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Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideologyby M.I. FinleyISBN 0670122777 (0-670-12277-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, David BevingtonISBN 052161287X (0-521-61287-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Richard Madelaine explains how the challenging complexity of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the past twenty years. His introduction and commentary, presented alongside the New Cambridge edition of the text, provide the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare. [via]
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Apuleiusby Apuleius, J. Arthur HansonISBN 0674994981 (0-674-99498-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apuleius'Book summary:In the Metamorphoses of ApuleiusThe Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.
The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, 'Erant in quadam civitate rex et regina'). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the Decameron. At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author's baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in two volumes.
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Apuleius Metamorphosesby Apuleius, J. Arthur HansonISBN 0674990498 (0-674-99049-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apuleius Metamorphoses'Book summary:In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic. The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, ' Erant in quadam civitate rex et regina '). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the Decameron. At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author's baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end. J. Arthur Hanson was at the time of his death in 1985 Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His publications include Roman Theater-Temples. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in two volumes. [via]
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The Aquilliadby Somtow SucharitkulISBN 0671454439 (0-671-45443-9)
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Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empireby Timothy D. BarnesISBN 067400549X (0-674-00549-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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An Atlas of Roman Britainby Barri Jones, David MattinglyISBN 0631187863 (0-631-18786-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experienceby Frank M. SnowdenISBN 0674076265 (0-674-07626-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Caesar: The Civil Warsby Julius CaesarISBN 0674990439 (0-674-99043-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Civil Wars'Book summary:Caesar (C. Iulius, 10244 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of Commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul, 5852 BC, including the two expeditions to Britain 5554, and three on the civil war of 4948. They are records of his own campaigns (with occasional digressions) in vigorous, direct, clear, unemotional style and in the third person, the account of the civil war being somewhat more impassioned.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Caesar is in three volumes. Volume I is his Gallic War. The Alexandrian War, the African War and the Spanish War, commonly ascribed to Caesar by our manuscripts but of uncertain authorship, are collected in Volume III.
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Caesar: The Gallic Warby Julius Caesar, H. J. EdwardsISBN 0674990803 (0-674-99080-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Gallic War'Book summary:Caesar (C. Iulius, 10244 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of Commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul, 5852 BC, including the two expeditions to Britain 5554, and three on the civil war of 4948. They are records of his own campaigns (with occasional digressions) in vigorous, direct, clear, unemotional style and in the third person, the account of the civil war being somewhat more impassioned. There is no rhetoric.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Caesar is in three volumes. Volume II is his Civil Wars. The Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War, commonly ascribed to Caesar by our manuscripts but of uncertain authorship, are collected in Volume III.
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Caesar's Legacy: Civil War And the Emergence of the Roman Empireby Josiah OsgoodISBN 0521671779 (0-521-67177-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantineby Noel LenskiISBN 0521521572 (0-521-52157-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Elmer T. MerrillISBN 0674103505 (0-674-10350-5)
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Catullus:the Complete Poems for American Readers: The Complete Poems for American Readersby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Reney Myers, Robert J. OrmsbyISBN 0525078150 (0-525-07815-0)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Venerisby Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0674990072 (0-674-99007-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris'Book summary:Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 8454 BCE), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. His surviving poems consist of nearly sixty short lyrics, eight longer poems in various metres, and almost fifty epigrams. All exemplify a strict technique of studied composition inherited from early Greek lyric and the poets of Alexandria. In his work we can trace his unhappy love for a woman he calls Lesbia; the death of his brother; his visits to Bithynia; and his emotional friendships and enmities at Rome. For consummate poetic artistry coupled with intensity of feeling Catullus's poems have no rival in Latin literature.
Tibullus (Albius, ca. 5419 BCE), of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. Three books of elegies have come down to us under his name, of which only the first two are authentic. Book 1 mostly proclaims his love for 'Delia', Book 2 his passion for 'Nemesis'. The third book consists of a miscellany of poems from the archives of Messalla; it is very doubtful whether any come from the pen of Tibullus himself. But a special interest attaches to a group of them which concern a girl called Sulpicia: some of the poems are written by her lover Cerinthus, while others purport to be her own composition.
The Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its beauty and as the first clear note of romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature. The manuscripts give no clue to its author, but recent scholarship has made a strong case for attributing it to the early fourth-century poet Tiberianus.
