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Egypt
- Author: E. M. Forster
- 01 Oct 2013
- Paperback
- Price: £10.99
- Author: Helen Lovatt
- 30 Sep 2013
- Hardback
- Price: £19.50
Tells of a quest to the ends of the earth, of the villainous usurper King Pelias, of dragons' teeth, of the doom of Hylas, ravished to his end by nymphs who greatly desired him for his beauty, and of Jason's lust for the witch Medea, it speaks to us of more: of sex and gender; of identity and race; and, of colonisation and conquest.
- Author: Philippa Lang
- 30 Mar 2013
- Paperback
- Price: £12.99
Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, this work addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.
- Author: Philippa Lang
- 30 Mar 2013
- Hardback
- Price: £35.00
Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, this work addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.
- Author: Irving L. Finkel
- 18 Dec 2012
- Hardback
- Price: £35.00
The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same tradition of game-changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamun.
- Author: Jean Perrot
- 30 Nov 2012
- Hardback
- Price: £60.00
- Author: Philip Hardie
- 01 Nov 2012
- Hardback
- Price: £25.00
The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. This title explores the many remarkable afterlives - ancient, medieval and modern - of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film.
- Author: Alex Woolf
- 30 Oct 2012
- Hardback | Paperback
- Price: £47.50 | £12.99
- Author: Thomas Schneider
- 30 Oct 2012
- Hardback
- Price: £18.99
How well do we really know ancient Egypt? The author provides a fresh way of looking at various aspects of ancient Egypt - from history, art and everyday life to religion and ancient attitudes to death and the afterlife.
- Author: Michael Seymour
- 30 Oct 2012
- Hardback
- Price: £56.50
One of the greatest cities of the ancient world, Babylon - home to the fabulous hanging gardens - has been eclipsed by its own sinful reputation. This title explores answers to these questions: Why has Babylon so creatively fired the human imagination, with results both good and ill? Why has it been so enthralling to so many, and for so long?