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Classical World eBook Series

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  • Augustan Rome

    by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill ...
    Series series Classical World
    Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society.Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

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  • The Ghosts of Cannae

    Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

    by Robert L. O'Connell ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. No general since has matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and brutal military victory. Now Robert L. O’Connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving us a stirring account of this apocalyptic battle, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • 428 AD

    An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

    by Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron ...
    This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Greek and Roman Accounts of India

    by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder & Strabo ...
    Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced is a record of his investigation of the origins ... Read more

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  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1

    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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  • Augustus Caesar

    by Rene Francis ...
    To those who have no more than a general idea of the history of Rome, the name Augustus, or even Octavian, conveys little more than the memory of a man who followed Julius Caesar, who won the battle of Actium against Mark Antony, and who was the first Emperor of Rome. And indeed Roman history itself, without some degree of study, does not seem to present more than the rise of a big republic from a ... Read more

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  • Legacy of the Moon

    by Sharon Desruisseaux ...
    Cleopatra Selene was born to a world of plenty, where all of her wishes were granted. She was a princess of an ancient and powerful family of Egypt. Her own mother was a pharaoh, what else could a girl want more than that. Her whole life was planned out and sung to her by her own mother who cherished her in her loving embrace. Suddenly it was all ripped away, leaving Cleopatra Selene and her ... Read more

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  • Books of the Maccabees

    by Douay Rheims ...
    The name Maccabee in Hebrew, means "hammer". This is properly applied to the first leader of the revolt, Judas, third son of Mattathias, whose attacks were "hammer-like". The name came to be used for his brothers as well, which accounts for the title of the book.The text comes to us in three codices of the Septuagint: the Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Venetus, as well as some ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Classical Greeks

    by Michael Grant ...
    The story of the Athenian Golden Age by one of the world's pre-eminent classical historians.The Golden Age of ancient Greek city-state civilization lasted from 490 to 336 BC, the period between the first wars against Persia and Carthage and the accession of Alexander the Great. Never has there been such a multiplication of talents and genius within so limited a period and Michael Grant captures ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy

    by Richard A. Gabriel ...
    The Romans' destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every interest in minimizing his success, exaggerating his failures, and disparaging his character. The charges leveled against Hannibal include greed, cruelty and atrocity, sexual indulgence, and even ... Read more

    $17.95 USD

  • The Forts of Judaea 168 BC–AD 73

    From the Maccabees to the Fall of Masada

    by Samuel Rocca ...
    Series Book 65 - Fortress
    Discover the world of the ancient fortress of Masada and other key Judean forts, in a book that strips away myth to reveal the true history and development of these key buildings.This book analyzes the fortifications of Hasmonaean and Herodian Judaea from the middle of the second century BC, when the Maccabees rebelled against their Seleucids overlords and established an independent state, until ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The History of Rome: Livy plus Mommsen

    by Livy, Theodor Mommsen ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Titus Livius (59 BC AD 17) — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Books from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time." "Christian ... Read more

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