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Perseus by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The son of Zeus, Perseus belongs in the first rank of Greek heroes. Indeed to some he was a greater hero even than Heracles. With the help of Hermes and Athena he slew the Gorgon Medusa, conquered a... -
The Strix-Witch by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52The strix was a persistent feature of the folklore of the Roman world and subsequently that of the Latin West and the Greek East. She was a woman that flew by night, either in an owl-like form or in... -
The Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.39In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon the clothes to recover his human shape, and so he... -
Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great by Daniel Ogden 9781108744676
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £31.57Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as... -
The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great by Daniel Ogden 9781108840996
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.95Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as... -
The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives by Professor Daniel Ogden
Booksplease Price: £33.79The Hellenistic World assembles fourteen new papers, by an international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII. Subjects range from... -
The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece by Daniel Ogden 9780715627167
Booksplease Price: £96.35By comparing traditional narratives concerning archaic colonists and tyrants, Ogden shows that monarchic rulers in archaic Greece were often paradoxically conceptualized as deformed scapegoats or as... -
Aristomenes of Messene: Legends of Sparta's Nemesis by Daniel Ogden 9780954384548
Booksplease Price: £75.48The legends of Aristomenes, hero of the Messenian resistance to Sparta, were designed to excite, gratify and amuse. Yet they remain almost unknown even to specialist ancient historians. This book,... -
Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden 9780859898386
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean... -
Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £37.49Booksplease Price: £26.90In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic... -
The Tyrants of Corinth: Legends of Cypselus and Periander Daniel Ogden 9781032778440
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The Tyrants of Corinth is the first monograph in English devoted to the archaic tyranny of Corinth and the engaging legends of Cypselus and Periander, which embrace such themes as hidden babies,... -
Pausanias of Sparta: From Victor to Traitor Daniel Ogden 9780300284768
Booksplease Price: £20.55The story of Pausanias, the general who defeated the Persians invading Greece and changed the course of historyWeaving together ancient sources, Daniel Ogden tells the gripping story of the enigmatic... -
Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death: The Hellenistic Dynasties by Professor Daniel Ogden 9781914535383
Booksplease Price: £35.27The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic in-fighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. In this they anticipated by centuries... -
A Companion to Greek Religion Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter, UK) 9781444334173
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £39.11This major addition to Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic... -
The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.97In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seceucus had... -
The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend by Daniel Ogden 9780198830184
Booksplease Price: £37.47An exploration of how the image and idea of the dragon has evolved through history How did the dragon get its wings? Everyone in the modern West has a clear idea of what a dragon looks like and of... -
The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden 9781107164789
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £106.88In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seceucus had... -
Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds: A Sourcebook by Daniel Ogden 9780199925117
RRP: £45.49Booksplease Price: £28.38Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily... -
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In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian's "Lover of Lies" by Daniel Ogden 9781905125166
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.40In "Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice" is the first book in English to be devoted to Lucian's "Philopseudes or Lover of Lies" (ca. 170s AD). It comprises an extensive discussion, with full... -
Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity: Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces by Debbie Felton 9780367591205
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance... -
Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives by Elizabeth Carney 9780199738151
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £89.77The careers of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great (III) were interlocked in innumerable ways: Philip II centralized ancient Macedonia, created an army of unprecedented skill and flexibility,... -
Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Susan Deacy 9780715631478
Booksplease Price: £37.81This collection of 12 original essays provides an overview of how Greeks and Romans perceived the phenomenon of rape. Using the numerous references to rape in Greek legal speeches, comedy, tragedy,... -
Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts by Georg Luck
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.54Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe," of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking collection of Greek and... -
The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Elizabeth D. Carney 9780367560256
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in... -
Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues by Professor Edward M. Anson
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.67Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great's successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the... -
Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies: Dialogues and Discourses by Naoise Mac Sweeney
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Throughout the ancient world, origin stories were told across the ancient world in many different ways: through poetry, prose, monumental and decorative arts, and performance in civic and religious... -
Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World by Scott Noegel 9780271022581
Booksplease Price: £36.32In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention... -
Transformations of Pelops: Myths, Monuments, and Cult Reconsidered András Patay-Horváth 9780367767013
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This volume is the first monograph in English dedicated to the study of the Greek mythical hero Pelops. While popular in antiquity, Pelops' popularity has since faded; this book presents a... -
Greek Lives by Plutarch
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as... -
Cyclops: The Myth and its Cultural History by Mercedes Aguirre 9780198713777
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £38.68A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative investigation, this book seeks to demonstrate that... -
Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney 9780190280536
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £44.90Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the...