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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus
$35.00 AUD
Author: SophoclesBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen Lane, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume collects three seminal works of ancient Greek drama. The narratives follow the tragic fate of...
Rhetoric At Rome: A Historical Survey
$25.00 AUD
Author: M. L. ClarkeBinding: HardbackPublished: Cohen & West, 1953Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical survey examines the art of rhetoric in ancient Rome....
The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell
Human olfaction - the sense of smell - enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is...
Korean Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
Beautiful edition with a new introduction to the intriguing and unique history of Korea, its mythology and its people. Korea's myths and folklore are rooted in the ancient history of...
The Civil Wars
John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as historian and places the work in context Taken from...
Sophocles: Oedipus the King
$15.00 AUD
Author: Sophocles; Berg, Stephen; Clay, DiskinBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, USA, 1978Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerA tragic play unfolds. Fate and free will intertwine....
Erysichthon: A Callimachean Comedy
$40.00 AUD
Author: Kenneth John Mc KayBinding: SoftbackPublished: E. J. BRILL, 1962Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book appears to be a scholarly work, possibly a doctoral dissertation ('Proefschrift'...
Roman Satire
$20.00 AUD
Author: Michael CoffeyBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen & Co, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the nuances of Roman satirical works. It provides insights into the historical...
Roman History From Coins: Some Uses of the Imperial Coinage to the Historian
$45.00 AUD
Author: Michael GrantBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1958Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume provides a unique lens into the history of the Roman Empire. Numismatic...
Ancient Christian Writers: The Octavius Of Marcus Minucius Felix
$50.00 AUD
Author: G. W. ClarkeBinding: HardbackPublished: The Newman Press, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerMarcus Minucius Felix presents a compelling dialogue. Octavius engages in a debate defending Christianity...
Pharsalia: The Civil War
$20.00 AUD
Author: Lucan; translated by Douglas LittleBinding: SoftbackPublished: University of Otago Press, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis epic poem recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and...
A Book Of Greek Coins
$15.00 AUD
Author: Charles SeltmanBinding: HardbackPublished: King Penguin Book, 1952Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book showcases a collection of Greek coins. Ancient civilizations created these artifacts....
Civilization
$15.00 AUD
Author: Dr Timothy PottsBinding: SoftbackPublished: Australian National Gallery, 1990Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA catalogue of the artefacts shown by the Australian National Gallery, on loan...
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe
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Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic
A compelling new account of the tempestuous last century of the Roman Republic. This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women,...
Tutankhamun The Untold Story
$15.00 AUD
Author: Thomas HovingBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the life and times of Tutankhamun, offering a fresh perspective on the boy...
Αρχαια Μακεδονια Ancient Macedonia (English and Greek)
$20.00 AUD
Author: Lucy Braggiotti (ed.), Alexandra Doumas (translator)Binding: SoftbackPublished: Greek Ministry of Culture , 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis bilingual (English and Greek) art exhibtion...
A Soaring Spirit: TimeFrame 600-400 BC
$20.00 AUD
Author: Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores a period of significant cultural and political evolution, focusing on the...
Greek Lyric Poetry
$40.00 AUD
Author: David A. CampbellBinding: SoftbackPublished: Bristol Classical Press, 1982Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book is a selection of early Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry. It...
Psyche: The Cult Of Souls & Belief In Immortality Among The Greeks (Two-Volumes Set)
$80.00 AUD
Author: Erwin RohdeBinding: SoftbackPublished: Harper Torchbooks, 1966Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis two-volume set, "Psyche: The Cult of Souls & Belief in Immortality among the Greeks," delves...
Bibliotheca Corviniana 1490 - 1990
$20.00 AUD
Author: National Szechenyi Library, Csaba CsapodiBinding: SoftbackPublished: National Szechenyi Library, Budapest, 1990Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is about the Bibliotheca Corviniana, covering the years...
Athenian Democracy
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The Hamlyn History of Archaeology
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Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in...
The Parthenon
The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what...
The Age of Cats: How Cats Evolved from the Savannah to your Sofa
The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. 'Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Age of Cats...
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
A "splendid" ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC,...
Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody
Discover the rise and fall of the world's greatest empire in the stunning first instalment of The Golden Age, an epic new series from the nation's finest historical novelist After...
Homer and His Iliad
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy....
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and...
Agricola and Germania
This is a lightly revised edition of Mattingly's original translation plus a new introduction, new notes, a chronology and further reading, by James Rives The Agricola is both a portrait...
The Twelve Caesars
A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives...
The Histories
One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But...
The Early History of Rome
Livy's brilliant history of the founding and early years of Rome Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first...
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation
Books VI - X of Livy's monumental History of Rome Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386...
The Rise of the Roman Empire
Penguin Classics relaunch The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their...
The Persian Expedition
Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who...
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and...
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most...
The Rise And Fall of Athens
Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? How does...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The most celebrated historical work in the English language Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one...
The Art of More: how mathematics created civilisation
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world. 1,...
Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres
A fascinating illustrated history of the most important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria to York From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide shows us the great centres of classical...
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world The...
The Jewish War
Penguin Classics relaunch Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and...
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth's history - or legend - of the earliest kings of Britain Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm...