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Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller...
British Museum Press Out and Decorate Ancient Egypt
Author: Kate McLelland Format: Board book Number of Pages: 24 From sarcophaguses to scarab beetles and canopic jars to crocodiles, this book features 20 unique, intricately foiled designs that can...
The Silent Patient
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Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic
Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
Ideas & Influences of the Ancient World Bargain Book Box
Ideas & Influences of the Ancient World Bargain Book Box The men and women who built the ancient world — and the fights that tore it apart. Inside: Caesar and...
The Cleopatras: Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of
'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORECleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen.A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music,...
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC
Author: Dr. John D. Grainger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the...
The Apocryphal Gospels
A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Judas In the early years of Christianity, several...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers,...
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
Eusebius is regarded as *the* historian of Christian antiquity Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned...
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Author: Chris NauntonFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 880g, 304 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Where are the tombs of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra? Both rulers were buried...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality....
Ancient Egyptian Warfare: Tactics, Weapons and Ideology of the
A concise introduction to Ancient Egyptian warfare from the Neolithic period through to the Iron Age, covering everything from battle tactics to weaponry and battle injuries. The excellent preservation of...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture. Winner of the 2020 Duff Cooper Prize In 402...
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the
'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively retelling of history, the women of the ancient world are...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
The Celts - Search for a Civilisation
Alice Roberts goes in search of the Celts and their treasures in a narrative history to accompanying a new BBC series. We know a lot about the Roman Empire. The...
The 50 Greatest Prehistoric Sites of the World
Author: Barry Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Humanity's written history stretches back only 5,000 years, a mere blip on the timeline of our existence. If you...
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor
Author: P J Rhodes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator'Mary Beard is the best in the business' Dan Snow'Excellent' Guardian'Enthralling' Sunday TimesBritain's most famous classicist asks: what are civilisations?Central to this huge question are...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure
The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature...
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before...
The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa
Author: Jonathan B. Losos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great...
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Pompeii explodes a number of myths - from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the baths which must have...
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
Author: Dr Stephen P. Kershaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative' PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History...
History of the Peloponnesian War
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's...
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with...
Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide
Author: Dave Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Plato: A Graphic Guide begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a...
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths
A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals...
Boudicca's Daughter: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
' Boudicca's Daughter is Elodie Harper's masterpiece.' Costanza Casati, author of Babylonia 'One of the best books I have ever read.' Bea Fitzgerald, author of Girl, Goddess, Queen 'Certainly my...
Ancient Dynasties: The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750
Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis...
The Secret History
This edition contains a revision of the existing translation, revision of chronology and genealogy, and a new introduction of 4-6000 words, new notes and a new selection of further reading...
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies
A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and one of its longest dynasties, was...
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Where are the tombs of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra? Both rulers were buried in Egypt, but their tombs have never been found despite years of intensive research and excavation....
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles,...
Savage Beasts
'A beautiful and unique retelling of Medea. I loved it!' Sunday Times bestselling author Sophie Irwin 'Absorbing and thoughtful... full of page-turning drama and vibrantly drawn characters . Bold and...
The Colosseum
The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity...
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria 'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its...
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times 'A book for...
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller...
Childhood in Ancient Egypt
A groundbreaking account of how the ancient Egyptians perceived children and childhood, from the Predynastic period to the end of the New Kingdom There could be no society, no family,...
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: The Final Day in Seven Lives
'Delightful ... Venner builds an excellent narrative of a city that was thriving and bustling with life at the very point it was snuffed out.' The Times We all know...
On Sparta
A vivid and richly anecdotal portrait of Spartan society. Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise...