New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In thi ...Show more
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler, Kari Gislason
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Category: Ancient History
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who se ...Show more
Early Greek Philosophy by Jonathan Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Classics Ser.
The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intel ...Show more
A History Of The Crusades II by Steven Runciman
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...' Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which br ...Show more
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] by Lynne Olson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
The fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time- fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to sa ...Show more
Rebel Folklore by DK
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Category: Ancient History
Meet 50 fascinating folktale characters and discover how these flawed heroes and relatable villains of ancient stories remain relevant todayRebel Folklore gathers 50 fascinating folktale characters from around the world, showing readers why we should care about the rebels and misfits of ancient stories. ...Show more
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. by Neil Price
$35.00 AUD
Category: Ancient History
A new history of the Vikings - told from their own perspective rather than that of their victims. The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway ...Show more
The Histories by Herodotus; Robin Waterfield (Translated by)
$23.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A new translation by Robin Waterfield. With an Introduction and Notes by Carolyn Dewald.Herodotus is not only known as the 'father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent ...Show more
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Seán Hewitt, Luke Edward Hall
$55.00 AUD
Category: Ancient History
For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Sean Hewitt and painter Luke Ed ...Show more
Selected Political Speeches of Cicero by Cicero; Micael Grant (Translated and with an Introduction by)
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Classics Ser.
As the Roman Republic lurched to its close, amid corruption, ruthless power struggles and gross inequality, Cicero produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches ever written. Whether he is quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archais or railing against Mark Anthony in the Phil ...Show more
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Anon, Jeffrey Gantz
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Classics Ser.
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle f ...Show more
Fall Of The Roman Republic by Plutarch
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Category: Ancient History
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 ...Show more