Penguin Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1995. Cloth. These portraits of the emperors form the building blocks of an invaluable and highly readable popular history of Imperial Rome, brought to life using the colorful testimony of contemporary authors. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Penguin Classics, May 1986. Trade Paperback. Provides a brief biographical sketch of the Roman consul and orator, and gath his selected correspondence, in which he discusses social and political life the Roman Empire. More
Penguin Classics, September 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, June 1977. Mass Market PaperBack. As the Roman Republic lurched to its close, amid corruption, ruthless power struggles and gross inequality, Cicero produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches ever written. Whether he is quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archais or railing..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 1977. Mass Market PaperBack. The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem..... More
Random House Inc, June 2002. Hardcover. Non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper; else, near fine. More
Penguin Classics, August 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. Together these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than..... More
Penguin Classics, August 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. Together these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than..... More
Hippocrene Books, January 1986. Hardcover. More
Penguin Classics, November 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Classics, October 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. Nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen The lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives..... More
The University of Chicago Press, January 1939. Cloth. Folio. No jacket. Clean interior. More
Little Brown & Co., January 1988. Hardcover. Creasing, shelf wear to jacket. Jacket is torn across the front and taped. More
Penguin Classics, December 2007. Trade Paperback. An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to..... More
Penguin Classics, June 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. "The Twelve Ceasars" of Suetonius (born AD 69), covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains one of the richest and most fascinating of all Latin histories. Suetonius gathered much of his information from eye-witnesses, checking his facts carefully and quoting..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, February 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. Offers a portrait of Julius Agricola - the governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' father-in-law - and an account of Britain that has come down to us. This book provides descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, February 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. Offers a portrait of Julius Agricola - the governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' father-in-law - and an account of Britain that has come down to us. This book provides descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, February 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. Offers a portrait of Julius Agricola - the governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' father-in-law - and an account of Britain that has come down to us. This book provides descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, February 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. In AD 68, Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, with four emperors--Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian--emerging in succession. Based on authoritative sources, The Histories vividly recounts..... More
J & J Harper, January 1831. Hardcover. No jacket. Cloth cover is cracked along edges of spine, and shows foxing and soil otherwise. Book's pages are foxed throughout, and pages are loose from front endpapers up to page 10. More
