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The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Timesby Lionel CassonISBN 0691014779 (0-691-01477-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Ancient Mosaicsby Roger LingISBN 0691004048 (0-691-00404-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Ancient Roman Gardensby Linda FarrarISBN 0750917253 (0-7509-1725-3)
Hardcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0681322608 (0-681-32260-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Press
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Apocalypse: The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome Ad 66-73by Neil FaulknerISBN 0752425730 (0-7524-2573-0)
Softcover, Tempus Pub Ltd
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Asterix and Cleopatraby Albert Uderzo, Anthea Bell, Derek HockridgeISBN 0752866079 (0-7528-6607-9)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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Asterix and Cleopatraby Rene Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866060 (0-7528-6606-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and Cleopatra'Book summary:To impress Julius Caesar, Queen Cleopatra promises to build the Roman Emperor a magnificent palace in just three months. Of course, Asterix has to get involved. By the time his feisty group from Gaul have finished, theyve outwitted the Roman army, too.[via]More editions of Asterix and Cleopatra:
Asterix and the Cheiftan's Sheildby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866249 (0-7528-6624-9)
Hardcover, Orion Books Limited
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Asterix and the Chieftain's Shieldby Albert UderzoISBN 0752866257 (0-7528-6625-7)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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Asterix and the Golden Sickleby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866133 (0-7528-6613-3)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and the Golden Sickle'Book summary:Getafix has broken his golden sickle, so Asterix and Obelix visit Lutetia to buy a new one for him. But the sicklesmitha cousin of Obelixhas vanished without a trace. Where could he have gone? And can Asterix solve the mystery and bring Getafix what he needs?[via]More editions of Asterix and the Golden Sickle:
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Asterix and the Normansby Albert Uderzo, Anthea Bell, Derek HockridgeISBN 0752866230 (0-7528-6623-0)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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Asterix and the Normansby Rene Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866222 (0-7528-6622-2)
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Asterix at the Olympic Gamesby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866273 (0-7528-6627-3)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Celliniby Benvenuto Cellini, Charles Hope, John Addington Symonds, Alessandro NovaISBN 0714822973 (0-7148-2297-3)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-By-Map Directoryby Richard J.A. Talbert, Richard J. A. TalbotISBN 0691049459 (0-691-04945-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroqueby Rudolf WittkowerISBN 0714837156 (0-7148-3715-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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The Best Book of Ancient Greeceby Deborah Jane MurrellISBN 0753457563 (0-7534-5756-3)
Hardcover, Kingfisher Books
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Britannia: A History of Roman Britainby Sheppard FrereISBN 0710089163 (0-7100-8916-3)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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Byzantium Decline and Fall: The Early Centuriesby John Julius NorwichISBN 0679416501 (0-679-41650-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Catch-22by Joseph HellerISBN 0684833395 (0-684-83339-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch-22'Book summary:There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via] -
The Classical Cookbookby Andrew Dalby, Sally GraingerISBN 0714122084 (0-7141-2208-4)
Hardcover, British Museum Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classical Cookbook'Book summary:The Classical Cookbook combines carefully researched history with recipes that are interpretations of ancient Greece and Rome. Two Britons, historian Andrew Dalby and chef Sally Grainger, collaborated on this book, which discusses the banquets and feasts of Athens and Rome, but focuses mostly on how average people ate every day. Many of the seasonings favored from around 700 B.C. up to the fall of Rome in the 5th century, it turns out, are not that foreign to what we use today: leeks, nuts, vinegar, wine. The authors provide easy equivalents for the more exotic ingredients. Imagine how Socrates, in the 1st century, may have enjoyed honey-glazed shrimp or cheesecake. Such dishes make it tempting to try the culinary adaptations of classical cookery. Here's a rare example of history brought to life. [via]
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Cleopatraby Diane Stanley, Peter VennemaISBN 0688154808 (0-688-15480-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cleopatra'Book summary:Cleopatra's name still glitters across history, evoking opulence, ambition, and tragedy. Raised in the shadow of the mighty Roman Empire, she dared to dream of a world united under Egyptian rule. She almost succeeded, and if she had, we would live in a far different world today.
