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Ancient Rome: Infographics
$34.95 Add to cartAncient Rome: Infographics tells the story of a great empire through graphic design. This book offers readers a new way to conceptualize ancient Rome from the birth of the empire to the Punic Wars, a
- Author: Guillerat, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252629
- Language: English
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Roman Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Add to cartBeautiful edition with a new introduction to the people and the leaders of perhaps humankind’s most enduring civilization, featuring the history behind the legends, the people behind the grand tales o… [more below]
- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Powell, Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1804176168
- Language: English
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Discourses on Livy
$12.95 Add to cartDiscourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555559
- Language: English
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Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire
$70.00 Read moreBetween Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire challenges orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman domination. It presents a new framework for understanding this and other territories inc
- Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures
- Author: Mattingly, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: August 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0472133454
- Language: English
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The Complete Pompeii
$40.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of Pompeii’s destruction has been handed down to us by Roman writers, its paintings and mosaics have astonished visitors since their discovery in the eighteenth century, and its hou… [more below]
- Series: Complete #0
- Author: Berry, Joanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 050005150X
- Language: English
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Agricola and Germany
$13.95 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus, Rome’s greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953926X
- Language: English
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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
$14.95 Add to cart‘I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as m… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537380
- Language: English
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
$21.00 Add to cartA vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border ri… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078970
- Language: English
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
$58.33 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691222363
- Language: English
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Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
$23.00 Read moreA striking, nuanced biography of Nero–the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars–and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome
“Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”–Barr- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593133218
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
$26.90 Add to cart“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome–“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly).
Most historians, both ancient- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 1565849426
- Language: English
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
$20.00 Add to cartEdward Gibbon’s six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437649
- Language: English
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$39.99 Add to cartAncient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a “mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride an
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0871404230
- Language: English
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
$16.95 Add to cartSister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty–and of Rome itself, at i… [more below]
- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1643136100
- Language: English
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
$18.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common–murder. Romulus killed Rem- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1419753061
- Language: English
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
$19.99 Add to cartThe creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Ro
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 1541724038
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West
$27.00 Read moreA new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next
“[A] provocative short book . . . with a novel twist.”–The Economist Over the last three centuries, the- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 030027372X
- Language: English
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691225877
- Language: English
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A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
$27.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of 21 women to upend our understanding of the ancient world
- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1419760181
- Language: English
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Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age
$32.50 Add to cartFrom a “remarkably gifted historian” (New York Times), the definitive account of the golden age of Rome — an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness
The Pax Romana has long been shortha- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0465093531
- Language: English