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City of Godby AugustineISBN 0606310711 (0-606-31071-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Coming of Romeby John WacherISBN 0586083693 (0-586-08369-3)
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Companion to Roman Britainby Malcolm ToddISBN 0631218238 (0-631-21823-8)
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews A Historyby James CarrollISBN 0618219080 (0-618-21908-0)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Coriolanusby William Shakespeare, Rex GibsonISBN 0521648637 (0-521-64863-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coriolanus'Book summary:This edition presents a new look at Coriolanus in accordance with the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English and developments at GCSE and A level. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers the play as theater and the text as script, enabling pupils to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in an accessible, meaningful and creative way. [via]
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Dahutby Poul Anderson, Karen AndersonISBN 0671653717 (0-671-65371-7)
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Dancing Bearby Peter DickinsonISBN 0575014210 (0-575-01421-0)
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Dio Cassius: Roman History Books 56-60by Dio CassiusISBN 0674991931 (0-674-99193-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Dios Roman Historyby Dio CassiuISBN 0674990730 (0-674-99073-0)
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Eagle in the Snowby Wallace BreemISBN 0575004010 (0-575-00401-0)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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The Education of Julius Caesar: A Biography, a Reconstructionby Arthur D. KahnISBN 0595089216 (0-595-08921-6)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern Westby Aldo Schiavone, Margery J. SchneiderISBN 0674009835 (0-674-00983-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West'Book summary:This searching interpretation of past and present addresses fundamental questions about the fall of the Roman Empire. Why did ancient culture, once so strong and rich, come to an end? Was it destroyed by weaknesses inherent in its nature? Or were mistakes made that could have been avoidedwas there a point at which Greco-Roman society took a wrong turn? And in what ways is modern society different?
Western history is split into two discontinuous eras, Aldo Schiavone tells us: the ancient world was fundamentally different from the modern one. He locates the essential difference in a series of economic factors: a slave-based economy, relative lack of mechanization and technology, the dominance of agriculture over urban industry. Also crucial are aspects of the ancient mentality: disdain for manual work, a preference for transcending (rather than transforming) nature, a basic belief in the permanence of limits.
Schiavones lively and provocative examination of the ancient world, the eternal theater of history and power, offers a stimulating opportunity to view modern society in light of the experience of antiquity.
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The End of the Roman Empire: Decline or Transformation?by Donald KaganISBN 0669215201 (0-669-21520-1)
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Fire from Heavenby Mary RenaultISBN 0582101344 (0-582-10134-4)
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From the Maccabees to the Mishnahby Shaye J. D. CohenISBN 0664227430 (0-664-22743-0)
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From the Tigris to the Tiber: An Introduction to Ancient Historyby Tom B. JonesISBN 0534110150 (0-534-11015-0)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Frontier Wolfby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0525302603 (0-525-30260-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Galilee in Late Antiquityby Lee I. LevineISBN 0674341147 (0-674-34114-7)
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Gallicenaeby Poul Anderson, Karen AndersonISBN 0671653423 (0-671-65342-3)
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Rosemary WilliamsISBN 0528810146 (0-528-81014-6)
Hardcover, Rand McNally
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Gods and the One Godby Robert M. GrantISBN 0664250114 (0-664-25011-4)
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The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.
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A History of Romeby Marcel Le Glay, Jean-Louis Voisin, Yann Le Bohec, Antonia NevillISBN 0631194584 (0-631-19458-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Rome'Book summary:This magisterial survey, spanning over 1,300 years, is widely acclaimed as the best single-volume history of Rome. The second edition incorporates a number of improvements including new subject sections and maps, expanded coverage of key chapters, and updated resource and bibliographic material.
- Incorporates a number of improvements, many of which have been suggested by readers.
- Provides more extensive treatment of key areas.
- Includes completely new sections to cover subjects omitted from the first edition.
- Continues to include extensive illustrative material - plates, tables, chronologies, and maps (including two new ones).
- A more comprehensive index will ensure the book is now easier to use.
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Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical Worldby Oleg Grabar, G.W. Bowersock, Peter Robert Lamont BrownISBN 0674005988 (0-674-00598-8)
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Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 Bce-117 Ce)by John M. G. BarclayISBN 0567085007 (0-567-08500-7)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age: 70-640 C. E.by Gedaliah Alon, Gershon LeviISBN 0674474953 (0-674-47495-3)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Julian the Apostateby Glen Warren BowersockISBN 0674488822 (0-674-48882-2)
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Later Roman Britainby Stephen JohnsonISBN 0586083723 (0-586-08372-3)
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Lord of Emperorsby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0670880922 (0-670-88092-2)
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Making of Late Antiquityby Peter BrownISBN 0674543211 (0-674-54321-1)
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Marcus Aureliusby C.R. HainesISBN 0674990641 (0-674-99064-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marcus Aurelius'Book summary:Marcus Aurelius (121180 CE), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138161), who adopted him. He was converted to Stoicism and henceforward studied and practised philosophy and law. A gentle man, he lived in agreement and collaboration with Antoninus Pius. He married Pius's daughter and succeeded him as emperor in March 161, sharing some of the burdens with Lucius Verus.
