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De Re Rustica: v. 1: Bks.I-IV by Columella
Booksplease Price: £25.18A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived... -
De Re Rustica: v. 3: Bks.X-XII by Columella
Booksplease Price: £25.18A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and... -
De Re Rustica: v. 2: Bks.V-IX by Columella
Booksplease Price: £25.18A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and... -
Food in the Ancient World from A to Z Andrew Dalby 9780415862790
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds.In... -
Food in the Ancient World from A to Z by Andrew Dalby
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.65Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds.In... -
L. Iuni Moderati Columellae Res Rustica: Incerti auctoris Liber de arboribus by R. H. Rodgers 9780199271542
Booksplease Price: £79.79For readers of the mid-first century CE, Columella compiled a comprehensive curriculum of the agricultural discipline, aiming to cover every aspect of the field that might effect economic profit and... -
The Mind of the Slave: The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society Nicole J. Giannella 9780472133659
Booksplease Price: £63.84The Mind of the Slave untangles the double nature of slaves as property and as human beings under the law in the Roman world. As human beings, slaves had free will and legally recognized autonomy... -
Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean Victor J. Katz 9780691202815
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.45An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquityEuclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar names to many of us, and their contributions have shaped mathematical practice up to... -
Rome and the Literature of Gardens by Victoria Emma Pagan 9780715635063
Booksplease Price: £29.88"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... -
Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life by Kristina Milnor 9780199235728
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.03The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on `traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain... -
Internal Ear Angioarchitectonic of Serpents by Manfred Ludicke 9783540088363
Booksplease Price: £90.45Serpents lack an external ear, a tympanic membrane, a tympanic cavity, and a Eusta- chain tube. These negative but very significant characteristics are seen phylogenetically, especially in connection... -
The Roman Book of Gardening by John Henderson
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66The first book to look at this particular subject, The Roman Book of Gardening brings together an extraordinarily varied selection of texts on Roman horticulture, celebrating herb and vegetable... -
Plant Biology Alison M. Smith 9780815340256
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £81.84Plant Biology is a new textbook written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics and the... -
How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land by M. D. Usher
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02A delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living-ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agricultureWhether you farm or garden, live in the... -
Birds in Roman Life and Myth by Ashleigh Green 9781032162898
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula.A diverse range of topics is... -
Gardens and Neighbors: Private Water Rights in Roman Italy by Cynthia Jordan Bannon 9780472033539
Booksplease Price: £83.55"Gardens and Neighbors will provide an important building block in the growing body of literature on the ways that Roman law, Roman society, and the economic concerns of the Romans jointly functioned... -
Ancient Roman Literary Gardens: Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics by K. Sara Myers 9780197773208
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £54.93Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some form in nearly all literary genres of Latin... -
Horace: Satires Book I by Horace 9780521452205
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £72.91Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with... -
Horace: Satires Book I by Horace
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with... -
Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome Mark Heerink 9781041179498
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39In this interdisciplinary volume, a team of classicists, historians, and archaeologists examines how the memory of the infamous emperor Nero was negotiated in different contexts and by different... -
Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook of Translated Greek and Roman Texts Andrew N. Sherwood 9781138927896
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £55.74In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in...