Selected Political Speeches of Cicero by Cicero; Micael Grant (Translated and with an Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
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
Fall Of The Roman Republic by Plutarch
$22.99 AUD
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
Ancient Iraq by Georges Roux
$42.00 AUD
Category: Ancient History
The book provides an introduction to the history of ancient Mesopotamia and its civilizations, incorporating archaeological and historical finds up to 1992.
Lives Of The Caesars by Suetonius
$28.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their reliabili ...Show more
The Gallic War by Julius Caesar
$25.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: World's Classics Ser.
The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns Caesar fought against the Gauls, Germans and Britons, ...Show more
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain ...Show more
Black Sea: Coasts and Conquests: from Pericles to Putin by Neal Ascherson
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Category: Ancient History
Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, history and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea. Ascherson recalls the world of Herodotus and Aeschylus; Ovid's place of exile ...Show more
Amazons: Real Warrior Women Of The Ancient World by John Man
$35.00 AUD
Category: Ancient History
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to p ...Show more
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B Strassler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Landmark Books
Herodotus's only work, "The Histories," is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps, "The Landmark Herodotus" is a stunning edition of this great classical work.
Lives of the Ancient Egyptians by Toby Wilkinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
From the dawn of history to the death of Cleopatra, ancient Egypt was home to larger-than-life personalities. Across one hundred lives, Toby Wilkinson explores the true character and diversity of human experience in the ancient world's greatest civilization. Some of those profiled are famous: pharaohs a ...Show more
The Emperors of Byzantium by Kevin Lygo
$49.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
A vivid narrative history ofone of the foundingcivilizations of the modernworld, the Byzantine empire,evocatively told through thelives of its ninety-twoemperors. The Byzantine empire was one of the most successful states of the Middle Ages, ruling over a huge terrain straddling Europe and western Asia ...Show more
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England by Dawn Hadley, Julian Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
The hidden story of a little-known but transformative period in the formation of England as a nation. The Viking Great Army that swept through England between AD 865 and 878 altered the course of British history. Since the late 8th century, Viking raids on the British Isles had been a regular feature of ...Show more