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Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: $32.19$29.57Correspondence 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... -
The Return: The gripping breakout historical thriller of 2020 by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: $11.60$3.83145BC - CALABRIA, ANCIENT ROME. After many years of spilling blood for Rome, Gaius Furius Paullus has returned home to spend his remaining days working quietly on the family farm.But it seems death has followed Paullus from the battlefield. Just days... -
The Etruscans: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Smith
RRP: $11.60$8.53From around 900 to 400 BC, the Etruscans were the most innovative, powerful, wealthy, and creative people in Italy. Their archaeological record is both substantial and fascinating, including tomb paintings, sculpture, jewellery, and art. In this Very... -
Persia - Ancient Iran and the Classical World by Jeffrey Spier
RRP: $70.95$59.46The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powers of antiquity. Extending from the borders of Greece to northern India, Persia was seen by the Greeks as a... -
On Obligations: De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $12.89$9.17On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent tensions between honourable conduct and expediency in public... -
The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult by Justinian I, Emperor of the East
RRP: $16.76$11.73Codified 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... -
Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $32.19$30.08The statesman on statecraft.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 ... -
The Roman Empire: Roots of Imperialism by Neville Morley
RRP: $36.11$27.83Over a millennium after the end of its unrivalled dominance, the spectre of Rome figures highly in western culture. This book explores what the empire meant to its subjects. The idea of Rome has long outlived the physical empire that gave it form, and... -
Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf 9780192895172
RRP: $18.05$12.58The complete history of the Roman Empire - how it was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects, from the eighth century BCE to the dawn of the Middle Ages. Rome in the archaic age was a minor... -
Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic by Dan-el Padilla Peralta 9780691247632
RRP: $38.70$29.44How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social... -
The Tombs of Pompeii: Organization, Space, and Society by Virginia L. Campbell
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of... -
Tiberius by Robin Seager
RRP: $42.51$37.59Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor's complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor.Argues that... -
The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248 260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome by Pearson, Paul N
RRP: $32.25$23.25This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome's millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome,... -
By the Emperor's Hand by Timothy Dawson 9781848325890
RRP: $38.70$28.32By the sixth century of the common era the Roman Empire already had many hundreds of years of accumulated ceremonial embedded in its government, and practical science embodied in its army. The transition from Republic to Imperium and the more... -
The Alternative Augustan Age by Josiah Osgood 9780197673652
RRP: $29.66$26.83The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments alike are attributed to him. This book deliberately and... -
City of God by Saint Augustine
RRP: $24.50$16.77City of God is an enduringly significant work in the history of Christian thought, by one of its central figuresWritten as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great theological and... -
Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $21.92$14.89The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar.The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world and has been depicted in countless novels, plays... -
Works by Cornelius Nepos
RRP: $32.19$29.57Roman biographies of foreign commanders.Cornelius Nepos was born in Cisalpine Gaul but lived in Rome and was a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. Most of his writings, which included poems, moral examples from history, a chronological sketch of... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
RRP: $16.76$15.63Bestselling 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... -
Livy, History of Rome I: A Selection by John Storey
RRP: $16.76$15.30This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Livy's History of Rome, Book I, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for chapters 53-54, 56 (haec agenti ...)-60, with a detailed... -
Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $45.15$38.66The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence. Letters on Ethics includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero's Italy,... -
Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: $14.18$10.28'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus...' In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the... -
The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180 by Martin Goodman 9780415559799
RRP: $51.59$45.74The Roman World 44 BC - AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city... -
Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth versus Reality by Gregory S. Aldrete 9781538159514
RRP: $38.70$36.08An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur.No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the 19th century than filmmakers immediately turned... -
Nero by Thorsten Opper
RRP: $32.25$24.79One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled while Rome burnt. Such a reputation has, however, been shaped by ancient literary sources written by his... -
The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain by M. C. Bishop 9781526761132
RRP: $19.34$14.13There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the... -
Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $16.76$11.73A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With... -
Life of Christ by Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti 9781258885854
RRP: $67.02$60.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258885854Author Abbot Giuseppe RicciottiFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 934g -
The House of Whispers by Anna Mazzola
RRP: $19.34$14.13*Picked as one of the best historical novels of 2023 by The Times!*'A creepy, chilling story - another Anna Mazzola triumph!' JENNIFER SAINT'Chilling and compelling, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca' ESSIE FOXSometimes the secrets of the past... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard 9780520401495
RRP: $19.34$15.31"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."-The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."-Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."-The New Yorker"The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."-The Independent What made... -
Lydia by Paula Gooder
RRP: $21.92$19.38The New Testament tells us very little about Lydia, a seller of purple cloth who was living in Philippi when she met the apostle Paul on his second missionary journey. And yet she is considered the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe. In her... -
Armies of Julius Caesar 58-44 BC by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $19.34$14.13Gaius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman general of all time. Although he never bore the title, historians since Suetonius have judged him to be, in practice, the very first 'emperor' - after all, no other name in history has been synonymous... -
Strasbourg AD 357 by Dr Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $20.63$14.98Civil war in the Western Roman Empire between AD 350-53 had left the frontiers weakly defended, and the major German confederations along the Rhine - the Franks and Alemanni - took advantage of the situation to cross the river, destroy the Roman... -
The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme
RRP: $24.50$18.01The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The... -
Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363: The New Empire by Jill Harries
RRP: $41.28$37.94A distinct perspective on the momentous religious change in the region Diocletian (284-305) and his principal successor, Constantine (306-337), would rule the Roman world for over half a century and Constantine's sons would build on their legacy... -
The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five by Livy
RRP: $14.18$10.02`the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called... -
Roman Army Units in the Eastern Provinces 1: 31 BC-AD 195 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $16.76$11.73Between the reigns of Augustus and Septimius Severus, the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire frequently saw brutal fighting, most notably during the conquest of Dacia by Trajan, the suppression of the Great Revolt in Judea and intermittent clashes... -
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation by R. M. Ogilvie
RRP: $16.76$11.73Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this... -
Imperial Triumph: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine (AD 138-363) by Michael Kulikowski
RRP: $19.34$14.28Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often... -
Imperial Roman Warships 193-565 AD by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $15.47$11.40The period of relative peace enjoyed by the Roman Empire in its first two centuries ended with the Marcomannic Wars. The following centuries saw near-constant warfare, which brought new challenges for the Roman Navy. It was now not just patrolling the...