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The Final Frontier: Scotland's Early Roman Landscape by Andrew Tibbs 9781398117235
RRP: $20.63$14.00In this revealing book, Roman historian and archaeologist Andrew Tibbs uncovers the earliest Roman fortifications in Scotland and examines the landscape and context in which they were built. Although the most visible high-water marks of the Roman Empire... -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: $16.76$11.73One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic... -
The Romans in Scotland and The Battle of Mons Graupius by Simon Forder
RRP: $14.18$9.35In AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain to pacify the Caledonian tribesmen. For seven years, the Romans campaigned across what is now Scotland. In AD 83, they fought the final battle at Mons Graupius, where... -
Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, Volume II: Books 21–44 Justin 9780674997615
RRP: $32.19$30.17A condensed Roman history of non-Roman civilizations.To Justin (Marcus Junian(i)us Justinus), otherwise unknown, is attributed our abbreviated version of the lost Philippic History by (Gnaeus?) Pompeius Trogus, a massive account, in forty-four books, of... -
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Upper Germanic Limes: Grenzen des Römischen Reiches: Der Obergermanische Limes / Frontières de l´Empire Romain: Le limes de Germanie supérieure by David J. Breeze
$27.14Towards the end of Caesar's Gallic War, Rome had reached the Rhine. Since the campaigns under Emperor Augustus (15 B.C.), larger troop contingents were stationed along the river, with focal points around Mogontiacum/Mainz and in northern Switzerland... -
Cicero and Rome by David Taylor 9781853995064
RRP: $25.79$24.56In "Cicero and Rome", David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for examination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces the often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla (82 BC) to Cicero's own death in the... -
A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives by Philip Matyszak
RRP: $16.76$11.09Discover the lives of the ancient Romans, pieced together from inscriptions, discarded letters, biographies and myth over two thousand years of history. The Roman empire witnessed a huge diversity of human experience over its history. At its pinnacle,... -
The Art of the Roman Empire: AD 100-450 by Jas Elsner 9780198768630
RRP: $30.30$21.94The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the... -
A Dictionary of the Roman Empire by Matthew E. Bunson 9780195102338
RRP: $32.88$23.87The extraordinarily rich cultural legacy of the Roman world has had a profound affect world civilization. Roman achievements in architecture, law, politics, literature, war, and philosophy serve as the foundation of modern Western society. Now, for the... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 by Charles Freeman 9781803281957
RRP: $38.70$27.03The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some sixty years later,... -
Catalaunian Fields AD 451 by Simon MacDowall
RRP: $20.63$14.98The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive for more than 15 years following... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $32.19$30.17The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the... -
Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome Dr Kathryn Tempest 9781472530561
RRP: $30.95$27.19As the greatest Roman orator of his time, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the senate and before the people of Rome. He was also a philosopher, a patriot and a private man. While his published speeches preserve scandalous... -
Hidden Power: Late Cistophoric Production and the Organization of Provincia Asia (128–89 BC) by Lucia Carbone
$131.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897223638Author Lucia CarboneFormat HardbackPage Count 415Imprint American Numismatic Society,U.S.Publisher American Numismatic Society,U.S. -
Civil War by Caesar
RRP: $32.19$29.97The struggle that ended the Roman Republic.Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a "democrat" against the senatorial government; was the... -
Para Bellum by Simon Turney
RRP: $25.80$22.73A powerful new novel set in the fourth-century Roman Empire by critically acclaimed historical novelist Simon Turney, Para Bellum will delight fans of Scarrow, Kane and Cornwell. AD 381. Five years have gone by since a Roman governor ordered the... -
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation by R. M. Ogilvie
RRP: $16.76$11.73Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this... -
Roman Legionary 109-58 BC: The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great by Ross Cowan
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world. This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in... -
The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice by Marcia Williams 9781406354553
RRP: $11.60$8.45With her signature comic-strip style, Marcia WIlliams takes us behind the scenes at some of ancient Rome's most famous moments.Meet Dormeo: gladiator, dormouse, berry-nibbler, and guide to ancient Rome. He'll take you on a tour of Rome's most famous... -
Vindolanda: Everyday Life on Rome's Northern Frontier Robin Birley 9781848682108
RRP: $25.79$17.71The beautiful site the Romans called Vindolanda lies in south-west Northumberland, in the district of Tynedale, more or less half way between the North Sea east of Newcastle and the Irish Sea to the west of Carlisle. It is just within the boundary of the... -
