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The Meroe Head of Augustus by Thorsten Opper
£8.55Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once forming part of a statue of Rome's revered first true emperor... -
A Brief History of the Roman Empire by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: £12.99£5.29In 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... -
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307743749Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm... -
Roman Law Essentials by Craig Anderson
RRP: £19.99£17.76A study and revision guide for Scots law students of Roman law'Roman Law Essentials' provides a clear overview of the structure of Roman government and society. It first introduces the sources and development of Roman Law. Then, it examines the three... -
Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic by Natale Barca
RRP: £34.95£21.76This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women, in the complex social and political system of the time, to provide a full context to the historical events and epic battles of the 1st century BC. Scholar Natale... -
Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More by Phillip Barlag 9781633886902
RRP: £14.99£11.26Nero 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... -
Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14: A Source-based Approach by Mark Everson Davies 9780415496940
RRP: £36.99£32.93Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central period of Roman History for all students of Roman history, from... -
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
RRP: £38.00£29.84A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to... -
Latin Prose Composition by Andrew Leigh
RRP: £14.99£13.54This book helps students to write Latin using increasingly complex forms of expression. Part 1 gives guidance and practice exercises for the new sentences required at GCSE, while Parts 2 and 3 contain a series of chapters of grammatical introduction and... -
The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars by Annelise Freisenbruch
RRP: £16.99£12.28Like their modern counterparts, the 'first ladies' of Rome were moulded to meet the political requirements of their emperors, be they fathers, husbands, brothers or lovers. But the women proved to be liabilities as well as assets - Augustus' daughter... -
Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Republic and the Augustan Age, Volume 1 by Naphtali Lewis 9780231071314
RRP: £50.00£38.81Naphtali 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: £14.99£14.28Of 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... -
Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt 9781439102183
£12.19Hannibal is "an exciting biography of one of history's greatest commanders...a thrilling page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees, and... -
Britain and Rome: Caesar to Claudius: The Exposure of a Renaissance Fraud by O'Gorman, P J 9781526769510
RRP: £20.00£14.29This 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... -
Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40-20 BC by Gareth Sampson 9781526710130
RRP: £25.00£22.19In the mid-first century BC, despite its military victories elsewhere, the Roman Empire faced a rival power in the east; the Parthian Empire. The first war between two superpowers of the ancient world had resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the... -
The Roman Empire: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Matyszak 9781780744247
RRP: £9.99£7.11No 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... -
Silchester Revealed: The Iron Age and Roman Town of Calleva by Michael Fulford
RRP: £16.99£14.50With 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 Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History by Peter Heather
RRP: £16.99£12.18In AD 378 the Roman Empire had been the unrivalled superpower of Europe for well over four hundred years. And yet, August that year saw a small group of German-speaking asylum-seekers rout a vast Imperial army at Hadrianople, killing the Emperor and... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his... -
Roman Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Troy to Tivoli by David Stuttard
RRP: £14.95£9.78All Roads Lead to Rome, as the famous saying goes. The sites and events throughout the ancient world provided Romans with a rich tapestry to weave the stories of their past. Rome itself was a melting pot of peoples from across the Mediterranean and... -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: £12.99£9.09One 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... -
50 Roman Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by John Pearce 9781445686844
RRP: £15.99£10.8550 Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme highlights some of the most important and interesting Roman objects recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) or reported as Treasure. It features a wide variety of objects, allowing for a... -
The Civil War by Julius Caesar 9780199540624
RRP: £10.99£7.77`All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws of god and man were overturned.' The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself... -
The Last Great War of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston 9780198830191
RRP: £37.99£32.97The 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... -
Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces 1: 31 BC-AD 195 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £11.99£8.43At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion, but continuing research... -
Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior by Lindsay Powell
RRP: £14.99£10.95The reigns of Augustus and his successor Tiberius saw an epic struggle between the Romans and local peoples for the territory between the Rhine and Elbe rivers in what is now Germany. Following two decades of Roman occupation, Germania Magna erupted into... -
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.09These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they... -
Romans at War: The Roman Military in the Republic and Empire by Simon Elliott
RRP: £29.95£18.79In Romans at War ground-breaking research is presented in an accessible, entertaining, and sumptuously illustrated format, including:* A new consideration of the nature of late Roman military leaders; the author argues they were effectively independent... -
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest
RRP: £13.99£12.25A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the ancient evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world's most famous assassin"Kathryn Tempest leads us into the complexities and contradictions in the life and legacy of... -
London in the Roman World by Dominic Perring 9780198789000
RRP: £43.49£37.14incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from... -
The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Thonemann
RRP: £8.99£6.45The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus... -
Late Roman Infantryman vs Gothic Warrior: AD 376-82 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: £13.99£9.75Ravaged by civil war and pressure from the Huns to the east, in late summer AD 376 the Gothic tribe of the Theruingi - up to 200,000 people under their leader Fritigern - gathered on the northern bank of the River Danube and asked the Eastern Roman... -
Saviour of Rome: (Gaius Valerius Verrens 7) by Douglas Jackson
RRP: £10.99£7.77A gripping and breath-taking novel of Roman adventure from bestselling author Douglas Jackson. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane.Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens! "Spellbinding" - 5 STARS"I didn't want to come to the end, some... -
Virgil's Aeneid: A Study Guide by T Kenney 9781731238399
RRP: £25.18£21.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781731238399Author T KenneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)... -
The Last Assassin by Peter Stothard
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A gripping history' Mary Beard'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his] scholarship is impeccable' Greg WoolfMany men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers... -
The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Fragments by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£22.92Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68 by H. H. Scullard
RRP: £18.99£17.27From the Gracchi to Nero is an outstanding history of the Roman world from 133 BC to 68 AD. Fifty years since publication it is widely hailed as the classic survey of the period, going through many revised and updated editions until H.H. Scullard's death... -
Imperial Brothers: Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople by Hughes, Ian 9781399074490
RRP: £15.99£11.61The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death... -
The Romans For Dummies by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: £23.99£16.17"A must for anyone interested in the Roman Empire and its impact on world history."-Tony Robinson, star of Blackadder and Time Team This entertaining and informative guide is the perfect introduction to the amazing world of ancient Rome and its emperors,... -
Tacitus Histories I: A Selection by Benedict Gravell
£19.16This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Histories Book I sections 4 (finis Neronis ...) to 7, 12-14, 17-23 and 26, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Histories Book I sections...