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  • A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity

    Edited by Jerry Toner ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    In Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE), leisure was always more significant than simply a short break from the hardships of everyday life. Leisure served to teach citizens about their various social roles and helped them construct identities, mainly by establishing and maintaining boundaries between social groups. Educated elites cultivated the concepts schole and otium to denote dignified free time, which ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Release Your Inner Roman

    A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius Falx

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Learn the secrets to conquering the world like a Caesar: "A fun concept and an entertaining way to teach the history of Roman society" (Historical Novel Society).Following his "ingenious" handbook on slave management, here is Marcus Sidonius Falx's new guide on how to improve every aspect of your barbarian life ( The New Yorker). Up to now, most barbarians have had to settle for marveling at the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Roman Guide to Slave Management

    A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius Falx

    by Jerry Toner ...
    A scholar explores the history of slavery in Ancient Rome using a fictional story as a backdrop.Marcus Sidonius Falx is an average Roman citizen. Born of a relatively well-off noble family, he lives on a palatial estate in Campania, dines with senators and generals, and, like all of his ancestors before him, owns countless slaves. Having spent most of his life managing his servants—many of them ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino

    Understanding the Roman Games

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Series series Witness to Ancient History
    In ancient times, the Roman games—that heady cocktail of mass slaughter, gladiatorial combat, and chariot racing—made strong political, social, and cultural statements.The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus’s passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt of shooting a tiger, an elephant, and a ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Infamy

    The Crimes of Ancient Rome

    by Dr. Jerry Toner ...
    Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the extent of Rome's crimes.From the sexual peccadillos of Tiberius and Nero to the chances of getting burgled ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Roman Disasters

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where fifty thousand men fell in a single day, to the destruction of Pompeii, to the first appearance of the bubonic plague, the Romans experienced large scale ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Risk in the Roman World

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    Modern risk studies have viewed the inhabitants of the ancient world as being both dominated by fate and exposed to fewer risks, but this very readable and groundbreaking new book challenges these views. It shows that the Romans inhabited a world full of danger and also that they not only understood uncertainty but employed a variety of ways to help to affect future outcomes. The first section ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Ancient World: Ideas in Profile

    by Dr. Jerry Toner ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsThis introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome to the Jews and Syrians who refused to be Romanised. Jerry Toner shows what can be learnt from new approaches to ancient history, from analysing the bones of the dead in Pompeii or assessing the ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Latin Key Words: The Basic 2000 Word Vocabulary Arranged by Frequency. Learn Latin Quickly and Easily.

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Quickly Master Basic Latin by Building a Practical Vocabulary Fast!* New for 2017 – Completely revised and updated* First 100 words provides 40% common usage* A simple, fast, proven way to learn Latin with ease* Easy units - your confidence grows as your vocabulary grows* Created by Cambridge University Classics Fellow Dr Jerry TonerLatin Key Words provides an easy route to mastering excellent ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

    by Dr. Jerry Toner ...
    Series Book 1 - The Marcus Sidonius Falx Trilogy
    'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The TimesTour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner.Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past the already ancient Luxor monuments in Roman Egypt, and by the Great Library of Alexandria. ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity

    Edited by Jerry Toner ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the senses were experienced vividly: cities stank, statues were brightly painted and literature made full use of sensory imagery to create its ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Homer's Turk

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer’s Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on Greek and Roman literature to help them understand the world once called “the Orient.” Even today, the Classics frame the West’s relationship with the Islamic world, India, and China. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD