The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)
By: Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first …
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Punic Wars
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.19
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
An impressive new historian of Roman warfare--highly praised by John Keegan--has written a thorough… read more
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3. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
4. City of God
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson
3.93
Format: 1186 pages, Paperback
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more
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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
5. The Fall of the Roman Republic
By: Plutarch , Rex Warner , Robin Seager
4.10
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Rome's famed historian illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157 to 43 BC in succ… read more
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."-Plutarch, The Fall of the Roman Republic
6. The Conquest of Gaul
By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more
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7. Reflections on the Revolution in France
By: Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, a… read more
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8. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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9. The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)
By: Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first … read more
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10. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
11. The Rise of the Roman Empire
By: Polybius , Ian Scott-Kilvert , None , F.W. Walbank
4.18
Format: 306 pages,
Polybius, himself a Greek and an active contemporary participant in political relations with Rome, … read more
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12. Le Parti pris des choses / Douze petits écrits / Proêmes
By: Francis Ponge
4.17
Format: 200 pages,
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14. The Persian Expedition
By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell
4.18
Format: None pages,
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more
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15. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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16. The Trial and Death of Socrates
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more
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17. The Annals of Imperial Rome
By: Michael Grant , Tacitus
4.33
Format: 25 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In "The Annals of Imperial Rome", his last and greatest work, Tacitus (AD c.55-c.117) covers the pe… read more
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18. Odes and Epodes
By: Horatius , Niall Rudd
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The poetry of Horace (born 65 bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private con… read more
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19. The Civil War
By: Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his … read more
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20. The Discourses
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more
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21. Caesar: Life of a Colossus
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.22
Format: 583 pages, Hardcover
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more
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"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
22. The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
By: Eusebius , Andrew Louth , G.A. Williamson
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 3… read more
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23. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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24. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
By: Anthony Everitt
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more
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25. Plutarch's Lives, Vol 1
By: John Dryden , Plutarch , Arthur Hugh Clough , James Atlas
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
Plutarch s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the a… read more
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26. Theogony/Works and Days
By: Hesiod , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more
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27. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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28. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
29. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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30. Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
By: Richard Miles
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death … read more
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31. The Agricola and The Germania
By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly
3.94
Format: 229 pages,
The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more
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