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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... -
Rome and the Literature of Gardens by Victoria Emma Pagan 9780715635063
Booksplease Price: $58.27"Rome and the Literature of Gardens" explores the garden as a powerful locus of transformation and transgression in the "De Re Rustica" of Columella, the "Satires" of... -
Latin Literature and its Transmission by Richard Hunter
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $73.01This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include... -
Nation, Empire, Decline: Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era by Nancy Shumate 9780715635513
Booksplease Price: $58.27The often overlapping discourses of nationalism and imperialism, along with related ideas of social decline, have been central in 19th- and 20th-century Anglo-European views of the world. This book... -
The Problem of Jesus: Answering a Skeptic's Challenges to the Scandal of Jesus by Mark Clark
Booksplease Price: $27.05The modern world portrays Jesus in many ways for many reasons. Some are well-intentioned but misguided, others are aberrations, still others have some but not all the essential keys. In order to see... -
Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 by Alice König
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $83.95This volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the... -
The Romans in Scotland and The Battle of Mons Graupius by Simon Forder 9781445690551
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $41.07In AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain to pacify the Caledonian tribesman. For seven years, the Romans campaigned across what is now Scotland. In AD 83,... -
The Greatest Story Ever Told: A Silver Screen Gospel by Douglas K. Mikkelson 9780761827641
Booksplease Price: $135.54The 1965 film "The Greatest Story Ever Told" ranks among the most popular "Jesus movies" ever made. However, the film inevitably leads viewers to ask, "Is that in the Bible, or did they make that up,... -
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... -
Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art: Ancient Emotions I by George Kazantzidis 9783110596878
RRP: $281.78Booksplease Price: $181.19Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of... -
Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome by A. N. Sherwin-White 9780521128926
Booksplease Price: $59.18Although Roman Imperialism unified a diversity of peoples into a centralised political unit, racial and cultural prejudice persisted. It took forms of varying significance, ranging from a lawyer's... -
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... -
A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily: Tending to Illustrate Some Districts Which Have Not Been Described by Mr Eustace, in his Classical Tour by Sir Richard Colt Hoare 9781108079181
Booksplease Price: $85.08After the death of his wife, antiquarian Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838) left his only child in England and embarked on a series of journeys through continental Europe in pursuit of 'novelty,... -
The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Warren Chernaik 9781107654075
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $79.91When Cleopatra expresses a desire to die 'after the high Roman fashion', acting in accordance with 'what's brave, what's noble', Shakespeare is suggesting that there are certain values that are... -
Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art: Ancient Emotions I by George Kazantzidis 9783110710137
RRP: $51.68Booksplease Price: $39.20Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of... -
The Romans in Scotland and The Battle of Mons Graupius by Simon Forder
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.37In AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain to pacify the Caledonian tribesmen. For seven years, the Romans campaigned across what is now Scotland. In AD 83,... -
Iran and the West: Cultural Perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic by Margaux Whiskin 9781838607050
Booksplease Price: $71.80Since the age of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD), Iran and the West have time and again appeared to be at odds. Iran and the West charts this contentious and complex relationship by examining the... -
Education in the Third Reich: Race and History in Nazi Textbooks by Gilmer W. Blackburn 9780873958233
RRP: $49.73Booksplease Price: $43.50In its determination to take absolute control, the Third Reich focused on the nation's youth, reserving for the schools the vital task of refashioning the German psyche. This book examines these... -
69 AD: The Year of Four Emperors by Gwyn Morgan 9780195315899
RRP: $30.21Booksplease Price: $23.97The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so... -
Roman Britain by Edward H. Jones 9781138021594
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $95.63Roman Britain, first published in 1972, gives the young reader a vivid impression of the British Isles immediately preceding, during and after the Roman occupation, which lasted for 400 years. Using... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 98 by Richard F. Thomas 9780674379466
RRP: $77.90Booksplease Price: $64.84Volume 98 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology offers the following contributions: Miles C. Beckwith, The 'Hanging of Hera' and the Meaning of akmon; Mary Depew, Delian Hymns and Callimachean... -
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction by Roy K. Gibson 9780521603799
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $54.00This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters... -
The Complete Latin Course by G. D. A. Sharpley
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $79.93The Complete Latin Course is a comprehensive introduction to Latin for students and armchair enthusiasts alike. This modern, user-friendly text offers a series of fascinating glimpses into the world... -
Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature by Victoria Pagan 9780292756809
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Conspiracy theory as a theoretical framework has emerged only in the last twenty years; commentators are finding it a productive way to explain the actions and thoughts of individuals and societies... -
Hindsight in Greek and Roman History by Anton Powell 9781905125586
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $123.63One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view... -
The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $31.18The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the... -
Roman Papers: Volume V by Ronald Syme 9780198148852
Booksplease Price: $119.55These volumes contain papers composed between 1981 and 1985, many of them dealing with Pliny the Younger and Tacitus, as well as Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Statius, Quintilian, and Arrian. Several... -
Roman Britain by Edward H. Jones 9781138021570
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $215.28Roman Britain, first published in 1972, gives the young reader a vivid impression of the British Isles immediately preceding, during and after the Roman occupation, which lasted for 400 years. Using... -
Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination by Karin Sanders
Booksplease Price: $52.03This beautifully written book explores the Iron Age bog bodies of northern Europe as cultural artefacts, objects of fascination to archaeologists and antiquaries, but also to artists, poets,... -
Warfare in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook Michael Sage 9780415143554
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $80.32Warfare in Ancient Greece assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the Greek experience of war. The author has carefully selected key texts, many of them not... -
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... -
Tiberius and the Charisma of Augustus: The Principate Enshrined Rebecca Edwards 9781009476676
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $159.35The historian Tacitus began his Annals with the death of Augustus. He considered this date, not Actium, to be the pivotal moment in the crystallization of 'rule by one man.' This book considers the... -
A Dictionary of Northern Mythology by Rudolf Simek 9780859915137
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $38.98For two and a half thousand years, from 1500 BC to AD 1000, a culture as significant as the classical civilisation of the Mediterranean world settled an immense area in northern Europe that stretched... -
Author and Audience in Latin Literature by Tony Woodman 9780521035781
Booksplease Price: $62.63The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication'... -
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... -
New Latin Syntax by E.C. Woodcock 9780862920425
Booksplease Price: $62.13This book offers a historical account of the chief Latin construction. The twenty-five chapters are arranged in such an order as to make it useful as a progressive revision course in syntax for... -
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... -
Suetonius Vespasian by Suetonius 9781853995842
Booksplease Price: $54.39The emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) is universally regarded as one of the better Roman emperors. Coming to the throne after the demise of Nero and the bitterness of a year-long civil war, he restored the... -
Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by...