Ancient History & Archaeology

Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant...

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: Aesop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The...

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...