Item 622750Tacitus The Annals of Imperial Rome
Trade Paperback.
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Item 620300Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
Modern Library, April 2001. Trade Paperback. 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.....
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Item 620265Hannibal's War: Books Twenty-One to Thirty
Oxford University Press, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans over the following sixteen years. Livy's gripping storytelling vividly conveys the drama.....
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Item 619999The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2007. Hardcover. This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan.....
Item 619526The Mayas: Life, Culture and Art through the Experiences of a Man of the Time
Panorama Editorial: Mexico, D.F. Mass Market Paperback.
Item 619525Mayan culture: Basic facts (Panorama guidebooks)
Panorama Editorial. Paperback.
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Item 619147Tutankhamun's Funeral
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, March 2010. Trade Paperback. In 1907, more than a decade before the discovery of Tutankhamun s tomb, archaeologistsunearthed remains from the mummification and funeral of the pharaoh, who ruled ancient Egypt in the 14th century B.C. Now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum.....
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Item 619141The Trojan War: A New History
Simon & Schuster, January 2007. Trade Paperback. The Trojan War is one of history's most famous conflicts, a ten-year-long war waged over the beautiful Helen. For more than two thousand years this story has been a source of artistic inspiration. But is it true?In The Trojan War historian and classicist.....
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Item 618825Cleopatra - A Biography
Castle Books, May 2000. Hardcover. The author unravels the source behind the tangle of myth, gossip, and invention behind one of the most remarkable women in history.
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Item 616889Murder of Tutankhamen
Putnam Adult, April 1998. Hardcover. Tutankhamen lived through an extraordinarily turbulent time in ancient Egypt's history. Torn apart by revolution, Egyptian society was wracked by religious and political turmoil, as ambitious ministers with thwarted desires plotted secretly. Meanwhile the young king and his adored wife could not produce an heir.....
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Item 615860Histories (Translated by George Rawlinson with an Introduction by George Swayne and a Preface by H. L. Havell)
Digireads.com, September 2016. Trade Paperback. Widely referred to as the "Father of History", Greek Historian Herodotus lived during the 5th century BC and "The Histories" is generally accepted as the first work of historical literature in Western Civilization. Departing from the ancient Homeric tradition of treating historical subjects as epically.....
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Item 615686Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Prometheus Books, September 2021. Trade Paperback. Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some.....
Item 615386The Horizon Book of Lost Worlds
American Heritage Publishing Co., 1962. Hardcover.
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Item 612515Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
HarperOne, April 2019. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history.....
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Item 6082791177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated
Princeton University Press, February 2021. Trade Paperback. A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid.....
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Item 605181Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2025. Hardcover. Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in.....
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Item 599702Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press, May 2013. Trade Paperback. The Iliad, Homer's epic tale of the abduction of Helen and the decade-long Trojan War, has fascinated mankind for millennia. Even today, the war inspires countless articles and books, extensive archaeological excavations, movies, television documentaries, even souvenirs and collectibles. But while the ancients.....
Item 588663The Works of Josephus, with a Life Written by Himself (Volume III ONLY of 'Four Volumes in Three')
A. C. Armstrong & Son. Hardcover. Translated from the original Greek, including explanatory notes and observations, by William Whiston, A.M. with a complete index. Four volumes in three: Vol. III. VOLUME THREE ONLY. (Note: The title page says 'four volumes in three / Vol. III'; the SPINE of the book.....
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Item 55894The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, May 2008. Trade Paperback. "The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics. Compelled by his desire to "prevent the traces of human events.....
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Item 481819The Peloponnesian War (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, July 2009. Trade Paperback. "The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole.....
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Item 585440Hellenistic Age: A Short History
Modern Library, May 2008. Trade Paperback. The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity's great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green's remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those centuries: the Hellenization, by.....
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Item 581737The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Viking, July 2024. Hardcover. One of The Smithsonian's 10 best history books of 2024 One of BBC History Magazine's best books of 2024 "Thoroughly researched and sprightly.... a complete history of the [Mediterranean world] with the women added back in, as they always should have been."--The New York Times A......
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