Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more
Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments by Paul Roberts
$59.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
Rome wasn't built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of continual creation and renewal lies at the heart of Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments. Rome's history has been explored by countless classicists, historians, poets, and authors, but rarely has its histo ...Show more
Ghosts Monsters and Demons of India by Rakesh Khanna, J. Furcifer Bhairav
$47.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
An illustrated guide to the folktales and real-life stories of the ghosts, monsters and demons of India, a culture famously rich in tradition and legends. Perfect for fans of Eli Roth's Urban Legends and Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. "I was not prepared for how deeply this book captivated ...Show more
The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
$44.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century BC the ancient world was torn apart in a conflict that was, within its historical context, as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the great world wars of the twentieth century. The Peloponnesian War pitted Greek against Greek: the Athenians, wi ...Show more
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus,' their new mas ...Show more
How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy by Thucydides
$29.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war Why do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make rig ...Show more
The Norse Myths - Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold by Tom Birkett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
The great Norse Myths are among the most dramatic and unforgettable stories in all human history. These fascinating, fantastical tales have inspired centuries of art, culture and literature, including the storytelling of Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, Wagner's Ring Cycle an ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
Thebes - The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
$62.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History
'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.'Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and Helen of Troy.Continuously inhabited for five millennia ...Show more
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower. The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepoli ...Show more
The Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think by Richard Buxton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: The\Myths That Shape the Way We Think Ser.
A sophisticated look into the eight Greek myths that remain the most relevant to us today, exploring their powerful cultural impact from their ancient origins to the present. The Greek myths have been retold countless times, first by the conquering Romans, then through the medieval and Renaissance eras ...Show more