Rome
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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
$19.99 Add to cartThe “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were … [more below]
- Author: Ehrman, Bart D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1501136712
- 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
$32.99 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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Meditations
$16.95 Add to cartIn one of the world’s most famous and influential books, Meditations, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) describes the Stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and ruler of an… [more below]
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486848531
- 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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Thermae Romae: The Complete Omnibus
$75.00 Add to cartWhen Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his “outdated” thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one… [more below]
- Series: Thermae Romae
- Author: Yamazaki, Mari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1140
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1975348532
- Language: English
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The Satyricon
$12.95 Add to cartThe Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy pr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Petronius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539219
- Language: English
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On Ovid’s Metamorphoses
$14.95 Add to cartOvid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundred
- Series: Core Knowledge
- Author: Williams, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200714
- Language: English
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The Poems of Catullus
$13.95 Add to cartOf all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Catullus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537577
- Language: English
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Class Struggle in the Roman Republic
$25.00 Add to cartIn the first complete Marxist history of the Roman Republic, Alan Woods provides a gripping and accessible analysis of the titanic struggles that shaped the Roman world, and continue to resonate today
- Author: Woods, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1913026868
- 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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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 Add to cartBeautiful 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 Add to cartIn 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
