Rome
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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 Read moreNamed 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
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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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Detectives in Togas
$9.99 Add to cartIn these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure
- Author: Winterfeld, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0152162801
- 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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Meditations
$10.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s timeless book on character, what it takes to be a good leader, and how to live a fulfilling life. Marcus Aurelius ruled t- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1668050803
- 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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The Life We’re Looking for: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
$27.00 Read moreA deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections, rebuilding abundant communities, and living in a way that engages our full humanity in an age of unprecedented anxiety and loneliness–fr
- Author: Crouch, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 059323734X
- Language: English
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Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
$19.99 Add to cartHow do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization?
Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of t
- Author: Sunshine, Glenn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 3, 2009
- ISBN10: 0310292301
- 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
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Vergil: The Poet’s Life
$26.00 Read moreA biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid
“Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy ‘ancient’ into our contemporary . . . p- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256612
- Language: English
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The Emperor’s Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations
$25.00 Add to cartA powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, an essential book on character, leadership, and how to live a fulfilling life.
Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its hei- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0743233832
- Language: English
