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Lives: v. 2 by Plutarch 9780674990531
Booksplease Price: £25.31Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Astronomica by Marcus Manilius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Poetry of the sky and stars.Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem... -
Parallel Lives: v. 6: Dion and Brutus Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Roman History by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
Booksplease Price: £25.31A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of... -
Parallel Lives: v. 4: Alcibiades and Coriolanus Lysander and Sulla by Plutarch 9780674990890
Booksplease Price: £25.68Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius 9780674995703
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became... -
Charmides by Plato 9780674992214
Booksplease Price: £25.31Mostly doubtful dialogues.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove ... -
Lives: v. 10 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
History of the Wars: Bk. 3 & 4, v. 2: The Vandalic War by Procopius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander... -
Homeric Hymns: WITH Homeric Apocrypha AND Lives of Homer by Homer 9780674996069
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Invocations, curiosities, and biographies connected with the famous Greek bard.Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess-as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do... -
Lives of the Caesars: v. 2 by Suetonius
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
Booksplease Price: £25.31From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by... -
The Correspondence: v. 2 by Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Booksplease Price: £25.31Letters of an imperial tutor.The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (ca. AD 100-176) first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library... -
Enquiry into Plants: v. 1: Bks. I-V by Theophrastus
Booksplease Price: £25.31The first fruits of Greek botany.Theophrastus of Eresus in Lesbos, born about 370 BC, is the author of the most important botanical works that have survived from classical antiquity. He was in turn... -
Eclogues by Virgil 9780674995833
Booksplease Price: £25.31"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind,... -
The Library: v. 2 by Apollodorus 9780674991361
Booksplease Price: £25.68Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the ... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander... -
Moralia: v. 3 by Plutarch 9780674992702
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674993839
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, ... -
On Architecture: v. 1: Bks.I-V by Vitruvius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The Renaissance man avant la lettre.Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was... -
De Re Rustica: v. 3: Bks.X-XII by Columella
Booksplease Price: £25.31A 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... -
Roman History: Bk. 56-60, v. 7 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio 9780674991934
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of... -
De Re Rustica: v. 1: Bks.I-IV by Columella 9780674993983
Booksplease Price: £25.31A 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... -
Aegyptiaca, etc.: AND Tetrabiblos by Ptolemy
Booksplease Price: £25.31Ancient Egyptian history in Greek.Manetho was an Egyptian of the third century BC. Born probably at Sebennytus in the Delta, he became a priest or high priest at Heliopolis. Apparently he and a Greek... -
Roman History: v. 2 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
Booksplease Price: £25.31A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of... -
The Library: v. 1 by Apollodorus 9780674991354
Booksplease Price: £25.31Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674990449
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other... -
Thebaid: Bk. 8-12 by Publius Papinius Statius 9780674012097
Booksplease Price: £25.31Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles.Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of... -
A Loeb Classical Library Reader by Loeb Classical Library 9780674996168
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.95A paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity's major authors includes poetry,... -
Batman by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale Omnibus by Jeph Loeb
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £86.28Three epic stores--BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, BATMAN: DARK VICTORY and BATMAN: HAUNTED KNIGHT--from one of the greatest creative teams in comics history are now collected in one big volume for the... -
Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica by Apollonius 9780674996304
Booksplease Price: £25.03The Greek epic account of the quest for the golden fleece.Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BC, is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his... -
Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale: Captain America Jeph Loeb 9781302962036
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302962036Author Jeph LoebFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
JEPH LOEB & TIM SALE: SPIDER-MAN by Jeph Loeb 9781302962005
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302962005Author Jeph LoebFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
Republic, Volume I: Books 1-5 by Plato
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a... -
Literary Marriages by Monica Loeb 9783906768090
RRP: £69.70Booksplease Price: £62.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38What turns a country boy into the world's greatest hero?Told through the course of four seasons in the Man of Steel's adolescent life, this collection illustrates that it is the person, not the... -
Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £18.48Written by JEPH LOEB Art and cover by TIM SALE From the early days of Batman's crimefighting career, this new edition of the classic mystery involves a killer who strikes only on holidays. Working... -
Leadership For Dummies Marshall Loeb 9780764551765
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.09Yogi Berra said, leading is easy, the hard part is getting people to follow. Let this user-friendly guide show you the path to great leadership Eliciting cooperation from a group of people of any... -
The Flash by William Messner Loebs and Greg LaRocque Omnibus Vol. 1 William Messner Loebs 9781779525819
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £80.42The mysterious power known as the Speed Force is an energy field that has, over the centuries, granted incredible powers of velocity to certain heroes. The most famous of these is the Flash, also...