Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
Goddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine - whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresistible, female characters are ever present on the peripheries of the great Greek myths, but rarely do they take centre stage. Their time has finally come to act as protagonists in their own stories. Heroines ...Show more
Black Sea: Coasts and Conquests: from Pericles to Putin by Neal Ascherson
$24.99 AUD
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
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Classics
Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar's narrative offers insights into his military strategy & paints a fascinating picture of his encounters with the inhabitant of ...Show more
The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth
$24.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History
The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh centuryThe magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives a ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times History Book of the YearChristianity ...Show more
The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think by Carolyne Larrington
$39.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
This brilliantly original and accessible guide explores how Valhalla and its Valkyries have inspired our cultural landscape, from Wagner to the Marvel Universe. Carolyne Larrington's elegantly written retellings capture the beauty of the original myths, while also delving deeper into the history of thei ...Show more
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Catrine Jarman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
The Sunday Times bestseller'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell'Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies... one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read' William Dalrymple, FT Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman - and the cutting- ...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 Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's main street. ...Show more
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent by Tom Holland
$27.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shatte ...Show more
In The Shadow Of The Sword - The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World by Tom Holland
$27.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval so profound that it spelt, in effect, the end of the anci ...Show more
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History
This is an unusual history of a time that still defines our world - a view of the early Roman empire that its historians never intended us to see. Beginning sixty years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, it graphically depicts a story parallel to that of Caligula and Nero, and shows us those stru ...Show more