Lysias: Five Speeches: 1, 12, 19, 22, 30
Litigants in ancient Athens were obliged to represent themselves, and cases were decided on the basis of speeches delivered by the opposing parties. Inexperienced litigants would turn for help to professional speech writers, and one of the leading exponents of the art of speech-writing in late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens was Lysias. Lysias: Five Speeches: 1, 12, 19, 22,...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
In Search of the Argonauts
Longlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award Few classical stories are as exciting as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The legend of the boy, who discovers a new identity as son of a usurped king and leads a crew of demi-gods and famous heroes, has resonated through the ages, rumbling like the clashing rocks, which almost pulverised the Argo....Paperback$13000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume III
Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest historians, was born about 471 BCE. He witnessed the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, during the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague, which he described so graphically. Later, as a general in 423, Thucydides failed to save Amphipolis...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Hippocrates, Volume II
This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. It contains eight treatises: respectively treating the prediction of acute diseases; the proper diet against them; the natural causes of epilepsy; medicine's status as an...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Greek Homosexuality
Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual evidence that leads him to provocative conclusions. This new release of the 1989 second edition,...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Euripides III
Euripides III contains the plays Heracles, translated by William Arrowsmith; The Trojan Women, translated by Richmond Lattimore; Iphigenia among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson; and Ion, translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students,...Hardback$8199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Euripides and the Politics of Form
How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a new approach to the aesthetics and politics of Greek tragedy, Victoria Wohl...Paperback$13900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics
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. Aristotle studied under Plato at Athens, where he also taught from 367 to 347. He later spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, during which time he...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
British Museum: So You Think You've Got it Bad? A Kid's Life in the Aztec Age
A kid's life in the Aztec Age might sound like fun, what with all that brilliant sunny weather and exciting festivals, but actually life for kids could be pretty hard. In this hilarious book, written by award-winning author Chae Strathie, children will learn just how tough life really was, from being jabbed by cactus spikes to snacking on maggots... and...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Athenian Society
In Athenian Society, Jennifer Gibbon explains the complex society of Athens in the 5th century BC through a number of important themes. She begins by examining life in the city and life in the country, then moves on to cover individual areas such as citizens, slaves, entertainment, religion, and the economy. A composite picture of Athenian society emerges from these...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Short History of the Phoenicians
Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom, and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Phoenicia in all...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
A Short History of Babylon
Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a return to their lost homeland after the sack of Jerusalem in 587 BC and their forcible removal by Nebuchadnezzar to the alien floodlands of the Euphrates. But to...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Art Nouveau and the Classical Tradition
Art Nouveau and the Classical Tradition was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows how, in expressing many of their most essential concerns—sexuality, death and the nature of art—its artists drew heavily upon classical literature and the iconography of classical art. It challenges the...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt to force their husbands to end the war. With its risqué humour, vibrant battle of the sexes, and themes of war and peace, Lysistrata remains as daring and thought-provoking today...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Aristophanes: Four Plays
The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Ancient Rome
This book shares little-known facts from and excerpts of primary source documents to correct popular misconceptions about Ancient Rome and to show how those misconceptions became widespread. Roman personalities and history have always had a larger-than-life profile in American popular culture, but most people think of this ancient civilization as merely decadent, cruel, and elitist. Most of our stereotypical conceptions...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther
A Spectator 2023 Book of the Year Esther is the most visual book of the Hebrew Bible and was largely crafted in the Fourth Century BCE by an author who was clearly au fait with the rarefied world of the Achaemenid court. It therefore provides an unusual mélange of information which can enlighten scholars of Ancient Iranian Studies whilst offering...Hardback$35900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Ancient Greek Civilization
The third edition of Ancient Greek Civilization is a concise, engaging introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece from the Minoan civilization to the age of the Roman Empire. This edition explores the evolution and development of Greek art, literature, politics, and thought across history, along with how these were affected by Greek interaction with other cultures. Now,...Paperback$16100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Ancestor of the West
With Ancestor of the West, three distinguished French historians reveal the story of the birth of writing and reason, demonstrating how the logical religious structures of Near Eastern and Mesopotamian cultures served as precursors to those of the West. "Full of matter for anyone interested in language, religion, and politics in the ancient world."—R. T. Ridley, Journal of Religious History...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
After 1177 B.C.
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilisations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever. At the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilisations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments,...Paperback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rome's Age of Revolution
The compelling, provocative account of how the Christian religion conquered the Roman Empire and how Rome in turn shaped Christianity—it's the story of how religion and politics combined to lay the foundations for the Western world. How did Christianity, starting out as a minor offshoot of Judaism, grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it?...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Data Empire
The first written name in human history was neither a god nor a king, but an accountant. From clay tablets to the algorithmic state, this groundbreaking 11,000-year global history argues that information has always been the seed of power. Long before writing existed, at the dawn of civilisation in Mesopotamia, rulers pressed marks into clay to keep track of land,...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom
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The Etruscans
A landmark introduction to Etruscan art and society filled with groundbreaking insights and never-before-published artworks. The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy introduces a culture that flourished in ancient Etruria in Italy from the ninth to second centuries BCE. Renowned for their beauty and craftsmanship, the nearly two hundred artworks in this book offer fascinating insight into Etruscan society...Hardback$14399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Pausanias of Sparta
The story of Pausanias, the general who defeated the Persians invading Greece and changed the course of history Weaving together ancient sources, Daniel Ogden tells the gripping story of the enigmatic and controversial Spartan regent to an underage king. Pausanias (ca. 505–ca. 467 BCE) would never have come to power had the Persians not annihilated the Greek forces at Thermopylae...Hardback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Human
Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class warfare, and catastrophic climate change. The Babylonian poem Atra-hasis is a forgotten masterpiece of political thought. Written in Akkadian in what is now southern Iraq during the early second millennium BCE, Atra-hasis gives us a glimpse of how ancient poets understood the society growing...Paperback$8000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Hubris
A new perspective on ancient Athens at the height of its powers, reinterpreting the city's supposed "Golden Age" as a period of ruinous culture wars. The age of Pericles, in the fifth century BC, is often described as the Golden Age of Athens. The city witnessed a flowering of philosophy, art, and architecture—including an ambitious building programme, with the Parthenon...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Ancient Nubian Art
Lushly illustrated with stunning artefacts, this volume is the first comprehensive and accessible publication to explore the art, architecture, and material culture of ancient Nubia. Kings and queens of Nubia reigned over one of the largest empires in the ancient world, with contacts extending north to Greece and Rome, south to sub-Saharan Africa, east to the Red Sea, and west...Paperback$10799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
When Christians Were Jews
When Christians Were Jews offers a compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion. How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realisation of God’s promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Tusculan Disputations
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, is a figure about whom we know more than any other Roman. He lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar during a tottering republic. In his political speeches, especially in his correspondence, we witness the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics,...Hardback$9500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Rise of Coptic
Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged period of stagnation. Jean-Luc Fournet traces this complex history, showing how the rise of...Hardback$11200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Jewish War, Volume I
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$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Invention of Athens
A revised edition of a groundbreaking work tracing the rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations in ancient Greece, arguing that they served to celebrate the city of Athens and the Athenian citizen. How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become the occasion to praise the city of...Paperback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Histories, Volume II
The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus,...Hardback$10700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Essential Greek Historians
Includes an introduction, maps, and selections from Herodotus' The Histories, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's The Hellenica, Aristotle's The Constitution of Athens, The Parian Marble, Polybius' The Histories, Memnon's History of Heracleia, and Plutarch's Life of Alexander. See the full Table of Contents on the www.hackettpublishing.com book title page. The Essential Greek Historians is an excellent collection of...Hardback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Theaetetus. Sophist
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 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 also...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Statesman. Philebus. Ion
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 
Queer as folklore
A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new. Leaving no headstone...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Posthomerica
Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC) and Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD), fills in the whole story of the Trojan expedition between the end of Homer's Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey, which had been treated only episodically by earlier epic and dramatic poets....Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Philosophy before the Greeks
There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what came before the Greeks was "before philosophy." In Philosophy before the Greeks, Marc Van De Mieroop, an acclaimed historian...Paperback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Olympia
