Ancient History & Archaeology

Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...

Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...

Author: Gaia Vince Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful...

Author: Edward Gibbon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1232 Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent...

Author: Simon Gathercole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary and...

Author: Michael Brooks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains...

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 254 These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself...

Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 406 Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting...

Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings. The ancient...

Author: Joann Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The story of the world's greatest civilisation spans more than 4000 years of history that has shaped the world....

Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that...

Author: Thomas More Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions In...

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece...

Author: John Marincola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Why is it my fate that everyone who was an enemy of the Republic at the same time declared war...

Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Agricolais both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected...

Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical...

Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 First time in Penguin Classics for Scandinavia's best known work of literature and the principal source for knowledge about...

Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice...