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Works: v. 1 by Dio Chrysostom
Booksplease Price: £25.31The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father... -
Works: v. 2 by Dio Chrysostom
Booksplease Price: £25.31The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father... -
Works: v. 3 by Dio Chrysostom
Booksplease Price: £25.31The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father... -
Works: v. 4 by Dio Chrysostom
Booksplease Price: £25.31The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father... -
Select Essays of Dio Chrysostom by Dio 9780371196748
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371196748Author DioFormat PaperbackPage Count 281Imprint -
Works: v. 5: Discourses, LXI-LXXX by Dio Chrysostom
Booksplease Price: £25.31The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father... -
Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy by Simon Swain 9780199255214
Booksplease Price: £53.67Dio Chrysostom (c. AD 45-115) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and politicians from the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. His many surviving essays and speeches offer... -
Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy by Simon Swain 9780199243594
Booksplease Price: £79.50Dio Chrysostom (c. AD 45-115) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and politicians from the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. His many surviving essays and speeches offer... -
Dio Chrysostom's Kingship Orations (Or. 1-4): An Advanced Greek Reader by J R Wright 9781942697572
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942697572Author J R WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Dio Chrysostom's Kingship Oration 1: An Advanced Greek Reader with a New Translation by Fredrick J Long 9781942697732
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942697732Author Fredrick J LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint -
Select Essays of Dio Chrysostom: Translated Into English from the Greek; With Notes, Critical and Illustrative: by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A by Dio 9780461146653
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461146653Author DioFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Popular Political Participation from the Early Roman Empire to Late Antiquity: The Assemblies of the Greek Cities beyond Athens Thierry Oppeneer 9781350358515
Booksplease Price: £96.11This volume examines popular assemblies in Greek cities under Roman rule up to the late third century CE. Greek poleis were among the most politically inclusive societies in premodern history,... -
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXXVIII by A. Benaissa 9780856982668
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.95Graeco-Roman Memoirs Volume 109 This volume presents the first fruits of the research project Hexameters Beyond the Canon: New Poetry on Papyri from Roman and Byzantine Egypt, funded by the Arts and... -
Cynics William Desmond 9781844651290
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical... -
Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire by Dana Fields 9780367517991
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhesia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhesia first emerged in the context of... -
The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire by Graham Anderson 9780415555012
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson... -
The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire by Graham Anderson
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson... -
Megasthenes' Indica: A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary by Richard Stoneman 9781032023571
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs... -
Druids by A.F. Kendrick
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38First published in 2005. This study of Celtic Prehistory explores all facets of Druidic life and religious practice: their beginnings in the first centuries B.C. in Gaul and Britain, their priests... -
Druids by T. D. Kendrick
Booksplease Price: £54.29First published in 2005. This study of Celtic Prehistory explores all facets of Druidic life and religious practice: their beginnings in the first centuries B.C. in Gaul and Britain, their priests... -
Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East by Inger NI Kuin
Booksplease Price: £67.25No comic author from the ancient world features the gods as often as Lucian of Samosata, yet the meaning of his works remain contested. He is either seen as undermining the gods and criticizing... -
Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society Michael Trapp 9781138270794
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Drawing on unusually broad range of sources for this study of Imperial period philosophical thought, Michael Trapp examines the central issues of personal morality, political theory, and social... -
The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought by Sue Blundell
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs. Did they lack any conception of process in time, or did... -
Socrates, Man and Myth: The Two Socratic Apologies of Xenophon Anton-Hermann Chroust 9781138618572
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59The purpose of this book, first published in 1957, is to make a critical analysis of the controversial Socratic problem. The Socratic issue owes its paramount difficulty not only to the status of... -
Chain of Gold: Greek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire by Susan C. Jarratt 9780809337538
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Barred from political engagement and legal advocacy, the second sophists composed and performed epideictic works for audiences across the Mediterranean world during the early centuries of the Common... -
Violence and Community: Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World by Ioannis K. Xydopoulos
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been... -
The Origins Of Western Warfare: Militarism And Morality In The Ancient World Doyne Dawson 9780813333922
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49What is the source of the uniquely Western way of war, the persistent militarism that has made Europe the site of bloodshed throughout history and secured the dominance of the West over the rest of... -
Trajan: Optimus Princeps by Julian Bennett
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99Did Trajan really deserve his reputation as the embodiment of all imperial virtues? Why did Dante, writing in the Middle Ages, place him in the sixth sphere of Heaven among the Just and Temperate... -
Olympia: A Cultural History by Professor Judith M. Barringer
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the... -
Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome by Maud W. Gleason 9780691137346
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly... -
Olympia: A Cultural History by Professor Judith M. Barringer 9780691278360
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the... -
The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch by Raffaella Cribiore 9780691171357
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.03This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent... -
Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen 9780691655246
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.68Written 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... -
The Form of Greek Romance by B. P. Reardon 9780691604640
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance. Broadly defined as a love story that offers adventure and a romantic vision of... -
Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days by Richard Hunter 9781107046900
Booksplease Price: £99.73This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic... -
Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days by Richard Hunter 9781107624979
Booksplease Price: £39.40This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic... -
Defending Shame: Its Formative Power in Paul's Letters by Te-Li Lau
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.86Our culture often views shame in a negative light. However, Paul's use of shame, when properly understood and applied, has much to teach the contemporary church. Filling a lacuna in Pauline... -
Egypt in Late Antiquity by Roger S. Bagnall 9780691010960
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to understanding the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire... -
Sage, Saint and Sophist: Holy Men and Their Associates in the Early Roman Empire by Graham Anderson 9780415755115
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Holy men, both pagan and Christian are persistent and puzzling figures in the religious life of the Roman Empire. In this first historical study of Holy Men for more than half a century, Dr Anderson... -
Sophistic Views of the Epic Past from the Classical to the Imperial Age by Dr Paola Bassino 9781350255760
Booksplease Price: £102.21This collection of essays sheds new light on the relationship between the two main drivers of intellectual discourse in ancient Greece: the epic tradition and Sophist philosophy. The contributors...