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  • An Imperial Possession

    Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409

    by David Mattingly ...
    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and knowledge to cut through the myths and misunderstandings that so commonly surround our beliefs about this period. From the rebellious chiefs and druids who led native British resistance, to the ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain

    by Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Colin Haselgrove, David Mattingly ...
    More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion. Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin ... Read more

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  • The Ostrogoth and Visigoth Kings

    by Jordanes, Sidonius Apollinaris, and Theodoric ...
    Jordanes, also written Jordanis or (not common nowadays) Jornandes, was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat best known for writing histories. Jordanes wrote Romana about the history of Rome, but his best-known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551. It is the only extant classical work dealing with the early history of the Goths. Jordanes was asked by a friend to write this book as ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Fall of Carthage

    The Punic Wars 265-146BC

    by Adrian Goldsworthy ...
    The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, namely the ascendancy of Rome. An epic of war and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Maximinus Thrax

    From Common Soldier to Emperor of Rome

    by Paul N. Pearson ...
    The first full-length biography of the half-barbarian emperor.Maximinus was a Thracian tribesman of frightening appearance and colossal size” who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor Severus who enlisted Maximinus into the imperial bodyguard whereupon he embarked on a distinguished military career. Eventually he achieved ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Constantine the Great

    by John Firth ...
    THE catastrophe of the fall of Rome, with all that its fall signified to the fifth century, came very near to accomplishment in the third. There was a long period when it seemed as though nothing could save the Empire. Her prestige sank to the vanishing point. Her armies had forgotten what it was to win a victory over a foreign enemy. Her Emperors were worthless and incapable. On every side the ... Read more

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  • Ancient Worlds

    A Global History of Antiquity

    by Michael Scott ...
    "As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world." -- Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and RubiconTwenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our world today. In the face of massive social changes across three continents, radical new forms of government emerged; ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Roman Empire

    by Eric Nelson ...
    You’re no idiot, of course. The battle scenes in Gladiator had you on the edge of your seat and wondering where you could find more information on the rise and fall of ancient Rome. But so far, your search has left you feeling like a blundering barbarian.Pick yourself up off the coliseum floor! Consult The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to the Roman Empire—a fun–to–read introduction to the fascinating ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A History of the Roman World

    753 to 146 BC

    by H. H. Scullard ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new foreword by Tim Cornell‘Can anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the dominion of a single city of Rome?’ – Polybius, Greek HistorianThe city of Rome created the foundations of an empire that would come to challenge and conquer the great civilizations of Europe ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Julius Caesar

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    There were three great European nations in ancient days, each of which furnished history with a hero: the Greeks, the Carthaginians, and the Romans.The Roman hero was Caesar. He was born just one hundred years before the Christian era. His renown does not depend, like that of Alexander, on foreign conquests, nor, like that of Hannibal, on the terrible energy of his aggressions upon foreign foes, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ultimate Caesar Augustus Collection

    by Charles River Editors, Caesar Augustus, Suetonius, Nicolaus of Damascus ...
    Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Augustus•Suetonius biography of Augustus from The Twelve Caesars•Augustus The Deeds of the Divine Augustus, the funerary inscription of Augustus he authored himself •Nicolaus of Damascus Life of AugustusThe whole of Italy swore allegiance to me. Augustus (from The Deeds of the Divine Augustus)The importance of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Roman Way

    by Edith Hamilton ...
    "No one in modern times has shown us more vividly than Edith Hamilton 'the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.'" —New York TimesIn this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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