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A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells th……続きを見る

This book compares selected Romans of the late Republic with American Founders in the style of Plutarch, encouraging readers to rethink how we view heroes and villains and their conceptions of repub……続きを見る

Nel 1784, Vittorio Alfieri rese protagonista della sua “quarta tragedia di libertà” Agide IV, il giovane re condannato a morte nel 241 a.C. per aver cercato di risollevare le sorti di Sparta in nome……続きを見る

The modern global economy and discipline of economics place mathematical calculation above human concern. However, a re-reading of Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy can positively highlight th……続きを見る

Parte figura histórica, parte leyenda, Cayo Julio César fue uno de los grandes personajes de la Antigüedad y un individuo complejo: político brillante y maquiavélico, general genial, afortunado e im……続きを見る

Se la mattina del 21 aprile 753 a.C. qualcuno si fosse trovato sulla cima del Palatino, terra di greggi e di pastori a un passo dal guado del Tevere, avrebbe assistito a una scena decisamente singol……続きを見る

Cicero's dialogues De oratore (On the Orator) and De re publica (On the Commonwealth), composed between 55 and 51 BCE, examine two topics central to Roman public life: the role of the orator in soci……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Gaston Maspero Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper. Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, b……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon FRS was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was……続きを見る

The Complete Works of John Clarke Stobart John Clarke Stobart, commonly known as J. C. Stobart, wrote two famous and influential books, The Glory that was Greece and The Grandeur that was Rome. He w……続きを見る

According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying va……続きを見る

526 d.C. - Teodorico lascia un'Italia ricca e ben lontana dalla miseria in cui l'aveva trovata oltre trent'anni prima. Ma dietro all'ormai consolidata convivenza tra Romani e Ostrogoti si cela una l……続きを見る

Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were everyday methods of cop……続きを見る

This book was created when John Watson McCrindle lived and worked in India as a schoolteacher. His interest in the state poured into years-long research of the ancient Greek and Latin text, where he……続きを見る

Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of “universal history” in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with ……続きを見る

Cesare è sicuramente, tra i protagonisti della Storia con la maiuscola, uno di quelli su cui si è scritto di più negli oltre duemila anni intercorsi dal suo omicidio; non passa un anno senza che esc……続きを見る

Germania, 15 n. Christus. Es ist noch nicht lange her, dass Tausende Germanen unter den Schwertern Roms starben und einer der geraubten Legionsadler zurückgeholt werden konnte. Und doch ist Lucius T……続きを見る

Winner of CAMWS' 2023 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome features the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world, brought together for the firs……続きを見る

In this highly original book, Obert Bernard Mlambo offers a comparative and critical examination of the relationship between military veterans and land expropriation in the client-army of the first-……続きを見る

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent fromーbut rather was at the heart ofーRoman religion Belief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniqu……続きを見る

Der römische Kaiser Titus Flavius Domitianus (81 - 96 n. Chr.) wird selbst von der strengen Wissenschaft in einem Atemzug mit den größten Despoten der Weltgeschichte genannt. Von früher Jugend an fü……続きを見る

Welcome to Rome! It was once the seat of a vast and powerful empire known for its conquering armies, grand architecture, ahead of its time engineering, and lavish lifestyles of the ruling elite. Tod……続きを見る

The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assas……続きを見る

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by R……続きを見る

Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and kn……続きを見る

A penetrating and lucid history of the best-known and most spectacular monument to the Roman Empire in Britain. Taking into account new research findings about the building of the Wall, Breeze and D……続きを見る

'Perpetua shouted out with joy as the sword pierced her, for she wanted to taste some of the pain and she even guided the hesitant hand of the trainee gladiator towards her own throat' Lives of Roma……続きを見る

The Roman Empire was the largest and most enduring of the ancient world. From its zenith under Augustus and Trajan in the first century AD to its decline and fall amidst the barbarian invasions of t……続きを見る

The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable Gr……続きを見る

Alan Baker weaves an extraordinary, vivid picture of Roman life as his compelling and evocative history tells the story of Rome's most notable gladiators. They were condemned and feared by emperors,……続きを見る