Rome
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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
$25.00 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
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Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
$19.99 Add to cart“A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity’s founding.”–Publishers Weekly
The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today’s believers.Within Roman society, the earl… [more below]
- Author: Gupta, Nijay K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1587435179
- Language: English
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The Pocket Stoic
$15.00 Add to cartTo counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very diff… [more below]
- Author: Sellars, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 022668296X
- Language: English
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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions
$30.00 Read moreFINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023
The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine’s Confessions
While many know of Saint Augustine and his Confessions, few are aware of how his life- Author: Cooper, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541646010
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
$26.90 Add to cart“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome–“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly).
Most historians, both ancient- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 1565849426
- Language: English
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
$20.00 Add to cartEdward Gibbon’s six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437649
- Language: English
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$39.99 Add to cartAncient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a “mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride an
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0871404230
- Language: English
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
$32.00 Add to cartThe story of Messalina – third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world
The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable- Author: Cargill-Martin, Honor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363955
- Language: English
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
$16.95 Add to cartSister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty–and of Rome itself, at i… [more below]
- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1643136100
- Language: English
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Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
$26.00 Read moreThe tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman
“When we think of ancient Rome, it’s impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256647
- Language: English
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
$18.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common–murder. Romulus killed Rem- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1419753061
- Language: English