Cleopatra was not the renowned beauty of legend--her strength lay in her intelligence, courage, and charm, and she would need all three in her short and perilous reign. She became Queen of Egypt at eighteen and by twenty had been driven from her throne. But she raised an army and won the support of the great Julius Caesar, who helped her return to rule. We will never know what these two brilliant and ambitious people might have accomplished together, for Caesar soon fell to Roman assassins. Instead, it was Mark Antony, another famous Roman, who risked everything with Cleopatra in pursuit Of world power.
In this latest of their "distinguished storybook biographies" (New York Times), the authors' meticulous text and Ms. Stanley's majestic illustrations capture the brilliance of Cleopatra's life. From the enchantments of the royal court at Alexandria to luxurious cruises up the legendary Nile, from the intrigues of the Roman marketplace to a desperate sea battle with a shocking end, these award-winning biographers tell the tragic story of one of the most fascinating women of all time.
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A Companion to Roman Britainby Peter A. Clayton, Michael Grierson JarrettISBN 0714820318 (0-7148-2031-8)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeareby John WilsonISBN 0706414004 (0-7064-1400-4)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0681410035 (0-681-41003-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Death and Restorationby Iain PearsISBN 0684814617 (0-684-81461-7)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death and Restoration'Book summary:Like An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears's Death and Restoration is grounded in a richly cultured vision rife with references to European history, art, and cuisine. And, though it represents the sixth novel in Pears's Jonathan Argyll series, the author subtly informs new readers of the key relationships and the past histories of his characters within the first three chapters. Once again, Argyll and his soon-to-be wife, Flavia di Stefano, are enmeshed in the Italian art world: Flavia, as a member of the Rome police's art squad and Argyll as a professor of art history.
The suspense of the novel is sustained by the careful revelation of the central art-theft plot; in turn, each major character becomes the narrative center and offers an expanded understanding of the events at San Giovanni. While Argyll is troubled over his fiancée's frequent absences just prior to their wedding, Flavia feels compelled to keep odd hours. She's certain that her old nemesis, Mary Verney, has returned to Rome with the intention of committing a major new theft. And Verney, readers soon learn, is herself in jeopardy. She must steal a Madonna icon from the monastery--despite the close scrutiny she faces from the Rome police force--because the sadistic Mikis Charanis has kidnapped Verney's granddaughter, 8-year-old Louise, and he will only release the child when Verney has acquired the artifact from San Giovanni. Underlying each character's concerns is the mystery of the Madonna itself. Why does Charanis covet this piece over the more valuable, though still dubious, Caravaggio that is also in the monastery? In the end, the novel is a perfect melding of a tightly composed mystery plot, witty dialogue, and a realistic sense of character, all flowing from an intellectual's appreciation for the finer things in life. For readers who discovered Pears's fiction through An Instance of the Fingerpost, the Argyll series--particularly Death and Restoration--offers much to satiate the need for his pleasantly baroque sensibilities. Other works in the Argyll series include The Raphael Affair, The Titian Committee, The Bernini Bust, The Last Judgement, and Giotto's Hand. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Decline & Fall of Roman Britainby Neil FaulknerISBN 0752428950 (0-7524-2895-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline & Fall of Roman Britain'Book summary:[via]Why did Rome abandon Britain in the early 5th century? According to Neil Faulkner, the centralized, military-bureaucratic state, governed by a class of super-rich landlords and apparatchiks, had siphoned wealth out of the province, with the result that the towns declined and the countryside was depressed. When the army withdrew to defend the imperial heartlands, the remaining Romano-British elite succumbed to a combination of warlord power, barbarian attack, and popular revolt.More editions of The Decline & Fall of Roman Britain:
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Decline and Fall of Roman Britainby Neil FaulknerISBN 0752419447 (0-7524-1944-7)
Softcover, Tempus Publishing, Limited
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 067943593X (0-679-43593-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Volumes 4, 5, and 6 of the Bury Text, in a boxed set. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
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Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Politicalby William E. Connolly, Aryeh BotwinickISBN 0691074658 (0-691-07465-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The book consists of three sections linked by the underlying theme of Wolin's monumental effort to define ''the political'' and the conditions of democratic life. In the first, Nicholas Xenos, George Kateb, Fred Dallmayr, and Charles Taylor focus, in particular, on whether mass political participation, sustainable in times of upheaval as what Wolin aptly termed ''fugitive democracy,'' can be buoyed by political institutions during periods of stability. In the second section, Wendy Brown, Aryeh Botwinick, Melissa A. Orlie, and Anne Norton examine the relevance of Wolin's ideas to current debates about, for example, social diversity and the commercialization of culture. In the last, Stephen K. White, Kirstie M. McClure, Michael J. Shapiro, and J. Peter Euben address globalization and temporality in relation to Wolin's narrative of decline, asking, among other things, whether citizenship today must incorporate a cosmopolitan dimension.