The Life of Cicero: Lessons for Today from the Greatest Orator of the Roman Republic by Philip Kay-Bujak 9781399097413
RRP: $32.25$22.73Cicero was Rome's greatest orator and one of the key statesmen of the late Roman Republic. He championed traditional Republican values against populist demagogues like Julius Caesar during a tumultuous period of civil war and unrest. During his term as... -
The Last Great War of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston 9780198830191
RRP: $51.59$44.67The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe... -
Great Battles of the Early Roman Empire by Simon Elliott 9781399069830
RRP: $28.38$20.15Dr Simon Elliott describes eight of the greatest, most decisive of the Roman Empire of the first to third centuries. The list includes battles fought from the highlands of Scotland and the forests of Germany to the deserts of the Middle East. They show... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433944
RRP: $28.38$20.67Edward 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 of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen... -
The History of Rome by Michael Grant
RRP: $21.92$14.94From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians... -
A Brief History of the Roman Empire by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw 9781780330488 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds. He... -
A Brief History of the Roman Empire by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: $16.76$7.06In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds. He... -
The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar by Katharina Volk 9780691253954
RRP: $28.38$22.39An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary... -
Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More by Phillip Barlag 9781633886902
RRP: $19.34$14.87Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn't do. But fear not, the truth of his life, his rule and what he did... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433951
RRP: $28.38$21.44Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive character analysis. Sceptical about Christianity, sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and... -
Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Republic and the Augustan Age, Volume 1 by Naphtali Lewis 9780231071314
RRP: $64.50$50.98Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which takes into account recent work in the field. These volumes consist of... -
A Short History of the Etruscans by Corinna Riva 9781780766157
RRP: $19.34$18.42Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike their Greek and Latin neighbours, the Etruscans left no textual sources to posterity. The only direct... -
Roman Britain: Life at the Edge of Empire Richard Hobbs 9780714150611
RRP: $16.76$11.09For nearly four centuries Britain was a province on the outer edge of the Roman Empire and developed a distinctively Romano-British culture and way of life. Using the archaeological evidence, ancient written sources and the latest research on surviving... -
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by Martin Goodman
RRP: $24.50$17.56In Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, Martin Goodman explores the history of a titanic struggle whose repercussions are still felt today. In 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of... -
Britain and Rome: Caesar to Claudius: The Exposure of a Renaissance Fraud by O'Gorman, P J 9781526769510
RRP: $25.80$18.43This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history. PJ O'Gorman analyses the sources for the period from Julius Caesar's first forays into these islands to the invasion under the Emperor Claudius and the conclusions he reaches... -
The Roman Empire: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Matyszak 9781780744247
RRP: $12.89$9.17No other political entity has shaped the modern world like the Roman Empire. Encompassing close to a quarter of the world's population and 3 million km2 of land, it represented a diverse and dynamic collection of nations, states and tribes, all bound to... -
The Roman Shore Forts: Coastal Defences of Southern Britain by Andrew Pearson
RRP: $32.25$23.92The eleven forts constructed by the Romans along the British coast between Branchester in Norfolk and Portchester in Hampshire have traditionally been referred to as the 'Forts of the Saxon Shore'. However, recent research suggests that these sites may... -
Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces 2: 3rd Century AD by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $16.76$11.73The appearance of Roman soldiers in the 3rd century AD has long been a matter of debate and uncertainty, largely thanks to the collapse of central control and perpetual civil war between the assassination of Severus Alexander in 235 and the accession of... -
Silchester Revealed: The Iron Age and Roman Town of Calleva by Michael Fulford
RRP: $21.92$20.79With its apparently complete town plan, revealed by the Society of Antiquaries of London's great excavation project, 1890-1909, Silchester is one of the best known towns in Roman Britain and the Roman world more widely. Since the 1970s excavations by... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: $21.92$16.05The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of...