British Museum: So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Rome
Written by award-winning author Chae Strathie and developed in consultation with experts from the British Museum, this fascinating book reveals what life was really like for kids in ancient Rome, from washing clothes in wee to snacking on dormice... and even fighting in gladiatorial combat! Packed with facts and fantastic illustrations by the super-talented Marisa Morea, this funny and accessible...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
An overview of the lost peoples and cultures who flourished and fought for survival alongside the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Who were the Philistines? What was a Pyrrhic victory? Were the Vandals really vandals? Why should you speak to a Samaritan? Beyond the Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews of the Classical and biblical eras, a rich diversity of peoples helped lay...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Populus
A Time Traveller's Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through the words of Tacitus, Seneca, Martial, and a...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Comic Strip Myths: Myths, Mummies and Magic in Ancient Egypt
The ancient Egyptian myths are some of the oldest and most famous stories in the world. This striking comic book collection will be the perfect introduction to the world of the ancient Egyptians - containing six tales full of mythical creatures, gods, pharaohs, and adventure. Comic Strip Myths: Myths, Mummies and Magic in Ancient Egypt by Stephen Davies is an...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Atlas of the Roman Empire
Atlas of the Roman Empire explores every aspect of the empire’s rise, apogee and fall. Comprehensive political maps show the dynamic ebb and flow of conquest and resistance. Battle maps illustrate key victories and defeats, illuminating the tactics that made Rome so successful, as well as its errors and disasters. Political and social life is not neglected, featuring surprisingly intimate...Hardback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Babylon & Sumer Myths & Legends
With newly told tales and a new introduction, this is a delightful collection of legendary stories from the distant, ancient worlds of Sumer and Babylon. Tales from a crucible of civilisation—the pocket between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers where language, astronomy, religion, and mythology grew from some of the earliest cultures known to humankind. Undiscovered until 200 years ago,...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Diver of Paestum
Since its discovery in 1968, the painting of a diver on a tomb in Paestum, originally the Greek colony of Poseidonia in southern Italy, has left viewers spellbound. It depicts a beautiful and enigmatic scene: a young man dives headfirst into the water from a cliff or tower. The image is joined by others from the same tomb depicting a...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Hippocrates, Volume III
The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine. This is the third volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. The five treatises in this volume, integral parts of the Hippocratic collection, are devoted to the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Divine Egypt
A rare and captivating look at ancient Egyptian deities that demystifies their complex iconography to illuminate three millennia of life and religious practice. Ancient Egyptian religious practice flourished across millennia and encompassed a staggering array of gods, goddesses, and other divine beings. This publication outlines the rich iconography used to represent Egyptian deities—from the stately falcon-headed Horus, associated with power...Hardback$11999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC
A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC - Fourth Edition “This marvelous book is a classic, and deservedly so. This new edition brings the history up to date with revelations from newly published cuneiform tablets and recent archaeological excavations.” Amanda H. Podany, Professor of History, Cal Poly Pomona “An outstanding resource for studying the history of the...Paperback$9199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Looking at Greek Drama
This is a vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception, including chapters on authors and dramas in their social and religious context, as well as key aspects such as structure, character, staging, and music. With contributions by 13 international scholars who are world experts in their field, it provides readers with clear, authoritative,...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sacred Geometry
The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece, and India recognised that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension and the form of both man-made and natural structures, from Gothic cathedrals to flowers, from music to the human body. By...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Romans For Dummies
"A must for anyone interested in the Roman Empire and its impact on world history."—Tony Robinson, star of Blackadder and Time Team This entertaining and informative guide is the perfect introduction to the amazing world of ancient Rome and its emperors, epic wars, awesome architecture, heroes, and villains. With a complete rundown of Roman history alongside fascinating insights into the...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Ancient Greeks For Dummies
The civilisation of the Ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and arts of Western culture. As well as establishing itself as the birthplace of the Olympics, Ancient Greece is famous for its literature, philosophy, mythology, and beautiful architecture, which attracts thousands of tourists every year. This entertaining guide introduces readers to the...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Eden in the Altai
Reveals how humanity’s first advanced culture originated in the Altai-Baikal region of southern Siberia. Explores how this prehistoric culture is the source of the pervasive mythic symbolism of the number 7, found in ancient cosmologies and myths around the world. Traces the Altaic influence on the Rishis of India, the creation of the Vedas, and the origin of the sacred...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ancient Egyptian Magic
In the ancient world, the magicians of Egypt were considered the best. But was magic harmless fun, heartfelt hope, or something darker? Whether you needed a love charm, a chat with your dead wife, or the ability to fly like a bird, an Egyptian magician had just the thing. Christina Riggs explores how the Egyptians thought about magic, who performed...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Bible
'Wonderful' JOHN BARTON 'A stupendous intellectual achievement' ANDREW PETTEGREE 'A stunning love song to the Bible . . . this will be a classic' CHINE MCDONALD The remarkable story of the most influential book in human history. The Bible is the world's best-known text. Yet, it is a book that never was – its original form does not exist and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac
'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern… a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A superb and illuminating history of Imperial Rome's most important women – dispelling the myths and misogyny that have distorted their reputations for over 2000 years. Writer, activist, and journalist Joan...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ramesses the Great
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history. He was a cultural innovator, a relentless self-promoter, and an astute diplomat—the...Hardback$6700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pompey the Great
Pompey the Great was one of the most important military commanders and politicians in the history of the Roman republic. Ruthless and manipulative — "moderate in everything but seeking domination," according to the historian Sallust — he also inspired devotion from his soldiers and friends. His achievements — including the defeat of Rome's most dangerous enemy, the conquest of large...Paperback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Nemesis
Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Letters to Friends, Volume I
Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily, a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us. Collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts, this correspondence is unparalleled; nowhere else do we get such an intimate look...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Hannibal
If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors? Eve MacDonald has produced a real page-turner in this lucid account of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general whose invasion of Italy brought republican Rome almost to her knees. —Antony Spawforth, author of The Story of Greece and Rome...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Epiphanius of Cyprus
Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 CE, was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text—the Panarion, an encyclopedia of heresies—is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew S. Jacobs moves Epiphanius from...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Cnut the Great
A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. "A gripping and revelatory biography of Britain's Danish conqueror." — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Week Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon kings: Cnut the Great, the...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Cleopatra
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy. “A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”—Publishers Weekly “Where Prose really sparkles: her critiques of the cultural depictions of Cleopatra.”—Allison Arieff, San Francisco Chronicle The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Caligula
The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Brutus
A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the ancient evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world’s most famous assassin. “Kathryn Tempest leads us into the complexities and contradictions in the life and legacy of Brutus, a figure who has provoked controversy through the ages.”—James Romm, TLS “Thoughtful, clear and with thorough references and appendixes,...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Greek Gods and Their Worlds
Discover the worlds of the Greek gods. For centuries, the Greek gods have captivated the imagination of readers with their complex personalities and timeless myths. The Greek Gods and Their Worlds offers a fresh perspective, exploring not just the well-known stories, but delving into the distinct domains and nuanced lives of the gods. This thematic journey reveals the realms they...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Calculus
When first published posthumously in 1963, this book presented a radically different approach to the teaching of calculus. In sharp contrast to the methods of his time, Otto Toeplitz did not teach calculus as a static system of techniques and facts to be memorised. Instead, he drew on his knowledge of the history of mathematics and presented calculus as an...Paperback$8799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself
How rhetoric—the art of persuasion—can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded. In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today's polarised political climate, we should all care deeply about...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Studies In Pre-capitalist Modes Of Production
In this collection, British and Argentinian historians analyse the Asiatic, Germanic, peasant, slave, feudal, and tributary modes of production by exploring historical processes and diverse problems of Marxist theory. The studies treat an array of pre-capitalist social formations, including medieval Iceland and Norway, Byzantium, the Roman Empire, ancient Egypt, medieval León and Castile, and the Castilian later Middle Ages. By...Paperback$10700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Star Stories
Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures. "Aveni skillfully guides us around the awesome night sky through the imagination of different peoples around the world, past and present. A wonderful treasury of cultural astronomy."—Jacqueline Mitton, author of Zoo in the Sky We can see love,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Remnants of Ancient Life
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life. We used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago. We were wrong. Remnants of Ancient Life reveals how the new science of ancient biomolecules—pigments, proteins, and DNA that once functioned in living organisms...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Remnants of Ancient Life
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life. We used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago. We were wrong. Remnants of Ancient Life reveals how the new science of ancient biomolecules—pigments, proteins, and DNA that once functioned in living organisms...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Melon
Perfumed, sweet, succulent, cooling; a ripe melon can be one of the most delicious of fruits. Sylvia Lovegren untangles the melon's long and complex history and follows the journeys of the varied fruits known as melons from the sandy wastes of the Kalahari Desert, to the ancient kingdom of Ur in Mesopotamia, to the exotic oases of the Silk Road,...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Deer
The Celts called them 'fairy cattle' and the Greeks associated them with the hunter-goddess Artemis, but for most people today, deer are seen as cute, like Bambi, or noble, like the Monarch of the Glen. Deer appear on coats of arms, in fine art, and in literature. In Deer, veterinarian and deer farmer John Fletcher brings together the cultural and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Cro-Magnon
During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as the Cro-Magnons. Our knowledge of them comes from either their skeletons or the tools, art, and debris they left behind....Paperback$12700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Blooming Flowers
An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasure. “From the meaning of carnations in Sex and the City to the use of sunflowers in the cleanup of Chernobyl, from Henry VIII’s ban on saffron dye in Ireland to the modernist reinventions of roses, this is...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Stone Circles
What are stone circles? When were they built, and why? How come so many of them are egg-shaped or geometrically flattened? What do they have to do with the landscape, Sun, Moon, and stars? In this beautifully illustrated book, megalithomaniac Hugh Newman takes us on a fascinating journey around the world, examining these mysterious monuments of the megalithic culture from...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Roman Ancient Origins
Roman Ancient Origins presents a beautiful edition with a new introduction to the people and leaders of perhaps humankind's most enduring civilisation. This book features the history behind the legends and the people behind the grand tales of Antiquity. This gorgeous Collector's Edition details the rise and fall of Ancient Rome, which began as a village of humble dwellings on...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Ramses the Great
Regarded as the greatest of all Pharaohs, Ramses II reigned at the height of Ancient Egypt's power and influence. He led military campaigns with his father from a young age, married at 15, eventually amassing over 200 wives and concubines and over 150 children, and lived to the age of roughly 95 years old. He expanded the territory of his...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Queen Cleopatra
Queen Cleopatra had the rare distinction of connecting three great cultures. She was born of an ancient Greek Dynasty that stretched back to the time of Alexander the Great. As the last Pharaoh of Egypt, she ruled before the once mighty kingdom became a vassal state under the all-powerful Roman Empire in the first century BCE. Cleopatra is regarded as...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
There Was a Roman in Your Garden
A new fun, fact-packed history series from classical historian, author, and broadcaster Bettany Hughes explores how children just like YOU lived back in the day. It's your LUCKY day! You've stumbled across an ancient treasure chest in your garden that was buried THOUSANDS of years ago by a child living in ancient Rome. And the chest is packed with 20...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Moneta
The extraordinary story of ancient Rome told through one of the world's most universal, humane and powerful objects—the coin. A Financial Times Book of the Year A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND. A wild she-wolf tenderly nurses infant twins Romulus and Remus. Marcus...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Live Like a Viking
Dive headfirst into the dynamic, exhilarating life of the Viking Age with Live Like a Viking. Venture beyond the perception of the Vikings as formidable warriors and explore their multifaceted society. Recognised as dexterous farmers, innovative craftsmen, inspiring musicians, and intrepid explorers, the Vikings' influence permeates our modern existence. Uncover the vibrant everyday life of the Vikings, including: Their revolutionary...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Live Like a Roman
Live Like a Roman is a fascinating and informative journey back in time to find out what it was really like to live in Ancient Rome and the sprawling Roman Empire. Get ready to discover what it was like to live in this epic era of mad, bad emperors, wealthy senators, fearsome gladiators, loyal citizens, struggling lower classes, and enslaved...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week -
