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The brutal, thrilling world of gladiators was a popular motif in the art of Pompeii, as this informative book demonstrates. Gladiators at Pompeii, illustrated with striking Pompeiian depictions of these...

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...

What Is a Man? enriches our understanding of the paradigm shift produced by feminist theory, that gender is constructed, not "natural," and is political. Indeed, Kampen's essay explores new ground,...

One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. Michaelangelo's magnificent sculpture of him is...

The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art....

Focusing primarily on Rome and other cities of central Italy, James C. Anderson, Jr, describes the training, career path and social status of both architects and builders. He explains how...

This is a fully revised survey of London up to the Great Fire.

Approximately 2,025 years ago, an aged Roman architect named Vitruvius wrote down on ten scrolls everything he knew about architecture. He presented this work, known today as "Ten Books on...

Illustrated and provided with a glossary and site index, this text examines the archaeology of housing throughout the Roman world. This breadth of scale enables the author to set local...

Travel back in time and explore the extraordinary world of ancient Rome From bakers and soldiers to gladiators and emperors, find out what it was like to live in one...

An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in...

Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas,...

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era,...

A reign-by-reign history of ancient Egypt. An introduction covers landscape and resources, followed by chapters on the prehistory and dynastic period. The main part of the book recounts the history...

Grampian Battlefields covers a time-span of 1,661 years. It forms an exercise in historical reasoning an d historical imagination. '

A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our...

Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read...

In this text, film maker Christopher Miles and historian John Julius Norwich tour the Mediterranean Basin, looking at how ancient civilizations regarded sex and sexuality. They take in European cave...

With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9...

Compelling new translation of the Annals, by Cynthia Damon Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES A gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. In December...

From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes,...

The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share...

There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together...

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...

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...

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...

A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage, in fifty detective stories. Here is the history of humankind's relationship with...

One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of...

The definitive biography of ancient Rome's most powerful and colourful philosopher-politician This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century...

Compelling new translation of the Annals, by Cynthia Damon Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero...

Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and...

The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks- he conjures up an ancient people in...

The essential writings of ancient Egypt, from songs to stories, newly translated 'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered.' The...

One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new translation The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half...

Edith Hall unpacks the mysterious and successful ancient Greek people through ten uniquely ancient Greek personality traits. They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the...

Penguin Classics relaunch Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his...

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...

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...

'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...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph'On nearly every page a random...

Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor...

This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale...

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...

Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. He has written fifty-five books on the subject (before this one) and over three hundred...

In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit...

In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds...