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  • Death as a Process

    The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral

    Edited by John Pearce, Jake Weekes ...
    Series Book 11 - Studies in Funerary Archaeology
    The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovations to explore new insights from analysis of the Roman dead, concerning both the rituals which saw them to their tombs and the communities who buried them ... Read more

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  • The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

    A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

    by Peter Heather ...
    The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling the Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. Heather is a leading authority on the late ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Carthage Must Be Destroyed

    The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

    by Richard Miles ...
    The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." (The Economist )Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that ancient Rome struggled so mightily to expunge. This monumental work charts the entirety of Carthage's history, from its origins among the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • 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

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fall of the Roman Republic

    by Plutarch, Robin Seager ...
    Translated by Rex Warner ...
    Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 bc. Whether ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Xerxes

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    Xerxes I of Persia also known as Xerxes the Great was the fourth king of the kings of Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes was crowned and succeeded his father in October–December 486 BC when he was about 36 years old. The transition of power to Xerxes was smooth due again in part to the great authority of Atossa and his accession of royal power was not challenged by any person at court or in the Achaemenian ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Claudius

    by G. Suetonias Tranquillis ...
    The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. The Twelve Caesars is considered very ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Studies in History and Jurisprudence: Volume 2 (Illustrated Edition)

    by Viscount James Bryce ...
    *Includes Volume 2 of Bryces essays and articles on the Roman and British Empires, constitutional history and theory in the United States, sovereignty, the law of nature, and legal history. Viscount James Bryce (1838-1922) was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician who was well known and respected on both sides of the Atlantic. Bryce's intellectual distinction and political ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Great Women of Imperial Rome

    Mothers and Wives of the Caesars

    by Jasper Burns ...
    Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations.Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD, and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later eras, the author's compelling biographies reveal ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Political Speeches

    Translated by D.H. Berry ...
    by Cicero ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. This book presents nine speeches which reflect the development, variety, and drama of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Roman Urban Street Networks

    Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities

    by Alan Kaiser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the first volume to sift through the ancient literature to determine how authors used the Latin ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • A Research Guide to the Ancient World

    Print and Electronic Sources

    by John M. Weeks, Jason de Medeiros ...
    The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a branch of the humanities, including archaeology, art history, languages, literature, philosophy, and related ... Read more

    $186.99 USD