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Roman Britain's Missing Legion: What Really Happened to IX Hispana?
Legio IX Hispana had a long and active history, later founding York from where it guarded the northern frontiers in Britain. But the last evidence for its existence in Britain...
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2: Selected Texts in
Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...
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...
A Guide To Roman Britain
$25.00 AUD
Author: Leonard CottrellBinding: HardbackPublished: Chilton Books, Philadelphia, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis volume presents a triumph of archaeological investigation. The text describes a fascinating and detailed...
The 'Satyricon' Of Petronius: A Literary Study
$60.00 AUD
Author: J.P. SullivanBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe book offers a scholarly examination of Petronius's ancient Roman novel, 'Satyricon'. This...
La Muculufa, The Early Bronze Age Sanctuary: The Early Bronze Age Village; Excavations Of 1982 And 1983
$20.00 AUD
Author: R. Ross Holloway, Martha S. Joukowsky, Susan S. LukeshBinding: SoftbackPublished: Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, Brown University, 1990Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume...
Sexti Properti Carmina: Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit
$20.00 AUD
Author: Ioannes S. PhillimoreBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford Clarendon Press, London, 1946Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents "Carmina," a collection of poems by the Roman elegiac poet...
Rhesos
$40.00 AUD
Author: Euripides; Richard Emil Braun (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, New York, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a classical Greek tragedy. The narrative examines...
Spartaci Filius: In Latinum Converterunt Claudius Aziza Et Michael Dubrocard
$60.00 AUD
Author: Jacques MartinBinding: HardbackPublished: Casterman, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis graphic novel transports readers to an ancient world, following the adventures of a character connected to...
Petronii Arbitri. Cena Trimalchionis
$65.00 AUD
Author: Martin S. SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents 'Cena Trimalchionis', a significant portion of Petronius's Satyricon. The...
Plautus: Miles Gloriosus
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Author: PlautusBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1970Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerMiles Gloriosus is a comedic play from ancient Rome. The narrative centers on a...
Plautus: The Darker Comedies: Bacchides, Casina, And Truculentus
$20.00 AUD
Author: James TatumBinding: SoftbackPublished: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe book presents a collection of plays by Plautus, specifically "Bacchides," "Casina," and "Truculentus."...
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....
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
"The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a real-world game of thrones."...
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...
The Greek World 479-323BC
The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and the fourth centuries...
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 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...
Pharsalia: The Civil War
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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...
Civilization
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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...
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
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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)
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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
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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
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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...
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...
Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody
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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 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...
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,...