Empires & historical states
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Empires & historical states
Paperback. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian provides a comprehensive and well documented survey of the ways in which non-historical texts, as well as historical ones, can be used to construct Greek history. Series: Approaching the Ancient World. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415073516
- ISBN
- 9780415073516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.45
€ 57.45
Hardback. Twelve of the greatest voices from ancient Greece and Rome - and why they still inspire and affect us in the 21st century. A book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199597369
- ISBN
- 9780199597369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.23
€ 34.99
€ 30.23
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 493
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125531
- ISBN
- 9781905125531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.91
€ 41.91
Hardback. This richly illustrated volume examines monuments of Sardis and environs in the context of contemporary developments in Lydia and throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. It illuminates traditions of Anatolian kingship, technological exchange between Lydia and Greece and the Near East, and the origins of Persian imperial architecture. Series: Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports. Num Pages: 320 pages, 170 black-and-white photographs, 116 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Archeological Exploration of Sardis United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060609
- ISBN
- 9780674060609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.26
€ 114.26
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199547913
- ISBN
- 9780199547913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.49
€ 13.99
€ 11.49
Paperback. Series: Understanding Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848858909
- ISBN
- 9781848858909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.56
€ 31.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. For 700 years the fierce tribesmen of Thrace dominated a huge stretch of territory between the Danube, the Black Sea and northern Greece. This volume brings to light archaeological discoveries which allow a reconstruction of these colourful warriors, including their tactics and costume. Illustrator(s): McBride, Angus. Series: Men-at-Arms. Num Pages: 48 pages, 8 colour & 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDA; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; JWD; JWL; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 184 x 4. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841763293
- ISBN
- 9781841763293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.93
€ 19.99
€ 16.93
Hardcover. The second and first centuries BC saw the birth and development of the new Chinese Empire. This work sheds light on the public and private lives of those who lived in the frontier regions. This study enables an understanding of the origins and development of the concepts of state, nation, nationalism, imperialism, ethnicity, and Chineseness. Num Pages: 400 pages, 4 maps, 34 tables, 7 figures, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDA; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472115341
- ISBN
- 9780472115341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.60
€ 122.60
Paperback. Translator(s): Rudd, Niall. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540112
- ISBN
- 9780199540112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.85
€ 11.99
€ 9.85
Paperback. Translator(s): Sharples, R. W. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856684760
- ISBN
- 9780856684760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.42
€ 42.42
Paperback. A significant two-fold development in recent classical scholarship has been a revival of interest in, and respect for, post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 136 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First published in the United Kingdom in 1985. Rep
- SKU
- V9780856682513
- ISBN
- 9780856682513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.42
€ 42.42
Hardback. Series: Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 8 colour, 154 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; AMVD; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 262 x 235 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1680.
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271027760
- ISBN
- 9780271027760
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Condition: New
€ 180.09
€ 180.09
Hardcover. This book offers a new reading of Hannibal in Silius Italicus' Punica and provides fresh insight into how the Romans remembered their past. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781380284
- ISBN
- 9781781380284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.21
€ 172.21
Hardback. Illustrator(s): Sanders, Martin. Series: Raintree Perspectives: Early British History. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDAR; 3D; 5AJ; YQH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 271 x 197 x 7. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Capstone Global Library Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781406291070
- ISBN
- 9781406291070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 10.89
€ 10.89
Hardback. Offers an analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya. This book examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Translator(s): Berman, Daniel W. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114583
- ISBN
- 9780691114583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.52
€ 103.52
Paperback. Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical concept of time as tied to space. This work shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674021242
- ISBN
- 9780674021242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.70
€ 29.70
Hardback. From the illustrious son of Zeus down to the absolute monarch idealised by Louis XIV, from the valiant knight of the crusaders to the Moslem philosopher-king, the author reveals the gamut of contrasts that make up the legend of Alexander, this extraordinary hero of history and myth. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5M. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; BGH; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617647
- ISBN
- 9780748617647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.16€ 138.23
€ 147.16
€ 138.23
Paperback. From the illustrious son of Zeus down to the absolute monarch idealised by Louis XIV, from the valiant knight of the crusaders to the Moslem philosopher-king, the author reveals the gamut of contrasts that make up the legend of Alexander, this extraordinary hero of history and myth. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5M. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; BGH; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617654
- ISBN
- 9780748617654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.74
€ 42.99
€ 37.74
Paperback. Studies the effect of Rome's geographic worldview on its politics Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472036233
- ISBN
- 9780472036233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.31
€ 54.31
Paperback. This is a single-volume introduction to Ancient Greece, covering the period from the Golden Age of Knossos and Mycenae to the incorporation of Greece into the Roman empire in the second century BC and the transfer of Greek culture to Byzantium in the fourth century. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 1QDAZ; HBJD; HBJQ; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 824.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631203094
- ISBN
- 9780631203094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.45
€ 88.45
Paperback. A sensitive and original reading of Plato's Republic that foregrounds the power of myth in the shaping of history. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HPCA; JFHF; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214850
- ISBN
- 9780253214850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.39
€ 34.39
Hardcover. Analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 404 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521895781
- ISBN
- 9780521895781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.71
€ 139.71
Hardback. Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world. Series: Robson Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA; HBLA1; HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442650176
- ISBN
- 9781442650176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.55
€ 63.55
Paperback. The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of crisis. This book describes and integrates the contrasting histories of different parts of the empire and assesses the impacts of administrative, political and religious change. Series: The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 b&w illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 464. The Critical Century. Series: The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome. 320 pages, 30 b&w illustrations, 5 maps. The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of crisis. This book describes and integrates the contrasting histories of different parts of the empire and assesses the impacts of administrative, political and religious change. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight: 478.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620517
- ISBN
- 9780748620517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.82
€ 43.99
€ 36.82