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Lives of the Early Martyrs
$20.00 Add to cartWhat happened to the Apostles? How did the early Christians live? Why did the Romans and other peoples try to destroy them with such brutality? Those answers are all provided in Fr. Pedro de Ribadeney
- Author: Ribadeneyra, Pedro De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 195374608X
- Language: English
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
$20.00 Add to cartMary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Ale… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0871408597
- Language: English
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
$23.95 Read moreThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #94
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216738
- Language: English
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Roman Warfare
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire
Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthl… [more below]- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699238
- Language: English
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Ancient History Vol. 1: An Enthralling Guide to Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Rome
$40.99 Add to cartThree manuscripts in one book:
- Ancient Egypt: An Enthralling Overview of Egyptian History, Starting from the Settlement of the Nile Valley through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms to the Death of Cle
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: March 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651262
- Language: English
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The Republic and the Laws
$12.95 Add to cartCicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019954011X
- Language: English
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Rome: An Empire’s Story
$22.99 Add to cartRome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the Mediterranean world and finall… [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0190687452
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
$22.00 Read moreEdited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the
Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin
Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0375758119
- Language: English
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The Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome
$39.95 Add to cartWho were the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome? What did they mean to the people who worshipped them? Although their time of widespread worship is long gone, the Greek and Roman gods have
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024189
- Language: English
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Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome’s most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history’s bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain nea
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699254
- Language: English
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Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
$20.00 Add to cart“Cato, history’s most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republican
- Author: Goodman, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042623
- Language: English
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Josephus: The Essential Writings
$24.99 Add to cartAn award-winning translation and condensation of The Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War of Josephus. The historical events take on a brilliant new dimension in this revised edition now with photogr… [more below]
- Author: Josephus, Flavius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 12 1990
- ISBN10: 0825429641
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
$17.95 Add to cartStephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimen… [more below]
- Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0471686131
- Language: English
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Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome’s Greatest Enemy
$39.95 Read moreThe Romans’ destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal’s life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every in… [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976865
- Language: English
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The Twelve Caesars
$16.00 Add to cart‘Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the mo
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0140455167
- Language: English
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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty
$18.95 Add to cartDrawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire–and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire
According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #9
- Author: Barrett, Anthony a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0691233942
- Language: English
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The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories
$25.95 Add to cartWho was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse?
The myths of ancient Greece and … [more below]
- Series: Myths
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0500251738
- Language: English
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Catiline’s Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories
$15.95 Add to cartSallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political degeneration of the Roman Republic. Sallust’s abrupt… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0192823450
- Language: English
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The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
$18.95 Read moreWhat happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? The life and times of the worst Roman emperor of all.
What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy- Author: Sidebottom, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546857
- Language: English
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The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate t… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gwynn, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199595119
- Language: English
