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The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on O ...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1: Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra ...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A Short History of Ancient Rome

Pascal Hughes

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to We ...

Paul Cartledge

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The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow

Odysseas Elytis

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The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

Homer

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The Odyssey

Homer

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The Odyssey: A New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn ...

Homer

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A generation of new material - as Alexander's cities emerge from the sea and Central Asian hills, and as the diaries of Babylonian astronomers are deciphered - informs this sparkling biograp... read more

Alexander: God, King, Man

Edmund Richardson

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The celebrated professor speaks up for why the past might be thought to matter and how it still affects us now.

Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old

Mary Beard

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The Roman Empire depended on slavery, but what was it like? How did it occur, how was it organised and how was it for the slaves?

Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

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A substantial reassessment of this great ancient city.

Babylon: the Mother of All Cities

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

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From the ancients to the moderns, from Helen of Troy to the novels of Han Kang: audacious and sparkling work from the acclaimed translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature ...

Emily Wilson

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This astonishingly well-researched book transforms our understanding of working life in the Roman empire, from Wales to Syria. Bowes benefits from the vast amount of new data that has emerge... read more

Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent ...

Kim Bowes

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Before they could begin their empire, the Romans had to conquer and unite Italy itself. A reinterpretation of this early expansion that sheds light on the values at the core of their imperia... read more

Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome’s Empire ...

Jeremy Armstrong

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Lively introduction to one of Ancient Greece's city states. Erudite and punchy.

Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower

Andrew Bayliss

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How the 90% lived and how they became a political match for the elite (organising, along the way, the world's first general strike).

Plebs Romana: People, Politics and Power in Ancient Rome ...

Peter Jones

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An elegant new translation.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

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A sensitive and compelling rendering - and a new addition to Norton's world-class series of classical translations, introduced by Emily Wilson whose Iliad and Odyssey emerged from the same s... read more

The Aeneid

Virgil

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Secret Spaces: Sacred Treasuries in England 1066-1320 ...

Lesley Milner

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Limited edition - Number 491 of 625 numbered copies - in very good condition with minor wear on the cover edges and some foxing to the endpapers. With eight wood engravings by John Nash. Tra... read more

Ovid’s Elegies

Ovid

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A vivid narrative by the Director General of Pompeii who has overseen the astonishing excavations of the last few years.

The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii

Gabriel Zuchtriegel

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A new translation by a distinguished classicist, a fine verse rendering that keeps much of the formal poetics of the original. With an introductory essay and notes by the translator.

The Odyssey

Homer

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A new translation from the prolific classicist.

The Lives of the Caesars

Suetonius

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Intimate insights into the lives of others, by a redoubtable scholar of cuneiform.

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Moudhy Al-Rashid

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The huge army that landed in East Anglia in 845CE became a constant presence for the next fifteen years - unlike previous raids that took place only in the summer months. New archaeological... read more

Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers ...

Dawn M. Hadley

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The violation of nature as the corollary of war: a formidable classical scholar on the links between ecological degradation and Homer's work.

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s “Iliad” in the Fi ...

Edith Hall

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Roman marble statues and reliefs in museums around the world: in McCullin's accompanying words, 'their broken beauty doesn't take away from their impact; here is all the power and the glory ... read more

The Roman Conceit

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The father of Neoplatonism hoped to reach India to study the Upanishads, only to be reach the Tigris. Now Mir has not only trailed him to Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey but completed his jo... read more

Travels with Plotinus: A Journey in Search of Unity ...

Moin Mir

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The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How ...

Chris Scarre

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By the underwater archaeologist whose team discovered the Endurance.

Wonders in the Deep: Extraordinary Shipwreck Discoveries from Spanish ...

Mensun Bound

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Accompanies the British Museum exhibition, exploring mostly overland networks linking Asia, Africa and Europe, from Japan to Ireland, from the Arctic to Madagascar, between 500-1100 CE: it i... read more

Silk Roads

Sue Brunning

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Newly translated and annotated by the well known classical scholar.

Aesop’s Fables: A New Translation

Aesop

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Another lively re-telling in the comedian's Greek Myths series.

Odyssey

Stephen Fry

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A new addition to this delightful series of weeny reference works, with wonderful black and white illustrations. By an excellent writer and painter.

Megalithic Ireland: Cairns, Tombs, Henges & Circles ...

Hector McDonnell

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The stone circles of Britain and Ireland: their location in a landscapes, construction, composition, chronology. An excellent illustrated guide, by region, with maps.

Stone Circles: A Field Guide

Colin Richards

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