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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Paperback, 1088 pages, 26 maps, glossary, 198 x 129 mm. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. This edition includes Gibbon's footnotes and quotations, here translated for the first time, together with brief explanatory comments, a precis of the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors.

Classical Archaeology. Second Edition

Alcock, Susan E. and Osborne, Robin, 2012

Paperback, 548 pages, illustrations, 244 x 171 mm

Archaeology of Images: Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe.

Miranda Aldhouse Green

304 pages, 42 line figures, 71 photos. 2004. Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400 and investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued.

Weibliche Gewandstatuen des 2. Jahrh. n. Chr. aus Ephesischen Werkstaetten. Paperback

Erol Atalay

128 Seiten, dazu 106 Abbildungen auf 34 Tafeln. 21x29 cm. 1989

Ancient Greek Houses And Households: Chronological, Regional, And Social Diversity. Hardcover

edited by Bradley A. Ault and Lisa C. Nevett. x, 189 pages. 2005

Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire. Paperback

by W. Ball

524 pages, almost 300 photographs. 2000. This work provides an illustrated study of the influence of Near Eastern culture on the Roman world, which argues against received wisdom about Rome as the bastion of European culture.

Hellenism in Ancient India. Cloth. 14,5x22,5cm.

by Gauranga Nath Banerjee

276 pages, bibliography, index. First revised edition 1981

Classical Art: From Greece to Rome.

Mary Beard and John Henderson. 2001

Paperback, 304 pages, numerous colour and halftone illustrations, 230 x 160 mm

Religions of Rome. Volume 1: A History. Paperback

by Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price

478 pages, 58 half-tones, 9 figures and 5 maps. 2000. This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era

Religions of Rome. Volume 2: A Sourcebook. Paperback

by Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price

430 pages, 95 figures. 1998. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later.

Kreta in römischer Zeit.

Tilman Bechert 2011

The Ahhiyawa Texts

Gary M. Beckman, T. Bryce, Eric H. Cline 2011

Paperback, 320 pages, black & white illustrations, 229 x 152 mm

First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideology. Cloth

edited by Andrea M. Berlin and J.Andrew Overman

272 pages, 7 line drawings, 7 photos, 4 tables. 2002. This is the first book for many years to examine the First Jewish Revolt against Rome - arguably the most decisive event in the history of Judaism and Christianity.

Marathon: The Battle That Changed Western Civilization

Richard A. Billows 2010

Athenian Black Figure Vases: A Handbook. Paperback

by John Boardman

252 pages, with 385 illustrations. 2003

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period. Paperback

by John Boardman

252 pages, with 528 illustrations. 1997

Early Greek Vase Painting. 11th-6th Centuries BC. Paperback

Author John Boardman

287 pages, with 588 illustrations. The Greek vase painting from the 11th to the 6th centuries BC shows all the components which were to culminate in the Classical styles of the 5th century BC.

Greek Art. 4th edition. Paperback. By John Boardman

304 pages, with charts, bibliography

First published in the early 1960s, this history of Greek art has been enlarged and rewritten. It takes into account new finds as well as new ideas and attitudes to the subject, and emphasizes that Greek art should be seen in its proper context, not that of galleries and museums.

Greek Sculpture. The Archaic Period. Paperback

John Boardman

252 pages, with 481 illustrations. 2002. The last in a series of Sir John Boardman's handbooks on Greek sculpture, covering the fourth century B.C. to the days of Alexander the Great. The innovations of the period are discussed, such as the female nude and portraiture and many important monuments such as the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

Greek Sculpture. The Late Classical Period and Sculpture in Colonies and Overseas. Paperback

John Boardman

248 pages, with 377 illustrations, maps, notes. 1995. The last in a series covering the fourth century B.C. to the days of Alexander the Great. The innovations of the period are discussed, such as the female nude and portraiture and many important monuments such as the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture

Axel Boethius. Second edition, 1992. Paperback, 264 pages, 186 illustrations, notees, select glossary, bibliography, index, 210 x 147 mm

Imperial Roman Army. New edition. Paperback

by Yann Le Bohec

344 pages, 40 illustrations. 2000. This book looks at the structure and development of the Republic and the Late Empire, examining why the army has always been considered crucial in the history of the Roman Empire, and whether that view is justified.

Etruscan Dress. Paperback

by Larissa Bonfante

ix, 261 pages. 2003. Updated edition

Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Cloth

Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant. Foreword François Zabbal

208 pages, bibliography, index, 12 halftones. 2000. 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

Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Paperback

Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant. Foreword François Zabbal

208 pages, bibliography, index, 12 halftones. 2000. 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

Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe: Signing the Land. Paperback

by Richard Bradley

296 pages, 58 drawings, 40 photos. 1997. Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain, are numerous rock carvings made four to five thousand years ago, whose interpretation poses a major challenge to the archaeologist.

