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
The Odyssey
Sing to me of the resourceful man, O Muse, who wandered far after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. He saw the cities of many men and he learned their minds. He suffered many pains on the sea in his spirit, seeking to save his life and the homecoming of his companions. Odysseus—soldier, sailor, trickster, and everyman—is one...Hardback$8700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Stone Blind
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 "Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories." -- Telegraph (UK) The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive Greek mythology retelling centred on the story of Medusa, the...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Cleopatra
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years,...Hardback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Timaeus. Critias. Cleitophon. Menexenus. Epistles
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In his early manhood, he was an admirer of Socrates and later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove of Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; it is probable that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution, while it is possible he...Hardback$9500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Republic
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness? What is reality? And what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Persian Wars, Volume I
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 Aswan), 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$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Library, Volume II
The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in a clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Child Follows the Womb
A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome's most significant legacies is a legal framework for hereditary slavery. Under the Roman principle that would come to be known as partus sequitur ventrem (the offspring follows the womb), enslaved women bore enslaved children regardless of the identity of the child's father. For...Hardback$20900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Metamorphoses, Volume I
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later, he engaged in considerable public service there and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus with his Ars Amatoria and was banished because of this work and some other unknown reason. He dwelt in the...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Anabasis of Alexander, Volume I
Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander in seven books is the best account we have of Alexander's adult life. Indica, a description of India and of Nearchus's voyage therefrom, was to be a supplement. A student of Epictetus, Arrian took notes at his lectures and published them (in eight books of which we have four, The Discourses) and also the Encheiridion or...Hardback$9500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Song of Achilles Deluxe Edition
A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe. This deluxe edition features: Elegant sprayed and stenciled edges Sparkling gold foil Endpapers featuring a map of Homer's Greece A guide to Greek gods, mortals, and heroes Essays by Madeline Miller and discussion questions A tale of...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 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 gods, kings,...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Peloponnesian War
The greatest historian that ever lived Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the The Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC. This conflict involved virtually the whole of the Greek world and ended in the...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Histories
Herodotus is not only known as the father of history, as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography. As well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also...Paperback$3900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Lysistrata
Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born circa 450 BCE. Today, forty-three of his plays are known by title, though only eleven survive. The most famous of these is the whimsical fantasy Lysistrata. A perennial classroom and stage favourite as well as the basis of Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, the play is as relevant today...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Clytemnestra
She's been called a murderer, a monster, a villain. But the truth was never hers to tell—until now. Born a Spartan princess. Married to a tyrant. Forced to watch her child sacrificed to appease the gods. In a world where women are used, silenced, and discarded, Clytemnestra does not mourn—she waits. And when her moment comes, she rises not as...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Circle of Days
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new...Hardback$9300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Carpe Jugulum
The novel exudes the curious feel of old-fashioned vampire and Frankenstein legends. . . . Pratchett lampoons everything from Christian superstition to Swiss Army knives here, proving that the fantasy satire of Discworld 'still ate'nt dead.' -- Publishers Weekly An invasion of fashionable blood-sucking vampyres are no match for the wacky wands and zany spells of a coven of rural...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Atalanta
From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne, a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress raised by bears and the only woman in the world's most famous band of heroes, the Argonauts. Princess, Warrior, Lover, Hero When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Finnik the Furious
A ten-year-old caveman and his baby sister take on monsters, mayhem, and unexpected responsibility in this laugh-out-loud graphic novel for kids! What’s tougher than slaying monsters? Keeping your baby sister alive to tell the tale. Ten-year-old Finnik dreams of becoming a legendary monster hunter like his parents. But when he’s told to stay behind and watch his baby sister, Finnik...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Ancient Romans
This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in AD 14. Interspersed throughout the discussion of the political history of the period are crucial chapters on all aspects of...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households
Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households provides the first detailed study of the water supply of households in antiquity. Chapters explore settings from Classical Greece to the Late Roman Empire across a wide variety of environments, from dry deserts and moderate Mediterranean zones to wet and temperate climates further north. The different case studies presented in each chapter are united by...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Understanding Greek Warfare
Understanding Greek Warfare offers a wide-ranging survey of Greek warfare, from the Mycenaeans through to the Hellenistic kingdoms’ clashes with Rome. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular theme and historical period, along with a detailed discussion of the relevant sources, both ancient and modern. This volume covers not only the development of equipment, tactics, strategy, and the major...Hardback$28200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Understanding Early Christian Art
Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students. It opens by discussing a series of questions pertaining to the evidence itself and how scholars through the centuries have regarded...Hardback$31800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Thucydides on Strategy
A fresh look at the ancient general and scholar's classic History of the Peloponnesian War, from the perspective of modern diplomacy and war. Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, History of the Peloponnesian War has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its deep political and military...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The World of Parmenides
With a new foreword by Scott Austin "I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try to show the greatness of the early Greek...Hardback$24700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The World of Parmenides
With a new foreword by Scott Austin The World of Parmenides is a brilliant exploration of the complexity of ancient Greek thought and science. In this classic title, Popper reveals his ground-breaking engagement with Presocratic philosophy and the profound enlightenment he experienced in reading Parmenides. Including writings on Greek science, philosophy, and history, Popper demonstrates his lifelong fascination and admiration...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Wandering Queen
A beautifully woven tale with brilliant, confident writing, Heywood has illuminated the stories of ladies too often relegated to the role of villain or damsel. — CLAIRE M ANDREWS The King of Tyre is dead, his final words anointing his clever and strong-willed daughter, Elissa, as the new queen until his young son, Pygmalion, comes of age. But betrayal and...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Secret Sacred
The Secret Sacred explores the hidden religious practices of the classical world. These cults, shrouded in secrecy, promised initiates a transformative afterlife. While many rituals remain mysterious, artworks and historical texts provide glimpses of their underlying beliefs. The book examines Greco-Roman religious traditions and their divergence into mystery cults, including Bacchic ceremonies depicted in frescoes, Orphic gold tablets guiding souls...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion
The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in urbanism across Italy in the period when Rome extended its power across the entire peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Chapters present the most up-to-date archaeological data in the first broad and detailed treatment of this topic, superseding traditional academic particularism. They...Hardback$54100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion
The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in urbanism across Italy in the period when Rome extended its power across the entire peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. Chapters present the most up-to-date archaeological data in the first broad and detailed treatment of this topic, superseding traditional academic particularism. They...Paperback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the most significant works of Western culture. Cast as a long, impassioned conversation with God, it is intertwined with passages of life-narrative and with key theological and philosophical insights. It is enduringly popular, and justly so. The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions is an engaging introduction to this spiritually creative and intellectually original work. This...Hardback$28200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Routledge Atlas of Classical History
Covering a range of topics in 97 clear and detailed maps, this book explores: Politics - from ancient Egypt and the growth of the Greek city-states, to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Religion - from the spread of Judaism and Christianity to the persecution of the Christians. Military history - from Salamis and Alexander the Great to...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad
This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic, and relying...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad
This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic, and relying...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Romans
The Romans: An Introduction is a concise, readable and comprehensive survey of the Roman world, which explores 1,200 years of political, military and cultural history alongside religion, social pressures, literature, art and architecture. This new edition includes updated and revised materials designed to develop analytical skills in literary and material evidence, evoking themes that resonate in both ancient and modern...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England
Examining both familiar and underappreciated texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that early modern French and English writers conceived with both their classical predecessors and authors from flourishing literary traditions in neighbouring countries. In order to present their own avowedly national literatures as successfully surpassing others, they engaged in a paradoxical strategy of presenting other traditions as both inspiring and...Hardback$35300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Persian Empire
This lavish set of books contains the most complete collection of raw material for reconstructing the history of the Achaemenid Persian Empire to date. Studying Achaemenid history has been difficult in the past because original sources include texts from hugely disparate origins, many different languages and various periods in history; the risk is to rely too heavily on biased and...Set$78600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Parthians
