Athenagoras
Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian thinker of the second century who engaged with contemporary philosophical thought in the matters of the divine, and the relationship of that divine to the material world. While clearly a Christian apologist, Athenagoras presents doctrines of God, of the Holy Trinity, and of other theological matters which clearly evidence an engagement with Greek philosophical...Hardback$35300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Archaeology and Capitalism
The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline’s history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they insist that archaeology must rethink its muted professional stance and become more overtly active agents of change. The discipline is not about an...Paperback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A People's History of Classics
A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between...Hardback$31800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A People's History of Classics
A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between...Paperback$7799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
An Introduction to the Ancient World
An Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of the history of the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Covering the social, political, economic, and cultural processes that have influenced later western and Near Eastern civilisations, this volume considers subjects such as the administrative structures, economies, and religions of the ancient Near East, Athenian democracy, the development of...Paperback$9199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
An Introduction to the Ancient World
An Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of the history of the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Covering the social, political, economic, and cultural processes that have influenced later Western and Near Eastern civilisations, this volume considers subjects such as the administrative structures, economies, and religions of the ancient Near East, Athenian democracy, the development of...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Animals in Greek and Roman Thought
Although reasoned discourse on human-animal relations is often considered a late twentieth-century phenomenon, ethical debate over animals and how humans should treat them can be traced back to the philosophers and literati of the classical world. From Stoic assertions that humans owe nothing to animals that are intellectually foreign to them, to Plutarch's impassioned arguments for animals as sentient and...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ancient Near East: The Basics
Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent from those efforts. Topics covered include: What do we mean when we talk about the...Hardback$23500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ancient Medicine
The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade. This revised volume includes discussions of several new or forgotten works by Galen and his contemporaries, as well as of...Paperback$9199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ancient Cities
The third edition of Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on archaeological evidence. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of cities, their architecture...Paperback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ambitiosa Mors
Although the distinctive—and sometimes bizarre—means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this as an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book, T.D. Hill traces the cultural logic which animated these suicides, describing the meaning and...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Alexander the Great
This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken. The twelve thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander, examining the main areas of debate...Hardback$38800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Aleppo
Shortlisted for the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently, it enjoyed a thriving urban life—in particular, an active traditional suq, with a continuous tradition going back centuries. Its tangle of streets still follows the Hellenistic grid, and above it looms the great Citadel, which...Paperback$8299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A History of the Roman World
With a new foreword by Tim Cornell ‘Can anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the dominion of a single city of Rome?’ – Polybius, Greek Historian The city of Rome created the foundations of an...Hardback$24700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A History of the Muslim World to 1750
A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including...Paperback$17200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A History of the Muslim World to 1750
A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including...Hardback$45900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Tristia. Ex Ponto
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later, he did considerable public service there and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus with his Ars Amatoria and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, dwelling in...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Silk Roads
For more than 1500 years, across more than 4000 miles, the Silk Roads connected East and West. These overland trails and sea lanes carried not only silks, but also cotton textiles, dyes, horses, incense, spices, gems, glass, and ceramics along with religious ideas, governing customs, and technology. For The Silk Roads, Xinru Liu has assembled primary sources from ancient China,...Paperback$8295Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Shields of the Empire
The Shields of the Empire: Eastern Roman Military Elites during the Reigns of the Emperors Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I aims to reconstruct the involvement of the Eastern Roman military elite in various matters of the state against the wider backdrop of political history marked by the reigns of the emperors Theodosius II (408-450), Marcian (450-457) and Leo I...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Rest is History Returns
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns! This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Persian Wars, Volume II
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 Odyssey
Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation—available at last in our black-spine classics line. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan. A Penguin Classic. The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Jewish War, Volume III
Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem around 37 CE. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests, he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt against Rome, managing for the Jews the...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Jewish War, Volume II
Josephus, a soldier, statesman, and historian, was a Jew born in Jerusalem around 37 CE. A man of high descent, he was early learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests, he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent a revolt against Rome, managing for...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Spartan Reflections
The complex Spartan tradition has been central to western thinking and remains influential today. Sparta is also one of the handful of ancient Greek cities well enough attested for the historian to attempt a convincing social portrait in the round. Spartan Reflections, whose title is intended to capture both the influence of the Spartan tradition and Sparta's thought-provoking qualities, is...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Scripta Minora
