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Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
RRP: £24.95£22.92Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign... -
Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest by Adrian Murdoch
RRP: £19.99£15.09In AD 9 half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments - some 25,000 men - were wiped out. It dealt a body blow to the empire's imperial pretensions and was... -
Pertinax: The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor by Simon Elliott
RRP: £25.00£17.62The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through hard work, grit and determination. Born in AD 126, he made a late career change from working as a grammar... -
The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice by Marcia Williams 9781406354553
RRP: £8.99£6.55With her signature comic-strip style, Marcia WIlliams takes us behind the scenes at some of ancient Rome's most famous moments.Meet Dormeo: gladiator, dormouse, berry-nibbler, and guide to ancient Rome. He'll take you on a tour of Rome's most famous... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: £7.99£5.60The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in a highly designed jacketed hardcover with a new introduction by philosophy scholar Pierre Baumann. The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180... -
Roman Woman: Everyday Life in Hadrian's Britain by Lindsay Allason-Jones
RRP: £9.99£6.65Roman Britain is vividly portrayed in this fascinating and authentically detailed story about a year in the life of an ordinary woman and her family.The year is AD 133. Hadrian is Emperor of Rome and all its vast empire, including Britannia. The greater... -
The Early History of Rome by Livy
RRP: £12.99£9.09'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds'Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of... -
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard
RRP: £10.99£7.77Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical... -
Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2: Text, Translation and Historiographical Notes by R. C. Blockley 9780905205496
RRP: £75.00£60.94This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a commented conspectus of the fragments, and essays on the individual historians. In vol. II the texts ... -
Roman Plate Armour by M.C. Bishop
RRP: £13.99£9.75Fully illustrated, this book investigates the articulated plate armour worn by Roman legionaries. First named by Renaissance historians studying the reliefs on Trajan's Column, lorica segmentata evaded successful attempts to reconstruct it until a... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard 9780520277168
RRP: £25.00£19.99What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing... -
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War by Kurt A. Raaflaub
RRP: £30.00£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307455444Author Kurt A. RaaflaubFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Magnus Maximus: The Neglected Roman Emperor and his British Legacy by Maxwell Craven
RRP: £25.00£16.43This is an in-depth re-assessment of the life of Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor ruling in the west from 383 to 388, drawn from Classical sources and archaeology, which provides a very different impression of his life to the one created by the post-Roman... -
The Jewish Revolt AD 66-74 by Si Sheppard
RRP: £15.99£11.61In AD 66 a local disturbance in Caesarea caused by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue exploded into a pan-Jewish revolt against their Roman overlords. Gaining momentum, the rebels successfully occupied Jerusalem and drove off an... -
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £12.99£9.09Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.A... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
RRP: £22.00£16.62Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen... -
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Fascinating, informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view both of the past and the present' Carlo Rovelli, The Observer*What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781668050804
RRP: £9.99£6.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668050804Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: £10.99£7.00What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper 9780691192062
RRP: £15.99£12.61How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient worldHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome by Chris Scarre
RRP: £14.99£10.95More than fifteen centuries after its fall, the Roman Empire remains one of the most formative influences on the history of Europe. Its physical remains dot the landscape from Scotland to Syria. Its cities are still the great metropolises of the... -
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: £14.99£4.71The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the... -
The Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: £9.99£7.11Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their... -
Vergil: The Poet's Life by Sarah Ruden 9780300256611
RRP: £18.99£16.18A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid "Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy 'ancient' into our contemporary . . . persuasively re-imagined [as] a sympathetic,... -
Gnosticism: The History and Legacy of the Mysterious Ancient Religion by Charles River Editors 9781090850157
RRP: £11.14£9.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781090850157Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from its Foundation Books 21-30 by Titus Livy
RRP: £14.99£10.95In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the... -
Peoples of the Roman World by Mary T. Boatwright
RRP: £24.99£21.18In this highly-illustrated book, Mary T. Boatwright examines five of the peoples incorporated into the Roman world from the Republican through the Imperial periods: northerners, Greeks, Egyptians, Jews and Christians. She explores the tension between... -
At the Gates of Rome: The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410 by Don Hollway
RRP: £20.00£19.40A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths. It took little more than a single generation for the... -
British Celtic Warrior vs Roman Soldier: Britannia AD 43-105 by William Horsted
RRP: £14.99£10.95An illustrated study of the British tribal warriors and Roman auxiliaries who fought in three epic battles for control of Britain in the 1st century AD. Following the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, the tribes of the west and north resisted the... -
Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction by Gillian Clark
RRP: £8.99£6.61Late antiquity: decline or transformation, conflict or interaction? Late antiquity is the period (c.300 - c.800) in which barbarian invasions ended Roman Empire in Western Europe by the fifth century and Arab invasions ended Roman rule over the... -
Britannia AD 43: The Claudian Invasion by Nic Fields
RRP: £15.99£11.61For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the world itself, lending the island an air of dangerous... -
Rome: Eternal City by Ferdinand Addis 9781781853047
RRP: £12.99£9.09The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history. ***A Times History Book of the Year*** 'Vivid, pacey... Superb' The Times. 'Grand narrative underpinned by serious reading' Guardian. 'Confident,... -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard 9781861975966
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an... -
Haltonchesters: Excavations Directed by J. P. Gillam at the Roman Fort, 1960-61 by J. N. Dore 9781842173602
RRP: £20.00£17.43This report presents the results of the excavations directed, in 1960 and 1961, by Mr J. P. Gillam within the fort at Haltonchesters. The work was carried out in the area to the south of the B6318 Newcastle to Carlisle road and to the west of the ... -
Pompeii by Dr Alison E. Cooley 9781350125216
RRP: £19.99£16.54This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist... -
Vita & the Gladiator by Ally Sherrick
RRP: £7.99£5.23A rip-roaring Roman mystery from Historical Association Young Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick. PRAISE FOR BLACK POWDER - WINNER OF THE HISTORIAL ASSOCIATION YOUNG QUILLS AWARD: ' ... a wonderfully... -
The Economy of Roman Religion by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £83.00£75.34This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman... -
Life in Ancient Rome by Nigel Rodgers 9781844777457
RRP: £9.99£8.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844777457Author Rodgers NigelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hermes HousePublisher Anness Publishing -
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity by James J O'Donnell 9780061845390
RRP: £16.99£12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061845390Author James J O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £9.99£7.11A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to...