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Rubicon
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic' The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon ...This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty.' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, GUARDIAN
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Emperor of Rome
The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerA sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)
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Homer and His Iliad
Robin Lane Fox has been teaching the epics for 50 years and studying them for many more. His lifelong fascination with the texts has bred a sort of feverish passion .... the book feels less like a wilful provocation than a throwing down of the gauntlet by a 76-year-old with nothing to lose. Lane Fox writes less with hope than bardic omniscience that his book will become a landmark in Homeric studies.
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Victory '45
The End of the War in Eight SurrendersA gripping, eye-opening and satisfying new account
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The Lives of the Caesars
Tom Holland is a master populariser of the ancients ... his new translation of Suetonius [is] a peerlessly enjoyable introduction to the earlier imperial Romans. [It] remind[s] us that the monsters who, astoundingly, achieve power in 21st-century democracies had forebears in the ancient world who matched them folly for folly, whim for whim, vanity for vanity
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Lavinia
A compulsive, heart-breaking historical romanceShe chose love. The price she paid was war.A stunning combination of history and mythology - 'an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel' FINANCIAL TIMES
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A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women
Putting the Women Back into Roman History
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Rex Juba
15 Glimpses of an African KingThis is terribly good. I've wanted to read a biography of Juba II of Mauretania all my life and here it is. The African scholar-king married to Cleopatra Selene, daughter of the triumvir Mark Antony & Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. It's a delight and a must-read.
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
Journeys through Ancient LiteratureEmily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past
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Babylon
The Mother of All Cities, from the critically acclaimed ancient historian and author of The CleopatrasFrom Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of Persians and The Cleopatras, comes a fresh and exciting exploration of the world's first and most illustrious metropolis, famed in history and myth - the great city of Babylon
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Between Two Rivers
'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLANDA fresh and spellbinding new history of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Pax
War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland
€ 20,95