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Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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... -
Prose Unseens for A-Level Latin: A Guide through Roman History Mathew Owen (Caterham School, UK) 9781474269162
RRP: £14.99£13.54This volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification in Latin (first teaching September 2016), with practice unseen passages from Livy, the set prose for Paper 1, together with passages from a selection of other writers to support Paper 2,... -
Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius by Adrastos Omissi
RRP: £32.99£29.98Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike ... -
Glory of Rome: (Gaius Valerius Verrens 8) by Douglas Jackson
RRP: £10.99£7.77A riveting and all-action historical page-turner from bestselling author Douglas Jackson that will have you gripped from page one! Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane.Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens! "The best Roman historical series... -
The Dacians and Getae at War: 4th Century BC– 2nd Century AD by Andrei Pogacias
RRP: £12.99£9.09This intriguing book describes the Romans' formidably warlike enemies in modern Romania and Bulgaria - their 'most illustrated' opponents, thanks to friezes on Trajan's Column and carvings on Trajan's Adamklissi monument. Formidable warriors, able to... -
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots by Simon Elliott
RRP: £15.99£11.61'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't shed a tear for any of them.' - The Scotsman The SpectatorSince 1975 much new archaeological evidence has come to light to illuminate the... -
Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1 by Peter Adamson
RRP: £22.99£16.68Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History... -
Lives: v. 7 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.39Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular... -
Battle Elephants and Flaming Foxes: Animals in the Roman World by Caroline Freeman-Cuerden
RRP: £20.00£15.04From the hooves of chariot horses pounding the dust of the racetrack to the cries of elephants charging the battlefields, animals were a key part of Roman life. On memorials left to beloved dogs or in images of arena animals hammered onto coins, their... -
The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five by Livy
RRP: £10.99£7.77`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... -
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
RRP: £12.99£8.56One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the 'twelve... -
The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Thonemann
RRP: £8.99£6.45The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus... -
Nero: the man behind the myth Thorsten Opper 9780714122915
RRP: £25.00£17.98One 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... -
Latin Prose Composition by Andrew Leigh
RRP: £14.99£13.54This book helps students to write Latin using increasingly complex forms of expression. Part 1 gives guidance and practice exercises for the new sentences required at GCSE, while Parts 2 and 3 contain a series of chapters of grammatical introduction and... -
Armies of the Late Roman Empire AD 284 to 476: History, Organization and Uniforms by Gabriele Esposito 9781526730374
£22.95This guide to the Late Roman Army focusses on the dramatic and crucial period that started with the accession of Diocletian and ended with the definitive fall of the Western Roman Empire. This was a turbulent period during which the Roman state and its... -
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... -
Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan by Christopher Bayly
RRP: £16.99£16.80The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an... -
Religions of Rome: Volume 1: A History by Mary Beard 9780521316828
RRP: £29.99£27.07This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first... -
Roman Imperialism: A Concise History of the Rise and Expansion of Ancient Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781780762753
RRP: £14.99£13.45Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks... -
Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, Volume I: Books 1–20 Justin 9780674997608
RRP: £24.95£23.39A condensed Roman history of non-Roman civilizations.To Justin (Marcus Junian(i)us Justinus), otherwise unknown, is attributed our abbreviated version of the lost Philippic History by (Gnaeus?) Pompeius Trogus, a massive account, in forty-four books, of... -
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.77Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was one of the only outsiders to penetrate the aristocratic... -
Ancient Rome's Worst Emperors by L J Trafford 9781399084420
RRP: £20.00£14.29Between 27 BCE and 476 CE a series of men became Roman Emperor, ruling a domain that stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Some of them did this rather well, expanding Rome’s territories further, installing just laws and maintaining... -
An Introduction to Roman Law by Barry Nicholas
RRP: £42.99£40.40This book sketches the history of Roman Private Law from the Twelve Tables to modern times, and sets out the elements of the system. It does not attempt to summarize the whole law, but explains and evaluates its most characteristic and influential... -
Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC-AD 450 by Patricia Southern 9781445611907 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£6.64For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north-western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Though it was small, it was not insignificant. There were more Roman soldiers in Britain than there were in the provinces of... -
Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC-AD 450 Patricia Southern 9781445611907
RRP: £18.99£12.71For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north-western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Though it was small, it was not insignificant. There were more Roman soldiers in Britain than there were in the provinces of... -
Juvenal Satires: A Selection Dr John Godwin (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350156524
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Juvenal, Satire 6 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Satires 14 and 15, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction... -
Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780226782768
RRP: £83.00£79.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226782768Author Lucius Annaeus SenecaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Latin Panegyric by Roger Rees
£61.38What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and milieu in which they originated? Latin Panegyric brings... -
Cicero, pro Caelio: A Selection by Georgina Longley
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's pro Caelio, 51-58, 61-68, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of 33-50, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed... -
The Annals by Cornelius Tacitus 9780872205581
RRP: £20.99£17.61A.J. Woodman's translation combines accuracy and Tacitean invention, masterfully conveying Tacitus' distinctive and powerful manner of expression, and reflecting the best of current scholarship. An introductory essay discusses Tacitus' career, the period... -
Hadrian's Wall: Creating Division by Matthew Symonds
RRP: £19.99£16.54Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, recent research has implicated it in the collapse of a farming civilisation... -
The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) by Harry Turtledove
RRP: £23.99£20.84The 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... -
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard 9780300274172
RRP: £10.99£9.37The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory "A perfectly paced biography."-Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer... -
UnRoman Britain: Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia by Miles Russell 9780750990813
RRP: £14.99£11.55Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome. This is, to a great extent, a myth that developed after Roman control of Britain came to an... -
Emperors of Rome David Potter 9781780877501
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the... -
Roman Quests: Death in the Arena: Book 3 Caroline Lawrence 9781510100305
RRP: £6.99£5.00Third in a new historical adventure series from million copy selling Caroline Lawrence, set in Roman Britain during the reign of the evil Emperor Domitian.Eleven-year-old Ursula is happily learning to be a Druid in the woods of Britannia. But then she is... -
The Return: The gripping breakout historical thriller Harry Sidebottom 9781785769634
RRP: £14.99£10.95The sensational breakout historical thriller from Sunday Times bestseller and Ancient Rome expert Harry Sidebottom.______________________He came home a hero.But death isn't finished with him yet . . .145BC - CALABRIA, ANCIENT ROME. After years of... -
Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568 by Professor Michael Kulikowski
RRP: £12.99£9.09For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the... -
Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £10.99£7.77This new translation in free verse conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject. The Introduction sets the scene for the reader unfamiliar with Lucan and explores his relationship with earlier writers of Latin... -
Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch 9781910589007
RRP: £75.00£72.20Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But...