History
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Hindsight in Greek and Roman History [Hardback]
Anton Powell (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9781905125586
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand develo... .... Learn More -
Childhood in the Past Volume 5 [Paperback]
Eileen M. Murphy (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9781842175217
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Childhood in the Past
Volume: 5
The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, in conjunction with Oxbow Books, publishes this international journal, Childhood in the Past. This journal provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication... .... Learn More -
Alexander the Great: The Story of an Ancient Life [Paperback]
Thomas F Martin (Author); Christopher Blackwell (Author)
£15.99ISBN: 9780521148443
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals. From his birth into a hyper-competitive world of royal women through his training ... .... Learn More -
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome [Paperback]
Victor Davis Hanson (Editor)
£13.95ISBN: 9780691156361
Published by : Princeton University Press
Consciously echoing Peter Paret's monumental Makers of Modern
Strategy, this volume comprises essays which examine various
aspects of military strategy from the Persian Wars to the later
Roman Empire. It reappraises... .... Learn More -
Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership [Hardback]
Barry Strauss (Author)
Regular Price: £17.99
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9781439164488
Published by : Simon & Schuster
Aimed at the general reader and delivered in a chatty style, Barry Strauss's new book provides a comparative analysis of the generalship of Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar, reconstructing their key campaigns and as... .... Learn More -
The Balboura Survey and Settlement in Highland Southwest Anatolia [Hardback]
J. J. Coulton (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9781898249221
Published by : British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Series: BIAA Monograph
Volume: 43
The Balboura Survey, conducted between 1985 and 1994, investigated the settlement history of a small district in the ancient region of Kabalia in the mountains of southwestern Turkey. Although the survey's focus was on the Hellenistic-Early B... .... Learn More -
Tra logica e giurisprudenza: Argumentum a simili nel Topici di Cicerone [Hardback]
Agnieszka Kacprzak (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9788392591962
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 17
Cicero's Topica is a kind of compendium of arguments that functioned in ancient philosophy and rhetoric and were destined for jurists. The present book analyzes one of the patterns of argumentation described by Cicero, an argument drawn ... .... Learn More -
Behinderungen und Beeintrachtigungen/Disability and Impairment in Antiquity [Paperback]
Rupert Breitwieser (Author)
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Trireme Olympias: The Final Report [Hardback]
Boris Rankov (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781842174340
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume represents the final publication of the Olympias project, which saw the building of a full-scale reconstruction of a 170-oared Athenian trireme of the 4th century BC and its operation in five series of sea-trials in the Aegean Sea.... .... Learn More -
Polybius: Histories Vol III, Books V-VIII [Hardback]
Polybius (Author)
£15.95ISBN: 9780674996588
Published by : Harvard University Press
The Histories of Polybius are an invaluable source for the rise of Rome and her acquisition of control over the Mediterranean in the years during and after the Punic Wars, by a Greek author who was a hostage in Rome for many years, knew leadi... .... Learn More