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Seneca: A 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...
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor
Author: P J Rhodes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to...
Great Generals of the Ancient World
Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered...
Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235
Author: John S. McHugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 335 Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin,...
Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity
Author: David Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx
Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
Voices From the Past: A year of great quotations - and the stories from history that inspired them
Author: W.B. Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In a treasure trove for history buffs, W. B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day...
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...
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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...
Cymbeline
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...
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Author: Charlie English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Timbuktu has long been seen as a paradise to Westerners who had, for centuries, led perilous and mostly failed 'discovery' expeditions...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...
Strategist in Exile
Author: Rainer Nickel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens...
Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt Pyramids
Author: Terry Deary Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks? Don't bet your afterlife on it. Ancient Egypt...
On the Good Life
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...
Phaedrus
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...
Discover Through Craft: Ancient Greece
Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 What do you know about the ancient Greeks? Explore the incredible history of this Ancient civilisation and find out...
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Author: Robert B. Strassler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
Roman Women: The Women Who Influenced the History of Rome
Author: Paul Chrystal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Generally women in ancient Rome led modest, unobtrusive and restricted lives - apart, that is, from a number who broke the...
Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story
Author: Thomas N. Mitchell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200...
Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome
Author: Hughes, Ian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Attila the Hun is a household name. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next...
Romanesque Basic Art
Author: Norbert Wolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Reaching its peak in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Romanesque movement was marked by a peculiar, vivid, and often monumental...
The One Impossible Labyrinth: From the creator of No.1 Netflix thriller INTERCEPTOR
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Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 THE BRAND NEW JACK WEST THRILLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Spectacular...Part-Jack Reacher, part-Indiana Jones' SMH THE END IS HERE Jack West...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Daunt Books Book of the year 2023. Winner of the...
The Twelve Tasks of Heracles and Arion and the Dolphins
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Author: Marcia Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 The ancient Greek myths as you've never read them before! The classic stories of The Twelve Tasks of Heracles...
Coriolanus
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A peerless...
The Makers of Rome
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...
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
Author: Dr Stephen P. Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative' PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History...
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Author: Matthew Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This...
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
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The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
The One Impossible Labyrinth: From the creator of No.1 Netflix thriller INTERCEPTOR
Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 THE BRAND NEW JACK WEST THRILLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Spectacular...Part-Jack Reacher, part-Indiana Jones' SMH THE END IS HERE Jack West...
A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There
Author: Dr Donald P. Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign...
Venus and Aphrodite
Author: Bettany Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Lively' THE TIMES 'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR 'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME 'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE Through ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx
Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
The West and the Map of the World
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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
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The Mummy's Tale: The Scientific and Medical Investigation of Natsef-Amun, Priest in the Temple at Karnak
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Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death
Author: Peter Jones (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us...
The Satyricon
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...
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...
Annals
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'...
Agricola and Germania
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...
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories
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...
General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier : a Biography
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The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
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