Ancient History & Archaeology

Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...

Author: Jean-Pierre Corteggiani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The Pyramids of Giza are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still stands today....

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: 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: 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: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or...

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: 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: 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: 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: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece...

Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The...

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...

Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Agricolais both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected...

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: John Pitcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. One...

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: Sallust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The earliest Roman historian with complete works to his name, Sallust (86-c. 35 BC) was a senator of the Roman...

Author: John Romer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 A collection of funerary texts - spells, prayers and incantations - to enable the dead to overcome obstacles and...

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: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...

Author: Thomas Habinek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new and original anthology that introduces the use of rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero...

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: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A leader Should be loved. Who Should be feared? The people.' The Most Venerable Book is one of the most...