Genre search:Classics

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Roman History, Roman Empire, Romulus, Remus, Bibliography, Julius Caesar
Collection
Gifts

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History)

by Eric H. Cline
Paperback, 2015
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Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent, Late Bronze Age, Sea Peoples, Egypt, Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Babylon
Collection
Don

Messalina - empress, adulteress, libertine: the story of the most notorious woman of the Roman world

by Honor Cargill
Paper Book, 2023
Tags
Women in Graeco-Roman World, Messalina, Rome, Claudius, Biographies, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Anna

Plato's Republic

by Plato
Hardcover, 1983
Tags
Classics, Plato
Collection
Gus

Cleopatra: A Life

by Stacy Schiff
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 8 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies, In Storage
Collections
Whealton, In Storage

Cleopatra: a life

by Stacy Schiff
Paper Book, 2010
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Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 7 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies
Collection
Gifts

The histories

by Herodotus.
Paper Book, 1972
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Classics, Herodotus, Solon, Greece, Delphi, Oracles, Babylon, Egypt, Persia
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Don

The Twelve Caesars: An Illustrated Edition

by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Paperback, 1982
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Classics, Suetonius, History, Roman, Imperial Rome
Collection
Anna

The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the classical world

by Catherine Nixey
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Pagans and Christians, Late Antiquity, Graeco-Roman World, Temples, Serapeum, Hypatia, Destruction, Library of Alexandria
Collection
Don

A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives

by Philip Matyszak
Paperback, 2023
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Biographies, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world

by Irene Vallejo Moreu
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Libraries, Papyrus, Writing, Egypt, Greece, Rome
Collection
Don

The Gallic War: a new translation

by Julius Caesar
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Classics, Caesar, Gaul, Bibliography, Glossary, Chronology
Collection
Gifts

The Battle for Gaul

by Julius Caesar
Paper Book, 1980
Tags
Celtic Studies, Julius Caesar, Gaul
Collection
Rowan

History of the Peloponnesian war. Translated by Rex. Warner with an introduction and notes by M. I. Finley. (Revised, with a new introduction and appendices.)

by Thucydides
Paper Book, ?
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Classics, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
Collection
Anna

The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius
Hardcover, 2002
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Classics, Marcus Aurelius, Stoicism
Collection
Gifts

The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone

by Edward Dolnick
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Decipherment of Hieroglyphics, Egyptian, Rosetta Stone, Champollion, Young, Dendera Zodiac
Collection
Don

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

by The Countess of Carnarvon
Hardcover, 2022
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Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

by Tom Holland
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Persia, Athens, Sparta, Babylon, Persian Wars
Collection
Gifts

Ancient Egypt: The Definitive Visual History

by Steven Snape
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Egypt, History, Illustrated, Africa, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

by Kyle Harper
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Rome, Fall of Rome, Climate Change, Disease, Bibliography, Black Death, Alexandria, Roman Army, Roman Britain, Augustus — 14 more, Carthage, Constantinople, Egypt, Droughts, Constantine, Famine, Galen, Gaul, Justinian, Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian, Medicine, Persia, Slavery
Collection
Gifts

Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

by Anthony Everitt
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Alexander the Great, Biography, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology

by Toby Wilkinson Autor
Hardcover, 2020
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Egyptology, 19th and 20th Century Archaeology, Colonial Expansion, Archaeology, Antiquities, Napoleon, Belzoni, Maspero, Budge, Breasted, Davis — 3 more, Carter, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

by Caroline Alexander
Hardcover, 2009
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Classics, Homer, Iliad, Trojan War, Achilles, Mycenaean Greece, Odysseus, Zeus, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

How Rome fell : death of a superpower

by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Paper Book, 2009
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Late Antiquity, Pagans and Christians, Graeco-Roman World, Rome
Collection
Don

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

by Christina Riggs
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Tutankhamun, Egyptology, Archaeology, Nubia, Big Oil, Exhibit, 20th Century, Pop Culture, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

by Edward J. Watts
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Rome, Fall of Rome, Augustus, Octavian, Hannibal, Cicero, Carthage, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Pompey — 3 more, Plutarch, Roman Republic, Sulla
Collection
Gifts

The Ethics Of Aristotle

by J A K THOMSON
Paperback, 1971
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Classics, Aristotle, Ethics
Collection
Gus

