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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: £25.00£17.62Sextus 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... -
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
RRP: £38.00£30.41A 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... -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel 9780691172187
RRP: £30.00£24.29The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
RRP: £12.99£11.53Bestselling 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... -
The Coinage of Roman Britain Richard Reece 9780752425238
RRP: £27.50£20.28The first two chapters provide a resume of how the coinage of the central Roman state changed, developed and stumbled. In Britain most coins in museums and collections come from hoards (coins deposited in a group) or from coins found singly during... -
The Romans: A Captivating Guide to the People, Emperors, Soldiers and Gladiators of Ancient Rome, Starting from the Roman Republic through the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire by Captivating History 9781637163078
RRP: £15.97£10.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637163078Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
Annals: Bks. 4-6, 11-12, v. 4 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The 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... -
Living Latin: Everyday Language and Popular Culture by Dr Charlie Kerrigan 9781350377035
£18.87What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. Surveying the whole span of the language's history, it explores the evidence that exists for ordinary Latin... -
In Defence of the Republic by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.77Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'... -
Caesar's Civil War: 49–44 BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: £12.99£9.09Fully 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... -
Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome by Ilkka Syvanne 9781526767509
RRP: £30.00£21.35This 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... -
Alesia 52 BC: The final struggle for Gaul Nic Fields 9781782009221
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 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... -
Fishbourne Roman Palace by Barry Cunliffe 9780752414089
RRP: £27.50£20.28The discovery, during the early 1960s, of the site of a Roman Palace and its garden at Fishbourne, near Chichester, remains the most important and exciting event in Romano-British archaeology over the last half-century. Since his original excavation,... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (2): AD 500–1450 by Dr Andrei Evgenevich Negin
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 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... -
Ovid, Heroides: A Selection Dr Christina Tsaknaki (Teacher of Classics, Brentwood School, UK, Brentwood School, UK) 9781350060265
RRP: £12.99£11.86This 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... -
The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter by Melissa Lane
£18.94In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of... -
Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life by Eve MacDonald
RRP: £12.99£11.46If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors? Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A... -
Hunnic Warrior vs Late Roman Cavalryman: Attila's Wars, AD 440-53 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: £14.99£10.95Roman 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... -
Murder Trials by Cicero
RRP: £14.99£10.95Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman... -
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
£21.09The dramatic story of Rome's first emperor, who plunged into Rome's violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire Caesar Augustus' story, one of the most riveting... -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 9780753818817
RRP: £14.99£10.20An abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into a single epic narrative.Famously sceptical about Christianity, unexpectedly sympathetic to the barbarian... -
The Confessions by Edmund Augustine
RRP: £14.99£10.95Augustine's spiritual autobiography is not only a major document in the history of Christianity and a classic of Roman Africa: it also marks a vital moment in the history of Western culture. As Augustine explains how, when and why he became the man he is... -
A History of the Roman World: 753 to 146 BC by H. H. Scullard 9780415522274
RRP: £19.99£18.09With a new foreword by Tim Cornell'Can anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the dominion of a single city of Rome?' - Polybius,... -
Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler by Captivating History 9781637161470
RRP: £20.97£13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161470Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm)... -
Rome's Mediterranean Empire: Books 41-45 and the Periochae by Livy
RRP: £13.99£10.15'I will do as the Senate decrees.' These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy by Christer Brunn
RRP: £44.49£42.18Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, religious scholars or work in a field that touches on... -
Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian by Peter Heather 9780197500538
RRP: £17.99£14.87Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his... -
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture: Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250 by Zahra Newby
RRP: £36.99£29.75Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new... -
The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult by Justinian I, Emperor of the East
RRP: £12.99£9.09Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.About the AuthorJustinian I (483 -565) was Eastern Roman Emperor from 527 until his death. One... -
Hadrian's Wall: Everyday Life on a Roman Frontier by Patricia Southern
RRP: £12.99£8.48Hadrian's Wall is a major World Heritage site, set in stunning countryside in Cumbria and Northumberland, where the Wall and its forts are the most visited Roman remains in Britain. It runs through the narrow gap across the Pennines between the Solway... -
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors Anthony Blond 9781845297190
RRP: £10.99£7.40The history of ancient Rome omitting all the boring bits. Following the success of BBC2 hit Rome on BBC2, no one has looked at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Roman... -
Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis by Petronius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Two 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... -
Roman Legionary vs Carthaginian Warrior: Second Punic War 217-206 BC David Campbell 9781472828040
RRP: £15.99£13.33The peace that followed the First Punic War was shallow and fractious, with the resumption of hostilities in 218 BC sparked by Carthaginian expansion in Iberia seeing Rome suffer some of the worst defeats in her entire history. The Carthaginian... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bk.21 by Livy 9780862921781
£25.45Book XXI of Livy's history of Rome is one of the most frequently read either in its entirety or in extracts, for it includes Carthaginian campaigns in Spain and Hannibal's momentous crossing of the Alps to invade Italy. P.G. Walsh's edition is designed... -
Unwritten Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859898232
RRP: £34.99£32.12In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments... -
Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide by Filippo Coarelli
RRP: £32.00£25.16This superb guide brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and well-known scholars of Roman topography, archeology and art, to a broad English-language audience. Conveniently organized by walking tours and illustrated... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£23.39Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at... -
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis 9780190253226
RRP: £38.99£33.80In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was... -
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture by Marilyn B. Skinner 9781444349863
RRP: £41.00£37.13This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Covers a wide range of...