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Agricola and Germanyby Cornelius Tacitus, Anthony Richard BirleyISBN 0192833006 (0-19-283300-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agricola and Germany'Book summary:Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years of enforced silence. Much of Agricola, which is the biography of Tacitus' late father-in-law Julius Agricola, is devoted to Britain and its people, since Agricola's claim to fame was that as governor for seven years he had completed the conquest of Britain, begun four decades earlier. Germany provides an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and is the only surviving example of an ethnographic study from the ancient world. Each book in its way has had immense influence on our perception of Rome and the northern barbarians. This edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history and includes newly discovered evidence on Tacitus' early career. [via]
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The Agricola and the Germania: And the Germaniaby Cornelius TacitusISBN 0140442413 (0-14-044241-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agricola and the Germania: And the Germania'Book summary:"The Agricola" is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation, nearly fatally undermined by Boudicca's revolt in AD 61 but consolidated by campaigns that took Agricola as far as Anglesey and northern Scotland. The warlike German tribes are the focus of Tacitus' attention in the "Germania", which, like the "Agricola", often compares the behaviour of 'barbarian' peoples favourably with the decadence and corruption of Imperial Rome. [via]
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The Annalsby Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred J. Church, William Jackson BrodribbISBN 0486452360 (0-486-45236-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annals'Book summary:Woodman's translation masterfully conveys Tacitus' distinctive and powerful literary style and reflects the best of relevant current scholarship. His introduction provides a wealth of insight into the period about which Tacitus wrote, Tacitus himself, and the principles of translation that have shaped this rendering. Includes extensive notes; political, military, and geographical appendices; imperial family trees; suggested further readings; maps; and index. [via]
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The Annals of Imperial Romeby Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred J. Church, William Jackson BrodbribbISBN 1420926683 (1-4209-2668-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annals of Imperial Rome'Book summary:One of the most important historical records from classical antiquity, "The Annals of Imperial Rome" chronicles the history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius beginning in 14 A.D. to the reign of Nero ending in 66 A.D. Written by Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator during the second century A.D., "The Annals of Imperial Rome" is a detailed first-hand account of the early Roman Empire. Presented in this volume is the classic translation of Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. [via]
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Annals of Imperial Romeby Michael GrantISBN 0880290242 (0-88029-024-2)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annals of Imperial Rome'Book summary:Translation of The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus [via]
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The Annals of Tacitusby Cornelius Tacitus, A. J. Woodman, Ronald H. MartinISBN 0521552176 (0-521-55217-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annals of Tacitus'Book summary:The Annals of Tacitus, which chronicle the years AD 14-68, are arguably the greatest work of the greatest Roman historian. Book 3 of The Annals covers the years AD 20-22, a period including the trial of Calpurnius Piso for treason and the alleged murder of Germanicus. The editors are the first to compare a recently discovered record of this trial with Tacitus' narrative of the same events. Throughout the volume attention is paid to literary matters, and textual. linguistic and historical issues are treated fully. [via]
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Annals of Tacitus, Books 1-6by Cornelius Tacitus, Francis Richard David GoodyearISBN 0521085845 (0-521-08584-5)
Hardcover, University Press
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Claudius the Godby Robert GravesISBN 0394608127 (0-394-60812-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Claudius the God'Book summary:Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina: The Troublesome Reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (Born 10 B.C., Died A.D. 54), as Described by Himself, Also His Murder at the Hands of the Notorious Agrippina (Mother of the Emperor...by Robert GravesISBN 0140004211 (0-14-000421-1)
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina: The Troublesome Reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (Born 10 B.C., Died A.D. 54), as Described by Himself, Also His Murder at the Hands of the Notorious Agrippina (Mother of the Emperor Nero) and His Subsequent Deification, as Describby Robert GravesISBN 0679725733 (0-679-72573-3)
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 1853264997 (1-85326-499-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while "musing amid the ruins of the Capitol" on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. "The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, pose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration," he writes. Despite these obstacles, Decline and Fall remains a model of historical exposition, and required reading for students of European history. [via]
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbariansby Peter HeatherISBN 0195325419 (0-19-532541-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians'Book summary:The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling the Empire that had dominated their lives for so long.
Heather is a leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians. In The Fall of the Roman Empire, he explores the extraordinary success story that was the Roman Empire and uses a new understanding of its continued strength and enduring limitations to show how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled it apart. He shows first how the Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome's European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle, during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453 ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse culminating in the Vandals' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada: the west's last chance for survival.
Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians. [via]More editions of The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians:
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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Gibbon's the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby M. HadasISBN 0449300560 (0-449-30056-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gibbon's the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:"Its theme is the most overwhelming phenomenon in recorded history -- the disintegration not of a nation, but of an old and rich and apparently indestructible civilization." --Moses Hadas, editor. [via]
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 1404306978 (1-4043-0697-8)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes one and two, Gibbon charts the vast extent and constitution of the Empire from the reign of Augustus to 395 ad. And in a controversial critique, he examines the early Church, with fascinating accounts of the first Christian and last pagan emperors, Constantine and Julian. [via]
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 067972477X (0-679-72477-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius'Book summary:Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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I, Claudius and Claudius the Godby Robert Graves, Richard FrancisISBN 1857542797 (1-85754-279-7)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius and Claudius the God'Book summary:This text re-edits "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God" as part of the 21-volume Robert Graves Programme. [via]
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Julianby Gore VidalISBN 037572706X (0-375-72706-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julian: A Novel'Book summary:Julian the Apostate was the nephew of Emperor Constantine the Great. Julian ascended to the throne in A.D. 361, at the age of twenty-nine, and was murdered four years later after an unsuccessful attempt to rebuke Christianity and restore the worship of the old gods. Now this historical tapestry is brought to vibrant life by the dazzling talent of Gore Vidal. [via]
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Lives of the Caesarsby SuetoniusISBN 1419170414 (1-4191-7041-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lives Of The Caesars'Book summary:The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. It was Robert Graves's primary reference source when he was writing I, Claudius. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their reliability. His biographies consist the ancestry and career of each emperor in turn; however, his interest is not so much analytical or historical, but anecdotal and salacious which gives rise to a lively and provocative succession of portraits. The account of Julius Caesar does not simply mention his crossing of the Rubicon and his assassination, but draws attention to his dark piercing eyes and attempts to conceal his baldness. The life of Caligula presents a vivid picture of the emperor's grotesque appearance, his waywardness, and his insane cruelties.
The format and style of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars was to set the tone for biography throughout western literature--his work remains thoroughly readable and full of interest. Indeed, it was Robert Graves's primary reference source when he was writing I, Claudius, and those who have read his book will enjoy the original accounts as set down here. [via] 
The Lives of the Twelve Caesarsby C. Suetonius TranquillusISBN 0879280956 (0-87928-095-6)
Hardcover, Maurice Filler
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Lives Of The Twelve Caesarsby Michael Grant, Robert Graves, SuetoniusISBN 1566492106 (1-56649-210-6)
Softcover, Welcome Rain
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives Of The Twelve Caesars'Book summary:Covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains on e f the most enlightening of all Roman histories. [via]
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Lives of the Twelve Ceasarsby Suetonius, Tamsyn BartonISBN 185326475X (1-85326-475-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Twelve Ceasars'Book summary:Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperor's characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, their loves and their deaths. Himself a court official, he quotes from a variety of sources, from the official and private documents as well as from old anecdotes, gossip, songs and jokes, giving an unparalleled oblique view of his subjects. Long familiar to students of classics, he found a new audience as the main source for Robert Graves' novels and the subsequent television series I, Claudius. [via]
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Pompeiiby Robert HarrisISBN 0345475674 (0-345-47567-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pompeii'Book summary:All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empires richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The worlds largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.
But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the rst time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augustas sixty-mile main linesomewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Attiliusdecent, practical, and incorruptiblepromises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at workboth natural and man-madethreatening to destroy him.
With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland, re-creates a world on the brink of disaster.
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Portable Gibbonby Edward GibbonISBN 0140150609 (0-14-015060-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Quo Vadisby Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah CurtinISBN 160312036X (1-60312-036-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quo Vadis'Book summary:Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. A brilliant Polish writer and patriot, he is possibly best known abroad for his monumental historical epic Quo Vadis that portrays the vibrant and dissonant combination of cruel excesses and decadence of Rome during the reign of the corrupt Emperor Nero and the high faith of the emerging era of early Christianity.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, is a love story of Marcus Vinicius, a passionate young Roman tribune, and Lygia Callina, a beautiful and gentle Christian maiden of royal Lygian descent and a hostage of Rome, raised in a patrician home. At first Marcus, a typical aristocratic Roman libertine of his time, has no notion of love and merely desires Lygia with erotic animalistic intensity. Through political machinations of the elegant Petronius he contrives to have her taken by force from her foster home and into the decadent and terrible splendor of the court of Ceasar, setting in motion a course of events that culminate in his own spiritual redemption.