Tutankhamun and the tomb that changed the world

by Bob Brier
Paper Book, 2023
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Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, West Bank, Egypt, Egyptology, Egyptomania, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Why Homer Matters: A History

by Adam Nicolson
Hardcover, 2014
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Classics, Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Bronze Age, Mycenaean Greece, Trojan War, Achilles, Agamemnon, Archaeology, Athena — 6 more, Egypt, Sinuhe, Epics, 0dysseus, Warriors, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Pharaohs of the sun: the rise and fall of Tutankhamun's dynasty

by Guy De la Bedoyere
Paper Book, 2023
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Pharaohs and Governance, 18th Dynasty, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

by Anthony Everitt
Hardcover, 2012
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Graeco-Roman World, Roman Empire, Carthage, Roman Religion, Roman Military, Roman History, Celts, Greece, Hannibal, Fall of Rome, Troy — 14 more, Punic War, Italy, Iliad, Roman Forum, Romulus, Alexander the Great, Aeneas, Etruscans, Oracle of Delphi, Bibliography, Timeline, Slavery, Temples, Maps
Collection
Gifts

The annals of imperial Rome

by Cornelius Tacitus
Paper Book, 1973
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Classics, Tacitus, Rome, History
Collection
Don

True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant

by Brad Ricca
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Jerusalem and the Temple, Speculative Archaeology, Holy Land, Lost Ark, Ark of the Covenant, Religious Artifacts, Knights Templar
Collection
Don

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

by Kara Cooney
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Hatshepsut, Women in Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Whealton

Ancient Rome - Infographics

by Nicolas Guillerat
Paper Book, 2021
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Rome, Maps, Statistics, Charts, Illustrated, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

In the shadow of the sword : the birth of Islam and the rise of the global Arab empire

by Tom Holland
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
Sabians, Islam, Harran, Revisionist Islamic Studies
Collection
Don

In the shadow of the sword : the birth of Islam and the rise of the global Arab empire

by Tom Holland
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Revisionist Islamic Studies, Islam, Qur'an, Muhammad, Harran, Sabians
Collection
Don

The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids

by Pierre Tallet
Hardcover, 2022
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Pyramids, Egypt, Wadi al-Jarf, Papyri, Merer, Old Kingdom, Khufu, Illustrated, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (8 vols. in 2 boxed sets)

by Edward Gibbon
Paper Book, 1983
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Late Antiquity, Pagans and Christians, Graeco-Roman World, Rome, Christianity, Islam, Julian
Collection
Don

The early history of Rome : Books I-V of The history of Rome from its foundation

by Titus Livius
Paper Book, 1971
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Classics, Livy, History, Rome
Collection
Don

The map of knowledge : how classical ideas were lost and found : a history in seven cities

by Violet Moller
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Libraries, Alexandria, Egypt, Baghdad, Cordoba, Toledo, Salerno, Palermo, Venice, Euclid, Elements — 4 more, Ptolemy, Almagest, Galen, Medicine
Collection
Don

The history of the ancient world : from the earliest accounts to the fall of Rome

by Susan Wise Bauer
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
History, Ancient World, Ancient Mesopotamia, Assyria, Ancient Greece, Roman History, Sumer, Egypt, Fall of Rome, Roman Empire, China — 3 more, Celts, India, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Egyptian mythology : a traveller's guide from Aswan to Alexandria

by Garry J. Shaw
Paper Book, 2021
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Egyptian Myths and Deities, Egyptian Religion, Egypt, Mythology, Aswan, Edfu, Thebes, Luxor, Dendera, abydos, Amarna — 8 more, Hermopolis, Faiyum, Memphis, Heliopolis, Bubastis, Pi-Ramesses, Alexandria, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

The last days of Socrates : "Euthyphro", the "Apology", "Crito", "Phaedo"

by Plato
Paperback, 1969
Tags
Classics, Plato, Socrates, Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Collections
Anna, In Storage

The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) "Euthyphro", the "Apology", "Crito", "Phaedo"

by Plato
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Classics, Plato, Socrates, Death of Socrates, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Whealton

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Graeco-Roman Philosophy, Graeco-Roman World, Lucretius, Renaissance
Collection
Gifts

Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

by James J. O'Donnell
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Pagans and Christians, Late Antiquity, Graeco-Roman World, ZZZ
Collection
Greg

Pagans : the end of traditional religion and the rise of Christianity

by James Joseph O'Donnell
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Pagans and Christians, Late Antiquity, Graeco-Roman World, Roman Paganism, Christianity, Roman World
Collections
Don, In Storage

Pagans : the end of traditional religion and the rise of Christianity

by James Joseph O'Donnell
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Pagans and Christians, Late Antiquity, Graeco-Roman World, Roman Paganism, Christianity, Roman World
Collection
Whealton

A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures

by Maria Golia
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Mummies and the Afterlife, Tombs, Tomb-raiding, Islam, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don
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