Lost Worlds
"Lost Worlds convinces us of the value of slowing down to recognize the tremendous diversity of the human past. But he presses hard against the conclusion that there was any direction or pattern behind its complexity." —The Wall Street Journal“A spellbinding tour de force!” —Walter Scheidel, author of What Is Ancient History“This is non-fiction storytelling at its finest.” —Eric H....Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Zeus and Hera
A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and myth. What did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human couple? Examining the word Zeus and its Greek synonyms theos and daimon, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi traces the origins...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Writing Matters
The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on...Paperback$14200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic
In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores...Hardback$40000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus
Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals, women discover ways to resist without relying on traditional forms of power. Women engage in political protests, legal disputes, public processions, and subversive religious rituals. They demonstrate resistance in...Hardback$17300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an - A History of Islam & the United States
What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an - A History of Islam & the United States You will be fascinated by this fast-paced, objective history of the world from a perspective you have never imagined. Current events will come into focus in the backdrop of 1,400 years of inconceivable yet true events and conflicts. Thousands of books, documents,...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Undeciphered Aegean Scripts
The decipherment of Linear B, an early form of Greek used by the Myceneans, by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick has long been celebrated. But five other scripts from the Bronze-Age Aegean remain undeciphered. In this book, Brent Davis provides a thorough introduction to these scripts and uses statistical techniques drawn from linguistics to provide insights into the languages lying...Hardback$45300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Roman Law of Inheritance
Fritz Schulz once famously described the Roman law of inheritance as "labyrinthine" and it is deemed to be the most complex part of the Roman legal system. As Rome evolved from a city-state to an imperial power, the rules of inheritance often changed because of the economic importance of acquisition at death. These changes are reflected in the Corpus iuris...Paperback$13600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group
The Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group argues that Paul's language about his god—father, lord Jesus Christ, and pneuma—would have been familiar to Corinthian gentiles as a small group of gods, a chord of gods. Worship of Paul's chord of gods matches the common religious practice (in Theodore Schatzki's sense) around the ancient Mediterranean and in Corinth and would have...Paperback$10700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Muqaddimah
Volume one of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or "Introduction," is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muqaddimah
Volume two of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or 'Introduction', is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muqaddimah
Volume two of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or "Introduction", is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muqaddimah
Volume three of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or Introduction, is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muqaddimah
Volume one of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or "Introduction," is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Materiality of Diplomacy in the Hellenistic-Roman Mediterranean
This volume is a survey of one of the most interesting practices of ancient diplomacy: the gift or exchange of symbolic objects understood as diplomatic presents. This custom may be as old as mankind, but it can certainly be traced back to the emergence of the first written societies. After assessing this background, the contributions of the volume focus on...Paperback$10700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Exodus
The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and celebrate it. But did it happen? Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to it. Unable to find physical evidence until now, many archaeologists and scholars claim this mass migration is just a story, not history. Others oppose this...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Constitution of the Roman Republic (287-133 BC)
This book explores the apex of the Roman Republic, positing that the Republic has been one of mixed characteristics combining monarchic, oligarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements in its constitution. It offers unique analytical insights into the golden constitutional era of the Roman Republic by exploring the essence, the fundamentals, the historical roots, and the structures of its institutions. In addition...Hardback$37200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Ancient City - Imperium Press
In The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges presents the skeleton key unlocking classical civilisation—the Indo-European domestic cult—demonstrating this archaic religion as the force driving the rise and fall of the classical world. In his foreword, Dennis Bouvard examines The Ancient City through the lens of generative anthropology. He highlights how this perspective can guide us towards a post-liberal understanding of...Paperback$5800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Sweetbitter Song
Perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and from the award-winning author of The Witch of Colchis comes a profoundly moving story of two women on the shores of Ithaca, in the shadows of a legendary war, who must face their own battle - one of sisterhood, survival, and a forbidden love that could destroy them both. One summer...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Roman Verse Satires
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Romans claimed to have invented satire—one of the most enduring and certainly one of the most entertaining genres of literature bequeathed to posterity from the ancient world. Modern satire aims generally to puncture pretence and to hurt its targets with withering caricature and bruising irony,...Paperback$14900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Rivals in Wisdom
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Rivals in Wisdom offers a fresh perspective on the longstanding question of the origins of Greek philosophy by considering anew the competitive intellectual milieu of Archaic and early Classical Greece. Specifically, it argues that the emergence of Greek philosophy as a new discipline with specific methodologies...Hardback$51400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice
Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world. It drove quests for vengeance which resulted in a variety of consequences, often harmful not only for the relevant actors but also for the wider communities in which they lived. From as early as the seventh century BCE, Greek communities had developed more or less formal means of imposing...Paperback$14200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Prometheus
A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype. The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate...Paperback$8800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Prometheus
A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype. The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate...Hardback$20500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Manners and Customs
Discover how the people of the Bible really lived. Imagine being able to walk the streets of Abraham’s hometown, adjust to life in Babylonian captivity, or travel the roads of Palestine amid the latest buzz about Jesus from Nazareth. Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Manners & Customs paints an accurate and descriptive picture of ancient civilization throughout the ages. In twenty...Paperback$9800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Lost Plays of Old Comedy
This is the first accessible volume exploring and analysing evidence for Greek Old Comedy through what remains only in the form of fragments of plays. Hundreds of comedies were written and performed in Athens during this period (roughly 486-386 BCE), but only eleven survive intact from this era; all eleven are by the same author, Aristophanes. We are fortunate, however,...Hardback$32800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea
Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known...Paperback$16600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Evoking the Dead
How Romans built their past—and made it speak. During the turbulent transition from Republic to Empire, Romans became intensely preoccupied with their own past. In Evoking the Dead, W. Martin Bloomer examines how memory was constructed, organised, and put to work in this moment of political uncertainty—and how literature became one of its most powerful instruments. Bloomer focuses on a...Paperback$22400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Empresses-in-Waiting
Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobility of the late Roman empire, ranging from the fourth to the seventh centuries AD. Situated in the context of the broader developments of scholarship on late antique and Byzantine empresses, this volume explores the political agency, religious authority, and influence...Paperback$20100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Eleusis
A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth century. The Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the centre of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilised world. In this classic work, Eleusis, Carl Kerényi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Dionysos
A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible life. No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerenyi presents an engaging history of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan...Hardback$25100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Diachronic Narratology in Greek Myth
Diachronic Narratology in Greek Myth looks at ancient Greek mythology from the viewpoint of its storytelling through time. There are hundreds of different figures and stories in Greek mythology, interconnected in a complex narrative network. While earlier research often sought to penetrate the core of the seemingly 'true' or 'original' myths, it is now better understood that the way the...Paperback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Asklepios
A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetype. To the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi takes readers on a tour of the sacred sites of the Greek god of medicine to investigate the origins and...Hardback$20500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Asklepios
A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetype. To the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi takes readers on a tour of the sacred sites of the Greek god of medicine to investigate the origins and...Paperback$8000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Archaeoastronomy
How does archaeoastronomy assist archaeologists in comprehending the past of human societies? Archaeoastronomy is an interdisciplinary field that combines scientific principles and astronomical measurements to enhance our understanding of ancient cultures. Its interdisciplinary character appears by blending areas of the natural sciences, such as astronomy, physics, mathematics, and even geology or biology, with others of the social sciences and humanities,...Hardback$24500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Ancient Greek Democracies
Classical Athenian democracy is rightly famous, but democracy flourished in other parts of the Greek world as well. In this clear and fascinating book, Ancient Greek Democracies, Matthew Simonton traces the emergence, growth, consolidation, and decline of democratic city-states over the millennium down to the fifth century CE. He argues for the widespread and highly participatory nature of democratic constitutions...Hardback$28200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Xerxes
Xerxes: The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history. Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed...Hardback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Persian Wars, Volume IV
Herodotus, the great Greek historian, was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He travelled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Assuan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived,...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Market
In-depth exploration of markets and navigation towards a sustainable future From the Roman market to digital currencies - how has the market developed over the course of history and what could it look like in the future? This anthology provides an in-depth exploration of the development of markets and offers a closer look at the critical role that markets play...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction that reviews related scholarship of the past twenty years, Erich Gruen's classic study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities, social tensions as well as politics, the plebs and the army as well as the aristocracy.Paperback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Four Heavens
The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendour of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological discoveries to present an entirely new history of this spectacular civilisation. Renowned historian and archaeologist David Stuart, who has made groundbreaking contributions to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics, shows how there was...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
That Was Genius