Intricately researched, populated with vibrant historical figures, and gorgeous period detail, bloody spectacle and intimate beauty, this is an epic tapestry of the triumph of love, faith and sacrifice. [via]
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The Roman Empireby C. M. WellsISBN 0674777700 (0-674-77770-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Roman Empire'Book summary:This history of the Roman Empire, from 44 BC to AD 235, has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration of the Empire; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. The book comprises a vivid account of the most intriguing period in ancient history. [via]
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Rubicon: The Last Years Of The Roman Republicby Tom HollandISBN 1400078970 (1-4000-7897-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubicon: The Last Years Of The Roman Republic'Book summary:A masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of perhaps the greatest civilization ever and the events and people that led to its transformation from a republic to an empire.
On a dark January morning, Julius Caesar, the governor of Gaul, rode with his closest aides towards a river named the Rubicon, which marked the line of the frontier with Italy. A governor was forbidden to lead troops out of his allotted province to break this severest of laws was tantamount to a declaration of civil war. Caesar was a gambler, however. Like the consummate actor on the public stage he had always been, he quoted a line from one of Menander's plays: "It's time to roll the die." Then he ordered the legion behind him to advance, over the river and on towards Rome. Crossing the Rubicon was a step so consequential that it has come to stand for every fateful step in history since. When Caesar rolled his die, the result was indeed a civil war, one that would end up destroying Rome's traditional freedoms and establishing a permanent dictatorship on the wreckage of her constitution.
In Rubicon, Cambridge- and Oxford-educated historian and novelist Tom Holland gives us a harrowing and exciting account of the fall of the Republic, one that begins in 100 BC, the approximate birthdate of the generation that was to bring about the Republic's ruin. He then traces the development of these men into the ruling minds of the Republic, and the occurrence at the Rubicon that marked the end of the expansionism for which they had fought. Rubicon captures the suspense and drama of Rome's most famous political rivalries and shows its vibrant and charged atmosphere, all the while featuring some of the most celebrated personalities in historyJulius Caesar, Cicero, Spartacus, Cleopatra, Brutus, Pompey, Virgil, and Augustus. As America embarks on its own imperial adventures, Rubicon is the chronicle of Rome for which we have all been waitingcarefully researched and wildly compelling. [via]More editions of Rubicon: The Last Years Of The Roman Republic:
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Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republicby Tom HollandISBN 0316861308 (0-316-86130-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic'Book summary:The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. "Rubicon" paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. This was the century of Julius Caesar, the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond; of Cicero, whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence; of Spartacus, the slave who dared to challenge a superpower; of Cleopatra, the queen who did the same. Tom Holland brings to life this strange and unsettling civilization, with its extremes of ambition and self-sacrifice, bloodshed and desire. Yet alien as it was, the Republic still holds up a mirror to us. Its citizens were obsessed by celebrity chefs, all-night dancing and exotic pets; they fought elections in law courts and were addicted to spin; they toppled foreign tyrants in the name of self-defence. Two thousand years may have passed, but we remain the Romans' heirs. [via]
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Silver Pigsby Lindsey DavisISBN 031235777X (0-312-35777-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery'Book summary:[via]When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her--a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain--and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco&. -
Suetoniusby J. C. Rolfe, Keith R. BradleyISBN 0674995651 (0-674-99565-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suetonius'Book summary:Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his Lives of the Caesars. After the dismissal of both men for some breach of court etiquette, Suetonius apparently retired and probably continued his writing. His other works, many known by title, are now lost except for part of the Lives of Illustrious Men (of letters).
Friend of Pliny the Younger, Suetonius was a studious and careful collector of facts, so that the extant lives of the emperors (including Julius Caesar the dictator) to Domitian are invaluable. His plan in Lives of the Caesars is: the emperor's family and early years; public and private life; death. We find many anecdotes, much gossip of the imperial court, and various details of character and personal appearance. Suetonius's account of Nero's death is justly famous.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Suetonius is in two volumes. Both volumes were revised throughout in 1997-98, and a new Introduction added.
