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Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century by Richard Hingley
RRP: $37.40$33.82*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to... -
The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East by Robert Drews
RRP: $45.15$35.10When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence--historical, linguistic, and archaeological--to tackle these... -
The Caudine Forks 321 BC: Rome's most humiliating defeat by Nic Fields
RRP: $20.63$14.98In its long history, the Roman Republic suffered many defeats, but none as humiliating as the Caudine Forks in the summer of 321 BC. Rome had been at war with the Samnites - one of early Rome's most formidable foes - since 326 BC in what would turn out... -
Military History of Late Rome 425-457 by Syvanne, Ilkka 9781848848535
RRP: $32.25$22.73_The Military History of Late Rome 425-457_ analyses in great detail how the Romans coped with the challenge posed by masses of Huns in a situation in which the Germanic tribes had gained a permanent foothold in the territories of West Rome. This... -
The Roman King Arthur?: Lucius Artorius Castus by Sullivan, Tony 9781399084024
RRP: $25.80$18.43The 2004 film, King Arthur, starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, introduced the audience to Lucius Artorius Castus as the basis to the much later legend of King Arthur. The book analyses the theories behind the film which link this second to third... -
The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World: The Jews of Palestine from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest by Peter Schafer
RRP: $49.01$43.06The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. Under the Greek, Roman and finally Christian supremacy... -
In Search of the Romans Second Edition by James Renshaw
RRP: $28.37$26.33In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome. Making extensive use of ancient sources and copiously illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, now for the first time in colour, its opening two chapters... -
The Emperor Caligula in the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett 9780198854579
RRP: $25.80$24.26There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source... -
Gladiators 4th-1st centuries BC by Francois Gilbert
RRP: $18.05$12.58This new study lifts the veil on the high-profile but often misunderstood gladiators of ancient Rome, from their origins to the dawn of the Principate. Originating in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd century BC, the Roman gladiator games... -
Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman Empire by D. S. Potter 9780472034284
RRP: $29.61$24.66Life, Death, and Entertainment gives those with a general interest in Roman antiquity a starting point, informed by the latest developments in scholarship, for understanding the extraordinary range of Roman society. Family structure, slavery, gender... -
The Disappearing Ninth Legion: A Popular History by Mark Olly 9781846945595
RRP: $12.89$11.08The Disappearing Ninth Legion puts this mysterious Roman legion firmly back on the historic map. A great deal of fiction and conjecture has appeared in books, films, and on the internet, but this book draws on actual historical and up-to-date... -
Roman Military Dress by Graham Sumner 9780752445762
RRP: $32.25$23.93The Roman military was one of the most powerful forces of the ancient world. But what did its soldiers wear? This book presents an accurate and illuminating study of a popular yet understudied subject. Spanning 1000 years from the Late Republic to the... -
The Etruscans by Graeme Barker 9780631220381
RRP: $47.67$42.45The Etruscans were the creators of one of the most highly developed cultures of the pre-Roman Mediterranean.About the AuthorGraeme Barker is Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeological Studies at the University of Leicester. He was... -
Roman Clothing and Fashion by Alexandra Croom
RRP: $28.38$19.75There is plenty of information about military dress in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman Empire, but the evidence for civilian dress has not been comprehensively looked at since the 1930s. In this richly illustrated survey, Alexandra Croom... -
Augustus: The Biography by Jochen Bleicken
RRP: $24.50$17.56'Masterful ... a breathtaking panorama of Roman politics at a crucial turning point in history' Simon J. V. Malloch, Literary ReviewHe was named son and heir by a murdered dictator. He came to Rome with nothing, surrounded by ruthless enemies. Yet... -
Herakles by Emma Stafford 9780415300681
RRP: $47.72$41.96There is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, concerning his life and death as well as his battles with myriad monsters and other opponents. In literature, he... -
Agriculture and Industry in South-Eastern Roman Britain by David Bird 9781785703195
RRP: $51.60$42.80The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the southeastern corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively... -
Annals: Bks. 4-6, 11-12, v. 4 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $32.19$29.57The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome by Caroline Vout
RRP: $32.25$22.42The Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Drinking cups, oil-lamps and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction and sexual intercourse which make the modern viewer blush; models of penises were worn around the neck or hung from doorways. In... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower
RRP: $56.10$49.97What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called? For over... -
Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis by Petronius
RRP: $32.19$29.57Two rollicking Roman satires.The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date, survives only as fragments of a much larger... -
Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain by Richard Hingley
RRP: $33.53$24.10An authoritative new history of the Roman conquest of Britain Why did Julius Caesar come to Britain? His own account suggests that he invaded to quell a resistance of Gallic sympathizers in the region of modern-day Kent -- but there must have been... -
The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest by Peter S. Wells 9780393326437
$12.60 - $16.81In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably... -
Pompeii: The History, Art and Life of the Buried City by Marisa Ranieri Panetta 9788854407183
RRP: $38.70$28.77Preserved by the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, many of Pompeii's temples, homes, public spaces, and artistic treasures remain intact, providing us with a remarkable inheritance of a long-gone era. This insightful volume - complete with... -
Women of Ancient Rome: To Survive under the Patriarchy by Lynda Telford
RRP: $29.66$19.58According to legend, Rome was a settlement of warlike young men, from Alba, an area in the Alban Hills just southeast of Rome. When they settled there, they inaugurated the earliest of Rome's traditions, including the relationship between men and women... -
The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth
RRP: $16.76$14.78The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the... -
Ovid, Heroides: A Selection by Dr Christina Tsaknaki
RRP: $16.76$15.30This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Heroides I lines 1-68, and Heroides VII lines 1-140, with a detailed introduction... -
Historia Augusta: Volume I by David Magie
RRP: $32.19$29.57March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna... -
The Art of the Roman Empire: AD 100-450 by Jas Elsner 9780198768630
RRP: $28.37$20.65The 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... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
RRP: $16.76$15.31Bestselling 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)-a summation of three and a half centuries of the... -
Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome by Ilkka Syvanne 9781526767509
RRP: $38.70$27.54This is a narrative military history of the emperors Lucius Domitius Aurelianus ( Aurelian', reigned 270-275) and Marcus Aurelius Probus (276-282) which also includes the other reigns between the years 268 and 285. It shows how these two remarkable... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (2): AD 500–1450 by Dr Andrei Evgenevich Negin
RRP: $19.34$14.13In the twilight of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries, the elite of the field armies was the heavy armoured cavalry - the cataphracts, clad in lamellar, scale, mail and padded fabric armour. After the fall of the West, the Greek-speaking... -
Gladiator: The Roman Fighter's (Unofficial) Manual by Philip Matyszak 9780500051672
RRP: $16.71$9.44Experience at first hand the spectacular, brutal life and savage death of the most iconic figure of ancient Rome.This manual will take the reader from the first faltering steps over the threshold of gladiator school, and through training to become a 'man... -
Agricola and Germany by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $14.18$10.02`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to... -
Caesar's Civil War: 49–44 BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $16.76$12.31Fully illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an accessible introduction to Julius Caesar's Civil War. Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced. Together they had brought vast stretches of... -
Hunnic Warrior vs Late Roman Cavalryman: Attila's Wars, AD 440-53 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $19.34$14.13Roman and Hunnic fighting men are assessed and compared in this fully illustrated study of Attila's bid to conquer Europe in the 5th century AD. The Huns burst on to the page of western European history in the 4th century AD. Fighting mostly on... -
Alesia 52 BC by Nic Fields
RRP: $21.92$15.84In 52 BC Caesar's continued strategy of annihilation had engendered a spirit of desperation, which detonated into a revolt of Gallic tribes under the leadership of the charismatic young Arvernian noble Vercingetorix. Major engagements were fought at... -
Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire: Author of Stratagems, Advisor to Emperors, Governor of Britain, Pacifier of Wales by John D Grainger 9781399051224
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sextus Iulius Frontinus is best known as author of the military handbook Strategems but, in addition to writing this and other works (now lost), he also had a varied and surprisingly influential career in military and civil posts� around the Roman Empire... -
Boudica: The British Revolt Against Rome AD 60 by Graham Webster
RRP: $49.01$43.06Queen Boudica, leader of the Iceni, revolted against the Romans in AD60 only to have her efforts avenged by a humiliated Roman army. This lively and fascinating book examines in detail the evidence and theories which surround these events.About the... -
Historia Augusta: Volume II by David Magie
RRP: $32.19$29.57March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ...