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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartWas the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians i… [more below]
- Author: Ward-Perkins, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0192807285
- Language: English
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
$22.00 Add to cartThe first full-scale history of Hannibal’s Carthage in decades and “a convincing and enthralling narrative.” (The Economist )
Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master- Author: Miles, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121294
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Gaul
$12.00 Add to cartBetween 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar’s narrative offers insight… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 1983
- ISBN10: 0140444335
- Language: English
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End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
$26.99 Add to cartHistory remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Following Attila and the Huns from the steppes
- Author: Kelly, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338495
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 3 (of Six): Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper
$100.00 Add to cartThe first three volumes of the most famous historical chronicle in English, in hardcover in a gorgeously illustrated box set, with an introduction by renowned scholar Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Edward Gibbon… [more below]- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1902
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0679423087
- Language: English
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The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from northern England to the sun-baked banks … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kelly, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0192803913
- Language: English
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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
$23.00 Add to cartIn this dazzling portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty, Tom Holland traces the astonishing century-long story of the rise and fall of the Julio-Claudians–Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, a… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345806727
- Language: English
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Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars
$30.99 Add to cartA unique and entertaining history of the Roman Empire’s first dynasty
14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become- Author: Stothard, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0197555284
- Language: English
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
$19.00 Add to cartGladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire.
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in
Empire.- Author: de la Bédoyère, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823903
- Language: English
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The Roman Way
$16.99 Add to cartIn this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero,
- Author: Hamilton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354458
- Language: English
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Ancient Rome: Infographics
$34.95 Add to cartAncient Rome: Infographics tells the story of a great empire through graphic design. This book offers readers a new way to conceptualize ancient Rome from the birth of the empire to the Punic Wars, a
- Author: Guillerat, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252629
- Language: English
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Roman Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Read moreBeautiful edition with a new introduction to the people and the leaders of perhaps humankind’s most enduring civilization, featuring the history behind the legends, the people behind the grand tales o… [more below]
- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Powell, Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1804176168
- Language: English
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Discourses on Livy
$12.95 Add to cartDiscourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555559
- Language: English
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Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire
$70.00 Add to cartBetween Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire challenges orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman domination. It presents a new framework for understanding this and other territories inc
- Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures
- Author: Mattingly, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: August 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0472133454
- Language: English
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The Complete Pompeii
$40.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of Pompeii’s destruction has been handed down to us by Roman writers, its paintings and mosaics have astonished visitors since their discovery in the eighteenth century, and its hou… [more below]
- Series: Complete #0
- Author: Berry, Joanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 050005150X
- Language: English
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Agricola and Germany
$13.95 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus, Rome’s greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953926X
- Language: English
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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
$14.95 Add to cart‘I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as m… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537380
- Language: English
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
$21.00 Add to cartA vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border ri… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078970
- Language: English
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
$58.33 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691222363
- Language: English
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Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
$23.00 Read moreA striking, nuanced biography of Nero–the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars–and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome
“Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”–Barr- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593133218
- Language: English