A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient world, Olympia was renowned for far more than its athletic contests. In Olympia, Judith Barringer provides a...Paperback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Masada
Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children—the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple—reportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army. This dramatic event, which took place on top of Masada, a barren and windswept mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, spawned...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Iliad, Volume I
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans", over a grave insult to his personal honour and relates its tragic result—a chain of consequences that proves devastating for the Greek forces...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Discourses, Books 1–2
Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (54–68 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called 'healing place for sick souls', he taught a practical philosophy....Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Delphi
The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the omphalos—the "centre" or "navel"—of the ancient world for more than 1,000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to consult Delphi's oracular priestess, to set up monuments to the gods, and to take part in competitions. In this...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks
Significantly expanded and updated in light of the most recent scholarship, the second edition of Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks presents an engaging introduction to ancient Greek society, bringing this world vividly to life. This edition explores the perspectives and morals of typical ancient Greek citizens across a wide range of societal levels. Food and drink, literacy, the plight...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
One really must admire Harvey's achievement in this sourcebook. With just 350 passages (more than half of them consisting of Latin inscriptions, from all over Rome's empire), Harvey manages to give his readers a real sense of Roman private values and behaviours. His translations of the original texts are superb—both accurate and elegant. And he contextualises his chosen passages with...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Ancient Greek Holidays
Ancient Greek Holidays is a remarkable book that explores the ancient seasons and religious observance practices of the ancient Greeks. Mab Borden's meticulous research paints a vivid picture of the interconnectedness between mankind and the Gods. This book is invaluable for those interested in the religious traditions of ancient Greece. Ancient Greek Holidays is an immersive book delving deeply into...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Fulvia
'A thoroughly rapacious woman...as cruel as she is greedy' Cicero 'A woman who took no thought for spinning or housekeeping...meddlesome and headstrong' Plutarch '[She] caused the death of many, both to satisfy her enmity and to gain their wealth' Cassius Dio 'She acted in a haughty manner towards those who were placing her in a position to be arrogant' Orosius...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Histories, Volume I
The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus,...Hardback$10700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Roman History, Volume IX
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father, the Roman governor of Cilicia, he went to Rome in 180, entered the Senate, and became an advocate under the emperor Commodus. He held high offices and became a close friend of several emperors. He was appointed governor...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
On the Orator: Books 1–2
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 in his correspondence, we see the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics and the part...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
On the Orator: Book 3. On Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. Divisions of Oratory
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$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Library of History, Volume VI
Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian from Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, authored forty books of world history, titled Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, up to the Trojan War; history leading to Alexander's death (323 BCE); and history up to 54 BCE. Of this extensive work, we have complete Books I–V (focusing...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Letters to Quintus and Brutus. Letter Fragments. Letter to Octavian. Invectives. Handbook of Electioneering
Cicero's letters to his brother, Quintus, allow us an intimate glimpse of their world. Vividly informative too is Cicero's correspondence with Brutus dating from the spring of 43 BCE, which conveys the drama of the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar. These are now made available in a new Loeb Classical Library edition. Shackleton Bailey also provides in this...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Imhotep the African
In Imhotep the African, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy uncover the mystery of Imhotep, the ancient Egyptian superstar, a pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton all rolled into one. Based on their research at the Step Pyramid Complex at Saqqara, Bauval and Brophy delve into observational astronomy to 'decode' the alignments and other design features of the...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Hellenica, Volume II
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 -
Epistles, Volume II
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) around 4 BCE, came from a prominent and wealthy family. He spent his ailing childhood and youth in Rome under his aunt's care. Seneca became famous for his skills in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. Despite some disgrace during Claudius' reign, he went on to become the tutor and, by 54 CE,...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
East & West
The papers in this volume are based on a 2006 Princeton University symposium in honour of Glen W. Bowersock on the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study. Here, a distinguished international group of ancient historians explores the classical antiquity that Bowersock has given us over a scholarly career of almost fifty years. The...Hardback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
