Marcus Aurelius
The Stoic Emperor
ISBN: HB: 9780300256666,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 1 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.
This novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) to life for a new generation of readers by explori...
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Cleopatra
Her History, Her Myth
ISBN: PB: 9780300274158,
ISBN: HB: 9780300256673,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
208 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
208 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy.
The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to...
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Crassus
The First Tycoon
ISBN: PB: 9780300274172,
ISBN: HB: 9780300256604,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
184 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
184 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory.
Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last...
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Julian
Rome's Last Pagan Emperor
ISBN: HB: 9780300256642,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman.
Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that ti...
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Demetrius
Sacker of Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780300274165,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
224 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
224 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again.
The life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323-282 BCE),...
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Vergil
The Poet's Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300256611,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
200 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
200 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid.
The "Aeneid" stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creat...
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Theoderic the Great
King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
ISBN: HB: 9780300254433,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
664 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 52 black&white illus.
664 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 52 black&white illus.
The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power.
In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and ch...
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£35.00
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Ramesses the Great
Egypt's King of Kings
ISBN: HB: 9780300256659,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
240 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 9 black&white illus.
240 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 9 black&white illus.
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson.
Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to...
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What the Greeks Did for Us
ISBN: HB: 9780300258028,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
352 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus.
An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture.
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic", a Freudian state of mind like the "...
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£20.00
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Alexander the Great
A Life in Legend
ISBN: PB: 9780300270068,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
352 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 46 black&white
352 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 46 black&white
In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased.
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near...
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£11.99
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