Ancient - Rome
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Defence Speeches
$14.95 Add to cartCicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world. He dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the defense. His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion. They are compellingly wr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537909
- Language: English
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The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
$16.95 Add to cartHere is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus’ timeless history of three of Rome’s most memorable emperors. Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as proof of the co… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tacitus, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 10 2008
- ISBN10: 019282421X
- Language: English
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Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic
$29.99 Add to cartOne of Rome’s most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot–thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero’s most famous speeches in t
- Author: Boin, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035676
- Language: English
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Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire
$29.99 Add to cartA new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss.
Jews vs. Rome is a grippi- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1668009595
- Language: English
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Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
$21.99 Add to cartA “magnificent” (Spectator) history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers
The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619951
- Language: English
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The Neverending Empire: The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire.
“Th
- Author: Cazzullo, Aldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0008700427
- Language: English
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The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii
$25.00 Add to cartThe director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage.
In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuc- Author: Zuchtriegel, Gabriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839605
- Language: English
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The Annals & The Histories
$21.00 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966996
- Language: English
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On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic
$14.99 Read more- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1907312544
- Language: English
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Those About to Die
$18.99 Add to cartThe basis for the new Peacock television series: The classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans’ obsession with the bloody and brutal gladiatorial games.
“If you can imagine a superior American- Author: Mannix, Daniel P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: July 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1504098447
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Caesars
$35.00 Add to cartA masterful new translation of Suetonius’ renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail
A Penguin Classic The ancient Roman empir- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0143107704
- Language: English
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How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
$26.95 Read moreA major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar
In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. B- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0300164262
- Language: English
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Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
$35.00 Add to cartHistorian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire
From plebeians refusing- Author: Bond, Sarah E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273142
- Language: English
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Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece
$33.99 Add to cartIs there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and bro… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0199916896
- Language: English
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The Roman Revolution
$17.99 Add to cartIt was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the third century”. Long before the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between … [more below]
- Series: The Fall of the Roman Empire #1
- Author: Holmes, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1739786505
- Language: English
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
$32.00 Add to cartIn this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed–why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why
- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #12
- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691192138
- Language: English
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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
$28.99 Add to cartAncient Rome is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker’s absorbing narrative charts the rise and fall of a political ma… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1846072840
- Language: English
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A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives
$16.95 Read moreA vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not j… [more below]
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297053
- Language: English
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Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments
$39.95 Add to cartRome wasn’t built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of continual creation and renewal lies at the heart of Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments. Rome’s hist
- Author: Roberts, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 500025681
- Language: English
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Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
$32.00 Add to cartA historian of Rome “at the height of his powers” (Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire) narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through th… [more below]
- Author: Osgood, Josiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604253
- Language: English
