Ancient History & Archaeology

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: 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: 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: 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...

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: 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: 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: 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: John D. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 New selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia is the...

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: 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: 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: 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,...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Diogenes of Sinope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding 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: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal...

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: 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 Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the...

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: 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: 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...

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: Arrian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of...

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 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: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks...

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...

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...

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: 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...