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The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter 9780140448054
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely written by an advisor of Nero, it recounts the adventures of Encolpius and... -
The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71`The language is refined, the smile not grave, My honest tongue recounts how men behave.' The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can... -
Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter 9780872205109
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.44This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but fresh and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the... -
Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter 9781847496621
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Documenting the colourful escapades of the former gladiator Encolpius and his less than faithful lover Giton, the "Satyricon" plunges the reader into the lives of ordinary Roman citizens, vividly... -
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Providing 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... -
Rome and Romans by 9780746030714
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $5.64Find out what life was really like in Ancient Rome through the adventures of a wealthy Roman businessman named Petronius, and his family. Watch gladiators fighting, charioteers racing, enjoy a feast,... -
Nemesis: (Falco 20) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04In the high summer of AD 77, laid-back detective Marcus Didius Falco is called upon to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a middle-aged couple who supplied statues to Falco's father, Geminus... -
Dynamics Of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal Groups in Neronian and Flavian Literature by Konstantinos Arampapaslis 9783111628486
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $13.24This volume explores the theme of marginality in the literature and history of the Neronian and Flavian periods. As a concept of modern criticism, the term marginality has been applied to the... -
Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand... -
Decadence: An Annotated Anthology by Jane Desmarais 9780719075513
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18The tradition of Decadent writing in the 19th century remains a fascinating current in the evolution of modern literature. This new anthology brings together key texts from an international range of... -
The Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19`My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of partiality by presenting the views of the generality of philosophers concerning the nature of the gods.' Cicero's philosophical works... -
Sublunar by Harald Voetmann 9781915267214
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11In the sixteenth century, on the island of Hven, the pioneering Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, is undertaking an elaborate study of the night skyA great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is... -
Ganymede's Dog: Volume 50 by John Emil Vincent 9780773559097
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Took all this time to actually in fact bite our own tail to learn that that hurts; I guess it was worth it. / Developed a taste for tails. The prose poems of Ganymede's Dog startle myths back to... -
Prophecy: Death of an Empire (Prophecy Trilogy 2): A gripping adventure of conflict and corruption by M. K. Hume 9780755371488 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.23Merlin's epic quest continues as he journeys to Constantinople in search of his father.Myrddion Emrys of Segontium is the product of a brutal rape, but when King Vortigern hints at his father's... -
Prophecy: Death of an Empire (Prophecy Trilogy 2): A gripping adventure of conflict and corruption M. K. Hume 9780755371488
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Merlin's epic quest continues as he journeys to Constantinople in search of his father.Myrddion Emrys of Segontium is the product of a brutal rape, but when King Vortigern hints at his father's... -
Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19'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... -
On Obligations: De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71On 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... -
Homeric Hymns by Homer 9780872207257
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.79In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns, Sarah Ruden employs a melodious and flexible non-rhyming line of eleven syllables, offering a close approximation of Greek hexameter verse in natural... -
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others.This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature... -
Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage by David Gibbins 9780230770942 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.52Carthage, 146 BC. This is the story of Fabius Petronius Secundus - Roman legionary and centurion - and of his general Scipio Aemilianus, and his rise to power: from his first battle against the... -
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.10A 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. ... -
Ode To A Banker: (Falco 12) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Another delightful excursion into the world of Marcus Didius Falco by multimillion-copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Bringing Ancient Rome to life with its vivid description and... -
Time To Depart: (Marco Didius Falco: book VII): an enthralling and entertaining historical mystery that takes you deep into the Roman underworld from bestselling author Lindsey Davis Lindsey Davis 9780099515135
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04If you like S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor and C. J. Sansom, you will love this absorbing, fast-paced and - at times - wonderfully funny Roman mystery from bestselling author Lindsey Davis... -
Three Hands In The Fountain: (Falco 9) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Another engrossing historical mystery bringing Ancient Rome to life in all its gruesome glory from the pen of multimillion-copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon,... -
Scandal Takes A Holiday: (Falco 16) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor, C. J. Sansom will absolutely love this captivating page-turner of a historical mystery from multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. ... -
Shadows In Bronze: (Falco 2) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92Let multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis transport you back to 71 A.D. in this captivating mystery, full of political intrigue, twists, turns and romantic tension. Fans of S. J... -
The Jupiter Myth: (Marco Didius Falco: book XIV): a compelling and captivating historical mystery set in the heart of the Roman Empire from bestselling author Lindsey Davis Lindsey Davis 9780099515197
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor, C. J. Sansom will love this exciting and enthralling historical mystery from multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Expertly weaving an... -
Awake by Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen 9781915267092
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Harald Voetmann's eye-opening English debut, Awake, is the first book of his erudite and grotesque trilogy about humankind's inhuman will to conquer nature In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy,...