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End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC(2013) STEEL, CATHERINE (LECTURER IN CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)Catherine Steel tells the history of this crucial and turbulent century, focusing on the issues of freedom, honour, power, greed and ambition.Vezava: Mehka54,04 € -
Greeks(1991) KITTO, H.The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish(2007) PARSONS, PROF PETERHow an ancient rubbish dump has given us a unique view of life 2,000 years agoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC(2012) ROSENSTEIN, NATHAN (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)Nathan Rosenstein charts Rome's incredible journey and command of the Mediterranean over the course of the third and second centuries BC.Vezava: Mehka54,04 € -
Terry Jones' Barbarians(2007) EREIRA, ALAN,JONES, TERRYNot only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, withVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Emperors of Rome(2013) POTTER, DAVIDThe Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Britain BC(2004) PRYOR, FRANCISAn authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Tacitus and the Principate(2011) BURNAND, CHRISAs a successful senator, Tacitus was ideally placed to comment on the Roman political system. This selection of extracts from his histories sheds light on the rise and fall of emperors such as Domitian and Nero.Vezava: Mehka38,23 € -
Alexander the Great(2013) CARTLEDGE, PAULThe acclaimed biography of one of history’s greatest icons, Alexander the Great. The acclaimed biography of one of history’s greatest icons, Alexander the Great.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories (Penguin Classics)(2007) SALLUSTContains three stories from Sallust: "Catiline's War" - tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc; "The Jugurthine War" - describes Rome's fight in Africa against the king of the Numidians; and Histories" - depicts Rome after the death of the dictator Sulla.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mediterranean in the Ancient World(2002) BRAUDEL, FERNANDPresents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. This book features notes that allow the reader to appreciVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Pompeii(2009) BEARD, PROFESSOR MARYContains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Rome and Jerusalem(2008) GOODMAN, MARTINIn 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of Jerusalem. Sixty years later, its ruin was completed when Emperor Hadrian built a new city on top of it that Jews were forbidden even to enter. This title explores tVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
In Search Of The Trojan War(2005) WOOD, MICHAELDetailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, In Search of the Trojan War takes a fresh look at some of the moVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Spartacus War(2010) STRAUSS, BARRYThe story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €






