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Paul in the Greco-Roman World | |||
| A Handbook | History | |||
| Paul Sampley (Edited by) | ||||
| TPI 2003 690 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1563382660 230x150mm | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Our Price £19.99 | |||
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Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World | |||
| History | ||||
| Greg Woolf (Edited by) | ||||
| Cambridge 2003 384 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0521827752 255x205mm | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge of book | ||||
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Chariot: From Chariot to Tank, | |||
| the Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine | History | |||
| Arthur Cotterell | ||||
| Overlook 2005 344 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1585676675 | ||||
| Published Price $29.95 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
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Roman Medicine | |||
| History | ||||
| Audrey Cruse | ||||
| Tempus 2006 256 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752414615 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| Beginning with its origins in Classical Greece, Audrey Cruse discusses the theory and practice of Roman medicine, including religious and magical aspects, the buildings where medicine was practised, the kinds of illness which were treated and the place of physicians and healers in Roman society and scientific thought. The evidence she presents ranges from Trajan's column to oculists' stamps and is drawn from across the Empire, with a special focus on sites in Britain. | ||||
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Arthurian Period Sources | |||
| Volume 3. Persons: Ecclesiastics and Laypeople | History | |||
| John Morris | ||||
| Phillimore 1995 172 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0850337593 | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Slightly off-mint | Our Price £6.99 | ||
| Volume 3 is a prosopography of Dark Age churchmen, with a smaller section of laypersons, including Arthur himself. Both parts are arranged alphabetically and there is an introductory discussion of personal names. | ||||
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Arthurian Period Sources | |||
| Volume 7. Gildas: The 'Ruin of Britain' and Other Documents | History | |||
| Michael Winterbottom (Edited by) | ||||
| Phillimore 2002 168 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1860772021 | ||||
| Published Price £8.50 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| Although not primarily intended as a history, The Ruin of Britain, written by the British monk Gildas in about 540, remains the only work that outlines a connected narrative of 5th century Britain. This volume presents both a translation by Michael Winterbottom and a revised Latin text, with notes clarifying the historical background. | ||||
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Greek Vases | |||
| The Athenians and Their Images | History | |||
| Francois Lissarrague | ||||
| Riverside 2001 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1878351575 304x255mm | ||||
| Published Price $75.00 | Our Price £25.00 | |||
| This collection of over 170 examples of Athenian pottery decoration from the 6th and 5th centuries BCE is arranged around themes including the banquet, sex, athletics and Dionysos and his followers. With many of the paintings reproduced in stunning detail, Greek Vases is a celebration of the skill of the artists; the accompanying text also discusses the social and historical background to explain the significance of the images and the everyday uses for which the different types of pottery were intended. | ||||
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Pliny's Catalogue of Culture | |||
| Art and Empire in the Natural History | History | |||
| Sorcha Carey | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2006 208 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0199207658 | ||||
| Published Price £33.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| Pliny's collection of facts and anecdotes about art and artists, in books 33 to 37 of the Natural History, has strongly influenced later scholars such as Winckelmann, the 'father of art history'. Sorcha Carey argues that our ideas about Pliny's perceptions of Greek art can be refined by considering these 'chapters on art' as just one part of a profoundly Roman text - Pliny's encyclopaedic project to catalogue a world under the sway of Rome. | ||||
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy | |||
| Volume XXXII | History | |||
| David Sedley (Edited by) | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2007 394 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0199227314 | ||||
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| This volume contains essays on, amongst others, Socrates' profession of ignorance, Plato's Phaedus, the union of cause and effect in Aristotle Physics 3.3, and Aristotelian infinity. | ||||
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy | |||
| Volume XXXI | History | |||
| David Sedley (Edited by) | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2006 414 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0199204217 | ||||
| Published Price £49.00 | Our Price £29.00 | |||
| This volume contains essays on, amongst others, the portrait of Socrates in Plato's Symposium, Socrates' demand for definitions, and the bad is last but does not last in Aristotle's Metaphysics. | ||||
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Image to Interpretation | |||
| An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts | History | |||
| Melissa M Terras | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2006 252 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0199204551 | ||||
| Published Price £56.00 | Our Price £16.99 | |||
| The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique resource for scholars of ancient history. However, the stylus tablets in particular are very difficult to read. This book describes the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the extent to which techniques from Artificial Intelligence can be used to develop such a system. From the Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents series. | ||||
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A Commentary on Thucydides | |||
| Volume II: Books IV-V. 24 | History | |||
| Simon Hornblower | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2004 520 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0199276250 | ||||
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| The second volume of Hornblower's historical and literary commentary on Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War covers the period from 425 to 421 BCE, beginning with the Pylos-Sphakteria narrative and ending with the Peace of Nikias and the alliance between Athens and Sparta. Hornblower's lengthy introduction discusses such issues as Thucydides' presentation of Brasidas, his use of direct and indirect speech, and his relation to his predecessor Herodotus. All Greek quoted is translated. | ||||
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The Ancient Olympics | |||
| History | ||||
| Nigel Spivey | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2004 273 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0192804332 | ||||
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| Nigel Spivey draws a picture of all-in fighters, chariot racers, flagrant exhibitionism and inflammatory orators that contrasts starkly with the calm of the present day ruins of Olympia. He traces the history of the Olympic institution with reference to the social behaviour, sexual habits and aesthetic ideals of classical antiquity, and also explores the mythology and archaeology of Olympia, revealing how the Greeks elevated sporting prowess to heroic status. | ||||
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Odysseus Unbound | |||
| The Search for Homer's Ithaca | History | |||
| Robert Bittlestonewith James Diggle; John Underhill | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2005 598 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0521853575 252x202mm | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Slightly off-mint | Our Price £12.99 | ||
| The island now known as Ithaki bears little resemblance to the home of Odysseus described by Homer, a conundrum which has troubled scholars for millennia. Bittlestone's groundbreaking work, produced in collaboration with a classicist and a geologist, convincingly unravels the mystery: illustrated with colour photographs, diagrams and satellite images, it argues from literary, archaeological and geological evidence that modern Cephalonia was in ancient times two islands, one of them the real Ithaca, a solution which makes sense of problems in Homer's text. Off-mint with felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge. | ||||
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The Quest for Immortality | |||
| Treasures of Ancient Egypt | History | |||
| Erik Hornung; Betsy M Bryan (Edited by) | ||||
| Prestel 2002 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 3791327356 292x242mm | ||||
| Published Price £45.00 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| Ancient Egyptian antiquities are dominated by art and artefacts depicting the afterlife in which mummified bodies would be re-awakened and live on for eternity. The catalogue of a major exhibition in Washington, 2002, this book examines how the promise of a glorious rebirth pervaded the daily life of Egyptians. It presents nearly 200 artefacts, mostly drawn from the Cairo Museum, beautifully photographed and accompanied by essays on topics including ancient Egyptian history, customs, art and the books of the Netherworld. | ||||
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