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Empires & historical states
Paperback. Malcolm Davies provides the first full commentary on the surviving fragments of the four epics that recount the story of the Seven's failed assault against Thebes and the successful assault in the next generation. He sets them in context and examines whether artistic depictions of the relevant myths can help reconstruct the lost epics' contents. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 225 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417243
- ISBN
- 9780674417243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.56
€ 25.99
€ 22.56
Hardback. Entomologist Gene Kritsky presents the first full-length discussion of the ways in which bees were a part of life in ancient Egypt. From the presence of bees in paintings and hieroglyphs in tombs to the use of beeswax in a variety of products, bees had a significant presence in ancient Egyptian culture. Num Pages: 160 pages, 103. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBJH; HBLA1; TVHH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199361380
- ISBN
- 9780199361380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 40.87
€ 43.99
€ 40.87
Hardback. Num Pages: 339 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAK; HBJK; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477310816
- ISBN
- 9781477310816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.32
€ 60.32
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138238633
- ISBN
- 9781138238633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.36
€ 61.36
Hardback. Illustrator(s): Greenberg, Isabel. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; 5AH; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 305 x 238. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408876787
- ISBN
- 9781408876787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.82
€ 19.99
€ 14.82
Hardback. Unconventionally fusing the the history of faith and reason in Islam, this book traces the Qur'an-inspired intellectual revolution that took off in the Islamic world of the seventh century, revealing its highlights and following it through to its sixteenth-century demise. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; HBJF1; HPK; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804794619
- ISBN
- 9780804794619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.33
€ 140.33
Paperback. Unconventionally fusing the the history of faith and reason in Islam, this book traces the Qur'an-inspired intellectual revolution that took off in the Islamic world of the seventh century, revealing its highlights and following it through to its sixteenth-century demise. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; HBJF1; HPK; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503600577
- ISBN
- 9781503600577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Translator(s): Gelpke, R. Num Pages: 177 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 362 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Omega Publications
- Number of pages
- 177
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780930872526
- ISBN
- 9780930872526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.01
€ 27.99
€ 20.01
Paperback. Ancient Egypt brought vividly to life by TV historian and one of the world's leading Egyptologists, Professor Joann Fletcher Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444785166
- ISBN
- 9781444785166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Hardback. Focuses on Rome's practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. This book shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. It is a contribution to the debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123646
- ISBN
- 9780691123646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.89€ 64.29
€ 82.89
€ 64.29
Paperback. The definitive account of the extraordinary people of Sparta, from the world's leading expert. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Unabridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447237204
- ISBN
- 9781447237204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Hardback. An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history Series: Yale Library of Military History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 247 x 27. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219012
- ISBN
- 9780300219012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.09
€ 36.99
€ 27.09
Hardcover. Analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what the author calls 'the fully human soul'. Beginning with Homer's "Iliad", this work lays out the tension within the soul of Achilles between immortality and life. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226137964
- ISBN
- 9780226137964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.73€ 79.10
€ 94.73
€ 79.10
Paperback. The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity. This book analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what the author calls the fully human soul. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226004495
- ISBN
- 9780226004495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.02
€ 32.99
€ 26.02
Paperback. An examination of the cultural occupations of Egypt over the past two millennia and how we can return to the sacred harmony of ancient Egypt Num Pages: 256 pages, Includes 16-page color insert and 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HRKP1; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591431862
- ISBN
- 9781591431862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.99
€ 17.99
€ 12.99
Paperback. An inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans that speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. This title makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691010915
- ISBN
- 9780691010915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.35
€ 53.29
€ 42.35
Paperback. Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of Ancient Greece and Rome.This work considers how erotic experience is understood in classical texts, and what ethical and philosophical arguments are made about sex? Editor(s): Nussbaum, Martha C.; Sihvola, Juha. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBG; HBLA; JFCX; JFSJ; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226609157
- ISBN
- 9780226609157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.18
€ 47.99
€ 37.18
Paperback. Offers satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society. This work draws forth a world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. It portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - and the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ACD; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236. Good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks and creases, remains a good readable copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0017533
- ISBN
- 9780140447040
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 15.99€ 11.12
€ 15.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. Uses English language education for women in India between 1850 and 1940 as a way to explore how and why the English language became a powerful tool in struggles over caste hierarchy. This book shows how elite men linked ideas of matrimony, chastity, and heteronormativity with modernity in order to claim power on a national level. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; 2AB; CFB; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352273
- ISBN
- 9780822352273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Hardback. By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' "The Secret History" destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of a vast Byzantine state. In this title, Prokopios' tell-all is faithfully rendered in blunt and idiomatic English. Editor(s): Kaldellis, Anthony. Num Pages: 276 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841818
- ISBN
- 9781603841818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.64€ 44.05
€ 55.64
€ 44.05