These essays--and an introduction by William Connolly that lucidly outlines Wolin's thought and the deep uncertainty about political theory in the 1960s that did much to inspire his work--offer unprecedented insights into Wolin's lament that modernity has meant the loss of the political.
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Diocletian And The Tetrarchyby Roger ReesISBN 0748616616 (0-7486-1661-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Fountains of Romeby H. V. MortonISBN 0718150147 (0-7181-5014-7)
Hardcover, 'The Connoisseur'; Joseph
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Germanicus Mosaicby Rosemary RoweISBN 0747261016 (0-7472-6101-6)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Germanicus Mosaic'Book summary:It is the 2nd century A.D., and Libertus, a freedman and pavement-maker, has a reputation for solving crime. When his influential patron asks for his help in a politically-sensitive murder case, Libertus is in no position to refuse. When the main suspect is also found murdered, the truth seems elusive.[via]More editions of Germanicus Mosaic:
The Germanicus Mosaicby RoweISBN 0747222622 (0-7472-2262-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroqueby Howard Hibbard, Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower, Thomas MartinISBN 0714821934 (0-7148-2193-4)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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Giotto's Handby Iain PearsISBN 0684814609 (0-684-81460-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giotto's Hand'Book summary:Following a clue provided by a dying woman's confession, General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad sets off on a world-wide search for the man he calls Giotto, whom he believes is responsible for a series of major heists." [via]
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Hadrian's Wallby David John Breeze, Brian DobsonISBN 0713905239 (0-7139-0523-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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A Handbook of Roman Art: A Survey of the Visual Arts of the Roman Worldby Martin HenigISBN 0714823015 (0-7148-2301-5)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Holy Rome : A Millennium Guide to Christian Sightsby Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff, Robert I. C. FisherISBN 0679004548 (0-679-00454-8)
Softcover, Fodor's Travel Publications
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Horace, The Odes: New Translations By Contemporary Poetsby Robert Bly, Horace, J.D. McClatchyISBN 069104919X (0-691-04919-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horace, The Odes: New Translations By Contemporary Poets'Book summary:They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when--as has usually been the case--a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite variety. Now for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Ireland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into English in a series of new translations that dazzle as poems while also illuminating the imagination of one of literary history's towering figures.
The thirty-five contemporary poets assembled in this outstanding volume include nine winners of the Pulitzer prize for poetry as well as four former Poet Laureates. Their translations, while faithful to the Latin, elegantly dramatize how the poets, each in his or her own way, have engaged Horace in a spirited encounter across time.
Each of the odes now has a distinct voice, and Horace's poetic achievement has at last been revealed in all its mercurial majesty. In his introduction, J. D. McClatchy, the volume's editor and one of the translators, reflects on the meaning of Horace through the ages and relates how a poet who began as a cynical satirist went on to write the odes. For the connoisseur, the original texts appear on facing pages allowing Horace's ingenuity to be fully appreciated. For the general reader, these new translations--all of them commissioned for this book--will be an exhilarating tour of the best poets writing today and of the work of Horace, long obscured and now freshly minted.
