Archaeology & Ancient history

	Discovering Jerusalem - Nahman Avigad Discovering Jerusalem:Recent Archaeological Excavations in the Upper City by Nahman Avigad describes his work excavating in Jerusalem, the area including the Temple. Illustrated with colour and b&w photos, maps and plans.	ZAR 90.00
	Greek Religion - Walter Burkert Greek Religion by Walter Burkert is a major synthesis of the ancient Greek religion. The major part of his book is devoted to the archaic and classical epochs. He describes the various rituals of sacrifice and libation and explains Greek beliefs about purification.	ZAR 90.00
	Herculaneum - Joseph Jay Deiss Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Jay Deiss vividly reveals the Roman way of life in Pompeii's sister city. Included are b&w photographs, maps, a bibliography, and an index.	ZAR 90.00
	Ancient Rome - Luisa Franchi dell'Orto Ancient Rome:Life and Art by Luisa Franchi dell'Orto is not a guide to the monuments of ancient Rome, but an attempt to understand their significance and their vital role in the daily lives of the inhabitants of the city during successive periods of the urban development.	ZAR 90.00
	Egypt's Sunken Treasures - Franck Goddio Egypt's Sunken Treasures by Franck Goddio who discovered the ruins of three ancient cities Alexandria, Heraklion, and Canopus in the shallow waters of Aboukir Bay off the coast of Egypt, including statuary, jewellery, pediments, stone tablets, and fragments of buildings, all lost for nearly two thousand years.	ZAR 225.00
	The Gods of Olympus - Barbara Graziosi The Gods of Olympus: A History by Barbara Graziosi is an elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present day The gods of Olympus are the most colourful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly.	ZAR 150.00
	The Gods of Olympus - Barbara Graziosi The Gods of Olympus: A History by Barbara Graziosi legant and entertaining history of the most vibrant characters in classical civilisation. With their vast appetites, great beauty and warlike tendencies, it's hard to resist their pull on the imagination, even though, in antiquity, the gods of Olympus were just as often seen as cruel, over-sexed, mad or just plain silly.	ZAR 65.00
	Daily Life of the Etruscans - Jacques Heurgon Daily Life of the Etruscans by Jacques Heurgon seeks to lift the mystery which enshrouds almost every aspect of this civilization, from the vexed question of their origins and curios non-Indo-European language to the enigma of their highly complex religion, in which soothsaying played so important a part.	ZAR 60.00
	The Greek World 479-323 BC - Simon Hornblower The Greek World 479-323 BC by Simon Hornblower covers the history of the ancient Greeks from the Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great. The main aim is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.	ZAR 65.00
	From Lucy to Language - Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar From Lucy to Language by Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar is a summing up of the author's remarkable career and a stunning documentary of human life through time on earth. Johansen is the noted palaeontologist who discovered the famous 'Lucy' skeleton. This book is a combination of the vital experience of field work and the intellectual rigour of primary research.	ZAR 300.00
	The Etruscans - Werner Keller The Etruscans by Werner Keller reconstructs the the unique culture of the Etruscans from the first scant record to their destruction at the hands of Rome. Illustrated in b&w.	ZAR 120.00
	The Origin of Humankind - Richard Leakey The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey provides an account of how the early hominids of the African Savanna developed into modern human beings. Leakey has always been interested in far more than the mere physical features presented by the fossils, and here he is particularly concerned with non-tangible human attributes.	ZAR 90.00
	The Making of Mankind - Richard E Leakey The Making of Mankind by Richard E Leakey is a picture of man's evolution, gleaned from archaeological sites from Africa to Peking, from South America to Northern Europe. Illustrated in colour with photographs, drawings and maps.	ZAR 90.00
	Orpheus - GRS Mead Orpheus by GRS Mead is an extensive look at the history, mystery and mythology of Orpheus and his importance in ancient theology and science. This copy is a facsimile reprint of the 1896 edition.	ZAR 90.00
	Five Stages of Greek Religion - Gilbert Murray Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray illustrates the ancient s continuing relevance to modern thought with absorbing accounts of the many theological trends of ancient Greece. Murray traces the growth and development of Greek religion from its beginnings in prehistorical animism to the full flowering of the major schools of philosophy, and thence to their extinction.	ZAR 90.00
	Ancient Supplication - F S Naiden Ancient Supplication by F S Naiden is the first book-length treatment of supplication, an important social practice in ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Despite the importance of supplication, it has received little attention, and no previous study has explored so many aspects of the practice. 30 Illustrations and a map of the relevant locations accompany the text.	ZAR 150.00
	The Origins of Greek Thought - Jean-Pierre Vernant The Origins of Greek Thought by Jean-Pierre Vernant relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant claims, is closely linked to the advent of the open-air politics that characterised life in the Greek polis.	ZAR 90.00
	Myth and Society in Ancient Greece - Jean-Pierre Vernant Myth and Society in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualised warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies.In his provocative discussions of various institutions and pract	ZAR 90.00