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire, which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD. The Parthians were Rome’s great opponents in the east, but comparatively little is known about them. The Parthians focuses on the rise, expansion, flowering and decline of the Parthian Empire and covers both...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Parthians
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire, which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD. The Parthians were Rome’s great opponents in the east, but comparatively little is known about them. The Parthians focuses on the rise, expansion, flowering and decline of the Parthian Empire and covers both...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids
For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two commonly used languages of communication. Although this situation is by no means exceptional in the ancient and medieval worlds, the wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient multilingualism. One of the greatest contributions...Hardback$37600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean society as a whole before the Arab...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Last Pharaohs
The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated—separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic state firmly in the context of both Hellenistic and Egyptian history. More broadly...Paperback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Inca
From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle of South American civilisation. Known as the "Romans of the Americas," these fabulous engineers converted the vertiginous, challenging landscapes...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Hymn to Dionysus
A timely and timeless reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin, for readers of The Song of Achilles and Elektra. Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight for the homeland he's never seen and to follow his commander's orders at all costs. But when he rescues a baby...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World
This volume examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334 BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. Under the Greek, Roman, and finally Christian supremacy which Hellenism brought, Judaism developed far beyond its biblical origins into a form which was to influence European history from the Middle Ages to the...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Heart of Biblical Theology
Providing a model of how to do biblical theology, this book also explores important emerging trends over the last five years, including: reception-history as a means to grasping the theology of the Bible; theological interpretation as a new form of lectio divina (meditative reading); the place of Jewish interpretation in forming a biblical theology; and the ever-present problem of losing...Hardback$35300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Greeks
This fully revised, new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilisation from the age of Homer to the Hellenistic period. It opens with an overview of ancient historical sources and their authors and perspectives before delving into...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Greeks
This fully revised, new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilisation from the age of Homer to the Hellenistic period. It opens with an overview of ancient historical sources and their authors and perspectives before delving into...Paperback$8299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Complete Works of Claudian
This volume offers a modern, accurate, and accessible translation of Claudian’s work, published in English for the first time since 1922, and accompanied by detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary. Claudian (active 395–404 CE) was the last of the great classical Latin poets. His best-known work, The Rape of Proserpina, continues to inspire numerous retellings and adaptations. Claudian also wrote...Hardback$30600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Celtic World
A detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. This volume looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organisations, society and technology. It draws together material from all over pagan Celtic Europe and includes...Hardback$63500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Ancient Romans
This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in AD 14. Interspersed through the discussion of the political history of the period are crucial chapters on all aspects of...Paperback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sound and the Ancient Senses
Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sound and the Ancient Senses
Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
Throughout the Roman Empire, cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidised by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Rome in the East
This new edition of Rome in the East expands on the seminal work of the first edition and examines the lasting impact of the Near Eastern influence on Rome on our understanding of the development of European culture. Warwick Ball explores modern issues as well as ancient ones, and overturns conventional ideas about the spread of European culture to the...Paperback$11300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Public Statues Across Time and Cultures
This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in defining publicness itself. The meaning of public statues is examined through discussion of their appearance, their spatial context, and written discourses related to how they were experienced. Bringing together experts working on statues across...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Palmyra
Palmyra: A History examines Palmyra, the city in the Syrian oasis of Tadmur, from its beginnings in the Bronze Age, through the classical period and its discovery and excavation, to the present day. It aims at reconstructing Palmyra’s past from literary accounts – classical and post-classical – as well as material evidence of all kinds: inscriptions, coins, art and, of...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity
In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the 3rd century to a situation where, by the 6th century, Christianity had become the dominant religious force. Using translated extracts from contemporary sources, Lee examines the fortunes of...Hardback$32900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad
Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad compares the evolution of several cities in the Near East from the time of Alexander the Great until the beginning of the Islamic 'Abbasid Dynasty. This volume examines both archaeological remains and literary sources to explain the diversity of imperial, cultural, and religious influences on urban life. It offers several...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Men and Masculinity: The Basics
Men and Masculinity: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the academic study of masculinity, outlining the key ideas and most pressing issues concerning the field today. It provides readers with a framework for understanding these issues and explores the ways that masculinity has been understood in the Social Sciences and Humanities to date. Addressing theories which view masculinity as...Hardback$23500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Mediterranean Timescapes
This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region. Discrepancies between the use of time to represent identity in death allow readers to begin to understand...Hardback$29400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Mediterranean Timescapes
This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region. Discrepancies between the use of time to represent identity in death allow readers to begin to understand...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Ishtar
Ishtar is the first book dedicated to providing an accessible analysis of the mythology and image of this complex goddess. The polarity of her nature is reflected in her role as goddess of sexual love and war, and has made her difficult to characterise in modern scholarship. By exploring this complexity, Ishtar offers insight into Mesopotamian culture and thought, and...Hardback$38800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
India: The Ancient Past
India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and controversial issues by examining key themes such as the...Hardback$37600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Honorius
Honorius explores the personal life and tumultuous times of one of the last emperors of the Roman West. From his accession to the throne aged ten to his death at thirty-eight, Honorius’ reign was blighted by a myriad of crises: military rebellions, political conspiracies, barbarian invasions, and sectarian controversies. The notorious sack of the city of Rome occurred on Honorius’...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience
Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (532-537 CE). Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience examines the edifice from the perspective of aesthetics to define the concept of beauty and the meaning of art in early Byzantium. Byzantine aesthetic thought is re-evaluated against late antique Neoplatonism and...Paperback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Greek Oracles (Routledge Revivals)
H.W. Parke’s Greek Oracles, first published in 1967, presents an illuminating introduction to a fascinating and often under-acknowledged aspect of the ancient world: its religion. The Homeric epics have sometimes been regarded as the scriptures of antiquity. But to the Greeks who sought guidance in the troubles of their world, the normal method of ascertaining the will of God on...Paperback$7799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Greek History: The Basics
Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece, covering the period from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome. With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece’s ancient history, the book addresses key topics, approaches, and issues central to Greek history, including: The invention of politics and the...Hardback$23500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Greek and Roman Technology
In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic, with Humphrey and Oleson, provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings...Paperback$13700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Greek and Roman Technology
In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic, with Humphrey and Oleson, provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
From the Gracchi to Nero
From the Gracchi to Nero is an outstanding history of the Roman world from 133 BC to 68 AD. Fifty years since publication, it is widely hailed as the classic survey of the period, going through many revised and updated editions until H.H. Scullard’s death. It explores the decline and fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the...Hardback$23500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Escape from Rome
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world. The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Egyptian Myth: A Treasury of Legends, Art, and History
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Constantine XI Dragaš Palaeologus (1404–1453)
Constantine XI Dragaš Palaeologus (1404–1453) captures the poignant final moments of Constantine XI as he stood before the walls of Constantinople in 1453, forever bestowing upon him a heroic status. This book offers a more balanced portrait of an intriguing individual: the last emperor of Constantinople. The last of the Greek Caesars was a fascinating figure, not due to his...Hardback$38800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Atlas of the Ancient Near East
This atlas provides students and scholars with a broad range of information on the development of the Ancient Near East from prehistoric times through the beginning of written records in the Near East (c. 3000 BC) to the late Roman Empire and the rise of Islam. The geographical coverage of the atlas extends from the Aegean coast of Anatolia in...Paperback$11800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Atlas of Classical History
Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities, and travels from Greece’s Bronze Age to Rome’s fall in the West. This revised edition of the Atlas of Classical History equips readers with a clear visual...Hardback$30600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Atlas of Classical History
Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities, and travels from Greece’s Bronze Age to Rome’s fall in the West. This revised edition of the Atlas of Classical History equips readers with a clear visual...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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