Sterling Pub Co Inc, April 2002. Trade Paperback. How did average Romans live out each year, conduct their family life, rear and educate their children? What about slaves in the household? How did people enjoy themselves--did they travel or go to the theater? And, how were those famed gladiators trained..... More
Dover Publications, March 1982. Trade Paperback. "An illuminating and convincing account of the enormous change in the whole conception of morals and human personality which took place during the centuries covered by Homer, the early lyric poets, the dramatists, and Socrates." -- The Times (London) Literary Supplement. European thinking began..... 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 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
Penguin Classics, December 1986. Trade Paperback. Perhaps the strangest--and most strikingly modern--work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses..... 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. First Edition. Hardcover. First in dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original price of $18.95 on flap. Quarter bound: grey cloth spine with gold lettering & light grey paper covered boards with blind stamped Little Brown colophon center of board. Marginal darkening to edges of..... 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. Paper Back. 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 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
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
