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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian.

Michael Maas 2005

Paperback, 672 pages, 50 b/w illus., 228 x 152 mm

Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus. Paperback

by Philip Matyszak

240 pages, 293 illustrations, 98 in colour. 2008. New in paperback, here is a highly readable account of 56 of the extraordinary characters whose lives were the defining threads in the great adventure and final tragedy that was the Roman Republic.

First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times

by Adrienne Mayor

xx, 361 pages, numerous illustrations. 2000. Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes and Giants, these creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the imagination through accounts that have come down from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if they were more than fictions? This text shows that these beings did have a basis in fact.

Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature. Cloth

John W. McCrindle

The Roman Army. The Greatest War Machine of the Ancient World.

Author: Chris McNab

Paperback; May 2012; 280 pages; ISBN: 9781849088138

Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis. The Linen Book of Zagreb. A Comment on the Longest Etruscan Text. Hardback

L.B. van der Meer

x-210 pages. 2007. This book is the first complete analysis of and comment on a unique Etruscan document, the Liber linteus zagrabiensis, the linen book of Zagreb, better known as the Mummy Wrappings of Zagreb, dated to the first half of the second century BC, containing the longest Etruscan text (c. 1330 words).

The Historians of Ancient Rome : An Anthology of the Major Writings

Ronald Mellor 2012

Paperback, 616 pages, 234 x 156 mm

Ancient Greek Religion. Paperback

by Jon D. Mikalson

256 pages, Illustrations, maps, 244 x 189 mm. Second edition, 2009

Roman Near East 31 BC-AD 337. Based on Carl Newell Jackson Lectures. Paperback

Fergus G.B. Millar

xxix, 587 pages. 1995, 2001

Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches. Paperback

Neville Morley

256 pages. 1999. This work provides a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the subject. Topics include democracy, imperialism, slavery and sexuality

Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity. Paperback

Ian Morris

284 pages, 48 diagrams, 12 tables. 1992. Shows how the excavated remains of burials are a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world.

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, Amended.

Sir Isaac Newton 1728, reprinted 1988. ISBN 1854170007

Hardback, c. 400 pages, 23x16 cm.

Ancient Medicine. Paperback

Vivian Nutton

486 pages, illustrations, first edition 2005. This first large-scale, sole-authored history of ancient medicine for almost 100 years uses both archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medical ideas from early Greece to late Antiquity. She pays particular attention to the life and work of doctors in the communities, links between medicine and magic, and examines the different approaches to medicine across the ancient world.

Thraker, Griechen und Römer an der Westküste des Schwarzen Meeres. 24 x 30 cm; gebunden

Manfred Oppermann

v, 121 Seiten mit 71 Farb- und 13 Schwarzweißabbildungen. 2007. Die heutigen Länder Bulgarien, Rumänien und ein kleiner Teil der türkischen Schwarzmeerküste beherbergen eine große Fülle archäologischer Denkmäler. Hier, an der Westküste des Schwarzen Meeres, haben die einheimischen Thraker, Griechen und Römer ihre Spuren hinterlassen, von denen eindrucksvolle archäologische Denkmäler noch heute Zeugnis ablegen.

Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Paperback

by Osborne, Robin

vii, 270 pages. 1998

On Greek Religion.

Robert Parker 2011

Paperback, 328 pages, illustrations, 235 x 155 mm

Roman Social History.  A Sourcebook.

Edited by: Parkin, Tim; Pomeroy, Arthur. 2007

Paperback, 408 pages, 6 black & white line drawings, 234 x 156 mm

Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod. Paperback

by Charles Penglase

292 pages. The Mesopotamian influence on Greek mythology in literary works of the epic period is considerable - yet it is a largely unexplored field. In this book Charles Penglase investigates major Mesopotamian and Greek myths.

Man in the Middle Voice. Name and Narration in the Odyssey. Cloth

John Peradotto

xv, 193 pages, with bibliography, index. 1990

Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires. Paperback

by Leo G. Perdue

x, 502 pages. 2008. Leo Perdue here argues from a sociohistorical approach that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into the flesh and blood of human history.

Early Neolithic in Greece. Paperback

Catherine Perlès

370 pages, with 68 line diagrams 11 tables 17 maps. 2001. A new look at Neolithic society, including new perspectives on funerary rituals and figurines

Plato's Political Philosophy. Prudence in The Republic and The Laws. Cloth

Zdravko Planinc

320 pages, with bibliography, index. 1991. Challenges conventional interpretations

Art in the Hellenistic Age. Paperback

by Jerome Jordan Pollitt. 344 pages, 300 illustrations, 2 maps, index, bibliography. 1986. 2008

Religions of the Ancient Greeks. Paperback

Simon Price. 230 pages. Numerous illustrations. 1999. The religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods.

Looking at Greek Vases. Paperback

Edited by Tom Rasmussen, Nigel Spivey

296 pages, 109 illustrations. 1991

Greece. Dictionaries of Civilization, 3. Paperback

Stefania Ratto

384 pages, 323 color illustrations, 18 b/w photographs, 19 line illustrations, 2 maps. April 2008. This gorgeously illustrated, compact volume considers the entire civilization of ancient Greece, including Magna Graecia's colonial expansion.

Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, And Affection. Hardback

by Gretchen Reydams-Schils

x, 210 pages. 2005. Roman Stoic thinkers in the imperial period adapted Greek doctrine to create a model of the self that served to connect philosophical ideals with traditional societal values. The Roman Stoics-the most prominent being Marcus Aurelius-engaged in rigorous self-examination that enabled them to integrate philosophy into the practice of living. Gretchen Reydams-Schils's innovative new book shows how these Romans applied their distinct brand of social ethics to everyday relations and responsibilities.

The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, And Affection. Paperback

by Gretchen Reydams-Schils

x, 210 pages. 2005. Roman Stoic thinkers in the imperial period adapted Greek doctrine to create a model of the self that served to connect philosophical ideals with traditional societal values. The Roman Stoics-the most prominent being Marcus Aurelius-engaged in rigorous self-examination that enabled them to integrate philosophy into the practice of living. Gretchen Reydams-Schils's innovative new book shows how these Romans applied their distinct brand of social ethics to everyday relations and responsibilities.

War and Society in the Greek World. Paperback

Edited by John Rich and Graham Shipley

288 pages, 8 photo's and 7 figures. 1995. The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wider social context of war is explored.

War and Society in the Roman World. Paperback

Edited by John Rich & Graham Shipley

320 pages. 1995, 1997. The Roman conquest of Italy. Urbs direpta, or how the Romans sacked a city. Military organization and social change in the later Roman Republic. The end of Roman imperial expansion. Piracy under the principate and the ideology of imperial eradication. War and diplomacy: Rome and Parthia, 31 BC - AD 235.

Religion in the Roman Empire. Paperback

By James B. Rives

256 pages, 16 illustrations. 2007. This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire.

Historians of Late Antiquity. Paperback

by David Rohrbacher

viii, 324 pages. 2002. The fourth and fifth centuries AD were an era of religious conflict and political change. This volume offers an accessible survey of the varied lives and works of the contemporary historians whose responses reflected these turbulent times.

Romerzeitliche Bleietiketten aus Kalsdorf, Steiermark. Paperback, 21x30cm

Elizabeth Römer-Martijnse

270 Seiten, 29 Tafeln. 1990

Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth. Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece. Paperback

Peter W. Rose

426 pages, with bibliography, index. A marxist approach to some greek texts

Religion of the Romans.

Jorg Rupke

2007. Paperback, 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations, 229 x 155 mm. Rupke gives a thorough and engaging account of the multiplicity of cults worshipped by peasant and aristocrat alike, the many varied rites and rituals daily observed, and the sacrifices and offerings regularly brought to these immortals by the population of Ancient Rome and its imperial colonies.

Art of Plato. Cloth

R.B. Rutherford

345 pages, bibliography, index. 1995. A contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues

Roman Era: The British Isles, 55 Bc-Ad 410. Paperback

edited by Peter Salway

xix, 286 pages, 18 maps, 12 halftones, line drawings. 2002. This book distils the mass of knowledge from archaeological and documentary discoveries to provide a picture of knowledge and opinion about the Roman era in the British Isles

Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery. Cloth

Arturo Sangalli. 224 pages. 10 line illustrations, 1 map. 2009

Middle East Under Rome. Paperback

by Maurice Sartre. Translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings

xiv, 665 pages. 2005, paperback 2007

Alexander's Tomb. The Two-thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conquerer. New edition. Paperback

Nicholas J. Saunders

280 pages. 2007. Combining cinematic drama and a historical narrative, this book documents the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great. It is the story of a momentous and unexplained death, multiple burials, and the seemingly never-ending quest for a man-god's final resting place.

Christopher Scarre 1995. Paperback, 144 pages, colour illustrations, maps, diagrams, further reading, index, 244 x 181 mm. Fully illustrated and featuring more than sixty full-colour maps, this atlas traces the rise and fall of the first great multinational state.

History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World: The Jews of Palestine from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest. Paperback.

Peter Schäfer

272 pages. 2002. (German title: Geschichte der Juden in der Antike)

Entmannte Eros. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Eunuchen und Kastraten. Gebunden

Piotr O. Scholz

308 Seiten, illustriert, mit Quellen, Bibliographie, Namenregister. 1997. Die erste umfassnede Darstellung des Eunuchen- und Kastratentums von mythologischer Zeit bis heute. Eine besondere Geschichte von Eros und Kultur