Rome
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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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Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
$20.99 Add to cartCivilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophis
- Author: Kriwaczek, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1250054168
- 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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Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
$26.00 Add to cartExperience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy
This novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) to- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300256663
- Language: English
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How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
$18.95 Add to cartA primer on campaigning in ancient Rome that reads like a strategy memo from a modern political consultant
How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tom- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Quintus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0691154082
- Language: English
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
$21.95 Add to cartA riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire
At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new c- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0691204225
- 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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Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History
$0.00 Read moreIs the world better off without Christianity?
Combining narrative with keen critique of contemporary debates, author and historian John Dickson gives an honest account of 2,000 years of Christian histo
- Author: Dickson, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 11, 2021
- ISBN10: 0310118360
- Language: English
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The Jewish War
$15.95 Read moreIn August of AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a six-month siege. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination which began in AD 66 with so… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Josephus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0199646023
- 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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How to Run a Country: An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders
$18.95 Add to cartTimeless political wisdom from ancient history’s greatest statesman
Marcus Cicero, Rome’s greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic’s highest office at a time when his beloved c- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156573
- Language: English
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
$23.95 Add to cartNamed 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com
“An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived.”–Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review “The- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0300126891
- Language: English
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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Rom… [more below]
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0300216661
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
$20.00 Add to cartPlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756760
- 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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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1451668848
- Language: English
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On Obligations: de Officiis
$13.95 Add to cartCicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It has subsequently played a seminal role i
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540713
- Language: English
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator,… [more below]
- Author: Nixey, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1328589285
- 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