Greek Ancient Origins
Greek Ancient Origins is a striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life. This is a gorgeous Collector's Edition. The period of the first Ancient Greek peoples, the Mycenean civilisation, from the 1700s BCE, through to the Greek Dark Ages and...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
Factology: Romans
Factology: Romans is a fact-packed introduction to this iconic time in history, presented in maps, timelines, diagrams, and statistics. Travel through time to explore one of history's most stupendous superpowers: Ancient Rome. Did you know that a gladiator fight only ended when one of the combatants died or called for mercy? The ancient Romans were mind-bogglingly fierce, loathsome, and incredibly...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Persian Boy
'One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERS 'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction... Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART 'Fierce, complex and eloquent' MADELINE MILLER 'Mary Renault is a shining light' HILARY MANTEL * A groundbreaking queer classic and powerful reimagining of the last years of Alexander the Great, told through the...Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Ithaca Forever
After twenty years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, but instead of receiving the homecoming he had hoped for, he finds himself caught in an intense battle of wills with his faithful and long-suffering wife, Penelope. When Penelope recognises him under the guise of a beggar, she becomes furious with him for not trusting her enough to include her in his...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Writing on the Wall
Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Talmud. Commissioned art, architecture, and formal inscriptions displayed on tombs and...Paperback$7099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Women Remembered
Do you think that Jesus only surrounded himself with men? Think again. Inspired by their popular Channel 4 documentary Jesus' Female Disciples, historians Helen Bond and Joan Taylor explore the way in which Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary, Martha, and a whole host of other women—named and unnamed—have been remembered by posterity. They note how many were...Paperback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Women in Classical Athens
This book takes as its starting-point the images of women in the Parthenon sculptures, in order to investigate two levels of feminine experience in Classical Athens, the human and the divine. The interplay between women's religious prominence and their domestic obscurity is examined in relation to the young citizen women who lead the procession; while the great goddesses represented in...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Women in Ancient Greece
The study of women in the ancient Mediterranean world is a topic of growing interest among classicists and ancient historians, and also students of history, sociology, and women's studies. This volume is an essential resource supplying a compilation of source material in translation, with suggestions for further reading, a general bibliography, and an index of ancient authors and works. Texts...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
What Is Ancient History?
From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way. It's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Wars of the Anunnaki
Examines the Anunnaki gods’ evolving relationships with humanity, their power struggles, and the details of their nuclear war on Earth. Analyzes the crisis and rationale behind the Anunnaki decision to nuke 5 cities in the Jordan plain, resulting in the obliteration of Sumerian civilisation. Draws upon the work of Zecharia Sitchin, the Book of Genesis, Sumerian clay tablets, and archaeological...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Wandering Greeks
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonisation movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of...Paperback$13300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Walls
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great walls have appeared on nearly every continent, accompanying the rise of cities, nations, and empires. In Walls, David Frye uncovers a story that is more than just bricks and stone: he reveals the startling link between what we build and how we live,...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Venus and Aphrodite
'Lively' THE TIMES 'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR 'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME 'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE Through ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries and philosophical explorations, Bettany Hughes takes us on a voyage of discovery to reveal the truth behind Venus and Aphrodite, and why this immortal goddess is so much more than nudity, romance and sex. It is both the...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Twelve Caesars
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today's 'sculpture wars'—Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Treasured
'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' David Wengrow 'Utterly original' Paul Strathern When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obsession that endures to this day. From pop culture and politics to tourism and heritage, and from the Jazz Age...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Five Thousand Years of Monarchy
Offers a sweeping, entertaining journey through the real power structures of world history. Five Thousand Years of Monarchy challenges everything you thought you knew about political history. With wit, clarity, and a deep command of historical detail, Michael Arnheim reframes five millennia of global governance through a strikingly original lens: the idea that every government, from ancient Sumer to modern...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Roman Army of the Punic Wars 264–146 BC
As Rome’s power and influence extended across the Mediterranean, she was destined for a collision with the Carthaginian Empire, a clash ultimately resulting in the decisive Second Punic War. At first, the Roman Army was no match for the superior tactics and leadership of Hannibal and his troops. However, talented generals like Scipio Africanus transformed the legions into a formidable...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth,...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Riddle of the Rosetta
In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defences of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology – that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Rest is History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys – there’s a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation’s favourite historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, take on the most curious moments...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Phoenicians
The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologised people: their history, artistic heritage, and the scope of their maritime and colonising activities in the Mediterranean. Vadim S. Jigoulov describes and analyses various artefacts (epigraphic, numismatic, and material remains) and considers how historians have derived information about a people with little surviving literature. This includes a critical look at classical,...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Origin of Sin
Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, The Origin of Sin, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings. He argues that the fundamental idea of "sin" arose in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, although this original...Hardback$32800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Origin of Empire
In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn’t know that this crossing would be Rome’s first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic centuries that make up this book's narrative, Rome had no emperor and limited global influence; by...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Open Sea
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world. In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world during the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory,...Paperback$11000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Mycenaean World
Little over one hundred years has passed since Schliemann first excavated Mycenae and revealed the riches of its ruler, burying in the Shaft graves three and a half thousand years ago. Continuing discoveries have demonstrated the achievements and connections of Mycenaean civilisation. The decipherment of their script, Linear B, an early form of Greek, has shown that the Mycenaeans were...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local gods and were made famous by classical Greek authors. Yet Egyptologists tend not to look...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Lost Empire of Atlantis
After a chance conversation in Egypt in 2008, bestselling historian Gavin Menzies launched himself on a quest that would reveal the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis and her destruction. Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a trading empire that spanned from the...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Lost Continent of Pan
Reveals the Pacific Ur-culture that seeded the ancient civilisations of China, Egypt, India, Mexico, and Peru. The Lost Continent of Pan shows how the Pan diaspora explains the similarities between Gobekli Tepe and Toltec carvings and stone towers in Japan and on Easter Island. It reveals the mother tongue of Pan hidden in shared word roots in vastly different languages,...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Jugurthine War 112–106 BC
The fascinating story of Republican Rome's gruelling six-year campaign against the insurgent Numidian warlord, Jugurtha. The Jugurthine War 112–106 BC tells the tale of Jugurtha, the adoptive son of Micipsa, king of the Numidians, who was initially a much-respected ally of Rome. He fought gallantly alongside the Romans during the Numantine War in Iberia. However, during the course of the...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The History of Rome, Books 1-5
Reflecting the short, direct sentence structure in which Livy wrote his History—a style too often obscured by the 'connective tissue' that clouds other translations—Valerie Warrior's translation is both highly accurate and accessible to undergraduates. Warrior's Introduction and extensive foot-of-the-page annotation further distinguish an edition designed for classroom use.Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The History of Central Asia
The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilisation. The History of Central Asia by Christoph Baumer is an ambitious four-volume treatment of the region that charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads;...Hardback$19800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The History of Central Asia
The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC - c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network of interlinking trade routes, collectively known as the Silk Road, led to an explosion of cultural and commercial transactions across Central Asia that had a profound impact on civilization. In this...Hardback$12100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Greeks
This is ancient Greece - but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilisation was spread across the Middle East, and that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas. This book tells the story of the Greeks outside Greece, such as Sappho, the poet from Lesbos; Archimedes, a native of Syracuse; and Herodotus,...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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