That Was Genius shines a spotlight on the unbelievable inventions and innovations of ancient peoples from across the world, and will change how you think about history and science. This technological treasury of hidden histories uncovers gadgets and gizmos from the ancient and recent past, creating a richly detailed gift-book perfect for budding historians looking for a fresh take on...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Roman History, Volume VI
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. Upon the death of his father, who was the Roman governor of Cilicia, he went to Rome in 180. There, he entered the Senate and served as an advocate under the emperor Commodus. Throughout his career, he held several high offices, becoming a close...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Politics
Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE to Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there from 367–347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, and during this time he married Pythias, a relation of...Hardback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Polis
The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it offered a means for collaboration among fellow city-states and social bargaining between a community and its elites, but at what cost? Polis proposes a panoramic account of the ancient...Paperback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Plato
Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Plato lived in turbulent times, born during a war that led to Athens’ defeat and decline. A restored democracy enabled the execution of his teacher, Socrates. Carol Atack explores how his life in Athens influenced...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
On the Heavens
Aristotle, a great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE as the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there from 367 to 347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, and during this time, he...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Laches. Protagoras. Meno. Euthydemus
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
In Search of Ancient Ireland
This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age, to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English crown for the first time. So much of what people today accept as ancient Irish history—Celtic...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Elegies
The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives. In later poems, he turns to mythological themes and the legends of early Rome. In...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices
Aristotle, the eminent Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born in Stagirus in 384 BCE. He was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. Aristotle studied under Plato in Athens and taught there from 367 to 347 BCE. He later spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, during which he married...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Archimedes
A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician's singular life as a truly modern scientist. Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse—an engineer who single-handedly defied the world's most powerful army and a mathematician who knew more in 212 BCE than all of Europe would know for the next seventeen centuries. In this bold reimagining, modern polymath Nicholas...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ancient Rome: Infographics
A unique re-interpretation of the city of ancient Rome and its empire, using the tools offered by the latest information technology and graphic design. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the city of Rome and its empire. Every aspect of the Roman world is explored, from...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Alexander the Great
Accompanying the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age of 20, as king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. By his death in 323 BC, he had created one...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
A History of Greece
The 2nd edition of Nicholas Doumanis’s A History of Greece provides a masterful exploration of Greek history from early antiquity to the present. Doumanis surveys the ancient, medieval and modern periods to convincingly make the case for Greek culture’s robustness, having stemmed from its willing and repeated engagement with other cultures throughout history. Drawing on a wealth of sources, the...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt
A stunning addition to the Collector's Editions, taking the reader through the reign and life of the legendary Cleopatra. Now part of a gorgeous hardback collectable series introducing the heroes, leaders, cultures, myths and philosophies of the world, this book sheds light on one of the most renowned pharaohs of Egypt. Cleopatra had the rare distinction of connecting three great...Hardback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Waters of Mnemosyne
Build a Deep, Contemporary Practice Rooted in Ancient Greek Traditions Presenting more than seventy exercises, rites, pathworkings, and prayers, Gwendolyn Reece ingeniously revitalises fundamental concepts from ancient Greece for today's practitioner. Whether you're a Pagan or simply drawn to the Greek pantheon, Reece helps you build relationships with the Theoi (Olympians, Titans, and other deities) and create a truly vibrant...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Slay: Ancient legends of female slayers and the hidden mythology of dragons
A groundbreaking and seminal chronicle of the hidden history and mythology of female dragon slayers from ancient world expert and author of Goddess with a Thousand Faces, Jasmine Elmer. The dragon is a monster with a rich history of symbolism in almost every culture. In the stories that have been passed down through time, dragons lurk in the great wild,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Need to Know: The Ancient Greeks
Find out about life in the past with this first introduction to ancient Greece. Need to Know introduces key topics for children aged 6 plus, featuring fun facts, fantastic photographs, and diagrams. The books also include quizzes and project ideas and are book banded. The Ancient Greeks is book band 11: Lime. Contents: Ancient Greece Who were the ancient Greeks?...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Diogenes
The life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism. In his own day, the ancient philosopher Diogenes the Cynic had a reputation for eccentricity, dispensing wisdom from a clay pot in the marketplace and relieving himself in public. Since his death in 323...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Classical Antiquity in Video Games
From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere today, including those set in historical times and particularly in the ancient world. This volume explores the varied depictions of the ancient world in video games and demonstrates the potential challenges of games for scholars as well as the applications of game engines for educational and academic purposes. With successful series...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
A Womb of One's Own
