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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... -
Roman Record Keeping & Communications by Paul Chrystal 9781781556580
RRP: £20.00£14.71The assumption is that most of what we know about the Romans and their history comes from Roman and Greek historians. While this is true up to a point, the reality is that there are many other primary sources which combine to give us the composite... -
Testimonia. Origines by Cato
RRP: £24.95£22.92Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of... -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£22.92The 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 on the Edge of Empire: The Objects and People of Hadrian's Wall by Rob Collins 9781783463275
RRP: £25.00£17.62Dr Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian's Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier. This highly-illustrated volume showcases the artefacts recovered from... -
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon
RRP: £19.99£17.37A major new history of battle in the ancient world, from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age... -
Living Latin: Everyday Language and Popular Culture by Dr Charlie Kerrigan 9781350377035
£18.48What 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... -
Religion in the Roman Empire by James B. Rives
RRP: £31.95£28.29This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western EuropeExamines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics... -
From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity by Kyle Harper 9780674660014
RRP: £19.95£15.77When Rome was at its height, an emperor's male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four... -
The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar by Katharina Volk 9780691253954
RRP: £22.00£16.99An 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... -
Remains of Old Latin: v. 4: Archaic Inscriptions by E. H. Warmington
RRP: £24.95£22.92Physical graffiti.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials... -
Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger
RRP: £12.99£8.60Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell... -
The Army of the Early Roman Empire 30 BC-AD 180: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £25.00£17.62The legionary soldier of the early Empire period, with his distinctive segmented armour, is one of the images most closely associated by popular imagination with ancient Rome. Such soldiers conquered most of Britain, suffered and avenged the terrible... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92The 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... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 2 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 motivations... -
The Mythology of Plants - Botanical Lore From Ancient Greece and Rome by Annette Giesecke 9781606063217
RRP: £21.99£18.55This is a fascinating exploration of the role of the botanical in ancient Greek and Roman myth and classical literature. This engaging book focuses on the perennially fascinating topic of plants in Greek and Roman myth. The author, an authority on the... -
Constantius III: Rome's Lost Hope by Hughes, Ian 9781526700247
RRP: £20.00£14.29Constantius is an important, but almost forgotten, figure. He came to the fore in or around 410 when he was appointed Magister Militum (Master of Troops) to Honorius, the young Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. His predecessor, Stilicho, had been... -
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC by Natale Barca 9781526767462
RRP: £19.99£14.28In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed. Their leader, a fortune-teller named Eunus, was declared king (taking the... -
God on Earth: Emperor Domitian: The re-invention of Rome at the end of the 1st century AD by Aurora Raimondi Cominesi 9789088909542
RRP: £35.00£33.09In life, the emperor Domitian (81-96 CE) marketed himself as a god; after his assassination he was condemned to be forgotten. Nonetheless he oversaw a literary, cultural, and monumental revival on a scale not witnessed since Rome's first emperor,... -
Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, Ad 284-311 by Byron Waldron
RRP: £95.00£77.27In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the... -
Religions of the Constantinian Empire by Mark Edwards
£27.80Religions of the Constantinian Empire provides a synoptic review of Constantine's relation to all the cultic and theological traditions of the Empire during the period from his seizure of power in the west in 306 CE to the end of his reign as autocrat of... -
The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224-651 by Michael J Decker
RRP: £35.00£22.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163692Author Michael J DeckerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
Building for Eternity: The History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea by J.P. Oleson
RRP: £35.00£28.82One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage remains relatively... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
Virgil Aeneid XI: A Selection by Ashley Carter
£19.16This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Aeneid Book XI, lines 1-224, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Aeneid Book XI, lines 498-521, 532-596, 648-689, and 725-835, giving... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
RRP: £24.95£22.92A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain by Roger Bland 9781785708558
RRP: £65.00£54.21More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92Three late dialogues.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 rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in... -
Works: v. 1: The Life AND Against Apion by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire by J. C. McKeown 9780195393750
RRP: £13.99£12.37The ancient Romans have left us far more information about themselves than has any other Western society until much more recent times. But what we know about them is sometimes bizarre, and hardly fits the conventional view of the Romans as a pragmatic... -
The Variae: The Complete Translation by Cassiodorus
RRP: £30.00£23.22Cassiodorus-famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity-spent most of his life as a high-ranking public official under the Ostrogothic King Theoderic and his heirs. He produced the Variae, a unique letter collection that... -
The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) by Harry Turtledove
RRP: £25.99£22.04The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818). In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and... -
Broken Legions: Fantasy Skirmish Wargames in the Roman Empire by Mark Latham
RRP: £12.99£9.80The Roman Empire rules the civilised world with an iron fist, seemingly all-powerful and limitless. And yet, the power of Rome is secured not by its mighty legions, but by small bands of warriors and agents fighting a secret war. Tasked by the Emperor to... -
Emperor'S Handbook, the by AURELIUS 9780743233835
RRP: £24.00£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743233835Author AURELIUSPage Count 160Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 292g -
Historia Augusta: Volume III by David Magie
RRP: £24.95£22.92March 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 ... -
Ways of Being Roman: Discourses of Identity in the Roman West by Louise Revell 9781842172926
RRP: £29.95£24.13This book examines the question of identity in the Roman provinces of the western empire. It takes an innovative approach in looking at the wider discourses or ideologies through which an individual sense of self was learnt and expressed. This... -
The Twelve Caesars by J. C Rolfe 9780486822198
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486822198Author J. C RolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)... -
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken 9780300098396
RRP: £13.99£13.94This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans. "A fascinating . . . account of early Christian thought. . . . Readable and exciting... -
Ancient Dynasties: The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750 by Grainger, John D
RRP: £30.00£29.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Philosophical Treatises: v. 18: Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92Philosophical dialogues of a grieving statesman.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 rise, dictatorship, and...