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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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£25.00

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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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£35.00

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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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£29.99

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

Lesley Milner

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£165.00

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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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£50

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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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A selection from Plato's Symposium in a new translation by the author of Socrates in Love.

How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers ...

Plato

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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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Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer ...

Christopher Somerville

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A look at some of the ugly jostling for power following the death of Octavian in 14CE.

Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

Peter Stothard

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From the author of excellent books on Catullus, Pliny and Waugh.

The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Wom ...

Daisy Dunn

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Looks at 300 years of classical studies, and argues for the continuing importance of European ideas for the Anglo-Saxons.

The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the ...

Oswyn Murray

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A memoir by this most communicative classicist about her own experiences of suicide, and how she found consolation and understanding of herself and her family through close readings of clas... read more

Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me ...

Edith Hall

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The Greeks: A Global History

Professor Prof Roderick Beaton

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Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra

Rubina Raja

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Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Un ...

Margalit Fox

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The labours of Hercules are as nothing to those of archeo-botanists... tamarisk, red bryony, poplar etc and their role in traditional medicine - based on cuneiform inscriptions and intimate ... read more

An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal

Barbara Boeck

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Crassus: The First Tycoon

Peter Stothard

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The author is an archaeologist who can spin technical straw into narrative gold. Her previous book, River Kings, was on the Vikings - and it was riveting.

The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons ...

Cat Jarman

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The emperors: their powers and their legacies from Julius Caesar to Alexander Severus.

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

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Shows how Greek culture (Galen, Ptolemy, Plotinus and others) still pervaded the Roman world.

The Children of Athena: Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, ...

Charles Freeman

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