Classical history & classical civilisation books

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social,...  Read More >>

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In this volume Capra and Graziosi translate Luigi Settembrini's The Neoplatonists into English for the first time....  Read More >>

This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, which explore the history...  Read More >>

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social,...  Read More >>

A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back...  Read More >>

This volume considers “lived space” as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present...  Read More >>

This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness. Inspired by Aristotle,...  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.  Read More >>

"The name of Julius Caesar reverberates through history, not only as the most famous Roman ever, but as a symbol...  Read More >>

Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 - c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is considered...  Read More >>

"The name of Julius Caesar reverberates through history, not only as the most famous Roman ever, but as a symbol...  Read More >>

"Volume I of John Bonner's classic retelling of the history of Rome has lost none of its attention-grabbing interest...  Read More >>

A translation of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge. It includes...  Read More >>

The scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.  Read More >>

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context,...  Read More >>

"Politics and diplomacy have always been as much about the social and cultural contexts within which political actors...  Read More >>

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman...  Read More >>

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came...  Read More >>

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses...  Read More >>

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Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found...  Read More >>

"Volume I of John Bonner's classic retelling of the history of Rome has lost none of its attention-grabbing interest...  Read More >>

This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor...  Read More >>

This is the first scholarly exploration of concepts and representations of Artificial Intelligence in ancient Greek...  Read More >>