Marcus's reign soon saw fearful national disasters from flood, earthquakes, epidemics, threatened revolt (in Britain), a Parthian war, and pressure of barbarians north of the Alps. From 169 onwards he had to struggle hard against the German Quadi, Marcomani, Vandals, and others until success came in 174. In 175 (when Faustina died) he pacified affairs in Asia after a revolt by Avidius. War with Germans was renewed during which he caught some disease and died by the Danube in March 180.
The famous Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (not his title; he simply calls them 'The matters addressed to himself') represents reflections written in periods of solitude during the emperor's military campaigns. Originally intended for his private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations has endured as a potent expression of Stoic belief. It is a central text for students of Stoicism as well as a unique personal guide to the moral life.
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The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0553242806 (0-553-24280-6)
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Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius, A.S.L. FarquharsonISBN 0679412719 (0-679-41271-9)
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, Frank Justus MillerISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.
Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
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Monarch Notes on Plato's the Republic and Selected Dialoguesby Leo RauchISBN 0671005057 (0-671-00505-7)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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Mythologyby Edith HamiltonISBN 0531002462 (0-531-00246-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Ovid: Fastiby Ovid, G.P. Goold, Grant Showerman, Frank Justus Miller, A. H. ArmstrongISBN 0674992792 (0-674-99279-2)
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Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
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The Pantheon: Design, Meaning and Progenyby William L. MacDonald, John PintoISBN 0674010191 (0-674-01019-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Romeby Christopher ScarreISBN 0670864641 (0-670-86464-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Persian Boyby Mary RenaultISBN 0553242946 (0-553-24294-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexanders life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes-mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexanders mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone. [via]More editions of The Persian Boy:
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Procopius: The Anecdota or Secret Historyby ProcopiusISBN 0674993209 (0-674-99320-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Procopius: The Anecdota or Secret History'Book summary:Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the 5th century, became a lawyer. In 527 CE he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 against the Vandals and in 535 against the Ostrogoths. Sometime after 540 he returned to Constantinople. He may have been that Procopius who was prefect of Constantinople in 562, but the date of his death (after 558) is unknown.
Procopius's History of the Wars in 8 books recounts the Persian Wars of emperors Justinus and Justinian down to 550 (2 books); the Vandalic War and after-events in Africa 532546 (2 books); the Gothic War against the Ostrogoths in Sicily and Italy 536552 (3 books); and a sketch of events to 554 (1 book). The whole consists largely of military history, with much information about peoples and places as well, and about special events. He was a diligent, careful, judicious narrator of facts and developments and shows good powers of description. He is just to the empire's enemies and boldly criticises emperor Justinian. Other works by Procopius are the Anecdota or Secret Historyvehement attacks on Justinian, Theodora, and others; and The Buildings of Justinian (down to 558 CE) including roads and bridges as well as churches, forts, hospitals, and so on in various parts of the empire.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Procopius is in seven volumes.
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Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosiusby David PotterISBN 0674715659 (0-674-71565-9)
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Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman Worldby Alan SegalISBN 0674750764 (0-674-75076-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World'Book summary:Renowned scholar Alan Segal offers startlingly new insights into the origins of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. These twin descendants of Hebrew heritage shared the same social, cultural, and ideological context, as well as the same minority status, in the first century of the common era.
Through skillful application of social science theories to ancient Western thought, including Judaism, Hellenism, early Christianity, and a host of other sectarian beliefs, Segal reinterprets some of the most important events of Jewish and Christian life in the Roman world. For example, he finds:
--That the concept of myth, as it related to covenant, was a central force of Jewish life. The Torah was the embodiment of covenant both for Jews living in exile and for the Jewish community in Israel.
--That the Torah legitimated all native institutions at the time of Jesus, even though the Temple, Sanhedrin, and Synagogue, as well as the concepts of messiah and resurrection, were profoundly affected by Hellenism. Both rabbinic Judaism and Christianity necessarily relied on the Torah to authenticate their claim on Jewish life. --That the unique cohesion of early Christianity, assuring its phenomenal success in the Hellenistic world, was assisted by the Jewish practices of apocalypticism, conversion, and rejection of civic ritual.
--That the concept of acculturation clarifies the Maccabean revolt, the rise of Christianity, and the emergence of rabbinic Judaism. --That contemporary models of revolution point to the place of Jesus as a radical. --That early rabbinism grew out of the attempts of middle-class Pharisees to reach a higher sacred status in Judea while at the same time maintaining their cohesion through ritual purity. --That the dispute between Judaism and Christianity reflects a class conflict over the meaning of covenant. The rising turmoil between Jews and Christians affected the development of both rabbinic Judaism and Christianity, as each tried to preserve the partly destroyed culture of Judea by becoming a religion. Both attempted to take the best of Judean and Hellenistic society without giving up the essential aspects of Israelite life. Both spiritualized old national symbols of the covenant and practices that consolidated power after the disastrous wars with Rome. The separation between Judaism and Christianity, sealed in magic, monotheism, law, and universalism, fractured what remained of the shared symbolic life of Judea, leaving Judaism and Christianity to fulfill the biblical demands of their god in entirely different ways.
