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The Great Wall Through Time: A 2,700-Year Journey Along the World's Greatest Wall

The Great Wall Through Time: A 2,700-Year Journey Along the World's Greatest Wall

$29.99 AUD$23.99 AUD
Author: DK Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A beautifully illustrated children's book detailing the fascinating history of the Great Wall of China Embark on an unforgettable time-travelling journey along...
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science

Anaximander: And the Nature of Science

$35.00 AUD$28.00 AUD
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography,...
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: The Countess of Carnarvon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory...
Savage Beasts

Savage Beasts

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Rani Selvarajah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A beautiful and unique retelling of Medea. I loved it!' Sunday Times bestselling author Sophie Irwin 'Absorbing and thoughtful...full of page-turning...
The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa

The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
Author: Jonathan B. Losos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great...
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Author: Adrienne Mayor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures...
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

$44.99 AUD$38.24 AUD
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Eric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the...
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

$39.99 AUD$33.99 AUD
Author: Mary Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to...
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture

The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture

$79.99 AUD$40.00 AUD
Author: Professor Jason Koenig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity. The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity

Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity

$79.99 AUD$40.00 AUD
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...
Kingdom of the Ark: That Startling Story of How the Ancient British Race is Descended from the Pharaohs

Kingdom of the Ark: That Startling Story of How the Ancient British Race is Descended from the Pharaohs

$15.00 AUD
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The Art of the Maya: From the Olmecs to the Toltec-Maya

The Art of the Maya: From the Olmecs to the Toltec-Maya

$70.00 AUD
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Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before...
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES...
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller

$65.00 AUD$52.00 AUD
Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller...
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis

Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Dr Stephen P. Kershaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative' PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History...
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller

$65.00 AUD$27.50 AUD
Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller...
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

$75.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Tom Holland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun...
The Emperor's Exile (Eagles of the Empire 19): The thrilling Sunday Times bestseller

The Emperor's Exile (Eagles of the Empire 19): The thrilling Sunday Times bestseller

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Simon Scarrow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The Sunday Times bestseller - a thrilling new adventure in Simon Scarrow's acclaimed Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for readers...
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

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Daily Life in the Time of Homer

Daily Life in the Time of Homer

$15.00 AUD
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Meditations

Meditations

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom,...
Arriani

Arriani

$100.00 AUD
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The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363

The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363

$44.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: John S Harrel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

$49.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
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...
Antiochus The Great

Antiochus The Great

$44.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Michael Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial...
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots

Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots

$20.00 AUD
Author: Simon Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't...
Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome

Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome

$39.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Matyszak, Philip Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We are accustomed to think of the late Republic as a period in which Rome enjoyed almost uninterrupted military success against...
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor

Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor

$39.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
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...
Strategist in Exile

Strategist in Exile

$59.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
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...
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic

Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic

$75.00 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC

Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC

$69.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Dr. John D. Grainger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the...
Military History of Late Rome 284 361

Military History of Late Rome 284 361

$59.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Ilkka Syvanne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume (5 are planned)...
Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East

Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East

$59.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: M. C. Bishop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 197 Lucius Verus is one of the least regarded Roman emperors, despite the fact that he was co-ruler with his adoptive...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

$75.00 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

$39.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
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...
Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story

Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story

$51.95 AUD$25.00 AUD
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

Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
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...
Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC

Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC

$70.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Mike Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his...
Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235

Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235

$75.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
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,...
Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax

$75.00 AUD$35.00 AUD
Author: Paul N. Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and...
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World

Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet...
The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium

The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium

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The Last Assassin

The Last Assassin

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A gripping history' Mary Beard 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel 'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his]...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
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...
Venus and Aphrodite

Venus and Aphrodite

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
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

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
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

A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

$36.99 AUD$29.59 AUD
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...