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Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome by Thomas A. J. McGinn 9780195161328
RRP: $82.56$62.77This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard 9780691225876
RRP: $25.80$20.64From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets... -
From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565: The Transformation of Ancient Rome by A. D. Lee
RRP: $41.28$38.66The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome is a chronological history of Rome and the Roman world in eight volumes. From the city's first settlement to the collapse of the western empire and the emergence of Byzantium some 1,500 years later, each volume... -
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives by Plutarch 9780393355529
RRP: $18.05$15.80Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus and Antony haunt us with questions of character and authority. Plutarch's rich, vivid profiles show character-shaping history through grand scale... -
Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture by Sandra R. Joshel 9780801882685
$36.62The phenomenal success of the recent film Gladiator ensures that ancient Rome will continue to inspire moviemakers and attract audiences as it has done since the dawn of cinema. Indeed, the creators of popular culture have so often appropriated elements... -
Broken Legions: Fantasy Skirmish Wargames in the Roman Empire by Mark Latham
RRP: $16.76$12.64The 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... -
Julia Velva, A Roman Lady from York: Her Life and Times Revealed by Patrick Ottaway
RRP: $38.70$27.03The tombstone of Julia Velva, one of the best-preserved examples from Roman Britain, was found close to a Roman road just outside the centre of York. Fifty years old when she died in the early third century, Julia Velva was probably from a wealthy family... -
The Senate of Imperial Rome by Richard J. A. Talbert
RRP: $70.95$55.87Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great council has not previously received such scholarly... -
The Roman Gladiators and the Colosseum: The History and Legacy of Ancient Rome's Most Famous Arena and Fighters by Charles River Editors 9781494221560
RRP: $13.21$10.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494221560Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Man in the Roman Street by Harold Mattingly 9780393003376
RRP: $21.29$17.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393003376Author Harold MattinglyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 182gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order by Christopher Fuhrmann 9780199360017
RRP: $63.84$40.31Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship networks or community self-regulation as a means of... -
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple 9780307948892 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.09$12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948892Author William DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
RRP: $27.09$15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948892Author William DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
Tiberius: The Life and Legacy of Ancient Rome's Second Emperor by Charles River Editors
RRP: $13.21$10.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985580602Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Hadrian's Wall From the Air by G. D. B. Jones 9780752419466
RRP: $32.25$23.92Hadrian's Wall is Britain's premier and most visited Roman monument, and is now recognised as a World Heritage site. The archaeological remains are the best preserved and most intensely studied of their kind anywhere, and much has been written at... -
Roman Empire: Power and People by Dirk Booms 9780714122854 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.54Arguably the most formidable of powers the world has ever seen, the Roman Empire in its prime stretched from Spain to Iraq and from Germany to Egypt, encompassing all the territory in between. By AD 117, it had engulfed almost fifty countries we know... -
Roman Empire: Power and People by Dirk Booms
$23.57Arguably the most formidable of powers the world has ever seen, the Roman Empire in its prime stretched from Spain to Iraq and from Germany to Egypt, encompassing all the territory in between. By AD 117, it had engulfed almost fifty countries we know... -
Wroxeter: Ashes under Uricon: A Cultural and Social History of the Roman City by Roger H. White
$34.11Wroxeter: Ashes under Uricon offers a perspective on how people over time have viewed the abandoned Roman city of Wroxeter in Shropshire. It responds to three main artistic outputs relating to the site: poetry, images and texts. The poets include Wilfred... -
Military History of Late Rome 518-565 by Ilkka Syv nne
$46.87_The Military History of Late Rome 518-565_ provides a new, fresh analysis of the revival of Roman fortunes during the reigns of Justin I (518-527) and Justinian I (527-565). The book narrates in great detail the re-conquests of North Africa, Italy and... -
Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: $24.51$16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226823904Author Guy de la BedoyereFormat PaperbackPage Count 526Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Hadrian's Wall: A Life by Richard Hingley
RRP: $72.24$61.82In Hadrian's Wall: A Life, Richard Hingley addresses the post-Roman history of this world-famous ancient monument. Constructed on the orders of the emperor Hadrian during the 120s AD, the Wall was maintained for almost three centuries before ceasing to... -
The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past by Walter Scheidel 9780691162560
RRP: $45.15$35.78How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquityThis groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
RRP: $18.05$14.80In the conventional story of Rome's collapse, violent "barbarians" destroy "civilisation". Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant. Alaric grew up near the border that separated Gothic... -
The Last Pagans of Rome by Alan Cameron 9780199959709
RRP: $83.85$72.23Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a... -
The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine by Timothy D Barnes 9780674280663
$71.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674280663Author Timothy D BarnesFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 721g -
Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning by James W. Halporn
$38.17As a minister of the Ostrogothic regime in the time of Theoderic, Cassiodorus had as brilliant a political career as any Roman of the late empire. Around 538 CE he published a collection of his state letters under the title of Variae (TTH 12), and... -
The Invention of Law in the West by Aldo Schiavone 9780674047334
RRP: $72.18$58.60Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention, a crucial aspect of Western history, took place in ancient Rome. Aldo Schiavone, a... -
The Roman Conquest of Britannia: The History and Legacy of Roman Britain from Julius Caesar to Hadrian by Charles River Editors 9781985133532
RRP: $13.21$10.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985133532Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Digest of Justinian, Volume 3 by Alan Watson
RRP: $92.88$73.96When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code, which collected the... -
History of Rome, Volume IX: Books 31-34 by Livy
RRP: $32.19$30.17Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17.Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the... -
Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution by Benjamin Straumann 9780199950928
RRP: $151.58$109.33Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitutionthe concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee and... -
The Romans by Andrea Giardina
RRP: $47.73$46.14In this book, third in a series which includes Jacques Le Goff's Medieval Characters and Eugenio Garin's Renaissance Portraits, leading scholars search for the character of the ancient Romans through portraits of Rome's most typical personages. Essays on... -
Ancient Rome: The Archaeology of the Eternal City by J. C. Coulston 9780947816551
$45.34A major new book on the archaeology of Rome. The chapters, by an impressive list of contributors, are written to be as up-to-date and useful as possible, detailing lots of new research. There are new maps for the topography and monuments of Rome, a... -
History of Rome: Volume VII by Livy
RRP: $32.19$30.17Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the... -
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space by Ray Laurence 9780198707004
$42.53Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from... -
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... -
Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires by Walter Scheidel 9780199758357
RRP: $54.81$36.61Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of... -
Roman Greece: The History and Legacy of Ancient Rome's Conquest of Greece and Assimilation of Greek Culture by Charles River Editors 9781535202640
RRP: $9.34$8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535202640Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal: The Roman Legend's Life, Times, and Legacy by Michael J Hillyard 9781401011260
RRP: $20.63$18.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401011260Author Michael J HillyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm * 13mm -
The British Museum Colouring Book of Ancient Rome by John Green 9780714121857 [USED COPY]
RRP: $3.86$3.11Providing a fun way to find out about Ancient Rome, this activity book includes word puzzles, picture puzzles, logic and maths puzzles, and jokes and cartoons.Providing a fun way to find out about Ancient Rome, this activity book includes word puzzles,...