Ancient History & Archaeology

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...

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: Colin McEvedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A fascinating illustrated history of the most important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria to York From Alexandria to York,...

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...

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: Virgil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by...

Author: John Sellars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful lives What aspects...

Author: David Christian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to...

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...

Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...

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: 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,...

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...

Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...

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: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with...

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...

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...

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: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 New translation for Penguin Classics Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in...

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...

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...

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...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A battle-hardened...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space...

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: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - a fresh look for Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths Including many of...

Author: Peter Heather Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians...

Author: N. Sandars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for...

Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday...

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: 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: 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...

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: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal...

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: 544 This edition also contains a chronology, maps, a genealogy, suggested further reading and notes. A compelling new translation of Tacitus'...

Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of...

Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...

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: 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...