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Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia by Daniela Dueck 9780521175104
Booksplease Price: £45.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo by Kimberly Anne Barber 9780415969956
Booksplease Price: £46.49This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman history, in defence of a highly influential political advisor of Caesar who... -
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.79Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited... -
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691170275
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.54Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens,... -
A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder by Duane W. Roller
Booksplease Price: £118.20This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge... -
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore by Elaine Fantham 9780199207732
Booksplease Price: £68.75The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a... -
Ireland and the Classical World by Philip Freeman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68On the boundary of what the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the habitable world, Ireland was a land of myth and mystery in classical times. Classical authors frequently portrayed its people as... -
Great Cities Through Travellers' Eyes by Peter Furtado
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those at home. The thirty-eight cities covered in this... -
Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold: Magic Kingdom of Landover Series: Book 01 by Terry Brooks
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02***50 MILLION TERRY BROOKS COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD***'Terry's place is at the head of the fantasy world' Philip PullmanLandover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and... -
The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography by Andrew Taylor 9780007100811
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic. 'Geographie and Chronologie I may... -
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism by Jan Assmann
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £29.48Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography...