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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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A captivating account of the author's life-long love affair with Greece, her youthful experience - sometimes very painful - finding a parallel in classical myth.

Dust and Pomegranates: How Greece Changed Me Forever ...

Victoria Whitworth

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A new translation of the Roman nobleman's writings and his turn toward Stoicism whilst he waited, unjustly accused, to die in prison. Could be useful at Christmas too.

How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship

Boethius

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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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In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.

The Voyage Home

Pat Barker

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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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Nearly 600 pieces of glass from the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Middle East dating between 1500 BCE and 1000 CE: the lavishly ilustrated catalogue of the stupendous Getty collectio... read more

Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Anastassios Antonaras

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A new translation from the prolific classicist.

The Lives of the Caesars

Suetonius

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On the forging of a ruthless political mind, plotting to assassinate Caesar and establishing the era of bloody, autocratic rule that would become Rome's undoing.

Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome ...

Josiah Osgood

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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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This American professor of philosophy is a powerful advocate of the life of the mind - and of how to change it.

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

Agnes Callard

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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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An anthology drawn from the immense collection of classical verse assembled as The Greek Anthology. Constantine translates and reworks with a liberating looseness.

A Bird Called Elaeus: Poems for Here and Now from The Greek Anthology ...

David J. Constantine

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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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Reissue of the superb book on these extraordinary pictures, with a new introduction by Soueif.

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt ...

Euphrosyne Doxiadis

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LB could turn straw into gold. Here she describes chancing across the writings of a rather obscure Greek philosopher, and the wonders and illuminations that followed. Transformative.

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher ...

Laura Beatty

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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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For 2,000 years Roman roads have been channels of conquest, trade and art. A brilliant exploration.

The Roads To Rome: A History

Catherine Fletcher

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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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What was it like to walk around Rome at the end of the C4th, with almost 1,000 years of history already underfoot?

A Walk Through Ancient Rome: A Tour of the Historical Sites That Shape ...

Philip Matyszak

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He ruled an area of the Indian subcontinent greater than anyone until the British 2000 years later; famously he renounced war for Buddhism and promoted religious toleration throughout his mu... read more

Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King

Patrick Olivelle

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A deeply personal social history. From ancient Greece to 70s' New York, from Diogenes to her father, Eberstadt explores how people have used their bodies to challenge the world around them.

Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant

Fernanda Eberstadt

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An investigation of Jesus' messianic contemporaries and the reasons for Christianity's success. From the author of the highly regarded The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Cla... read more

Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God?

Catherine Nixey

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Alexander's life interwoven with myths and legends from the countries he conquered. Gavin is a wonderful storyteller. First published in hardback in 2012 and long out of print. For ages 8-12... read more

Alexander the Great: Man, Myth or Monster?

Jamila Gavin

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Written in the form of a letter to Marcus Aurelius, this timeless novel reimagines the Roman emperor Hadrian, looking back on his life. The prose is exquisite, the musings on art and death, ... read more

Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of H ...

Marguerite Yourcenar

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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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An addition to the series that included Peter Stothard's excellent Crassus last year.

Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor

Philip Freeman

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An anthology exploring the rich Greek and Roman literary traditions of queer love; with some of LEH's lovely drawings too.

300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World ...

Luke Edward Hall

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