Rome
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Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire
$70.00 Add to cartBetween 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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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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On Obligations: de Officiis
$13.95 Add to cartCicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It has subsequently played a seminal role i
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540713
- Language: English
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator,… [more below]
- Author: Nixey, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1328589285
- 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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Detectives in Togas
$9.99 Read moreIn these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure
- Author: Winterfeld, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0152162801
- 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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Meditations
$10.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s timeless book on character, what it takes to be a good leader, and how to live a fulfilling life. Marcus Aurelius ruled t- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1668050803
- 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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The Life We’re Looking for: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
$27.00 Read moreA deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections, rebuilding abundant communities, and living in a way that engages our full humanity in an age of unprecedented anxiety and loneliness–fr
- Author: Crouch, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 059323734X
- Language: English
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Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
$19.99 Add to cartHow do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization?
Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of t
- Author: Sunshine, Glenn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 3, 2009
- ISBN10: 0310292301
- 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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Vergil: The Poet’s Life
$26.00 Read moreA biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid
“Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy ‘ancient’ into our contemporary . . . p- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256612
- Language: English
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The Emperor’s Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations
$25.00 Add to cartA powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, an essential book on character, leadership, and how to live a fulfilling life.
Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its hei- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0743233832
- Language: English
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Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
$19.99 Add to cart“A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity’s founding.”–Publishers Weekly
The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today’s believers.Within Roman society, the earl… [more below]
- Author: Gupta, Nijay K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1587435179
- Language: English
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The Pocket Stoic
$15.00 Read moreTo counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very diff… [more below]
- Author: Sellars, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 022668296X
- Language: English
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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions
$30.00 Read moreFINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023
The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine’s Confessions
While many know of Saint Augustine and his Confessions, few are aware of how his life- Author: Cooper, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541646010
- 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
