Ancient History & Archaeology

Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew...

Author: Chae Strathie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 A kid's life in ancient Greece might sound like fun, what with all that brilliant sunny weather and watching the Olympic...

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of...

Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...

Author: Peter Jones (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and...

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost, comes a deeply moving tale of a father and son's...

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: Robert Byrd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of...

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...

Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...

Author: Richard Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 History thrives on stories. TIME'S ANVIL explores archaeology's influence on what such stories say, how they are told, who...

Author: Apuleius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 This bawdy novel from Ancient Rome is given new significance by renowned Australian philosopher Peter Singer. Peter Singer has breathed...

Author: Cornelius Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....

Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist...

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: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...

Author: Petronius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous...

Author: Jerome Ferrari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: This sweeping generational novel, which spans the 20th century, begins with an old man considering a photograph of his long-dead siblings and...