The contributors are Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Robert Creeley, Dick Davis, Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Debora Greger, Linda Gregerson, Rachel Hadas, Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, Daryl Hine, John Hollander, Richard Howard, John Kinsella, Carolyn Kizer, James Lasdun, J. D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, W. S. Mervin, Paul Muldoon, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Ellen Bryantr Voigt, David Wagoner, Rosanna Warren, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, and Stephen Yenser.
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The Immaculate Deceptionby Iain PearsISBN 0743272412 (0-7432-7241-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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THE IMMACULATE DECEPTION
For newlywed and Italian Art Theft Squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly.
Across town her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting -- an Immaculate Conception -- owned by Flavia's mentor, retired General Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.
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Imperial Roman Armyby Yann Le BohecISBN 0713471662 (0-7134-7166-2)
Hardcover, Anova Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imperial Roman Army'Book summary:The Emperor Augustus believed that the Roman army occupied a crucial lace at the heart of the empire and it was he who made it a fully professional force. This book looks at the structure and development of the army between the Republic and the Late Empire, examining why the army has always been accorded such a prominent position in the history of the Roman Empire, and whether that view is justified.
The book is divided into three sections. The author first examines the major divisions of army organization - the legions, the auxiliary units, the fleet - and how the men were recruited. Secondly he looks at what the army did - the training, tactics and strategy. Finally he considers the historical role of the army - how it fitted into Roman society, of which it was only part, and what influence it had economically and politically.
In exploring these themes, the author gives equal weight to epigraphic, documentary and archaeology evidence. With tables summarizing detailed information, Yann Le Bohec provides a synthesis of current knowledge of the Roman army from the first to the third century AD, putting it in its context as part of the state structure of the Roman Empire. [via]More editions of Imperial Roman Army:
The Innocents Abroadby Mark TwainISBN 0712619828 (0-7126-1982-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Italian Journeyby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Thomas P. Saine, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Robert R. HeitnerISBN 069103799X (0-691-03799-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Jews in the Roman Worldby Michael GrantISBN 0684133407 (0-684-13340-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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The Last Frontier: The Roman Invasions Of Scotlandby Anthony KammISBN 0752431374 (0-7524-3137-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Last Judgementby Iain PearsISBN 0684814595 (0-684-81459-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Last Legionby Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Christine Feddersen-Manfredi, Christine Fedderseen ManfrediISBN 074349198X (0-7434-9198-X)
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Later Roman Britainby Stephen JohnsonISBN 0684165295 (0-684-16529-5)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and Its Peopleby Alan K. BowmanISBN 0714113891 (0-7141-1389-1)
Hardcover, British Museum Pubns Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and Its People'Book summary:"Clodius Super to his Cerialis, greetings. I ask that you send the things which I need for the use of my boys...which you well know I cannot properly get hold of here..." So writes a Roman soldier stationed on the wild northern frontier of England around AD 100. In 1973, the first discoveries were made of the now famous wooden tablets - 300 letters and documents that had survived 2000 years - at the fort of Vindolanda. Painstakingly deciphered by Alan Bowman and David Thomas they have contributed a wealth of evidence for daily life in the Roman Empire. From the military documents we learn of the strength and activities of the units stationed at Vindolanda. The accounts testify to the lifestyle of officers and ordinary soldiers, with payments for pepper and oil, towels and tallow, boots and beer. Then there are snapshots of domestic life in letters between the officer's wives, including a birthday invitation. Most fascinating of all is the evidence for a high degree of literacy in the Roman army, when even a common soldier receives a letter from home promising him a parcel of socks. In this revised, expanded and updated edition, Alan Bowman's lively summary of this evidence is followed by the text of 50 key tablets, in Latin and in translation, bringing the reader very close to the actual people who inhabited Vindolanda in AD 100. [via]
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The Life of Benvenuto Celliniby Benvenuto CelliniISBN 0714833649 (0-7148-3364-9)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Benvenuto Cellini'Book summary:This work is the only known autobiography of a Renaissance artist. It describes not only the artist's life at the Papal Court in Rome and at the Royal Court of France but makes very vivid historical writing, including, as it does, an eye-witness acount of the Sack of Rome in 1527. Cellini also gives us details of his career as a sculptor and goldsmith who restored Etruscan sculptures in Florence, made jewellery for the Popes and beautiful trinkets and ornaments for the French Court, such as the salt-cellar for Francis I. Many of his contemporaries such as Michelangelo are described by him in an intimate manner. The illustrations, which include all Cellini's works that have been preserved, as well as scenes from Renaissance life, were chosen by Sir John Pope-Hennessy, who died in 1994. [via]
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Mby Peter RobbISBN 0747548587 (0-7475-4858-7)
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The Masterby Colm ToibinISBN 0743250419 (0-7432-5041-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master'Book summary:Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility.
Toibin is "a great and humanizing writer" who describes complex relationships in "supple, beautifully modulated prose" ("The Washington Post Book World"). In "The Master, " he has written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages. [via]
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Ovid: Fastiby Ovid, G.P. Goold, Grant Showerman, Frank Justus Miller, A. H. ArmstrongISBN 0674992792 (0-674-99279-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid: Fasti'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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Ovid's Amoresby Ovid, Guy LeeISBN 0719517966 (0-7195-1796-6)
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A Pattern of Bloodby Rosemary RoweISBN 0747261024 (0-7472-6102-4)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thoughtby Sheldon S. WolinISBN 0691126275 (0-691-12627-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought'Book summary:This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. This new edition retains intact the original ten chapters about political thinkers from Plato to Mill, and adds seven chapters about theorists from Marx and Nietzsche to Rawls and the postmodernists. The new chapters, which show how thinkers have grappled with the immense possibilities and dangers of modern power, are themselves a major theoretical statement. They culminate in Wolin's remarkable argument that the United States has invented a new political form, "inverted totalitarianism," in which economic rather than political power is dangerously dominant. In this new edition, the book that helped to define political theory in the late twentieth century should energize, enlighten, and provoke generations of scholars to come.
Wolin originally wrote Politics and Vision to challenge the idea that political analysis should consist simply of the neutral observation of objective reality. He argues that political thinkers must also rely on creative vision. Wolin shows that great theorists have been driven to shape politics to some vision of the Good that lies outside the existing political order. As he tells it, the history of theory is thus, in part, the story of changing assumptions about the Good.
In the new chapters, Wolin displays all the energy and flair, the command of detail and of grand historical developments, that he brought to this story forty years ago. This is a work of immense talent and intense thought, an intellectual achievement that will endure.
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The Raphael Affairby Iain PearsISBN 0708971555 (0-7089-7155-5)
Softcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistanceby David FrankfurterISBN 0691070547 (0-691-07054-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Roman Architectureby Frank Bowman SearISBN 0713440988 (0-7134-4098-8)
Hardcover, Batsford Academic and Educational
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Roman Artby Francesco AbbateISBN 0706400593 (0-7064-0059-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A.D.by Graham WebsterISBN 0713609346 (0-7136-0934-6)
Hardcover, Black
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The Roman Republicby Andrew LintottISBN 0750922230 (0-7509-2223-0)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Roman War Machineby John PeddieISBN 0750910232 (0-7509-1023-2)
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Roman Warfareby Adrian Goldsworthy, John KeeganISBN 075382258X (0-7538-2258-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Roman Worldby John WacherISBN 0710099754 (0-7100-9975-4)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Roman World'Book summary:Rome continues to influence our daily lives more than 1500 years after the formal end of the Roman Empire. The republican, Celtic and hellenistic background to the Empire is examined in this book which also looks at the development of the imperial army and its deployment on the frontiers. Urban and rural life and society and the legal system which bound them together are considered, as are the varied religious beliefs of the great heterogenous mass of people which made up the population of the Empire. All the pictures have been chosen to illustrate the detailed points of the text. [via]
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Rome: A Literary Companionby John VarrianoISBN 0719550971 (0-7195-5097-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Rome against Caratacus: The Roman Campaigns in Britain, AD 48-58by Graham WebsterISBN 0713472545 (0-7134-7254-5)
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Rome in the Late Republicby Mary BeardISBN 071562928X (0-7156-2928-X)
Softcover, Duckbacks
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Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forestby Adrian MurdochISBN 0750940158 (0-7509-4015-8)
Hardcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest'Book summary:[via]Over four days at the beginning of September AD 9, half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regimentssome 25,000 menwere wiped out. It dealt a body blow to the empire's imperial pretensions and was Rome's greatest defeat. No other battle stopped the Roman empire dead in its tracks. From the moment of the Teutoburg Forest disaster, the Rhine, rather than the Elbe as the Romans had hoped, became the limit of the civilized world. Rome's expansion in northern Europe was checked and Rome anxiously patrolled the Rhineland borders, awaiting further uprisings from Germania. Although one of the most significant and dramatic battles in European history, this is also one that has been largely overlooked. Drawing on primary sources and a vast wealth of new archeological evidence, Adrian Murdoch brings to life the battle itself, the historical background, and the effects of the Roman defeat as well as exploring the personalities of those who took part.More editions of Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest:
The Sack of Rome: 1527by Andre ChastelISBN 0691099472 (0-691-09947-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Social History of Greece and Romeby Michael GrantISBN 0684193094 (0-684-19309-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Three's Companyby Alfred DugganISBN 0753818906 (0-7538-1890-6)
Softcover, Phoenix
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three's Company'Book summary:It was the Rome of Cicero, Rome at the zenith of her power. When Caesar was murdered by some of his enemies, Marcus Antonius was the first to seize power, and then appeared the young Octavius who bore the name of Caesar. Who was the mediator between these two, when a second Triumvirate was formed and recognized? It was Lepidus, whom no one took much account of, and whose name few now remember; a patrician, with no idea of how to command an army in the field. In this novel the history of the years 49 to 36 BC is seen from the point of view of Lepidus. It is the cruelly fascinating, sometimes funny, and, in the end, curiously moving story of a figurehead who tasted power and began to believe in himself. [via]
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Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Lifeby Sheldon S. WolinISBN 0691114544 (0-691-11454-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life'Book summary:Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this work one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present a work that fully connects Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In doing so, Sheldon Wolin presents new interpretations of Tocqueville's major works and of his place in intellectual history. As he traces the origins and impact of Tocqueville's ideas, Wolin also offers a commentary on the general trajectory of Western political life over the past two hundred years. Wolin proceeds by examining Tocqueville's key writings in light of his experiences in the troubled world of French politics. He portrays Democracy in America, for example, as a theory of discovery that emerged from Tocqueville's contrasting experiences of America and of France's constitutional monarchy. He shows us how Tocqueville used Recollections to reexamine his political commitments in light of the revolutions of 1848 and the threat of socialism. He portrays The Old Regime and the French Revolution as a work of theoretical history designed to throw light on the Bonapartist despotism he saw around him. Throughout, Wolin highlights the tensions between Tocqueville's ideas and his activities as a politician, arguing that - despite his limited political success - Tocqueville was "perhaps the last influential theorist who can be said to have truly cared about political life". In the course of the book, Wolin also shows that Tocqueville struggled with many of the forces that constrain politics today, including the relentless advance of capitalism, of science and technology, and of state bureaucracy. He concludes that Tocqueville's insights and anxieties about the impotence of politics in a "postaristocratic" era speak directly to the challenges of our own "postdemocratic" age. [via]
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Vacation Under the Volcanoby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0679890505 (0-679-89050-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Virgin Territoryby Marilyn ToddISBN 075315529X (0-7531-5529-X)
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Who Were the Romans?by Phil Roxbee Cox, Annabel SpenceleyISBN 0746013396 (0-7460-1339-6)
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William Shakespeare Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Eric Rasmusse N, Heloise SenechalISBN 0679642951 (0-679-64295-1)
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