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The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors by Ammianus Marcellinus 9781849023450
Booksplease Price: £26.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849023450Author Ammianus MarcellinusFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint Benediction... -
Works: v.3 by Ammianus Marcellinus
Booksplease Price: £25.31A soldier's chronicle of Rome in decline.Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325-ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of... -
Works: v.1 by Ammianus Marcellinus
Booksplease Price: £25.31A soldier's chronicle of Rome in decline.Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325-ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the... -
Works: v.2 by Ammianus Marcellinus
Booksplease Price: £25.31A soldier's chronicle of Rome in decline.Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325-ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of... -
Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian by Gavin Kelly 9780521842990
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.39Ammianus Marcellinus is usually regarded as our most important source for the history of the second half of the fourth century AD, while his literary qualities are neglected. This book demonstrates... -
The Later Roman Empire by Ammianus Marcellinus 9781420978872
Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420978872Author Ammianus MarcellinusFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Digireads.comPublisher... -
The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378) by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Ammianus 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'... -
Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian by Gavin Kelly 9780521203593
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.28Ammianus Marcellinus is usually regarded as our most important source for the history of the second half of the fourth century AD, while his literary qualities are neglected. This book demonstrates... -
Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality by Timothy David Barnes 9780801435263
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.50The Townsend Lectures Much of what we know today of Rome in the fourth century has its source in Res Gestae, the sole surviving work of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The accuracy of Ammianus'... -
Strasbourg AD 357 by Dr Raffaele D'Amato 9781472833983
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Civil war in the Western Roman Empire between AD 350-53 had left the frontiers weakly defended, and the major German confederations along the Rhine - the Franks and Alemanni - took advantage of the... -
Magic as an Element of Political Debate in the Historiography and Imperial Biography of the 1st -5th Centuries AD: A Study of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus by Mikołaj Szymański 9783631897997
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £41.92The book explores the hitherto rarely discussed connection of magic with politics in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, offering insight into the way language of magic and... -
Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook A. D. Lee 9781138020320
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the... -
The End of the Ancient World by Ferdinand Lot
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a... -
The Reign of Constantius II Nicholas J. Baker-Brian 9781032010472
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE. Constantius' reign is characterised by a series of political and cultural upheavals and is rightly viewed... -
From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views: A Source History Samuel Lieu 9780415093361
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37From Constantine to Julian provides students with important source material, covering an age of major transition in Europe; an age which saw the establishment of Rome as a Christian Empire and a... -
Omens and Oracles: Divination in Ancient Greece by Matthew Dillon 9780367594985
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £42.10Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key... -
Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity by Professor David Brakke 9781138275188
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity explores the transformation of classical culture in late antiquity by studying cultures at the borders - the borders of empires, of social classes, of... -
On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity by Michele Renee Salzman 9780520065666
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £63.08Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. "The Codex-Calendar of 354"... -
Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation by Michael Grant
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.75It is today widely accepted that we do not get the whole truth from any historian. Greek and Roman Historians considers the work of ancient historians such as Herotudus, Tacitus and Thucydides in the... -
Emperors Don't Die in Bed by Fik Meijer
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14This fresh and engaging book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476, illuminating not only the manner of their deaths but what their final days... -
Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook by Michael Maas
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.64Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area,... -
Negotiation, Collaboration and Conflict in Ancient and Medieval Communities by Christian Krötzl 9781032234465
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Focusing on forms of interaction and methods of negotiation in multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual contexts during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, this volume examines questions of social and... -
The Roman Historians by Ronald Mellor
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The Romans' devotion to their past pervades almost every aspect of their culture. But the clearest image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past is found in their historical writings. This... -
Latin Historians T. A. Dorey 9781032608310
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians. There are chapters on Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Ammianus Marcellinus, together with an... -
The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings by Ronald Mellor
Booksplease Price: £54.58The 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... -
Latin Historians by T. A. Dorey 9781032608204
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians. There are chapters on Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Ammianus Marcellinus, together with an... -
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo by Horapollo Niliacus
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo is an anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems,... -
Eratosthenes' Geography by Eratosthenes 9780691142678
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £57.50This 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... -
The Pagan God: Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East by Javier Teixidor 9780691616612
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Javier Teixidor has found evidence that belief in a supreme god developed during the first millennium B.C. The Phoenician and Aramaic inscriptions he discusses indicate a trend toward monotheism that... -
Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity by Garth Fowden
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.27In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One... -
Ancient Antioch by Glanville Downey 9780691625522
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This study incorporates findings of the 1932-1939 excavations. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available... -
History of Antioch by Glanville Downey 9780691625829
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £100.22The most complete account of the classical city of Antioch, this study incorporates the findings of the excavations of 1932-1939. Dr. Downey, who participated in the excavations, tells the story of... -
Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen 9780691655246
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.15Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A... -
That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World J. E. Lendon 9780691221014
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.19How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate... -
That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World by J. E. Lendon
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate... -
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century by Kenneth S. Sacks 9780691600345
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.58Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus... -
Life and Letters in the Fourth Century by Terrot Reaveley Glover 9781107687950
Booksplease Price: £34.78Originally published in 1901, this book examines life in the Roman Empire in the late fourth century through 'the writings of a series of typical men' from the period, focusing on literature rather... -
Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire by H. P. L'Orange 9780691003054
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43In this study, originally published in Norway as Fra Principat Til Dominat, Professor L'Orange sets down the essence of his thought on the crucial period of transition from decentralization to... -
Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography by John Marincola 9781009478342
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £77.59How did Greek and Roman historians claim the authority to narrate the deeds embraced by their histories? In this acclaimed and influential book, John Marincola examines all aspects of their... -
Understanding Ancient Battle: Combat in the Classical World from the Unit Commander’s Perspective by Hugh Elton 9781526753977
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Traditional military history of battles focussed on the strategies of great leaders, though in modern times many scholars have discussed the ‘face of battle’, describing the personal experience of...