Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome

Aesop / Aesop's Fables ( Penguin Classics)

 Sardonic, wry and wise, "Aesop's Fables" are some of the most enduring and well-loved literary creations in history. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of...

Brockhampton Reference / Dictionary of Egyptology (Hardback)

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Charles Seltman / Women in Antiquity (Vintage Paperback)

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Christian Meier / Caesar : A Biography (Large Paperback)

 As politician and diplomat, writer and lover, but above all as a military genius, Julius Caesar is one of the perennially fascinating figures in history--Boswell called him "the greatest man of...

Claudia Converso / Herculaneum: Civilisation and Art: Treasures of Italy (Coffee Table Book)

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David Grene & Richmond Lattimore ( Editors ) - Greek Tragedies Volume 3 ( Aeschylus : The Eumenides) ( Sophocles : Philoctetes) ( Sophocles Oedipus at Coonus) ( Euripides : The Bacchae) ( Euripides : Alcestis)

Published by the University of Chicago Press, Volume 3 ( standalone) of the series.  TRANSLATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS - each translator also provides a brief introduction.  Richmond Lattimore...

David R. Slavitt ( Editor) / Plautus : The Comedies, Volume I (Large Paperback)

The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." In these lively new translations, which effectively communicate the vitality and verve of the originals, the...

E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology

This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves,...

Flavius Publishing/ Pompeii Guide to the Archaeological Excavations (Large Paperback)

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Harry Mount / Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover (Hardback)

Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative of volo (vult) may be a long time ago. But, if you have the vaguest memory of the ablative...

Homer / The Iliad

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of...

J.P.V.D. Balsdon / Roman Civilization (Vintage Paperback)

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James Davidson / Courtesans and Fishcakes The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (Large Paperback)

Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful...

Jerry Toner / The Ancient World: Ideas in Profile

Ideas in Small Introductions to Big TopicsThis introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome to...

Kate Gilliver / Rome at War (Coffee Table Book)

The story of a small town that rose to become the most powerful empire of the ancient world has been an inspiration to generations of people. Even after the collapse of the Roman Empire, many...

Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB

Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955)  This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children,...

Michael B. Poliakoff / Combat Sports in the Ancient World (Large Paperback)

Competition, Violence, and Culture A leading authority on classical games here provides a comprehensive study of the practice of combat sports in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the...

Michael Kerrigan / The Ancients in Their Own Words (Coffee Table Book)

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Mustafa Askin / Troy (Coffee Table Book)

An examination of the history, legends, facts and new developments of Troy.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Nigel Rodger / The Roman Army (Coffee Table Book)

This authoritative, fact filled history traces the growth of the Roman army fromits earlydays as an unpaid citizen's mililtia to its establishment as a world conquering professional force...

R.G Collingwood - Roman Britain and the English Settlements - 2ed HB 1961 ( Originally 1936)

There are two sides to Roman Britain, the British side and the Roman side...in this volume we do justice to both these sides. From the point of view of England, the Roman period seems an isolated and...

Richard Abdy/ Romano-British Coin Hoards (Large Paperback)

This is not a study of Romano-British coins per se , but rather a study of hoards found in the former provinces of Britannia. It combines both an introduction to hoarding, discussing some of the...

Rome and the Vatican: From Its Origins to the Present Time: Charm, Art, History in Nine Itineraries by (Coffee Table Book)

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Sophocles - Oedipus Coloneus ( With a Commentary by Shuckburgh & Jebb) - HB 1903 Edition )

With full text in Greek , full commentary in English, notes , grammar, map, textual analysis .  Oedipus at Colonus (also Oedipus...

Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone ( Loeb Classical Library) - Translated by F Storr

Contrains the full original Greek text and a facing page translation of the three notable plays by Sophocles.  Small format hardcover, this reprint 1977, solid in green cloth with titles in gilt...

The Laurel Cassical Drama: Roman Drama (Vintage Paperback)

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Thomas Bulfinch / Myths of Greece and Rome (Coffee Table Book)

Orpheus leading his beloved Eurydice back to life … Ulysses battling to resist the mesmerising Sirens’ song … The tragedy of the vengeful Medea …The timeless stories of the...

Thomas Hoving - Tutankhamun : The Untold Story - PB - 1980

Former Metropolitan Museum of Art director Hoving recounts Howard Carter's search for Tut's tomb, and the international confrontations that followed, as Carter kept other archeologists away from his...

Tom Holland / Persian Fire : The First World Empire, Battle for the West (Hardback)

  In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the...

Vicky Dikou-Adwera / Greek Mythology (Large Paperback)

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Virgil / The Pastoral Poems (The Ecologues)(Vintage Paperback)

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Visual Factfinder / Ancient Worlds (Large Paperback)

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