Trojans and Their Neighbours. New edition. Paperback

Trevor R. Bryce

240 pages, 18 halftones, 11 line figures. 2005. Beginning with an account of Troy's involvement in "The Iliad" and the question of the historicity of the Trojan War, this title reveals how the Hittite texts illuminate this question, which has fascinated scholars and travellers since the Renaissance.

The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity.

S. L. Budin 2009. Paperback, 382 pages, 228 x 152 mm.

Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World. Paperback.

Edited by Glenn R. Bugh

402 pages. 2006. This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt.

Ancient Mystery Cults. Paperback

by Walter Burkert. ix, 181 pages, 12 illustrations, index of Greek terms, general index. 1989

Greek Religion. Archaic and Classical. New edition. Paperback
Walter Burkert

504 pages. 1987. This synthesis of Greek religion aims to provide a structured survey for classical scholars and students, and provides an account of a polytheistic religious system. The text builds up a picture of the current state of knowledge about the religion of the Ancient Greeks.

Bronze Age Computer Disc. Hardcover

by Alan Butler

Complete World of Greek Mythology. Hardcover 26x20cm

by Richard Buxton

256 pages, 330 illustrations, 139 in colour. 2004. A retelling of Greek myths is combined here with a comprehensive account of the world in which the myths developed - their themes, their relevance to Greek religion and society, and their relationship to the landscape.

Cambridge Ancient History: Plates to Volumes 1 and 2. 2nd Edition. Hardback

Edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, E. Sollberger

223 pages. 1977, 1989, 1995. A new Plates Volume to accompany the four Parts of The Cambridge Ancient History, Volumes I and II. Reduced price, was E112,00

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: 395-700 AD.

Averil Cameron. Second revised edition, 2011. Paperback, 320 pages, 23 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings, 234 x 156 mm. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean society as a whole before the Arab conquests. Two new chapters survey the situation in the east after the death of Justinian and cover the Byzantine wars with Persia, religious developments in the eastern Mediterranean during the life of Muhammad, the reign of Heraclius, the Arab conquests and the establishment of the Umayyad caliphate.

Archaeology of Athens. Paperback

by John M. Camp

352 pages, 270 b/w and 17 color illustrations. 2004

Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Paperback

by Norman F. Cantor

xiii, 240 pages. 2004

Roman Egypt.

Livia Capponi 2011. Paperback, 128 pages, Illustrations, 216 x 135 mm. This book offers a first approach to the subject, presenting a survey of the most important aspects of life in the province under Roman domination, from the conquest by Octavian in 30 BC to the third century AD, as they emerge from the micro-level of the Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, but also from the ancient literary sources, such as Strabo, Diodorus, and Philo, and from the most important archaeological discoveries.

The Ancient Mariners : Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times.

Lionel Casson 1991. Paperback, 299 pages, illustrations, maps, 250 x 153 mm.

Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation And Non-elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.c.-a.d. 315. Paperback

by John R. Clarke

396 pages, 24 colour illustrations, 134 b/w photographs, 21 line illustrations, 3 tables, 2 maps. 2006

The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC).

Eric H. Cline 2011

Paperback, 930 p.; 9.50 H x 1.75 D x 6.75 W inches 3.45 lbs.

Portrait of a Priestess. Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Paperback

Joan Breton Connelly

456 pages, with 27 colour plates 109 halftones. 2009. Presents the cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. This book talks about how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them - the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias - to basket bearers and handmaidens. It states that priestesses played significant public roles in ancient Greece.

The Beginnings of Rome, 753-264 B.C.

Tim Cornell 1995

Paperback, 528 pages, 30 ill., 234 x 156 mm

This work uses the results of up-to-date archaeological techniques as well as taking current methodological debates into account. Covering the years 753 BC to 264 BC, it offers new perspectives on major questions such as Rome's relations with the Etruscans, the conflict between patricians and plebeians, the causes of Roman imperialism and the growth of a slave-based economy.

The Ancient City. A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome.

Coulanges, Numa Denis Fustel de; Foreword by Humphreys, S. C.; Mornigliano, Arnaldo

Paperback, 416 pages, black & white illustrations, 203 x 127 mm

Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Paperback

Raffaella Cribiore

xiii, 270 pages. 2001, 2005. This is a study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt and an insight into the panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned and what was in the curriculum