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Historia Augusta: Volume I by David Magie
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.29March 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... -
Historia Augusta: Volume II by David Magie
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.19March 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... -
Jesus as Teacher by Pheme Perkins 9780521366953
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76Professor Perkins compares Jesus with other types of teachers in his day: philosophers, interpreters of the law, prophets, and visionaries. Jesus is characterized as a charismatic teacher and prophet... -
The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities Dominic Sandbrook 9781526668677
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The TimesFrom the podcast... -
From Augustus to Nero: An Intermediate Latin Reader by Garrett G. Fagan 9780521821209
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £87.55This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his... -
What Can We Know about Jesus? by Howard Clark Kee 9780521369152
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76Growing interest in the historical Jesus can be frustrated by diverse and conflicting claims about what he said and did. This series brings together in accessible form the conclusions of an... -
Agricola and Germania by Tacitus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.44The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has... -
Armies of Julius Caesar 58-44 BC by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Gaius 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' -... -
Selected Letters from Pliny the Younger's Epistulae: Commentary by Jacqueline Carlon by Jacqueline M. Carlon
Booksplease Price: £32.50This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to Pliny the Younger's Epistulae for intermediate and advanced Latin students, with the grammatical, lexical, and historical support to enable them... -
Agricola: Invader by Simon Turney 9781804540435
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The first volume in a thrilling new historical adventure series by Simon Turney, critically acclaimed author of Legion XXII and Sons of Rome. 58 AD, Rome. Agricola, teenage son of an impoverished... -
Jesus and the Future by David L. Tiede 9780521385817
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76Jesus' statements about the future provoked conflict among his own people and reprisal from the Romans; they remain controversial even today. Some readers of the New Testament study Jesus' words for... -
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome by Chris Scarre
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.80This is a highly readable history and a unique work of reference. Focusing on the succession of the rulers of imperial Rome, it uses timelines with at-a-glance visual guides to each reign and its... -
Jesus and the Future by David L. Tiede 9780521385527
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £22.38Jesus' statements about the future provoked conflict among his own people and reprisal from the Romans; they remain controversial even today. Some readers of the New Testament study Jesus' words for... -
Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 by Alice König
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05This volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the... -
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.00A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. ... -
The World of Jesus: First-Century Judaism in Crisis by John Riches 9780521386760
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76This book examines the social, economic, political, and cultural context of first-century Judaism. Precipitated by the coming of the Romans during the previous century, Judaism experienced a crisis... -
Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger by Gibson 9780197654835
Booksplease Price: £24.34Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black... -
Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood 9780521881814
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79The story of Claudius has often been told before. Ancient writers saw the emperor as the dupe of his wives and palace insiders; Robert Graves tried to rehabilitate him as a far shrewder, if still... -
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Providing 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... -
Selected Works by Cicero
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer,... -
AEthelflaed: A Ladybird Expert Book: England's Forgotten Founder by Tom Holland
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50DISCOVER THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMAN THAT ENGLISH HISTORY FORGOTPart of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.- Who was AEthelflaed?- What role did she play in the founding of England?- How has her... -
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger 9780140441277 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.54Providing 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... -
Apuleius: Philosophical Works (Apulei Opera Philosophica) by Giuseppina Magnaldi 9780198841418
Booksplease Price: £59.26This new critical edition aims to provide a new standard text of Apuleius' De Deo Socratis, De Platone et eius dogmate, and De mundo, allowing readers to get closer than ever before to the... -
St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archaeology by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor 9780814653036
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.10Corinth, one of the most fascinating centers of the early Christian movement, is explored through both literary and archaeological means. In St. Paul's Corinth the evidence of thirty-three Greek and... -
Rome's Cultural Revolution by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill 9780521721608
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £53.29The period of Rome's imperial expansion, the late Republic and early Empire, saw transformations of its society, culture and identity. Drawing equally on archaeological and literary evidence, this... -
Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present by B. R. Burg
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.99In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from... -
A Dictionary of the Roman Empire by Matthew E. Bunson 9780195102338
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.02The extraordinarily rich cultural legacy of the Roman world has had a profound affect world civilization. Roman achievements in architecture, law, politics, literature, war, and philosophy serve as... -
69 AD: The Year of Four Emperors by Gwyn Morgan 9780195315899
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.29The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so... -
Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet 9783039119127
RRP: £56.55Booksplease Price: £50.71Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as 'other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of... -
American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.42The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now,... -
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England by Tom Holland
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackThe formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival... -
The Complete Latin Course by G. D. A. Sharpley
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £40.99The Complete Latin Course is a comprehensive introduction to Latin for students and armchair enthusiasts alike. This modern, user-friendly text offers a series of fascinating glimpses into the world... -
Augustan Rome by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Booksplease Price: £20.60Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the... -
Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature by Victoria Pagan 9780292756809
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Conspiracy theory as a theoretical framework has emerged only in the last twenty years; commentators are finding it a productive way to explain the actions and thoughts of individuals and societies... -
Security in Roman Times: Rome, Italy and the Emperors by Cecilia Ricci 9780367593742
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Using literary, epigraphic, numismatic and iconographic sources this book investigates the safety devices that were in place for the protection of the emperor and the city of Rome in the imperial age... -
de Romanis Book 3: scriptores Katharine Radice 9781350462670
Booksplease Price: £23.84Endorsed by OCR, and under review by Eduqas, this popular Latin course for students aged 11-16 is breathing new life into Latin teaching and learning. de Romanis is a vibrant and accessible... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great... -
The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill 9781009527071
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £39.76The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues... -
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526667731
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Now with a fun pub quiz*'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The... -
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526667731 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.21THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Now with a fun pub quiz*'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The...