Love Life of the Ancient Greeks by Sofia A. Souli
$10.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
The Reach of Rome - A Journey Through the Lands of the Ancient Empire by Alberto Angela
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by its size, stretching from Scotland to Kuwait, from ...Show more
Why We're All Romans - The Roman Contribution to the Western World by Carl J Richard
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This engaging yet deeply informed work not only examines Roman history and the multitude of Roman achievements in rich and colorful detail but also delineates their crucial and lasting impact on Western civilization. Noted historian Carl J. Richard argues that although we Westerners are "all Greeks" in ...Show more
Memorable Deeds and Sayings - One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome by Valerius Maximus
$20.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Hackett Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as an engaging introduction to the cultural and moral history of ancient Rome. Valerius' "thousand tales" are arranged thematically in ninety-one chapters that ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to The Roman Historians by Andrew Feldherr (Editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. | Reading Level: very good
No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians suc ...Show more
Tutankhamun - Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Lost for Three Thousand Years, Misunderstood for a Century by Joyce Tyldesley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: near fine
A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery: a near-complete royal burial, an ancient mummy, and golden riches beyond imagination. The lost tomb of Tutankhamun ignited a media frenzy, propelled into overdrive by rumours of a deadly ancient curse. ...Show more
Murray's Small Classical Atlas by G B Grundy (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good-very good
A Guide to Taxila by John Marshall
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good-very good
Plutarch's Morals - Ethical Essays by Plutarch; Arthur Richard Shilleto
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bohn's Classical Library | Reading Level: very good
The Wallet-Book of The Roman Wall - A Guide to pilgrims journeying along the barrier of the lower isthmus by J Collingwood Bruce
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
The Life and Reign of Septimus Severus by Maurice Platnauer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good-very good
The Christians & the Fall of Rome by Edward Gibbon
$5.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature of faith.