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, September 1960. Trade 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 pure..... More
Penguin USA, June 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an..... More
Penguin Classics, 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin Classics, September 1996. Trade Paperback. During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1992. Trade Paperback. The selections from The Histories show Herodotus as ethnographer and as narrative historian, including his rich descriptions of Egyptian civilization and its contributions to Greek culture and his dramatic account of the Persian wars"Backgrounds and Commentaries" provide students with a...... More
Hippocrene Books, January 1986. Hardcover. More
The University of Chicago Press, January 1939. Cloth. Folio. No jacket. Clean interior. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Little Brown & Co., January 1988. Hardcover. Creasing, shelf wear to jacket. Jacket is torn across the front and taped. More
Penguin Classics, September 1954. Mass Market PaperBack. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony and what the Greek historian..... 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
