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The Alternative Augustan Age by Josiah Osgood
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €83.11The 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... -
The Alternative Augustan Age by Josiah Osgood 9780197673652
RRP: €31.52Booksplease Price: €30.51The 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... -
Turia: A Roman Woman's Civil War by Josiah Osgood 9780199832347
Booksplease Price: €139.71The civil wars that brought down the Roman Republic were fought on more than battlefields. Armed gangs infested the Italian countryside, in the city of Rome mansions were besieged, and bounty-hunters... -
Turia: A Roman Woman's Civil War by Josiah Osgood 9780199832354
RRP: €51.75Booksplease Price: €32.68The civil wars that brought down the Roman Republic were fought on more than battlefields. Armed gangs infested the Italian countryside, in the city of Rome mansions were besieged, and bounty-hunters... -
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome Josiah Osgood 9781399811552
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.68A top historian of Rome narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, CiceroIn its final decades, the Roman... -
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome by Josiah Osgood 9781399811576
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times' BETTANY HUGHES'Wonderful and insightful' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThe collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the... -
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome by Josiah Osgood 9781541604254
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541604254Author Josiah OsgoodFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.50The 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... -
Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood 9780521855822
RRP: €143.99Booksplease Price: €138.87In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally... -
Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood 9780521881814
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €99.71The 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... -
Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood 9780521671774
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €44.55In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally... -
Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE-20 CE by Josiah Osgood 9781107029897
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €95.50In the century following 150 BCE, the Romans developed a coherent vision of empire and a more systematic provincial administration. The city of Rome itself became a cultural and intellectual center... -
Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE-20 CE by Josiah Osgood 9781108413190
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €28.27In the century following 150 BCE, the Romans developed a coherent vision of empire and a more systematic provincial administration. The city of Rome itself became a cultural and intellectual center... -
Uncommon Wrath: Caesar, Cato, and the quarrel that ended the Roman Republic by Josiah Osgood 9780192859563
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €25.88A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood... -
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic by Sallust 9780691212364
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.49An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman... -
A Student Commentary on Plato's Euthyphro by Charles Platter 9780472054329
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €28.73The Euthyphro is crucially important for understanding Plato's presentation of the last days of Socrates, dramatized in four brief dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. In addition to... -
A Student Commentary on Plato's Euthyphro by Charles Platter 9780472074327
Booksplease Price: €70.51The Euthyphro is crucially important for understanding Plato's presentation of the last days of Socrates, dramatized in four brief dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. In addition to... -
How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders by Suetonius
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.49What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative... -
Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire by Kit Morrell 9780198858089
Booksplease Price: €45.18Provincial governance under the Roman republic has long been notorious for its corrupt officials and greedy tax-farmers, though this is far from being the whole story. This book challenges the... -
Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz 9780190697136
Booksplease Price: €108.33Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic... -
Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz 9780197601839
Booksplease Price: €30.15Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic... -
Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives by Tristan Power 9780198822578
Booksplease Price: €46.99The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of... -
Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives by Tristan Power 9780199697106
Booksplease Price: €131.44The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of... -
Triumphs in the Age of Civil War by Carsten Hjort Lange 9781350060579
Booksplease Price: €44.99Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign...