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Caesar: A Life in Western Culture Best Price: $15.25 This book is filled with erudition, but it's also a cinch to read. Wyke is quite simply a...	Roman Building: Materials and Techniques Now in paperback, Roman Buildings is a thorough and systematic examination of Roman...	Adrianopole Ad 378: The Goths Crush Rome's Legions (Praeger Illustrated Military History) Best Price: $35.00 "Scarcely one third of the entire army escaped. Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had...	Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome In the late Roman Republic, acts of wrongdoing against individuals were prosecuted in private...	The Fall Of The Roman Empire The fall of the Western Roman empire was one of the most significant transformations throughout...



Fall of the West Best Price: $64.99 Adrian Goldsworthy has written a fine narrative history of the Roman Empire from 180 AD to 640,...	Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) Best Price: $15.39 Our taste for blood sport stops short at the bruising clash of football players or the gloved...	Antony and Cleopatra Best Price: $6.04 I've been a fan of Adrian Goldsworthy's since his How Rome Fell so impressed me with its...	Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) Best Price: $15.52 "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." -Y.B. Yeats Although attracted by the...	History of Warfare: Roman Warfare Best Price: $6.90 This is a small book that takes on a large task and does it very well. It shows the origination...



Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods Best Price: $42.96 Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus Marcellinus wrote about the role played by gods in Rome's past....	The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 2, AD 395-527 Best Price: $477.19 Imagine a Who's Who for the world of late Classical Antiquity through the early Dark Ages. ...	Religions of Rome: Volume 1: A History Best Price: $23.98 "Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History" presents a millennium of Roman religion,...	The Urban Image of Augustan Rome The Urban Image of Augustan Rome examines the idea and experience of the ancient city at a...	Christianity and Roman Society (Key Themes in Ancient History) Best Price: $28.35 Gillian Clark has written an excellent book. It is highly readable and will be of interest to...

The Roman Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire (Cambridge Classical Studies) Best Price: $92.23 It has long been held by historians that trade and markets in the Roman Empire resembled those...	oeuvres de Denis Diderot: Tome 12. Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron, etc. II (French Edition) Best Price: $19.99 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1821 edition by J.L.J. Brière, Paris.	Nero: The End of a Dynasty Most fascinating to historians of the Roman Empire is Nero's final collapse which brought to...	Roman Provincial Coinage Supplement 1 Best Price: $162.73 This volume provides corrections and additions to the existing listings of issues by city from...	Etruscans Best Price: $153.48 Beginning in the eighth century BC, the spacious area of central Italy that extends from the...

Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome Best Price: $177.26 Desgined to accompany a major new international exhibition, this book tackles the politics...	Roman Empire Best Price: $75.32 During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the...	Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato's 'Timaeus' Best Price: $71.39 This book presents many new essays from several ancient scholars. The papers are well-written...	Pompeii (Duckworth Archaeological Histories) Best Price: $34.95 Pompeii is Italy?s third most popular tourist attraction, with millions of visitors each year....	The Rise of the Roman Empire (Turning Points in World History) Best Price: $11.74 Although the accession of Augustus Caesar in 27 B.C. marked the beginning of what came to be...

Eagles over Britannia Manages to give depth by showing what the Roman military history of Britian is based on without...	Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco Roman World Best Price: $20.58 In an era when subjectivism has swept through the study of the humanities and social sciences,...	The Christian Inscription at Pompeii Best Price: $89.95 This monograph provides a glimpse into the world of the earliest Christians. Beginning with a...	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1 (Part 1 of 2 ) (Library Edition) Best Price: $81.90 [This is Part 1 of a 2 part audiobook CD library bound edition of Volume 1.] Considered...	An Ancient Rome Chronology, 264-27 B.C. Best Price: $47.92 This chronology of the major events in later Roman republican history is divided into six...

Handbooks to Life in the Ancient World: Consisting of Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome and Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece	The Deaths of Seneca Best Price: $53.00 The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured -- and most...	A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire Best Price: $8.96 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) ...	Excavations at Carthage: The British Mission Volume II, Part 2: The Circular Harbour, North Side: The Pottery (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology) These two books form the final publication of a major excavation on the side of the famous...	The Annals: Bks. 1-6 ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in...

Sources for Roman History 133-70 BC This collection of source material in Greek and Latin--literary, inscriptional, and...	Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series) Best Price: $80.49 The Life of Constantine is a panegyrical biography of Constantine the Great, written by his...	Warfare in Roman Europe AD, 350-425 (Oxford Classical Monographs) Despite the importance of warfare in the collapse of the Roman Empire, this is the only...	The Constitution of the Roman Republic Best Price: $127.78 There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a...	The Cult of Saint Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity (Oxford Early Christian Studies) Best Price: $225.23 Thecla, a disciple of the apostle Paul, was perhaps the most celebrated female saint and...

The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Rome: The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire in the Words of Those Who Were There (Mammoth Books) Best Price: $0.01 The flaws are many. The "editing" doesn't extend much beyond cutting and pasting...	Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar Best Price: $0.85 This is a very disappointing work. Even given the paucity of biographical data on Catullus, a...	Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families Despite being a republic with democratic institutions, Roman society was comprised mainly of a...	Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance (Ancient Society and History) Best Price: $40.67 A book on the fourth century that cites Saul Alinsky and Richard Nixon is not a typical history!...	The Criminal Law of Ancient Rome Best Price: $23.92 1)The two earlier reviews were a bit unfair. They neglected a very important point. They did not...

Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Ancient Society and History) Best Price: $16.59 The barbarians of antiquity, so long a fixture of the public imagination as the savages who...	Hannibal's War: A Military History of the Second Punic War Best Price: $13.77 J. F. Lazenby, an English professor of Ancient History, has written the definitive academic...	The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women Best Price: $11.77 I very much wanted to love this book because its claims to rescue women and their stories lost...	The Classical World Special Series: Tacitus Annals 11 and 12 Best Price: $13.50	The Crafts and Culture of the Romans (Crafts of the Ancient World) Best Price: $4.99

State, Society and Polular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome 241-167 BC Best Price: $40.95 State, Society, and Popular Leaders profiles the incorporation of the lower classes into the...	Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Best Price: $4.25 Moses Hadas has done an excellent job in condensing Gibbon's masterpiece into a portable...	Caesar: A Biography Best Price: $3.00 Meier considers his book a "scholarly biography," but it's intended for a...	Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire Best Price: $24.95 "[T]his handsomely-produced volume performs admirably as a series of introductions to...	Latin for Reading: A Beginner's Textbook with Exercises Best Price: $29.95 I admit that I am a biased reviewer - I had Professor Knudsvig as my instructor in an...

Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) Best Price: $80.00 The author of this text has done his homework and seems to be adept with classical languages,...	Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2 (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome) Best Price: $90.00 This study of an important class of ceramics from the key coastal colonial site of Cosa in...	History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian (Volume 1) Best Price: $11.86 J.B. Bury was an historian of note in the early part of the twentieth century. Educated at...	The Gallic War (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $2.56 The only chronicle by an ancient general of his own campaigns, this historical treasure is also...	Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day (5 Denarii) Best Price: $12.24 Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day is a wonderful book and a great idea. In essence, it tells...

The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Rome: The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire in the Words of Those Who Were There (Mammoth Books) Best Price: $0.01 The flaws are many. The "editing" doesn't extend much beyond cutting and pasting...	Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar Best Price: $0.85 This is a very disappointing work. Even given the paucity of biographical data on Catullus, a...	Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families Despite being a republic with democratic institutions, Roman society was comprised mainly of a...	Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance (Ancient Society and History) Best Price: $40.67 A book on the fourth century that cites Saul Alinsky and Richard Nixon is not a typical history!...	The Criminal Law of Ancient Rome Best Price: $23.92 1)The two earlier reviews were a bit unfair. They neglected a very important point. They did not...

Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Ancient Society and History) Best Price: $16.59 The barbarians of antiquity, so long a fixture of the public imagination as the savages who...	Hannibal's War: A Military History of the Second Punic War Best Price: $13.77 J. F. Lazenby, an English professor of Ancient History, has written the definitive academic...	The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women Best Price: $11.77 I very much wanted to love this book because its claims to rescue women and their stories lost...	The Classical World Special Series: Tacitus Annals 11 and 12 Best Price: $13.50	The Crafts and Culture of the Romans (Crafts of the Ancient World) Best Price: $4.99

Swords Against The Senate: The Rise Of The Roman Army And The Fall Of The Republic Best Price: $11.86 "Swords Against the Senate" is one of a number of books ("The Assassination of...	The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves Best Price: $3.00 This book is a popular history about the gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As such, it has no...	A History of Rome Best Price: $41.16 '...a unique achievement in its genre: a masterly synthesis of a huge mass of material. It...	Roman Triumphs and Early Modern English Culture (Early Modern Literature in History) Best Price: $125.09 This is the first comprehensive study of the revival and appropriation of the Roman triumph from...	Rome and Her Empire Best Price: $386.61 'Rome and Her Empire' is an account of one of the world's greatest historical periods.

Living in a Roman Villa (The Places of Life Series) Describes the development of the Roman country villa, the society it sprang from beginning in...	The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A.D. Best Price: $27.45 This classic work of scholarship scrutinizes all aspects of Roman military forces throughout the...	The Romans: An Introduction (Peoples of the Ancient World) Best Price: $10.34 I have been purchasing books on the Romans prior to my college studies and minor in history in...	Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire (Routledge Key Guides) Best Price: $6.79 The book taken for what it is--a broad consideration of the topic presented in the form of a...	Dacia: Landscape, Colonization and Romanization (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) Best Price: $129.00 Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the...

Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome From Romulus to Augustus Best Price: $16.90 The history of the Roman republic--a story about how one city in Italy overthrew a monarchy,...	Roman Britain: Outpost of the Empire Best Price: $17.96 H.H. Scullard's "Roman Britain" is ideal for anyone with a strong interest on this...	The Complete Roman Army (The Complete Series) Best Price: $15.74 ?An outstanding general study of the Roman military system. . . . The best one-volume treatment...	Etruscans Best Price: $66.57 The Etruscan's have remained one of the enigmas of history. Cultured, artistic, socially...	Life In Ancient Rome( Pictures of the Past Ser.) Best Price: $83.34 The book offers a nice introduction to Roman life and may be the only one I have seen that could...

The Romans: An introduction to their history and civilisation Roman civilization is one of the bases of the modern world. The extraordinary achievements of...	The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (Omite British Commonwealth) Best Price: $19.65 Good book to start with the basics of the Roman Empire for people who have little or no...	The Archaeology of the Roman Economy Best Price: $20.00 This book is a semi-popular overview of the material underpinnings of the ancient Roman state....	The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) Best Price: $53.08 This book taught me a lot about these cultures. It's obviously written for an academic...	Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections Best Price: $70.36 This volume contains nineteen important essays related to the Greek historian Polybius by...

Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome Best Price: $225.00 Great chapter by Professor Louis Feldman of Yeshiva University comparing Plutarch's Lycurgus...	Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City Best Price: $15.49 Andrew Bell's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world...	The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.30 Certainly Marcus Aurelius Antonius is one of the great philosophers. Known as a...	On Obligations: De Officiis (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $7.82 This is one of the best translations of Cicero: easy to read, translated idiomatically and not...	Reflections in a Serpent's Eye: Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses Best Price: $89.34 Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans two books of...

The Last Pagans of Rome Best Price: $64.60 Alan Cameron's "The Last Pagans of Rome" is a large-scale, learned study of the...	The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome Best Price: $56.80 In Renaissance Rome, ancient ruins were preserved as often as they were mined for their...	The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Best Price: $39.99 This book represents an essential addition on the bookshelves for those interested in ancient...	Marcus Aurelius in Love Best Price: $30.11 As I understand it, the discovery of Marcus Fronto's collected letters caused a great...

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