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The Tiger Lillies

Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

Gabriel Zuchtriegel,

The Buried City

You might think you know everything about Pompeii. You don't. In this revelatory history, Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the new secrets of Pompeii. Over the last few years, a vast stretch of the city has b…

Charlie Kerrigan,

Living Latin: Everyday Language and Popular Culture

What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. Surveying the whole span of the language's history, it ex…

Suetonis, Tom Holland

The Lives of the Caesars

A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail A Penguin Classic The ancient Roman empire w…

Keith Bradley

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

This book offers a critical appreciation of Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel Mémoires d’Hadrien as an authentic portrait of a Roman emperor.

D M Murdock

The Christ Conspiracy

This is an updated and revised edition with * new credible evidence * even more highly-respected academic source citations * new pictures * an updated bibliography, index and more The Christ Conspiracy …

Emma Southon

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Putting the Women Back into Roman History

Michael Horton

Shaman and Sage

"The first volume of Michael Horton's magisterial intellectual history of "spiritual but not religious" as a phenomenon in Western culture. Discussions of the rapidly increasing number of people identifyi…

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world o…

Christopher Parslow

The Prosciutto Sundial

The Prosciutto Sundial is the first comprehensive study of the sundial in the shape of a miniature prosciutto from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum from its rediscovery in 1755 to modern times. Drawing…

Daisy Dunn

The Missing Thread

In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope famously unpicks the threads of a shroud at night to put off marrying a hapless suitor. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Philomela weaves the story of her rape into a tapestry after s…

Ward Farnsworth

The Practicing Stoic

This is a book about human nature and its management. The wisest students of that subject in ancient times, and perhaps of all time, were known as the Stoics. Their recommendations about how to think and …

Mary Beard

Emperor of Rome

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestr…

Michael Mcnally,

Teutoburg Forest AD 9

Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!' supposedly yelled Augustus Caesar when he received the news of the disaster in the Teutoburg Forest. One of the greatest military disasters of the Roman Empire,…

D Clint Burnett

Paul and Imperial Divine Honors

"How did the imperial cult affect Christians in the Roman Empire? "Jesus is lord, not Caesar." Many scholars and preachers attribute mistreatment of early Christians by Roman authorities to this fundament…

Katell Berthelot

Jews and Their Roman Rivals

How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, …

Christopher Tanfield

A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 3

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's literary te…

Christopher Tanfield

A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 3

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's literary te…

Christopher Tanfield

A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 2

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's literary te…