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  • From the Gracchi to Nero

    A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68

    by H.H. Scullard ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    From the Gracchi to Nero is an outstanding history of the Roman world from 133 BC to 68 AD. Fifty years since publication it is widely hailed as the classic survey of the period, going through many revised and updated editions until H.H. Scullard’s death. It explores the decline and fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate. In superbly clear ... Read more

    $35.99 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

    $35.99 USD

  • A History of the Roman World 753-146 BC

    by H.H. Scullard ...
    This definitive study from the author of From the Gracchi to Nero, examines the period from the foundation of Rome to the fall of Carthage. An accessible introduction to these centuries of change, this book will also be useful as context for those studying later developments in Roman history. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization

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  • Rubicon

    The Last Years of the Roman Republic

    by Tom Holland ...
    **A vivid historical account of the social world of Julius Caesar’s Rome as it moved from republic to empire, from the acclaimed author of Dynasty and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History“A fascinating picture of Roman city life . . . In every aspect of this story, Holland expertly makes the Romans, so alien and yet so familiar, relevant to us.”—Los Angeles Times“Stunning . . . Holland ... Read more

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  • Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

    by Anthony Everitt ...
    “A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and ... 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

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  • How to Win an Election

    An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians

    by Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Translated by Philip Freeman ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political ... Read more

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  • Defeat of Rome in the East

    Crassus, the Parthians, and the Disastrous Battle of Carrhae, 53 BC

    by Gareth C. Sampson ...
    "Not just worthwhile for its analysis of the battle, but also for its coverage on Marcus Licinius Crassus' long career and the rise of the Parthian Empire." — Medieval Warfare MagazineIn 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus' defeat and death and the 20,000 casualties his army suffered were an ... Read more

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  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries. ... Read more

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  • Dio's Rome

    by Cassius Dio ...
    An historical narrative originally composed in Greek during the reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. According to Wikipedia: "Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (c. AD 155 or 163/164[3] to after 229), known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, or Dio (Dione. lib) was a Roman consul and a noted historian writing in Greek. Dio published a history ... 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

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