Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans by Francis Pryor
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Category: Ancient History
An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'A highly compelling read' Spectator 'An evocative foray into the prehistoric past' BBC Countryfile Magazine 'Vividly relating what life was like in pre-Roman Britain' Choice Magazine I ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer
$95.00 AUD
Category: Ancient History
The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the popular imagination- the radical iconoclast Akhenaten, t ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
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Category: Ancient History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings by Kevin Crossley-Holland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories.A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, battles and couplings, the Norse m ...Show more
Cicero - Selected Works by Cicero
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Classics
Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary ...Show more
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean by Katherine Pangonis
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Category: Ancient History
Katherine Pangonis explores five forgotten cities of the Mediterranean: Syracuse, Antioch, Ravenna, Tyre and Carthage. Each of these of these ancient cities has a claim to have been the centre of the world in its own time. Their fascinating entwined history takes in Alexander the Great, the Byzantine g ...Show more
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin
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Category: Ancient History
‘In a book of sensitivity and grace, Sattin does not just describe the nomadic way of life, but also evokes it … This is A BOOK OF BEAUTY AND BEGUILING RHYTHM that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders’ The Times ‘Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic … As fleet and li ...Show more
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
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Category: Ancient History
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is'Sunday Times 'An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of hist ...Show more
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Philip Matyszak
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Category: Ancient History
An overview of the lost peoples and cultures who flourished and fought for survival alongside the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Beyond the Greeks, Romans and Hebrews of the Classical and Biblical eras, a rich diversity of peoples helped lay the foundations of the modern world. Philip Matyszak brings to ...Show more
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: ‘Yes, yes, wonderful things.’ In <i>Tutankhamun’s Trumpet</i>, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes a unique approach to that tom ...Show more
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
$29.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
‘Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading’ - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantag ...Show more
The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes by Carolyne Larrington
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Category: Ancient History
The Norse Myths presents the infamous Viking gods, from the mighty Asyr, led by Ó?inn, and the mysterious Vanir, to Thor and the mythological cosmos they inhabit. Passages translated from Old Norse bring this legendary world to life, from the myths of creation to ragnarök, the prophesied end of the worl ...Show more