British Museum: So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Greece
A kid's life in ancient Greece might sound like fun, what with all that brilliant sunny weather and watching the Olympic games, but actually, life for kids could be pretty hard. In this hilarious book, written by award-winning author Chae Strathie, children will learn just how tough life really was, from living on a diet of blood soup whilst wearing...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
British Museum: Around the World Colouring: Ancient Rome
Discover how the ancient Romans lived in this entertaining and educational sticker colouring book that explores what they wore, their favourite pets, what they did for fun, and more! Learn what life was like as a farmer in the countryside and experience the thrill of gladiators fighting at the Colosseum, as you colour in detailed scenes from the ancient Roman...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Annals
Tacitus (Cornelius), a famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56, or 57 CE and lived until about 120. He became an orator, married a daughter of Julius Agricola in 77 before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence, he experienced the...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Anabasis of Alexander, Volume II
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$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Agricola. Germania. Dialogus
Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56, or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence, he experienced the terrors...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Iliad (Signature Editions)
Discover Homer's epic tale of Achilles and the Trojan War, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Set during the siege of Troy, The Iliad, along with The Odyssey, is a foundational work in Western literature and is considered one of the greatest epic poems of all time. It is also one of the oldest...Hardback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Tattooed Hills
A journey through Britain's chalklands, uncovering the stories, symbolism and shifting meanings of the mysterious figures carved into our hills. Across southern England and beyond, the land bears the marks of centuries—white horses, giants, crosses, badges, even a lost panda—cut into the chalk and exposed to the sky. In The Tattooed Hills, writer Jon Woolcott travels to these remarkable sites,...Hardback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Roman Britain in Twenty Towns
Roman Britain in Twenty Towns traverses the ruins of the past, from Hadrian’s Wall to Sulis Minerva’s spa at Bath, and the public buildings and walled circuits of other towns. Britain offers a wealth of Roman urban remains to explore. Designed for visitors keen to explore the archaeological landscape, this user-friendly guide outlines a plan of 20 Roman towns, explaining...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Julius Caesar
Tyranny, imperialism and political authority define Shakespeare’s enduring dramatic depiction of ruling power and regime change in ancient Rome. A touchpoint for characterising tyrannical leaders throughout the world, Julius Caesar has told a cautionary tale of the uneasy relationship between political leaders and citizens from the time it was first performed up to the 21st century. The Arden Shakespeare Fourth...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Aquileia
Aquileia is the largest archaeological site in Northern Italy, which once stood at the geo-political crossroad of cultural exchanges between Italy, the central-eastern Mediterranean and continental Europe. This book explores its beginnings as a Latin frontier colony which, over time, became a flourishing commercial centre of a cosmopolitan nature. By the end of the Imperial Age, it once again became...Hardback$29700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Voyagers
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Takes readers on a narrative odyssey Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year Highlights a dizzying burst of new research The Economist A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navigation Noelle Kahanu I would not be surprised if, after reading this masterpiece, many readers are...Hardback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Tragedies, Volume II
Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Seneca's plays depict intense passions and interactions in rhetoric that is equally strong. Their perspective is much...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Roman Triumph
It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his most glamorous prisoners, as well as the booty he'd captured, from enemy ships and precious statues to plants and animals from the conquered territory. Occasionally...Paperback$7400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Iron Way
A gripping historical adventure set in the second century AD and based on legends of King Arthur, The Iron Way is the second in Tim Leach's breathtaking Sarmatian Trilogy. AD 175, Vindolanda, Britannia. After their cavalry was broken by the legions on the frozen waters of the Danube, Sarmatian warrior Kai bought his peoples' lives with a pledge to serve...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Innocence of Pontius Pilate
The gospels and ancient historians agree: Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman imperial prefect in Jerusalem. To this day, Christians of all churches confess that Jesus died 'under Pontius Pilate'. But what exactly does that mean? Within decades of Jesus' death, Christians began suggesting that it was the Judaean authorities who had crucified Jesus—a notion later...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Iliad (Signature Editions)
Homer's epic tale of Achilles and the Trojan War, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. Set during the siege of Troy, The Iliad, along with The Odyssey, is a foundational work in Western literature and is considered one of the greatest epic poems of all time. It is also one of the oldest extant...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Early Chinese Empires
In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The City
From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, the second book in his authentic, action-packed City of Victory series set on the frontiers of the Roman Empire. AD 114: NICOPOLIS In the arid plains beyond the empire's Eastern Frontier, a Roman legion lays siege to the city of Nicopolis. Estranged from his beloved Enica to keep her safe, centurion Flavius Ferox is still...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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