61Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 B.C. to A.D. 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for societies... -
How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691183657
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero's influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divineMost ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods-from... -
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.76A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 38: 1 July to 12 November 1802 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691153230
RRP: $188.34Booksplease Price: $149.95Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and all of August and September, he resides at Monticello... -
Suetonius: Lives of Galba, Otho and Vitellius David C. A. Shotter 9780856685385
RRP: $39.07Booksplease Price: $37.15Suetonius has often been used as if he were an historian, and at the same time criticised for not being one. This is a new translation of and commentary on Suetonius' biographies of three ... -
Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status by Matthew B. Roller
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining... -
Josephus's The Jewish War: A Biography by Martin Goodman 9780691137391
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of... -
Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius Nadya Williams 9780310171072
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!"... -
Letters of Benjamin Rush: Volume II: 1793-1813 by Lyman Henry Butterfield 9780691655093
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $111.11Volume 2 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush's Autobiography. Written between 1761 and 1813, the... -
The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett 9780691156514
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians--not to mention Nero's murder of his... -
History of Anglo-Latin Literature, 597-740 by Whitney French Bolton 9780691649764
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $127.07Taking as its chronological and geographical limits the period and area of Anglo-Saxon domination, this study provides a guide to the Latin literature that existed alongside the vernacular. It does... -
A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century by William Chester Jordan 9780691150062
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval...