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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 17: July 1790 to November 1790 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045498
Booksplease Price: €138.33The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 17: July 1790 to November 1790, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045498Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage... -
The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity by Benjamin Isaac
Booksplease Price: €43.95There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It... -
The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story by T. P. Wiseman 9780691180076
Booksplease Price: €35.49A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the PalatineCaesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the... -
North American Cambridge Latin Course Unit 4 Student's Book by 9781107070981
Booksplease Price: €81.82Developed by the University of Cambridge School Classics Project, this bestselling Latin program provides an enjoyable and carefully paced introduction to the Latin language, complemented by... -
The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1: The Hebrew Bible to John Milton by Margaret L. King
Booksplease Price: €30.45This compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes excerpts from seventy texts composed in eight ancient... -
The Senate of Imperial Rome by Richard J. A. Talbert
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €63.49Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great... -
Roman Reflections by Klavs Randsborg 9781350001503
Booksplease Price: €47.36Roman Reflections uses a series of detailed and deeply researched case studies to explore how Roman society connected with and influenced Northern Europe during the Iron and Viking Ages. In an... -
Literary Criticism in Antiquity: Volume 2: Graeco-Roman by J. W. H. Atkins 9781107434646
Booksplease Price: €35.16Originally 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... -
The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378) by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Ammianus 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'... -
The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings Ronald Mellor 9780815393672
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume, tracing the history of Rome from the city's foundation... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 84 by D. R. Shackleton Bailey 9780674379312
Booksplease Price: €41.55This volume of fifteen essays includes "The Case of the Door's Marriage (Catullus 67.6)," by E. Badian; "The Date of Tacitus' Dialogus," by Charles E. Murgia; "Poetae Novelli," by Alan Cameron;... -
Lives of Galba and Otho: A Companion and Translation by Plutarch 9781853994296
Booksplease Price: €29.65Plutarch's "Lives of Galba and Otho" constitute the earliest surviving history of the shocking events that shook the Roman Empire in AD 68 and 69 - the rebellions against Nero, his betrayal... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
Booksplease Price: €17.08Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street... -
Greek and Roman Historians by Timothy Duff 9781853996016
Booksplease Price: €30.83What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans? This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It serves as an... -
Roman Rule in Asia Minor, Volume 1 (Text): To the End of the Third Century After Christ by David Magie 9780691627403
Booksplease Price: €93.43What 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... -
Petronius the Artist: Essays on the Satyricon and its Author by H. D. Rankin 9789401032339
Booksplease Price: €55.07With one exception, the essays which form this book have appeared in various Classical periodicals. They do not claim to present a com- prehensive account of Petronius and his work, but are intended... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 19: January 1791 to March 1791 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045832
Booksplease Price: €138.33Volume 19, covering the final critical weeks of the First Congress, reveals Washington and Jefferson in the closest and most confidential relationship that existed at any time during their official... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 27: 1 September to 31 December 1793 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691047799
Booksplease Price: €139.28This volume brings to a close Jefferson's increasingly stormy tenure as Secretary of State, documenting, among many things, his epochal duel with Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton over the... -
Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime by Wallace T. MacCaffrey 9780691622231
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €74.58"A fresh and quite original contribution to an understanding of an extremely important period in English history and to a quite remarkable discussion of the role of Queen Elizabeth in the complex... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 11: 19 January to 31 August 1817 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691164113
Booksplease Price: €138.33The 584 documents in this volume cover the period from 19 January to 31 August 1817, during which Jefferson devotes much time and energy to founding Central College, the predecessor of the University... -
Cambridge Latin Anthology by Cambridge School Classics Project 9780521578776
RRP: €22.31Booksplease Price: €20.53A classic anthology for GCSE. The eight sections of adapted prose include sections from Apuleius, Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, Tacitus, and the Acts of the Apostles in the Vulgate. Glosses and... -
The Republic Plato 9780785845560
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.85The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in this highly designed hardcover with an introduction by Odysseus Makridis. Published around 380 BCE, Plato's most famous work... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 37: 4 March to 30 June 1802 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691150017
Booksplease Price: €138.33This volume opens on 4 March 1802, the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration as the nation's third president, and closes on 30 June. In March, a delegation of Seneca Indians comes to... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 44: 1 July to 10 November 1804 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691194370
Booksplease Price: €138.33Aaron Burr fells Alexander Hamilton in a duel in July, but Jefferson, caring little for either adversary or for disruptive partisan warfare, gives the event only limited notice. He contends with the... -
Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries by Steven J. Green 9780199646807
Booksplease Price: €130.69In light of modern scepticism towards the practice, it is easy to overlook just how important a role astrology played in the career of Rome's first Emperor, Augustus. Augustus' enthusiasm for... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 23: 1 January-31 May 1792 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691047393
Booksplease Price: €138.33This volume deals with an unusually active, dramatic period during Thomas Jefferson's tenure as Secretary of State.Book InformationISBN 9780691047393Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy by Denise Eileen McCoskey
Booksplease Price: €25.79How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person's physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise... -
Sejanus by Ben Jonson 9780300094695
Booksplease Price: €31.38One of Jonson's greatest plays, Sejanus, has seldom been edited, and is here published, with full notes and introduction, for the first time since 1911. Mr. Barish shows that Jonsonian tragedy can be... -
Form and Function in Roman Oratory by D. H. Berry 9781107499942
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €44.55In this book Roman oratory is explored from the perspective of form and function. Leading scholars in the field of Latin prose consider not only the speeches of Cicero, Pliny, Apuleius and the later... -
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine by Jonas Grethlein 9781108820264
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €44.91The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was... -
Irony: An Historical Introduction J.A.K. Thomson 9781041028116
RRP: €88.05Booksplease Price: €77.93Irony, with its old and complex history beginning with Plato and Socrates, and known by intellects from different social classes, including the ancient dramatists, philosophers, and rhetoricians, is... -
Women's Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation by Leah Knight 9780472131099
Booksplease Price: €85.14Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of... -
The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521473910
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €107.09Essays 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... -
Remembering the Roman Republic: Culture, Politics and History under the Principate by Andrew B. Gallia 9781107012608
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €107.09The Roman Principate was defined by its embrace of a central paradox - the ruling order strenuously advertised continuity with the past, even as the emperor's monarchical power represented a... -
Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature by Philip Hardie 9781107475984
RRP: €58.31Booksplease Price: €57.10The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or 'renown'. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the literary and cultural history of rumour and... -
The Global Church---The First Eight Centuries: From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam by Donald Fairbairn 9780310097853
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €31.67Discover the Variety and Unity of the Early ChurchThe Christian church of the early centuries spread throughout much of Asia, Africa, and Europe, spoke many languages, was situated within diverse... -
Eurochants by Adrian Clarke 9781848610958
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36Testing some possibilities and limits of cultural and linguistic exchange, a selection of imitations of Max Jacob follow free improvisations on early Chinese love poems and texts by Persius, Tacitus... -
Utopia Antiqua: Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome by Rhiannon Evans 9780415518420
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €63.00Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period.Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans... -
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine by Jonas Grethlein 9781107040281
RRP: €129.71Booksplease Price: €125.06The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was... -
Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations by D. A. Russell
Booksplease Price: €50.91Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist student. This edition provides for the first time the principal texts in translation, giving the...