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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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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