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The Portable Roman Reader (Portable Library)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: Jan-77

Seller ID: 432785

ISBN: 140150560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: Mar-97

Seller ID: 445314

ISBN: 521386004

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Roman World: The Oxford History of the Classical World (Vol 2)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: Nov-88

Seller ID: 459244

ISBN: 192821660

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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

Condition: Used - Good

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth

By: Alexander/Cantor, Norman

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 460684

ISBN: 006057013X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure."

In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illuminates the personal life and military conquests of this most legendary of men. Cantor draws from the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries combined with the most recent psychological and cultural studies to show Alexander as he was -- a great figure in the ancient world whose puzzli...
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Nature of Alexander

By: Alexander/Renault, Mary

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 332591

ISBN: 039473825X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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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Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts

By: Andrew Robinson

Price: $12.50

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: Apr-02

Seller ID: 459991

ISBN: 71357432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Caligula: The Corruption of Power

By: Anthony A. Barrett

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: May-90

Seller ID: 450023

ISBN: 300046537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

By: Anthony, David W.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Princeton University Press: August 2010

Seller ID: 466521

ISBN: 069114818X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transfor...
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The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)

By: Aristotle,

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: June 1955

Seller ID: 466823

ISBN: 0140440550

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A vigorous polemicist as well as a rational philosopher, Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) has the task in his ethics of demonstrating how men become good and why happiness can, and should, be our goal. The success of Aristotle's endeavour may be measured by the enormous impact of his ethics on Western moral philosophy through the centuries. represents an exacting, exciting challenge to the reader. By converting ethics from a theoretical to a practical science, and by introducing psychology into his study of behaviour, Aristotle both widens the field of moral philosophy and simultaneously makes it mor...
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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

By: Augustus/Everitt, A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: October 2016

Seller ID: 114182

ISBN: 0812970586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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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Hellenistic World From Alexander to the Roman Conquest

By: Austin, M.M.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Jun-10

Seller ID: 457670

ISBN: 521296668

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Women & Power: A Manifesto

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 409997

ISBN: 1631494759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

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

The Roman Triumph

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press: May 2009

Seller ID: 466551

ISBN: 0674032187

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his most glamorous prisoners, as well as the booty he'd captured, from enemy ships and precious statues to plants and animals from the conquered territory. Occasionally there was so much on display that the show lasted two or three days.

A radical reexamination of this most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman triumph, but also ...
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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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Odysseus: A Life

By: Beye, Charles Rowan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hachette Books: February 2005

Seller ID: 466731

ISBN: 0786888369

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in paperback, an informative and entertaining "biography" of Odysseus by an acclaimed classicist.

Odysseus, the fictional Bronze Age hero, is an extraordinary figure who has captured our imagination over the millennia from culture to culture. But until now, he has never been the subject of a "biography," in which his life is set out from beginning to end. In this remarkable book, beloved classicist Charles Beye puts his unique spin on Odysseus' strange and adventuresome existence. With tremendous wit and insight, Beye portrays the character's amazing life and evo...
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