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Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Romeby Michael GrantISBN 0140440607 (0-14-044060-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome'Book summary:Tacitus' "Annals of Imperial Rome" recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies and murders that were part of imperial life. Despite his claim that the Annals were written objectively, Tacitus' account is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses and fearful for the future of Imperial Rome, while also filled with a longing for its past glories. [via]
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The Twelve Caesarsby SuetoniusISBN 0140054162 (0-14-005416-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twelve Caesars'Book summary:Born in 60 A.D., Suetonius served for several years as secretary to the Roman emperor Hadrian. His years in the palaces and halls of imperial government served him well when he set out to write this oftentimes eye-popping, tell-all account of the doings of the first 12 emperors, from Julius to Domitian, who make the good fellas of Mafia renown seem tame by comparison. From Suetonius we learn that Augustus was afraid of lightning and thunder and carried a piece of seal skin as protection against them; that Caligula slept with his mother and his sister; and that Nero outlawed mimes in Rome--which may mean that he wasn't such a bad man after all. Suetonius doesn't hesitate to say when he's reporting gossip that he has not personally verified, but what gossip it is! This translation, by the noted classicist Robert Graves, serves the ancient chronicler very well indeed. [via]
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The Twelve Caesarsby Michael Grant, Suetonius, Robert GravesISBN 0140440720 (0-14-044072-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twelve Caesars'Book summary:Born in 60 A.D., Suetonius served for several years as secretary to the Roman emperor Hadrian. His years in the palaces and halls of imperial government served him well when he set out to write this oftentimes eye-popping, tell-all account of the doings of the first 12 emperors, from Julius to Domitian, who make the good fellas of Mafia renown seem tame by comparison. From Suetonius we learn that Augustus was afraid of lightning and thunder and carried a piece of seal skin as protection against them; that Caligula slept with his mother and his sister; and that Nero outlawed mimes in Rome--which may mean that he wasn't such a bad man after all. Suetonius doesn't hesitate to say when he's reporting gossip that he has not personally verified, but what gossip it is! This translation, by the noted classicist Robert Graves, serves the ancient chronicler very well indeed. [via]
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La Estatua De Bronce / Shadows in Bronzeby Lindsey DavisISBN 8435016250 (84-350-1625-0)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Historia De La Decadencia Y Ruina Del Imperio Romanoby Edward Gibbon, Jose Mor de FuentesISBN 8475060935 (84-7506-093-5)
Hardcover, Ediciones Turner
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Pompeyaby Robert HarrisISBN 0307348113 (0-307-34811-3)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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Vidas de los Cesares/ Lives of the Caesarsby Suetonio, Vicente PiconISBN 8437616360 (84-376-1636-0)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Yo, Claudio / I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 842063512X (84-206-3512-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yo, Claudio / I, Claudius'Book summary:EDICIoN ESPECIAL LIMITADA CONMEMORANDO EL 60 ANIVERSARIO DE EDHASA. A partir de la autobiografia del emperador Tiberio Claudio, nacido en el ano 10 d.C. y asesinado y deificado en el ano 54, se recrea la grandeza, la crueldad y la depravacion de los mandatarios de la Roma imperial. [via]
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Tacitus Bk. IV : Annalsby R. H. Martin, Cornelius Tacitus, A. J. Woodman, P. E. Easterling, Philip HardieISBN 0521315433 (0-521-31543-3)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tacitus Bk. IV : Annals'Book summary:The fourth book of Tacitus' Annals has been described as "the best that Tacitus ever wrote." It covers the years AD 23-28, starting when Tacitus noted a significant deterioration in the principate of the emperor Tiberius, and the increasingly malign influence of his "evil genius" Sejanus. R.H. Martin and A.J. Woodman present an improved text of Annals IV, explain in detail the difficulties and unusual features of Tacitus' Latin, and discuss the dramatic, structural and literary qualities of the narrative. They also discuss the political, moral and stylistic dimensions of the Roman historiographical tradition. Though intended primarily as a textbook for undergraduates and high school students, this edition will interest scholars of Latin literature and Roman history as well. [via]
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Annalen: Lateinisch Und Deutschby Cornelius Tacitus, Erich HellerISBN 3760816452 (3-7608-1645-2)
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