Rome - History - Empire
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The Blood of Gods
$20.00 Add to cartOne of history’s most notorious assassinations sets the stage for a riveting tale of political intrigue, epic battle, and righteous retribution in a new novel of ancient Rome from #1 New York Times be
- Series: Emperor #5
- Author: Iggulden, Conn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 08, 2014
- ISBN10: 0385343086
- Language: English
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$18.99 Add to cartIn SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome “with passion and without technical jargon” and demonstrates how “a slightly shabby Iron Age village” rose to become the “undispute
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1631492225
- 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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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
$23.99 Add to cartThe death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the … [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0195325419
- Language: English
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Spend the Day in Ancient Rome: Projects and Activities That Bring the Past to Life
$18.00 Add to cartParades, gladiator games, tunic weaving, and coin making
Anything can happen when you spend the day in ancient Rome
Find out what life was like almost two thousand years ago during the height of t… [more below]
- Series: Spend the Day #3
- Author: Honan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0471154539
- Language: English
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Rome: An Empire’s Story
$22.99 Add to cartRome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the Mediterranean world and finall… [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0190687452
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
$22.00 Add to cartEdited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the
Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin
Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0375758119
- Language: English
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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartWas the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians i… [more below]
- Author: Ward-Perkins, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0192807285
- Language: English
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End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
$26.99 Add to cartHistory remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Following Attila and the Huns from the steppes
- Author: Kelly, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338495
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 3 (of Six): Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper
$100.00 Add to cartThe first three volumes of the most famous historical chronicle in English, in hardcover in a gorgeously illustrated box set, with an introduction by renowned scholar Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Edward Gibbon… [more below]- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1902
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0679423087
- Language: English
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The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from northern England to the sun-baked banks … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kelly, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0192803913
- Language: English
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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
$23.00 Add to cartIn this dazzling portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty, Tom Holland traces the astonishing century-long story of the rise and fall of the Julio-Claudians–Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, a… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345806727
- Language: English
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Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars
$30.99 Add to cartA unique and entertaining history of the Roman Empire’s first dynasty
14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become- Author: Stothard, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0197555284
- Language: English
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1451668848
- 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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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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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
$39.99 Add to cartIn her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. No
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0871404222
- Language: English
