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The Jewish War: Revised Edition
$18.00 Add to cartJosephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus c… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Josephus, Flavius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 07 1984
- ISBN10: 0140444203
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6
$200.00 Add to cartEdward Gibbon’s classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 box sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, … [more below]
- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 3980
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0307700763
- Language: English
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Handbook of Mediterranean Roman Pottery
$24.95 Add to cartIn the past, Roman pottery has been judged as inferior to Greek pottery. Recent excavations, however, have led to an increase in knowledge and appreciation of Roman wares. These wares now constitute a
- Author: Hayes, John W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806129395
- Language: English
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Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon
$19.99 Add to cartScipio Africanus (236-183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in the public memo
- Author: Hart, B. H. Liddell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 31, 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813637
- Language: English
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
$55.00 Add to cartGladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire.
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in
Empire.- Author: de la Bédoyère, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: December 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022675023X
- Language: English
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination
$20.00 Add to cartIn this story of the most famous assassination in history, “the last bloody day of the [Roman] Republic has never been painted so brilliantly” (The Wall Street Journal).
Julius Caesar was stabbed to d- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1451668813
- Language: English
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Lives of the Early Martyrs
$20.00 Add to cartWhat happened to the Apostles? How did the early Christians live? Why did the Romans and other peoples try to destroy them with such brutality? Those answers are all provided in Fr. Pedro de Ribadeney
- Author: Ribadeneyra, Pedro De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 195374608X
- Language: English
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
$20.00 Add to cartMary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Ale… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0871408597
- Language: English
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
$23.95 Read moreThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #94
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216738
- Language: English
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Roman Warfare
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire
Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthl… [more below]- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699238
- Language: English
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Ancient History Vol. 1: An Enthralling Guide to Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Rome
$40.99 Add to cartThree manuscripts in one book:
- Ancient Egypt: An Enthralling Overview of Egyptian History, Starting from the Settlement of the Nile Valley through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms to the Death of Cle
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: March 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651262
- Language: English
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The Republic and the Laws
$12.95 Add to cartCicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019954011X
- 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
$25.00 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 Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome
$39.95 Add to cartWho were the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome? What did they mean to the people who worshipped them? Although their time of widespread worship is long gone, the Greek and Roman gods have
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024189
- Language: English
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Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome’s most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history’s bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain nea
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699254
- Language: English
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Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
$20.00 Read more“Cato, history’s most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republican
- Author: Goodman, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042623
- Language: English
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Josephus: The Essential Writings
$24.99 Add to cartAn award-winning translation and condensation of The Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War of Josephus. The historical events take on a brilliant new dimension in this revised edition now with photogr… [more below]
- Author: Josephus, Flavius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 12 1990
- ISBN10: 0825429641
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
$17.95 Add to cartStephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimen… [more below]
- Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0471686131
- Language: English
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Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome’s Greatest Enemy
$42.95 Add to cartThe Romans’ destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal’s life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every in… [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976865
- Language: English
