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Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm 9780300274165
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again "This colorful biography of Demetrius . . . explores his rich inner life and... -
Demosthenes: Democracy's Defender James Romm 9780300269383
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64The tragic story of ancient Greece's last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of Macedon had seized a... -
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great by James Romm
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079674Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random... -
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307743749Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Theophrastus' Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior by James Romm
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19The more things change, the more they stay the same: Theophrastus' Characters, a classical Greek text newly translated for a modern audience, is a joyful festival of fault-finding. Theophrastus'... -
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great by James Romm 9780307456601
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780307456601Author James RommFormat... -
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece James Romm 9781324093183
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.47Many people know something of Plato's works, yet few are familiar with his life outside of his writings. In Plato and the Tyrant, acclaimed classicist James Romm uses a little-known set of Plato's... -
Alexander The Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius by James Romm 9780872207271
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.07Comprising relevant selections from the four ancient writers whose portraits of Alexander the Great still survive--Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius--this volume provides a complete... -
Alexander The Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius by James Romm 9780872207288
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £33.08Comprising relevant selections from the four ancient writers whose portraits of Alexander the Great still survive--Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius--this volume provides a complete... -
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece James Romm 9781324130574
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.49“[E]xcellent . . . a deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography . . . a kind of intellectual thriller.” —Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post From an eminent historian and classicist,... -
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom by James Romm
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes-and the saga... -
Since You're Mortal . . .: Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays by James Romm 9781324086086
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.37"The truly happy man ought to stay at home." "Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love." "Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy bribes." These quotes-and hundreds of others from the great... -
Herodotus by James S. Romm 9780300072303
Booksplease Price: £27.47Herodotus, widely known as the father of history, was also described by Aristotle as a mythologos, or "tale-teller." In this stylish and insightful book, intended for both general readers and... -
How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving by Seneca
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.59Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to divinity... -
Lives that Made Greek History by Plutarch 9781603848466
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.47Although Plutarch did not intend his Lives as a historical record, they sometimes furnish the best account we have of events in classical Greece. In many instances they are the only account available... -
On the War for Greek Freedom: Selections from The Histories by Herodotus 9780872206670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.89Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections that comprise Herodotus' historical narrative. These... -
On the War for Greek Freedom: Selections from The Histories by Herodotus 9780872206687
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £27.53Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections that comprise Herodotus' historical narrative. These... -
Lives that Made Greek History by Plutarch 9781603848473
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £34.66Although Plutarch did not intend his Lives as a historical record, they sometimes furnish the best account we have of events in classical Greece. In many instances they are the only account available... -
Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63"Oedipus Tyrannos is the first Greek play many readers encounter, and this version is their ideal gateway. Emily Wilson's verse line is effortlessly graceful, whether in taut, tense dialogue... -
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives by Plutarch 9780393292824
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.05Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus and Antony haunt us with questions of character and authority. Plutarch's rich, vivid profiles... -
The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction by James S. Romm 9780691037882
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth" became the... -
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... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781624661136
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.37This volume includes a wealth of helpful footnotes; more than a dozen maps and illustrations; a chronology of the Archaic Age; a glossary of main characters, places, and terms; suggested further... -
Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic by Emily Kneebone 9781108744041
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that... -
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management by Seneca 9780691181950
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65... -
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall 9780393351163
Booksplease Price: £13.32The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified... -
How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely by Seneca
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.74A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a pointed reminder to make the most of our timeWho doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of... -
The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece by Robin Osborne 9780691177670
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.14How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in... -
Eratosthenes' Geography by Eratosthenes 9780691142678
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £57.50This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well by Massimo Pigliucci 9781399804950
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we... -
Catullus: Selected Poems Gaius Valerius Catullus 9780300285475
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries "Catullus's verses still ring true, reminding readers that the habits of the... -
The Bronze Lie by Myke Cole
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy. The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their... -
A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato's Ideal State Dr Stephen P. Kershaw 9781472136992
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination. But where did Atlantis come from, what... -
Catullus: Selected Poems by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9780300275292
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.91A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9781631492228
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.53In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the... -
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities by Adrienne Mayor 9780691217826
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £55.98A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels-and the surprising truths behind themAdrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular... -
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities by Adrienne Mayor
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.39A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels-and the surprising truths behind themAdrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well Massimo Pigliucci 9781399804936
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman 9780691154039
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.17An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a... -
Pericles of Athens by Vincent Azoulay 9780691154596
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed...