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The Portable Roman Reader (Portable Library)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1977

Seller ID: 432785

ISBN: 0140150560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the wo...
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The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: March 1997

Seller ID: 445314

ISBN: 0521386004

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. It covers all aspects of the city--its rise to power, what made it great and why it still engages and challenges us today. Frequent quotations from ancient writers and numerous illustrations make this a stimulating and accessible introduction to ancient Rome. The book is particularly designed to serve as a background to Reading Latin (CUP 1986).
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Egyptians

By: Africa/Aldred, Cyril

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2016

Seller ID: 311439

ISBN: 0500280363

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The twin themes - the overwhelming importance of the Nile and the pharaoh - provide the unifying thread running through Cyril Aldred's classic text. Aidan Dodson has completely revised the book whilst carefully preserving its succinct and lucid qualities.
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Dwellers on the Nile, The

By: Africa/Budge, Wallis E. A.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: January 2012

Seller ID: 178521

ISBN: 0486235017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In addition to his 40-year career at the British Museum, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was a prolific and popular author who specialized in books on ancient Egypt. The Dwellers on the Nile remains among the most comprehensive and readable histories of daily life in ancient Egypt, covering the Egyptian family and school; furniture, jewelry, food and drink; society, work, and play; Egyptian religion and its numerous gods, temples, and priests; Egyptian writing hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Coptic; literature, medicine, astrology, and alchemy. The book concludes with an ex...
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Arthur's Britain

By: Alcock, Lesli

Price: $4.00

Publisher: December 2009

Seller ID: 70704

ISBN: 0140213961

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Campaigns of Alexander

By: Alexander/Arrian

Price: $2.50

Publisher: April 2016

Seller ID: 314327

ISBN: 01404425370

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Nature of Alexander

By: Alexander/Renault, Mary

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 332591

ISBN: 039473825X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander.
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Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and other Contemporary Sources

By: Alfred

Price: $4.00

Publisher: December 2014

Seller ID: 287739

ISBN: 0140444092

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This comprehensive collection includes Asser's Life of Alfred, extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Alfred's own writings, laws, and will.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date ...
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Against the Academicians

By: Augustine, Saint Bishop of Hippo

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Publisher: Marquette Univ Pr: June 1957

Seller ID: 435632

ISBN: 0874622026

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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

By: Augustus/Everitt, A

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Publisher: October 2016

Seller ID: 114182

ISBN: 0812970586

Binding: Trade Paperback

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He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject.

Augustus be...
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Women & Power: A Manifesto

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 409997

ISBN: 1631494759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $7.50

Publisher: June 2016

Seller ID: 412096

ISBN: 0871408597

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people--the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or, perhaps just as important, how did they clean their teeth? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard forces us along the way to ree...
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 412111

ISBN: 1631494406

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Archimedes and the Door of Science (Living History Library)

By: Bendick, Jeanne

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 363913

ISBN: 1883937124

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jeanne Bendick, through text and pictures, admirably succeeds in bringing to life the ancient Greek mathematician who enriched mathematics and all branches of science. Against the backdrop of Archimedes's life and culture, the author discusses the man's work, his discoveries and the knowledge later based upon it. The simple, often humorous, illustrations and diagrams greatly enhance the text. Ages 10 and up.
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Marathon: The Battle That Changed Western Civilization

By: Billows, Richard A,

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 364185

ISBN: 159020168X

Binding: Hardcover

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The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. is not only understood as the most decisive event in the struggle between the Greeks and the Persians, but can also be seen as perhaps the most significant moment in our collective history. 10,000 Athenian citizens faced a Persian military force of more than 25,000. Greek victory appeared impossible, but the men of Athens were tenacious and the Persians were defeated. Following the battle, the Athenian hoplite army ran 26.5 miles from Marathon to Athens to defend their port from the Persian navy. Although they had just run the great distance in heavy armor, t...
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Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by

By: Caesar

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Seller ID: 417984

ISBN: 0199540268

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available.
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The Civil War (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Caesar, Julius

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: July 2008

Seller ID: 417973

ISBN: 0199540624

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pompey's heirs and followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of Caesar's assassination in March 44 B.C. This generously annotated edition places the war in context and enables the reader t...
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Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, And Tyrant

By: Caesar, Julius/Fuller

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Publisher: July 2016

Seller ID: 345066

ISBN: 0306804220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since the Renaissance, Julius Caesar has been idolized as a superman. Classical sources, however, present a far less exalted being. As General Fuller writes, Caesar was "an unscrupulous demagogue whose one aim was power, and a general who could not only win brilliant victories but also commit dismal blunders.... It is reasonable to suspect that, at times, Caesar was not responsible for his actions, and toward the end of his life, not altogether sane." There is not doubt that Caesar was an extraordinary man." But Fuller points out that he was extraordinary for his reckless ambition, matchles...
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (The Hinges of History)

By: Cahill, Thomas

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Publisher: Anchor Books/Nan A Talese: August 1999

Seller ID: 68806

ISBN: 0385482493

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, once again recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today.

The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow, the a...
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Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter

By: Cahill, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: February 2014

Seller ID: 91191

ISBN: 0385495544

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining--and historically unassailable--journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.

In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation--yet t...
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Category: Ancient History