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Cities in Civilization
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Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box SP2094
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Secondhand History and Biography Bargain Book Box Unearth fascinating narratives from the past with this curated collection. Journey through pivotal moments in history, explore the lives of extraordinary individuals, and...
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...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' - Daily
A SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Monumental and vividly imagined . . . a fitting tribute to a city that has survived, changed and grown for...
Brief Histories: Ancient Greece: Everything you wanted to know but
Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the...
Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt: Everything you wanted to know but
Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price asks us how...
The Hellenistic Aesthetic
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Author: Barbara Hughes FowlerBinding: SoftbackPublished: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Hellenistic Aesthetic explores the artistic and cultural developments during the Hellenistic...
Atlas of the Greek World
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Author: Peter LeviBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon P., 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAtlas of the Greek World is a comprehensive guide that explores the rich history and...
History of Ancient Rome
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Author: Nathaniel HarrisBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamlyn, 2000Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Ancient Rome, exploring its rise and fall, key...
The Oxford History of the Classical World
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Author: John Boardman and OthersBinding: SoftbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1993Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume provides an authoritative overview of the classical world, covering the...
Crossroads of Civilization: 3000 Years of Persian History
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Author: Clive IrvingBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, London, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the rich and diverse history of Persia over three millennia, highlighting its influence...
The Etruscans
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Author: Werner KellerBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the rich history and culture of the Etruscans, an ancient civilization that thrived in...
Biblical Lands (The Making of the Past)
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Author: P R S MooreyBinding: HardbackPublished: Elsevier Phaidon, 1975Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the archaeological and historical aspects of the lands mentioned in the...
Larousse Encyclopedia of Archeology
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Author: Gilbert Charles-PicardBinding: HardbackPublished: Crescent Books, 1987Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Larousse Encyclopedia of Archeology provides a comprehensive overview of archaeological discoveries and methodologies. Edited by...
Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller (SIGNED)
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like?In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now,...
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars (SIGNED)
'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
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The Secret Chamber: The Quest for the Hall of Records
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Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern
'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the...
Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta
The words Pax Augusta - or Pax Romana - evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year...
Terence: The Girl from Andros
The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist. It is based on two...
Gladiators and Beasthunts
'Gladiators and Beasthunts' is a comprehensive survey of arena sports in ancient Rome, focusing upon gladiatorial combat and the beast-hunts (venationes). Whilst numerous books have already been written on arena...
Religion and Classical Warfare: Archaic and Classical Greece
Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice...
Marcus Aurelius: A Life
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity whose life and words still speak to us today. His Meditations remains one of the most widely read...
Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta
The words Pax Augusta - or Pax Romana - evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year...
Brutus of Troy
Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of...
The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its
Marathon--one of history's most pivotal battles. Its very name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. But until now, the story of what happened at Marathon has...
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt
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The Later Roman Empire
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Virgil: Aeneid Book XII
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Secondhand Ancient World Bargain Book Box SP2066
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Secondhand Ancient World Bargain Book Box Unearth the foundations of Western civilization with this curated collection of secondhand books. Journey through the rise and fall of empires, explore the minds...
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's
'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A superb...
The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic
The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of democracy, fought off the mighty Persian Empire. This is the story of the three epic battles--Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis--that...
Etruscans, The
This volume accompanies Palazzo Grassi's exhibition on the Etruscans. It contains 20 chapters by prominent scholars on diverse topics such as Etruscan city building, language, slavery and trade. Illustrations display...
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction
Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, but our image of...
Roman Military Disasters
There is a tendency when dealing with world superpowers to focus on their successes. After all, these are what made them superpowers in the first place. However, reverses and disasters...
Sparta: Unfit for Empire
The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might have been secure. As...
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts
The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without their influence. And...
Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics
This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others. Together with volumes comprising the text and translations,...
Romanization in the Time of Augustus
During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion,...
Roman Conquests: Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia
While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies...
Attila the Hun
A gripping account of how and why the legendary 'scourge of God' was able to inscribe his legacy into the annals of military history.One of the most powerful men in...
Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European
This book investigates how semivowels were realized in Indo-European and in early Greek. More specifically, it examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what...
The Crisis of Rome: The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of
In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down...
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...
Boudica's Last Stand: Britain's Revolt against Rome AD 60-61
In 61 AD, Roman rule in Britain was threatened by a bloody revolt led by one of the most iconic figures in British history. Legend dictates that Boudica destroyed three...