Classical history & classical civilisation books

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The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus

The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus

Author: Wim Nijs
ISBN: 9789004684805
Format: Hardback
$525.36

Through a careful analysis of the ethics of Philodemus, this monograph offers the first book-length study of the...  Read More >>

Plato: Republic Book I

Plato: Republic Book I

Author: David Sansone (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9781108833455
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's...  Read More >>

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World...

Author: Mary Beard
ISBN: 9780691225876
Format: Paperback
$39.99

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians...  Read More >>

Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans

Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans...

Author: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer ,  John Noel Dillon
ISBN: 9780300254433
Format: Hardback
$72.95

The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation...  Read More >>

The Great Book of Ancient Egypt: In the Realm of the Pharaohs

The Great Book of Ancient Egypt: In the Realm of the...

Author: Zahi Hawass
ISBN: 9788854413450
Format: Hardback
$89.99

In this superbly illustrated volume, distinguished Egyptologist Zahi Hawass guides you through the architectural...  Read More >>

Pompeii: The History, Life, and Art of the Buried City

Pompeii: The History, Life, and Art of the Buried City...

Author: Marisa Ranieri Panetta ,  Araldo De Luca
ISBN: 9788854407183
Format: Hardback
$95.00

Using the latest scientific research, this multidisciplinary journey explores everything from painting styles to...  Read More >>

Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science

Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks...

Author: Prof Kassandra J. Miller (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, Colby College)
ISBN: 9780198885177
Format: Hardback
$195.95

Explores how the introduction of timekeeping technologies -- sundials and water clocks -- affected the practice,...  Read More >>

How Medieval Europe was Ruled

How Medieval Europe was Ruled

Author: Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032100173
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The book aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of types of rulers and polities that existed in medieval Europe. The...  Read More >>

Civilization and Its Discontents: A Norton Critical Edition

Civilization and Its Discontents: A Norton Critical...

Author: Sigmund Freud ,  Samuel Moyn
ISBN: 9780393617092
Format: Paperback
$62.91

This Norton Critical Edition includes:   The Standard Edition of Sigmund Freud’s most famous work, under the general...  Read More >>

Die ›Epistulae ad familiares‹ des Kaisers Augustus: Studien zur Textgeschichte in der Antike, Edition und Kommentar

Die ›Epistulae ad familiares‹ des Kaisers Augustus:...

Author: Henning Ohst
ISBN: 9783111191515
Format: Hardback
$188.67

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Studies on Eastern Orthodox Church Chant

Studies on Eastern Orthodox Church Chant

Author: Svetlana Kujumdzieva
ISBN: 9781032454818
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book focuses on the compilation of the different practices of Eastern Orthodox Chant, looking at the subject...  Read More >>

The Roman Impact on the Economy of the Lower Germanic Limes Region

The Roman Impact on the Economy of the Lower Germanic...

Author: Erik Timmerman
ISBN: 9789004682207
Format: Hardback
$406.56

This book provides a comprehensive account of the Roman impact on the economy of the Lower Germanic Limes region...  Read More >>

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond

Author: M. E. Gkikaki
ISBN: 9781800856134
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Thirteen essays explore how the study of tokens has advanced in recent decades, and what the potential is to advance...  Read More >>

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond

Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond

Author: M. E. Gkikaki
ISBN: 9781837643899
Format: Hardback
$284.63

Thirteen essays explore how the study of tokens has advanced in recent decades, and what the potential is to advance...  Read More >>

Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature

Author: Tom Hawkins (The Ohio State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367410292
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This is the first book to study how Haitian authors from independence to the present have adapted Greco-Roman material...  Read More >>

Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum

Late Roman Italy: Imperium to Regnum

Author: Jeroen Wijnendaele
ISBN: 9781399518024
Format: Hardback
$388.12

Explores the major political, social, economic, religious and cultural changes impacting what was once the most...  Read More >>

Understanding Early Christian Art

Understanding Early Christian Art

Author: Robin M. Jensen (University of Notre Dame, USA)
ISBN: 9781032105482
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this...  Read More >>

Understanding Early Christian Art

Understanding Early Christian Art

Author: Robin M. Jensen (University of Notre Dame, USA)
ISBN: 9781032105505
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this...  Read More >>

Understanding Integration in the Roman World

Understanding Integration in the Roman World

Author: Elena Muñiz Grijalvo ,  Rosario Moreno Soldevila
ISBN: 9789004545618
Format: Hardback
$337.92

Drawing on recent debates on cultural contact, this book offers a series of examples that invite to interpret integration...  Read More >>

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe,...

Author: Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032482897
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who...  Read More >>

Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination

Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait...

Author: Marco Benoît Carbone (Brunel University, UK) ,  Filippo Carla-Uhink (Potsdam University Germany)
ISBN: 9781350194656
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey, Marco...  Read More >>

Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies: An Ontological Exploration

Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies:...

Author: Dr Olaf Almqvist (University College Dublin, Ireland) ,  David Taylor
ISBN: 9781350221949
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Cosmological narratives like the creation story in the book of Genesis or the modern Big Bang are popularly understood...  Read More >>

Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens: Hoplite Transitions

Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical...

Author: Dr Owen Rees (Birmingham Newman University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350188747
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental...  Read More >>

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