A bold new history of women's health and midwifery, brought to life through ancient women's stories of pregnancy and birth. In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set their sights on childbirth, the traditional domain of female midwives. Taking us to the dawn...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture
Organised by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in ancient Near Eastern political history, Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture interlaces social and cultural history with a political narrative. Charts, figures, maps, and historical documents introduce the reader to the material world of the ancient Near East, including Egypt. The emphasis on historical debates and areas of uncertainty helps...Hardback$58800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Ancient Christianities
How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety. The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen traces...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
A Grimoire of Italian Witchcraft
Study the customs and traditions of Italian witchcraft with a full Book of Shadows. A Grimoire of Italian Witchcraft: Practical Spells & Rituals of the Old Religion is a vital tome for anyone seeking the ancient path of the Strega. Raven Grimassi created a complete Book of Shadows for witches dedicated to the Italian path, including incantations, practical spells, and...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Unearthed
Unearthed is a rich collection of poems from history that were brought to light through archaeology, accompanied by compelling stories of how they survived. The poems in this book nearly didn't get into print—every one of them was lost to history at some point in time. However, due to the efforts of archaeologists and historical researchers, they were all rediscovered....Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Pre-orderThis Divine Revelry
The eagerly anticipated - and final - new YA Greek myth re-imagining from Bea Fitzgerald, TikTok superstar and triple-Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen, The End Crowns All, and A Beautiful Evil. When Ariadne, Princess of Crete, vows to help free the Athenian prince, Theseus, and his fellow tributes - sacrifices for the monster which allegedly lurks beneath...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3600Unit price /UnavailableOut 12 Jan 2027Pre-order
Hong Kong Art: A Curator's History (1987 -2004)
The first illustrated art historical study of Hong Kong, AAA Art Stories Around Hong Kong 1980s-2000s focuses on a two-decade period beginning in the mid-1980s. Featuring 200 artworks and art historical images, this book lifts the veil on an underexplored world of artistic activities in Hong Kong’s recent past. Author Oscar Ho Hing-kay looks back on a series of groundbreaking...Hardback$18500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
There Was an Egyptian in Your School
The second book in the new fun, fact-packed history series from classical historian, author and broadcaster, Bettany Hughes, exploring how children just like you lived back in the day. It's your lucky day! You've stumbled across an ancient treasure chest in your school that was buried thousands of years ago by a child living in ancient Egypt. And the chest...Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Landmark Herodotus
“The most densely annotated, richly illustrated, and user friendly edition” of the greatest classical work of history ever written (Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker)—from the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides. Cicero called Herodotus "the father of history," and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid...Paperback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Buried City
'The best book on Pompeii I've ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'Brilliant' TOM HOLLAND A vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for the first time, revealing astonishing insights into how people really lived. In this revelatory new history, Director of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the untold stories that are at last emerging. Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Cuttings: A Pruned History of Vines, Wines & Vignerons
Cuttings: A Pruned History of Vines, Wines and Vignerons traces the story of wine from its uncertain beginnings among wild vines in the Caucasus to its place as a global cultural staple. Drawing on archaeology, myth and history, it follows the spread of viticulture through ancient Georgia and Armenia, across the trading routes of the Phoenicians, and into the civilisations...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Emperor of the Seas
Astonishing... Brings to life a thriving – and rather civilized – empire - The Telegraph Sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down. Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Control the sea, and you control everything... a gripping tale of dynastic rivalry and innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Points of View
This collection of essays provides dynamic new perspectives on 100 works of art that span centuries of human creativity around the globe. Across ages and cultures, artists have found inspiration in the human urge for connection. This compendium of short, thought-provoking essays by the staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on 100 selected works from across the Museum—both...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Moralia, Volume I
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides. Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one comparable Roman), though the last four lives are single. But he was also...Hardback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Clodia of Rome
One of Rome's most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot—thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero's most famous speeches in the Forum. But Cicero was lying, in defence of his own property and interests. Like so many women libelled or erased from history, Clodia had a life that was...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Muse of History
How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Short History of Ancient Rome
From the hit Short History of... podcast comes the dramatic and thrilling history of Ancient Rome. Packed with vivid detail and extraordinary characters, this immersive account brings to life the rise and fall of one of the greatest empires the world has ever known. Short History of Ancient Rome transforms 1,000 years of history into a riveting and action-packed account...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Song of Achilles
A New York Times Bestseller "At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art.... A book I could not put down." — Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe. A tale of...Hardback$7800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Peloponnesian War
Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. The Peloponnesian War is highly regarded for its insightful analysis and narrative of the conflict between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian...Paperback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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