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  • SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

    by Mary Beard ...
    New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable BookNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus ReviewsFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)A San Francisco Chronicle</e... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2

    by Plutarch ...
    Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • SOLDIER OF ROME

    by BOB BASE ...
    Now fully editedThis is the story about an eight man squad of men within a Roman legion on the very edge of the empire.There are no heroes or senior officers vying for greatness or ultimate power, there are no beautiful women .This is just the story of eight low ranked common soldiers. Their everyday lives and struggles as the serve their twenty years under the EagleWe meet them on the march, a ... Read more

    $8.11 USD

  • Templar of Jerusalem

    by Bob base ...
    This is the story of a Templar Knight from the Temple within th eHoly city and his Oders struggle against Saladin and the Saracens culminating in the Battle at the Horns of Hattin and the loss of the kingdom of God ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • The Story of the Jews

    Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD

    by Simon Schama ...
    Series Book 1 - Story of the Jews
    In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the pbs and bbc series The Story of the Jews—simon schama details the story of the jewish people, tracing their experience across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the new world in 1492It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance in the face of destruction, of creativity in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Threshold of Democracy

    Athens in 403 BCE

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in Western history. In the wake of Athenian military defeat and rebellion, advocates of democracy have reopened the Assembly, but stability remains elusive. As members of the Assembly, players must contend with divisive issues like citizenship, elections, remilitarization, and dissent. Foremost ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 隋唐之变:脑洞老爸聊隋唐

    《隋唐之变:脑洞老爸聊隋唐》是一部能让你快速了解隋唐历史的有趣的佳作!本书全面反映隋、唐盛世那段精彩纷呈而又不为国人所熟知的历史。作者以严谨的史学精神、幽默简约的文风,对这两个朝代的历史进行宏观的探索和细节性的挖掘,淋漓尽致地为读者奉献了真实又好看的历史盛宴。 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Herod the Great

    Jewish King in a Roman World

    Series series Jewish Lives
    A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolutionHerod the Great (73–4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Roman revolution to establish himself as a major figure in a changing Roman world and transform the landscape of Judaea. Both Jews and Christians developed ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Invention of God

    by Thomas Römer ...
    Translated by Raymond Geuss ...
    Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms—Yhwh, God, or Allah—by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE.That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a surprise. But as Römer makes clear, a wealth of evidence ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic

    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E. Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more--and more important--religious opportunities available to Roman women than are commonly considered.Based on research in ancient literature, inscriptions, and archaeological remains from the fifth to the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Legions of Rome

    The definitive history of every Roman legion

    No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous sources: stone and bronze inscriptions, coins, papyrus and literary accounts in a remarkable feat ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Orphic Hymns

    The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns.At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Ancient Greek Athletics

    Primary Sources in Translation

    The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Poison King

    The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

    Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”—Los Angeles TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • Publishers WeeklyIn this landmark volume, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first natio... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Hellenistic Age

    The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube could serve in the mercenary army of a Macedonian king ruling in Egypt, and a Greek philosopher from Cyprus could ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities

    Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization

    by J. C. McKeown ...
    The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without their influence. And yet, they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs, and ludicrous opinions. Like its companion volume, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities, this is an uproarious miscellany of odd stories ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Earl and the Pharaoh

    From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

    Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family ancestor George Herbert—the famed Egyptologist, world-traveler, and 5th Earl of Carnarvon behind it—whose country house, Highclere Castle, is the setting of the beloved series Downton Abbey.In November ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Celts

    by Alice Roberts ...
    'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil OliverThe Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring legacy today. What emerges is not a wild people, but a highly sophisticated tribal culture that ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Real Life of the Parthenon

    Series series 21st Century Essays
    Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries. The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories around antiquities become distorted by the pull of ownership, and it is these stories that urge ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Divine Might

    Goddesses in Greek Myth

    New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 埃及五千年:文明起源與王朝興衰的故事

    Series Book 20 - Sense
    喬安.佛列契—埃及考古權威、BBC古埃及歷史紀錄片《不朽的埃及》首席主講人,她曾發表找到「娜芙蒂蒂木乃伊」而引發轟動,參與紀錄片《把艾倫製成木乃伊》:自願者於死後依照保存圖坦卡門遺體的防腐技術,製作成現代木乃伊。她以不同的感官方式,帶我們與古埃及相遇:壁畫、神廟、金字塔、木乃伊、象形文字,科技、文獻、考古推敲;從神話、遊牧到立國,從盜墓者到最後的法老,將已知的碎片連綴成更真實生動的歷史!神秘的古埃及擁有眾多神話傳說,而在神話概念中確實包含有歷史真相嗎?在關於埃及的一片迷霧當中,這個疑問的答案正變得越來越明確!跟隨埃及考古權威喬安.佛列契的腳步,踏入考古現場,從古蹟遺址和墓室中出土的文物拼湊出蛛絲馬跡,聽她還原壁畫上訴說的愛恨情仇、日常生活以及古代慶典儀式,觸摸木乃伊身上遺留保存的所有細節;埃及真實起源的關鍵和要素,將完整呈現眼前。最身歷其境的古埃及文明巨作貫穿五千年時間軸... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Living the Lunar Calendar

    Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars which rely on such observations to define the beginning of a new month therefore suffer from this lack of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vikings and Goths

    A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden

    The Vikings descended upon Europe at the close of the 8th century, invading the continent's western seas and river systems, trading, raiding and spreading terror. In the north, they settled Iceland and Greenland and reached North America. In the east, Swedish Varangians established a river road to the Orient. With the collapse of the Viking commercial empire, Sweden and the other Scandinavian ... Read more

    $19.99 USD