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Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: River Books Guide Ser.
Prior to the nineteenth century, the independent kingdom of Lanna flourished in Northern Thailand. Lanna stretched as far north from Phitsanulok to Chiang Rai, as far east as present day Laos and as far west as Burma. Over the centuries, Lanna developed a distinctive art, architecture, languag e, and cu ...Show more
The Cave of Lascaux - The Final Photographic Record by Mario Ruspoli
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
The cave of Lascaux -- the "Sistine Ceiling of the Cave Man" -- is a spectacular window into the shadowy, powerful animal world of the Old Stone Age, some 17,000 years ago. The chance discovery of two boys in France in 1940, the cave was soon overwhelmed by tourists and in the early 1960s showed inescap ...Show more
The Age of Gladiators - Savagery and Spectacle in Ancient Rome by Rupert Matthews
$10.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new mas ...Show more
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody ...Show more
Daily Life Of The Etruscans by Jacques Heurgon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium by R. Ross Holloway
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the reports of the walls of the Romulan city discovered on the city slopes of the Palatine Hill. The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium ...Show more
The Aeneid by Virgil
$8.00 NZD
Category: Latin Literature | Reading Level: good
"The Aeneid" of Virgil (70-19 B.C.) describes the legendary origin of the Roman nation. It tells of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who escaped, with some followers, after Troy fell, and sailed to Italy. Here they settled and laid the foundations of Roman power. The Aeneid is a poet's picture of the world, wh ...Show more
Cleopatra: Queen, Lover, Legend by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
This is a gripping book...A fascinating account of the way in which succeeding generations have seen Cleopatra; as virtuous suicide, inefficient housewife, exuberant lover, professional courtesan, scheming manipulator, femme fatale, incarnation of Isis and bimbo' - Economist
Sophocles II by Sophocles; David Grene (Editor); Richmond A. Lattimore (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: Complete Greek Tragedies Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their ...Show more
Heracles and Other Plays
$10.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature
"Heracles", "Iphigenia Among the Taurians", "Helen", "Ion", and "Cyclops": Of these plays, only "Heracles" truly belongs in the tragic sphere with its presentation of underserved suffering and divine malignity. The other plays flirt with comedy and comic themes. Their plots are ironic and complex with d ...Show more
The Western Greeks: The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Colonies to 480BC by T. J. Dunbabin
$55.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good-very good