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Rome in the Late Republic
This well-established textbook outlines the key factors that every student must assess for a proper understanding of the period of the Late Roman Republic— from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions. Rome in the Late Republic is an essential book for the beginner, and it also has much to...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Roman History, Volume V
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father, a Roman governor of Cilicia, he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus became an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. He was made governor of...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Roman History, Volume III
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia), he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. He was made governor of Pergamum...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Roman History, Volume I
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, entered the Senate, and served as an advocate under Emperor Commodus. During his career, he held high offices and became a close friend of several...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Pro Lege Manilia. Pro Caecina. Pro Cluentio. Pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo
Pro Lege Manilia. Pro Caecina. Pro Cluentio. Pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo by Cicero offers a remarkable insight into the life and times of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE), a prominent Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher. Cicero's life spanned an era of significant change, witnessing the rise, dictatorship, and ultimate assassination of Julius Caesar amidst a crumbling republic. Through his...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Pro Archia. Post Reditum in Senatu. Post Reditum ad Quirites. De Domo Sua. De Haruspicum Responsis. Pro Plancio
Pro Archia. Post Reditum in Senatu. Post Reditum ad Quirites. De Domo Sua. De Haruspicum Responsis. Pro Plancio by Cicero captures the essence of a dramatic era in Roman history. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) was a prominent Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher. We know more about him than any other Roman figure, as he lived through an eventful...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
On the Natural Faculties
If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was reared, then the work of Galen, who lived some six hundred years later, may be looked upon as the summit of the same edifice. He was born in Pergamum in 129 CE, and both there and in other academic centres...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Natural History, Volume X
Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and writer, is author of the encyclopedic Natural History, in 37 books, an unrivalled compendium of Roman knowledge. The contents of the books are as follows: Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Moralia, Volume XII
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Memorable Doings and Sayings, Volume I
Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (14-37 CE). The collection was very popular in the Renaissance and has recently attracted renewed scholarly attention. Yet to date, there has been no modern English translation of Memorable Doings and Sayings. This work is now added to the Loeb Classical Library, featuring a freshly...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Lives, Volume XI
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece. He studied philosophy at Athens and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Lives of the Caesars, Volume II
Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary from 119–121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his Lives of the Caesars. After the dismissal of both men for some breach of court...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Letters to Friends, Volume III
Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this correspondence is unparalleled; nowhere else do we get such an intimate look...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Legion XXII: The Capsarius
SIMON TURNEY'S THRILLING NEW ROMAN EMPIRE NOVEL AGRICOLA: COMMANDER AVAILABLE NOW! Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. And the Twenty Second is no ordinary legion. Egypt, 25 BC. Former surgeon Titus Cervianus is now a capsarius – a Roman army combat medic. He is deeply unpopular with his legion, the Twenty Second, who are themselves unpopular with the rest of...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Julian, Volume II
Julian, Volume II by Julian recounts the life of Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate", a Roman Emperor who lived from 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, Julian's early years were marked by precariousness, influencing his devotion to literature and philosophy. Eventually, he embraced paganism, studying in various Greek cities. In 355,...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
History of Rome, Volume XIV
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE. He may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
History of Rome, Volume XIII
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
History of Rome, Volume III
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Hellenica, Volume I
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111
This volume includes: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111 features articles by: Daniel Kölligen, "Ὄρθος, The Watchdog"; Richard L. Phillips, "Invisibility and Sight in Homer: Some Aspects of A. S. Pease Reconsidered"; Antonio Tibiletti, "Pondering Pindaric Superlatives in Context"; Matthew Hiscock, "Αὐθέντης: A 'Mot Fort' in the Discourse of Classical Athens"; James T. Clark, "Off-Stage Cries? The Performance of...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Fasti
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he performed considerable public service there and 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 an unknown reason, dwelling in the cold and primitive town...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Cyropaedia, Volume I
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Cratylus. Parmenides. Greater Hippias. Lesser Hippias
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 -
Charmides. Alcibiades. Hipparchus. Lovers. Theages. Minos. Epinomis
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood, he was an admirer of Socrates and later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; it is probable that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution. It is possible that he later went...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations
Human wisdom is of little or no value, wrote Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for knowledge involved an extensive use of maxims and quotations, as we can see from those expressions of Homer...Hardback$14300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Valentinian Christianity
Valentinus, an Egyptian Christian who travelled to Rome to teach his unique brand of theology, and his followers, the Valentinians, formed one of the largest and most influential sects of Christianity in the second and third centuries. But by the fourth century, their writings had all but disappeared suddenly and mysteriously from the historical record, as the newly consolidated imperial...Hardback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Wall
Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Verrine Orations, Volume II
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence, we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Shadow of Perseus
'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT 'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was gripped by the human drama at the novel's heart' ELODIE HARPER Myth remembers Perseus as one of its greatest heroes. A slayer of monsters. A rescuer of damsels. But the women who knew...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® (TLG) Canon of Authors and Works is a bibliographic guide to the authors and works that have survived in Greek from antiquity (eighth century BCE) to the present era. These works have been collected and digitised by the TLG. It provides biographical information about each author, such as dates, place of birth, and literary activity, as...Hardback$38199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy
This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first time the most recent archaeological discoveries from Hadrian's Wall, London, and other sites across the country, and richly illustrated throughout with photographs and maps, this reliable and up-to-date...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Qur'an and the Bible
A groundbreaking comparative study that illuminates the connections between the Qur'ān and the Bible While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries of Qur'ānic and Biblical studies to offer rigorous and...Hardback$11999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Poems of Exile
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile—permanently, as it turned out—at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very...Paperback$12700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Odyssey
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green’s version, with its lyrical mastery...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Long Shadow of Antiquity
The Long Shadow of Antiquity is a vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today. This book offers a passionate justification for why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Challenging the way the phrase 'That's just ancient history' is used to dismiss something as irrelevant,...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Invention of God
Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms—Yhwh, God, or Allah—by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE. That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a...Hardback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Final Pagan Generation
The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and...Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Art of War
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The new and internationally acclaimed translation by Michael Nylan, accompanied by her detailed explanatory footnotes. A richly informative introduction by Michael Nylan. Fourteen illustrations. Seven interpretative essays on The Art of War's central themes by Michael Nylan and Shoufu Yin, Benjamin Daniels, Trenton Wilson, Joseph Passman, Alfreda Murck, Li Ling, and Richard Curt Kraus. A...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Annals
Woodman's translation masterfully conveys Tacitus' distinctive and powerful literary style and reflects the best of relevant current scholarship. His introduction provides a wealth of insight into the period about which Tacitus wrote, Tacitus himself, and the principles of translation that have shaped this rendering. The Annals includes extensive notes; political, military, and geographical appendices; imperial family trees; suggested further readings;...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations
Max Weber is widely recognised as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology. Yet whilst his thought is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe or the analysis of modernity, Weber also had a profound scholarly interest in ancient societies and the Near East. The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations — Weber's neglected masterpiece which first...Paperback$9800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy
Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare’s Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his landmark Shakespeare’s Rome (1976). With Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of their protagonists but of an entire political community. Cantor analyzes the way Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of the...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Roma
Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world. Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way station among seven hills for traders and merchants and the founding of the...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Queer Euripides
This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides’ plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of...Paperback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Psychiatry
Is psychiatry a distinctively modern approach to mental difference and distress, or is it a continuation of ancient Greek ideas – in the realm not only of medicine (consider ‘melancholia’), but also of philosophy (source of the idea of ‘therapeutics of the soul’) and tragic drama (inspiration for, among other concepts, the ‘Oedipus complex’)? This volume examines how psychiatry, psychoanalysis...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Pro Milone. In Pisonem. Pro Scauro. Pro Fonteio. Pro Rabirio Postumo. Pro Marcello. Pro Ligario. Pro Rege Deiotaro
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence, we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Polybius
As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which the Romans weathered the war with Hannibal and became masters of...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 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...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Philosophical Orations, Volume II
A Platonic evangelist's lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical, philosophical, and theological import. These include the nature of divinity, the immortality of the soul, the sources of good and...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 31 and 34 from the Beliefs and Ideas Component Group: Greek Religion by Athina Mitropoulos and Julietta SteinhauerDemocracy and the Athenians by Tim Morrison and James Renshaw Why was worshipping the gods so important to ancient Greek life? To...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE. He was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. Under Plato's tutelage at Athens, he studied and later taught there from 367 to 347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor. During this...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Natural History, Volume III
Pliny the Elder, a tireless researcher and writer, is the author of the encyclopaedic Natural History, in 37 books, an unrivalled compendium of Roman knowledge. The contents of the books are as follows: Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world;...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Moralia, Volume VII
Plutarch (Plutarchus), circa 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece. He studied philosophy at Athens and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. Plutarch appears as a...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World
Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences, and problems involved in the monetisation of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity. The contributions explore not only how powerful men and states used money and coinage to achieve their aims, but how these aims and methods had often already been shaped...Hardback$39000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims—often of an exceedingly malignant kind. In seven chapters, each addressed to an important arm of Greco-Roman magic, the volume...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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