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The Hellenistic Age by Peter Thonemann
RRP: $30.21Booksplease Price: $24.32The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a... -
Roman Phrygia: Culture and Society by Peter Thonemann
Booksplease Price: $69.17The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia... -
The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Thonemann
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a... -
Roman Phrygia: Culture and Society by Peter Thonemann 9781107031289
Booksplease Price: $194.47The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia... -
The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources by Peter Thonemann
Booksplease Price: $53.82Coinage is one of our key sources for the rich and fascinating history of the Hellenistic world (323-31 BC). This book provides students of the period with an up-to-date introduction to Hellenistic... -
The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources by Peter Thonemann 9781107086968
Booksplease Price: $167.02Coinage is one of our key sources for the rich and fascinating history of the Hellenistic world (323-31 BC). This book provides students of the period with an up-to-date introduction to Hellenistic... -
An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams by Peter Thonemann 9780198843825
Booksplease Price: $61.33Artemidorus' Oneirocritica ('The Interpretation of Dreams') is the only dream-book which has been preserved from Graeco-Roman antiquity. Composed around AD 200, it comprises a treatise and manual on... -
The Lives of Ancient Villages: Rural Society in Roman Anatolia by Peter Thonemann
Booksplease Price: $67.82Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the... -
Attalid Asia Minor: Money, International Relations, and the State by Peter Thonemann 9780199656110
Booksplease Price: $229.55In the third century BC, the Attalid dynasts of Pergamon in north-western Asia Minor were relatively minor players in Hellenistic great-power politics. This all changed in 188 BC, when, under the... -
The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium by Peter Thonemann 9781107538139
Booksplease Price: $81.26This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine... -
The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium by Peter Thonemann 9781107006881
Booksplease Price: $227.96This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine... -
Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives Lucian 9780674997714
Booksplease Price: $49.35Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than... -
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price 9780140274851
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.04'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanTo an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At... -
The Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source' Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream... -
Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences by John Davies 9780197265062
Booksplease Price: $161.07By far the largest single source of new information about the ancient Greek and Roman world is provided by the flow of newly discovered inscriptions, which presents both a challenge and an... -
Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I–II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium Lucian 9780674997707
Booksplease Price: $49.35Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than... -
Byzantine Matters by Averil Cameron
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.24Why the marginalized story of Byzantium has much to teach us about Western historyFor many, Byzantium remains byzantine-obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians,... -
Teos and Abdera: Two Cities in Peace and War by Mustafa Adak 9780192845429
RRP: $199.88Booksplease Price: $190.87In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek inscriptions to have been discovered this century. It records, in... -
The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin 9780691177946
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman... -
The Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes 9780691157191
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73How to make sense of the divergence between philosophers' quest for a single morality and social scientists' assumption that there are multiple moralitiesWhen we speak of morals, what are we speaking... -
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.63'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian 'A small miracle' New Statesman 'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' Telegraph An... -
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RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $2.83'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian 'A small miracle' New Statesman 'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' Telegraph An... -
Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity by John Ma 9780691155388
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $66.98A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the... -
The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire by 9780674659667
RRP: $66.20Booksplease Price: $56.55The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment,... -
Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery by Gregory S. Aldrete 9781421408194
Booksplease Price: $69.71Alexander the Great led one of the most successful armies in history and conquered nearly the entirety of the known world while wearing armor made of cloth. How is that possible? In "Reconstructing... -
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm 9780300274165
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.60A 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... -
Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jorg Rupke
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.01From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean world In this ambitious and authoritative book,... -
How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times by Peter S. Wells
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.01The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy,... -
How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times by Peter S. Wells 9780691166759
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $41.73The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy,... -
Medieval Rome: Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150 by Chris Wickham 9780198811220
Booksplease Price: $61.91Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional... -
Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.43A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make-or destroy-the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite... -
Medieval Rome: Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150 by Chris Wickham 9780199684960
Booksplease Price: $127.22Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional... -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel 9780691172187
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $50.72The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this... -
Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception by N. Bryant Kirkland 9780197583517
RRP: $191.10Booksplease Price: $182.73Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside... -
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard 9780674660441
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled... -
Thucydides on Politics: Back to the Present by Geoffrey Hawthorn
Booksplease Price: $59.57Thucydides famously declared his work to be 'a possession for all time', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last... -
Inside Teaching: How to Make a Difference for Every Learner and Teacher John Blanchard (former independent consultant for schools, local authorities and higher education institutions in the UK) 9781138712294
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $54.19This book distils key research and evidence about what effective teaching means in practice. Covering all aspects of teaching, it encourages the reader to reflect on their pupils, their planning,... -
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.'... -
Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire by David J. Mattingly
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $52.85Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of... -
Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena by James Hankins
RRP: $89.60Booksplease Price: $74.12The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi-the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli-who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and...