Rome
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
$20.00 Read moreEdward 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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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
$32.00 Add to cartThe story of Messalina – third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world
The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable- Author: Cargill-Martin, Honor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363955
- 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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Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
$26.00 Read moreThe tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman
“When we think of ancient Rome, it’s impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256647
- 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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Meditations
$25.00 Add to cartChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and be
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1914602137
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of Julius Cesear is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly cred… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0198328680
- 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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Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History
$45.00 Add to cartA beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians
The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historia- Author: Brown, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0691242283
- 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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Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History
$18.99 Add to cartJohn Dickson gives an honest account of the mixed history of Christianity, the evil and the good. He concedes the Christians’ complicity for centuries of bullying but also shows the myriad ways the be
- Author: Zondervan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 11, 2021
- ISBN10: 0310119375
- Language: English
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Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places
$30.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated, wonderfully engaging A-to-Z guide to more than 700 major and minor gods and goddesses, characters, creatures, and places of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Classical My
- Author: Giesecke, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 06, 2020
- ISBN10: 0762470011
- 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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Meditations: The Annotated Edition
$19.99 Add to cartThis definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome’s sixteenth emperor.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninu- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541673867
- Language: English
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Meditations: The Annotated Edition
$32.00 Add to cartThis definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome’s sixteenth emperor.
As featured on the Today Show
Marcus Aurelius Antoninu- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673859
- Language: English
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Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 154161996X
- 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
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The Ancient City – Imperium Press
$20.95 Add to cartIn The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges hands us the skeleton key unlocking classical civilization–the Indo-European domestic cult–showing this archaic religion to be the engine behind the rise and
- Series: Traditionalist Histories
- Author: Fustel de Coulanges, Numa Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: March 05, 2020
- ISBN10: 0648690547
- Language: English
