Philosophy & Religion
Prehistory; Civilisations of Middle & Far East;
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MARCUS AURELIUS: MEDITATIONS
(Unabridged audio)Read by DUNCAN STEEN
£11.95One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180). Covering issues such as... Learn More -
SYNAESTHESIA AND THE ANCIENT SENSES
Edited by SHANE BUTLER and ALEX PURVES
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You Save: 50%Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through textures, flavours, aromas, sounds and sights. This volume’s thirteen chapters range widely from Homer to Quintil... Learn More -
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE GODS
Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic IdealDAVID CONSTANTINE
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You Save: 51%In the seventeenth century a succession of travellers journeyed to Greece and what is now Turkey and rediscovered the Hellenic world, decisively switching the focus and taste in the West from Rome to ... Learn More -
THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE
Wealth, the Fall of Rome and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 ADPETER BROWN
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You Save: 24%This is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the church in late antiquity and the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire. Brown examines the rise of t... Learn More -
A JEW AMONG ROMANS
The Life and Legacy of Flavius JosephusFREDERIC RAPHAEL
£12.95This is an audacious history of Josephus (37-c100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Joseph ben Mattathias's transforma... Learn More -
LUCIAN: SELECTED DIALOGUES
LUCIAN
Translated By C D N COSTAList Price: £9.99
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You Save: 51%Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only in the Greek world, but on later European writers suc... Learn More -
ONOMATOLOGOS
Studies in Greek Personal Names Presented to Elaine MatthewsR W V CATLING, F MARCHAND and M SASANOW
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You Save: 73%Onomatologos is a term used in later antiquity to describe eminent lexicographers such as Hesychius and Pollux as ‘collectors of words’. It is here used as the title for a major volume of papers i... Learn More -
CITY OF THE RAM-MAN
The Story of Ancient MendesDONALD B REDFORD
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You Save: 76%In this richly illustrated book, a renowned archaeologist draws on the latest discoveries – including many of his own – to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes, home of the myster... Learn More -
MAN AND WOUND IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
A History of Military Medicine from Sumer to the Fall of ConstantinopleRICHARD A GABRIEL
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You Save: 48%Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians and medics cope with arrow injuries, spear and sword g... Learn More -
THE HEMLOCK CUP
Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good LifeBETTANY HUGHES
£15.95This is the biography Socrates deserves: it sets him in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean that was his home, and deals with him as he himself dealt with the world. Socrates was a soldier, a lov... Learn More
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