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  • Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by

    Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman ...

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  • Before & After Alexander by

    Before and After Alexander is an invaluable addition to our understanding of this historic figure's legacy, as Billows challenges the myth of Alexander the ...

    2 in stock - ships Thu 17th!
  • SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by

    Ancient Rome matters.

    Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus ...

    1 in stock - ships Thu 17th!
  • Hannibal by
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  • On Sparta by

    Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of ...

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  • The Histories by

    'No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace - in peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons' One of the ...

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  • The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by

    The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually ...

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  • The Histories by

    'Herodotus, from Halicarnassus, here displays his enquiries, that human achievement may be spared the ravages of time, and that everything great and astounding, and all ...

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  • Fall of the Roman Republic by

    Plutarch has been called the last of the classical Greek historians and the first modern biographer. Above all, Plutarch was a superb dramatic artist and ...

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  • Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by

    Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-Tiltman

    Daily Telegraph's Best History Books of 2017

    Sunday Times' Best History Books of 2017

    A sweeping history of ...

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  • Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by

    In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and ...

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  • Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by

    'This is a wonderful, surging narrative - a brilliant and meticulous synthesis of the ancient sources . . . This is a story that should be read by anyone ...

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  • The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World by

    They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of ...

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  • Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny by

    In 22 BC, amid a series of natural disasters and political and economic crises, a mob locked Rome's senators into the Senate House and ...

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  • The Story of Greece and Rome by

    The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh ...

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