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The Republicby Plato, Tom Griffith, G.R.F. FerrariISBN 052148443X (0-521-48443-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:This is a completely new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought. In addition to Tom Griffith's vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, this edition is suitable for students at all levels. It contains an introduction that assesses the cultural background to the Republic, its place within political philosophy, and its general argument; succinct notes in the text; an analytical summary of content; a full glossary of proper names; a chronology of important events; and a guide to further reading. [via]
The Republic of Platoby PlatoISBN 0525470042 (0-525-47004-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Roman Londonby Alan SorrellISBN 0668018534 (0-668-01853-4)
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Roman Britainby T.W. Potter, British MuseumISBN 0674777654 (0-674-77765-4)
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The Roman Near East: 31 Bc-Ad 337by Fergus MillarISBN 0674778863 (0-674-77886-3)
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Rome, the Biography of a Cityby Christopher HibbertISBN 0670801291 (0-670-80129-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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Ruling the Later Roman Empireby Christopher KellyISBN 0674022440 (0-674-02244-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruling the Later Roman Empire'Book summary:In this highly original work, Christopher Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy.
The book opens with a view of its times through the eyes of a high-ranking official in sixth-century Constantinople, John Lydus. His On the Magistracies of the Roman State, the only memoir of its kind to come down to us, gives an impassioned and revealing account of his career and the system in which he worked. Kelly draws a wealth of insight from this singular memoir and goes on to trace the operation of power and influence, exposing how these might be successfully deployed or skillfully diverted by those wishing either to avoid government regulation or to subvert it for their own ends. Ruling the Later Roman Empire presents a fascinating procession of officials, emperors, and local power brokers, winners and losers, mapping their experiences, their conflicting loyalties, their successes, and their failures.
This important book elegantly recaptures the experience of both rulers and ruled under a sophisticated and highly successful system of government.
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Saint Augustineby Garry WillsISBN 0670886106 (0-670-88610-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God.
Saint Augustine explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions--among them those regarding his early sexual excesses. Here, for students, Christians, and voyagers into the new millennium, is a lively and incisive portrait of one who helped to shape our thought.
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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, George SkillanISBN 0573001219 (0-573-00121-9)
Hardcover, French
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Tragedy of Coriolanusby William ShakespeareISBN 0671499661 (0-671-49966-1)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tragedy of Coriolanus'Book summary:Philip Brockbank was Director of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham in England from 1979-1988, and General Editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare from 1984-1990. He wrote On Shakespeare: Jesus, Shakespeare and Karl Marx, and Other Essays and edited Players of Shakespeare 1: Essays in Shakespearean Performance. His other publications include The Creativity of Perception: Essays in the Genesis of Literature and Art and Urban Mysteries of the Renaissance: Shakespeare and Carpaccio.The Arden Shakespeare edition of Coriolanus includes a detailed introduction to the text of the play, including the original printing, language and grammar, lineation, act and scene structure, stage-directions, and anomalies of the text, some of which are thought to indicate editorial intervention in the printing process. Further analysis of the play's content covers the accepted date of composition and historical context for that time, sources, a discussion of tragedy, language, and a description of the play as it was produced on Shakespeare's stage and has been produced in the theater in its afterlife. Two appendices follow The Tragedy of Coriolanus: "The Life of Caius Martius Coriolanus" from Plutarch's Lives, and an extract from Camden's Remaines.[via]The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.More editions of Tragedy of Coriolanus:
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Valisby Philip K. Dick, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0553141562 (0-553-14156-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valis'Book summary:The first of Dick's three final novels (the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). Known as science fiction only for lack of a better category, "Valis" takes place in our world and may even be semi-autobiographical. It is a fool's search for God, who turns out to be a virus, a joke, and a mental hologram transmitted from an orbiting satellite.
The proponent of the novel, Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion in a burst of pink laser light. From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy. Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity. [via]
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Vergil's Aeneidby Clyde PharrISBN 0669333409 (0-669-33340-9)
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Vettius and His Friendsby David DrakeISBN 0671698028 (0-671-69802-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architectureby Michael Dewar, Ingrid D. Rowland, Pollio Vitruvius, Thomas Noble Howe, Vitruvius PollioISBN 0521553644 (0-521-55364-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture'Book summary:For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius' style, this new edition includes examples from archaeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. Rowland's new translation and Howe's critical commentary and illustrations provide a new image of Vitruvius, who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ingrid D. Rowland is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Thomas Noble Howe is a professor in the Department of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. [via]
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Winnie-The-Pooh Calendar 2005: Includes more than 50 full-color stickersby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525472797 (0-525-47279-7)
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