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Herodotus and the Question Why by Christopher Pelling
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically... -
Herodotus and the Question Why by Christopher Pelling 9781477324257
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically... -
Literary Texts and the Greek Historian by Christopher Pelling
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £35.95Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and... -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII by Christopher Pelling
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £70.89In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413... -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI by Christopher Pelling
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.12In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413... -
Plutarch Caesar: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by Christopher Pelling 9780199608355
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £51.56Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major events of the last generation of the Republic, as well as... -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI by Christopher Pelling 9781107176911
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £76.92In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413... -
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII by Christopher Pelling 9781316630228
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.40In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413... -
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times by Christopher Pelling
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.47Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and... -
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times by Christopher Pelling 9780199597369
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £19.60Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and... -
Fame and Infamy: Essays for Christopher Pelling on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography by Rhiannon Ash 9780199662326
Booksplease Price: £117.72Fame and Infamy honours Christopher Pelling, reflecting the range of his interests and demonstrating the extent of his influence in spearheading the so-called literary turn in the study of ancient... -
Besom, Stang & Sword: A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Sixfold Path and the Hidden Landscape by Christopher Orapello 9781578636372
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578636372Author Christopher OrapelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Red... -
Rome in Crisis by Plutarch 9780140449167
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.58Bringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and... -
On Sparta by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third... -
Homer: A Beginner's Guide Elton T. E. Barker 9781780742298
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.45Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy... -
Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition by Torrey James Luce 9780691602219
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth... -
Herodotus: Histories Book VI by Simon Hornblower 9781107609419
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Book VI of the Histories is one of Herodotus' most varied books, beginning with the final collapse of the Ionian Revolt and moving on to the Athenian triumph at Marathon (490 BC); it also includes... -
Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past by Lisa Hau 9780367871628
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Ancient Greek historiographers... -
Teaching Latin: Contexts, Theories, Practices Steven Hunt 9781350161375
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.03Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with... -
New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place by Elton Barker 9780199664139
Booksplease Price: £117.72Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today,... -
Alexander the Great: Letters: A Selection Giustina Monti (Lecturer in Classical Studies, School of History & Heritage, University of Lincoln (United Kingdom)) 9781800348622
Booksplease Price: £119.22This book offers the first critical edition with an English translation and commentary on some of the letters attributed to Alexander and transmitted by mainly Plutarch and Arrian. The vast majority... -
Alexander the Great: Letters: A Selection Giustina Monti 9781835537480
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16This book offers the first critical edition with an English translation and commentary on some of the letters attributed to Alexander and transmitted by mainly Plutarch and Arrian. The vast majority... -
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Robin Waterfield 9781399814713
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.25A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARA definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, paired with a brilliant introduction on how to read and... -
Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts Laura Swift (The Open University, UK) 9781474236836
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university... -
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the ancient evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world's most famous assassin"Kathryn Tempest leads us into the... -
Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King by Emma Bridges 9781474260725
Booksplease Price: £35.46Hailed by Tom Holland as a 'fascinating and compendious survey of ancient attitudes to Xerxes' and now available in paperback, Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the... -
Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography by Luke Pitcher 9781845119584
Booksplease Price: £25.91'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more... -
How to Do Things with History: New Approaches to Ancient Greece by Danielle Allen 9780190649890
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £70.95How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the... -
Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives by Tristan Power 9780199697106
Booksplease Price: £110.45The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of... -
Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives by Tristan Power 9780198822578
Booksplease Price: £41.57The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of... -
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal by Christopher Stray 9780198777366
Booksplease Price: £117.42Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary...