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Thucydides and Sparta by Anton Powell
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.37Thucydides is widely seen as the most dispassionate and reliable contemporary source for the history of classical Sparta. But, compared with partisan authors such as Xenophon and Plutarch, his... -
Xenophon and Sparta by Anton Powell 9781910589748
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $98.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910589748Author Anton PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint -
A Companion to Sparta by Anton Powell 9781119098966
RRP: $63.15Booksplease Price: $58.77The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to... -
Sparta: Beyond the Mirage by Anton Powell
Booksplease Price: $43.91The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on... -
Euripides, Women and Sexuality Anton Powell 9780415619424
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $70.92Euripides' interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his work... -
HERODOTUS, SPARTA and AUSTERITY by Anton Powell 9781914535444
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Herodotus' 'History', is our earliest historical source for Sparta. His work focuses on the later sixth and early fifth centuries BC, the period before and during the Persian Wars. His account is... -
Sparta: The Body Politic Anton Powell 9781905125265
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.76This is the 7th volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series begun in 1989 by Anton Powell with Stephen Hodkinson. The volume is both thematic and eclectic. Ephraim David and Yoann Le... -
The Lost Memoirs of Augustus Anton Powell 9781905125258
Booksplease Price: $97.67"Augustus' Memoirs", written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs... -
Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese by Anton Powell 9781910589830
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by... -
Hindsight in Greek and Roman History by Anton Powell 9781905125586
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.76One 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... -
Virgil the Partisan: A Study in the Re-integration of Classics by Anton Powell
Booksplease Price: $46.92Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the... -
Classical Sparta: Techniques Behind Her Success by Anton Powell
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55This collection, first published in 1989, investigates aspects of the Spartan polity which have often been overlooked or underestimated. Viewed at least until the Renaissance as the epitome of... -
Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus by Anton Powell 9781853995521
Booksplease Price: $38.55The political aspects of Augustan poetry have attracted much academic interest. The aim of this study is to take account of the effects of Augustan propaganda not only on the work of contemporary... -
Virgil the Partisan: A Study in the Re-integration of Classics by Anton Powell 9781905125210
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.76Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the... -
The Greek World Anton Powell (University of Wales Institute of Classics, UK) 9780415170420
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $63.18Studying from the Mycenean to the late Hellenistic period, this work includes new articles by twenty-seven specialists of ancient Greece, and presents an examination of the Greek cultures of mainland... -
Coins of the Roman Revolution (49 BC - AD 14): Evidence Without Hindsight by Anton Powell
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.37Coins of the best-known Roman revolutionary era allow rival pretenders to speak to us directly. After the deaths of Caesar and Cicero (in 44 and 43BC) hardly one word has been reliably transmitted to... -
Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC Anton Powell 9781138778467
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01Athens and Sparta is an essential textbook for the study of Greek history. Providing a comprehensive account of the two key Greek powers in the years after 478 BC, it charts the rise of Athens from... -
Jovi Jets to Jamaica: A lesson in love and creativity by Antonette Powell 9789769672512
RRP: $11.36Booksplease Price: $10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789769672512Author Antonette PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint -
Sparta and War by Stephen Hodkinson 9781905125111
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $78.14This title includes ten new essays from a distinguished international cast that treat Spartas most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. Among the contributors, Thomas Figueira... -
Spartan Society by Thomas J. Figueira 9780954384579
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $85.36This is the latest volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Figueira is here the editor of sixteen papers; among the authors are most... -
The Greek Superpower: Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.37Greeks - in later times - saw Athens as 'the Hellas of Hellas', but in the classical period many Athenians thought otherwise. Athens might be a school of Hellas, but the school of Hellas was Sparta... -
The Eyesore of Aigina: Anti-Athenian Attitudes Across the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by Katerina Meidani
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $87.38Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others - whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans - saw Athens... -
The Alternative Augustan Age by Josiah Osgood
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $129.52The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments... -
The Ancient Lives of Virgil: Literary and Historical Studies by Philip Hardie 9781910589618
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $87.38The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for... -
Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch 9781910589007
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $93.81Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman... -
The Alternative Augustan Age by Josiah Osgood 9780197673652
Booksplease Price: $34.79The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments...