Horace
Poet on a Volcano
ISBN: HB: 9780300256581,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
328 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
328 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youth...
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Theoderic the Great
King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
ISBN: PB: 9780300279917,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
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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Vergil
The Poet's Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300282009,
ISBN: HB: 9780300256611,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
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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Strike
Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300273144,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 10 black&white illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 10 black&white illus.
Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire.
From plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding br...
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Julian
Rome's Last Pagan Emperor
ISBN: PB: 9780300281873,
ISBN: HB: 9780300256642,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
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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Phocion
Good Citizen in a Divided Democracy
ISBN: HB: 9780300256635,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
240 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
240 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Thomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfall.
Phocion (402-318 BCE) won Athens's highest public office by direct democratic election an unmatched forty-five times and was offici...
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Marcus Aurelius
The Stoic Emperor
ISBN: PB: 9780300280142,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
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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Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome
A History of the Ptolemies
ISBN: HB: 9780300275520,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus., 4 maps, 4 figures
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus., 4 maps, 4 figures
A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire.
The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age. Its early rulers restored and even expanded Egyp...
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What the Greeks Did for Us
ISBN: PB: 9780300278699,
ISBN: HB: 9780300258028,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
352 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 24 colour illus.
352 pp., 19,8x12,9 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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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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