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Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold
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...
How To Be a Stoic
Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from...
As the Romans Do: Authentic and reinvented recipes from the Eternal City
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Author: Eleonora Galasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 204 Rome is steeped in history and tradition, and this is reflected in the sheer vibrancy and variety of its food. In...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Author: Judith Herrin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and...
Meditations
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...
Himalaya: A Human History
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...
Attila The Hun
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun. The name Attila the Hun has become a...
The Prose Edda
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...
The Apocryphal Gospels
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...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
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...
The History of Alexander
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...
The Celestial Hunter
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
The Histories
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...
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness
Author: John Sellars Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Epicureanism offers the perfect cure for our anxious age. What can it teach us about the art of happiness? What do...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...
The Civil War
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius,...
The Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the...
The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World
Author: Edith Hall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Edith Hall unpacks the mysterious and successful ancient Greek people through ten uniquely ancient Greek personality traits. They gave...
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author: Ralph Metzner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text...
The Golden Ass
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...
The Jewish War
Author: Josephus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish...
The Road to Oxiana
Author: Robert Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana...
The Persian Expedition
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad...
The Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life...
Earth-Shattering Events
Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective" --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of...