Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture by Ian Jenkins
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Provides an indispensable introduction to Greek architectural sculpture, with each chapter focusing on a major monument of the Greek world, such as the temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Parthenon the complex personality of these buildings is bound up with the people who, built, used, destroyed, disco ...Show more
Ancient Rome - The Republic by H L Havell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
Dictionary of Roman Religion by Lesley Adkins; Roy A. Adkins
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good-very good
Long overshadowed by Greek mythology or treated peripherally in general texts on the ancient Roman world, Roman religion is finally accorded its due and set in its full context as no other reference source has done before. While perhaps most familiar in the context of Greek-influenced gods, Roman religi ...Show more
The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries AD by Graham Webster
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good-very good
Illustrated study of the organization, tactics, equipment, weapons, and military engagements of the early Roman Empire.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World by Michael Peachin (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
The study of Roman society and social relations blossomed in the 1970s. By now, we possess a very large literature on the individuals and groups that constituted the Roman community, and the various ways in which members of that community interacted. There simply is, however, no overview that takes into ...Show more
Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G Miller
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: good-very good
A comprehensive survey of sports in ancient Greece, available just in time for the Summer Olympics in Athens The earliest Olympic games began more than twenty-five-hundred years ago. What were they like, how were they organized, who participated? Were ancient sports a means of preparing youth for warfar ...Show more
Love Life of the Ancient Greeks by Sofia A. Souli
$10.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
The Reach of Rome - A Journey Through the Lands of the Ancient Empire by Alberto Angela
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by its size, stretching from Scotland to Kuwait, from ...Show more
Why We're All Romans - The Roman Contribution to the Western World by Carl J Richard
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This engaging yet deeply informed work not only examines Roman history and the multitude of Roman achievements in rich and colorful detail but also delineates their crucial and lasting impact on Western civilization. Noted historian Carl J. Richard argues that although we Westerners are "all Greeks" in ...Show more
Memorable Deeds and Sayings - One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome by Valerius Maximus
$20.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Hackett Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as an engaging introduction to the cultural and moral history of ancient Rome. Valerius' "thousand tales" are arranged thematically in ninety-one chapters that ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to The Roman Historians by Andrew Feldherr (Editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. | Reading Level: very good
No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians suc ...Show more
Tutankhamun - Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Lost for Three Thousand Years, Misunderstood for a Century by Joyce Tyldesley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: near fine
A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery: a near-complete royal burial, an ancient mummy, and golden riches beyond imagination. The lost tomb of Tutankhamun ignited a media frenzy, propelled into overdrive by rumours of a deadly ancient curse. ...Show more