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Pen and Sword Military, 2017. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.4 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches) Includes bibliography, index, maps, and photo plates. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 - 203 BC'. Most studies concentrate on Hannibal's series of stunning victories in the early stages of the war, culminating at Cannae in 216 BC, then refocus on the activities of his nemesis, Scipio Africanus, in Spain until the two meet in the final showdown at Zama. But this has led to the neglect of some of the Carthaginian genius' most remarkable campaigns. By 212 the wider war was definitely going against the Carthaginians. Yet Hannibal, despite being massively outnumbered and with little support from home, was able to sustain his polyglot army and campaign actively across… Leer más

Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in glossy printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes glossary, chronology, references, index, and photos. xxxiii, 151 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This book develops a new theory for the understanding of Roman pictorial art. By treating Roman art as a semantic system it establishes a connection between artistic forms and the ideological messages contained within. The history of Roman art traditionally followed the model of a sequence of stylistic phases affecting the works of their era in the manner of a uniform Zeitgeist. In contrast, the author shows different stylistic forms being used for different themes and messages. This leads to the reception of Greek models, a basic phenomenon of Roman art, appearing in a new light. The formulations of specific messages are established from Greek art types of different eras: Classical forms for the grandeur… Leer más

Sirius, 2022. Paperback. New. New oversized softcover workbook in printed wraps. 4to. (8 x 0.5 x 9.75 inches). Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W word searches studying Latin. 128 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This wonderful collection of wordsearch puzzles is a fun way to improve your knowledge of the Latin language. Each puzzle is themed with useful topics that will be essential in your language learning, and asks you to seek the words in Latin while providing the translation alongside. The pages are decorated with suitable images to inspire you on your language journey! • LANGUAGE LEARNING: Boost your Latin skills and expand your vocabulary as you seek the Latin words hidden with the grids. • TRANSLATIONS INCLUDED: The English translations of the words you are seeking are provided beside them in the word lists ensuring your vocabulary and understanding improve. ABOUT THE SERIES: Sirius Language Learning Puzzles uses the popular wordsearch puzzle as… Leer más

University of California Press, 2003. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6 x 1.2 x 9 inches) Includes appendix, author's notes, and index. 368 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed―the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers―as plaint and confession―but rather from the viewpoint of the women―thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation―James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before.

J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. Paperback. New. New tightly bound softcover in printed wraps. 4to. (10 X 10). Clean text free of marks or underling. Beautiful color photos throughout the text. Includes chronology, list of Roman emperors, further readings and an index. 144 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Inspired by the achievements of the ancient Greeks, the Romans made their city the center of an empire unsurpassed in size and influence for more than a thousand years. Its rich legacy shaped the medieval world and continues to amaze us today. Life, Myth, and Art in Ancient Rome celebrates the many achievements of Roman culture and delves into its fascinating dark side. Romans erected structures so well-built and engineered that they still stand millennia later, yet these same buildings also showcased blood sports as public entertainment. The Romans instituted just government, impartial legal and political institutions, and concepts of citizenship, yet its population… Leer más

Princeton University Press, 2014. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6 x 9.25 inches) Includes a bibliography and an index. 256 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In recent years, Roman political thought has attracted increased attention as intellectual historians and political theorists have explored the influence of the Roman republic on major thinkers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Held up as a "third way" between liberalism and communitarianism, neo-Roman republicanism promises useful, persuasive accounts of civic virtue, justice, civility, and the ties that bind citizens. But republican revivalists, embedded in modern liberal, democratic, and constitutional concerns, almost never engage closely with Roman texts. The Life of Roman Republicanism takes up that challenge. With an original combination of close reading and political theory, Joy Connolly argues that Cicero, Sallust, and… Leer más

Routledge, 1999. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. (5.51 x 8.5 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendix, bibliography, index, and figures. 232 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read. Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like: * Cicero * Lucian * Aulus Gellius Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.

Oxford University Press, 2002. Paperback. Like new. Like new softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. ( 9.9 x 0.94 x 7 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes bibliography and an index. 368 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly inquiry and as one of general, popular interest. In Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds Daniel Ogden presents three hundred texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. This is the first book in the field to unite extensive selections from both literary and documentary sources. Alongside descriptions of sorcerers, witches, and ghosts in the works of ancient writers, it reproduces curse tablets, spells from… Leer más

Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index, photo plates, and maps. xxiv, 296 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The first full-length biography of the half-barbarian emperor. Maximinus was a Thracian tribesman "of frightening appearance and colossal size" who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor Severus who enlisted Maximinus into the imperial bodyguard whereupon he embarked on a distinguished military career. Eventually he achieved senior command in the massive Roman invasion of Persia in 232 AD, and three years later he became emperor himself in a military coup--the first common soldier ever to assume the imperial throne. Supposedly more than seven feet tall (it is likely he had a pituitary disorder), Maximinus was surely one of Rome's most extraordinary emperors. He campaigned across the Rhine and Danube… Leer más

Basic Books, 2018. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos. Includes chapter notes and an index. 352 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians… Leer más

J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (7 x 1.2 x 10 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Rich b&w and color photos and illustration on glossy pappy. Includes bibliography and an index. 352 pp Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, "I have built a monument more enduring than bronze,"--a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and built environment of ancient Rome are inextricably linked. This fascinating work of original scholarship makes the precise and detailed argument that painted illustrations of the Trojan War, both public and private, were a collective visual resource for selected works of Virgil, Horace, and Propertius. Carefully researched and skillfully reasoned, the author's claims are bold and innovative, offering a strong interpretation of the relationship between Roman visual culture and literature that will deepen modern readings of Augustan poets. The… Leer más

Pen & Sword Military, 2018. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo.(6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes timeline, index, tables, figures, and maps. 336 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. He has written fifty-five books on the subject (before this one) and over three hundred published articles. These decades of scholarship are complemented by direct military experience as a US army officer (now retired). This book presents his thoughts and perspectives on a selection of aspects of ancient warfare that he has found of particular interest over the years. It does not aim to be a comprehensive overview nor a coherent narrative of ancient military history but adds up to an illuminating, fascinating and wide-ranging discussion of various topics. With topics ranging from the origins of war, through logistics,… Leer más

Princeton University Press, 1994. First. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Like new hardcover with navy blue cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Sun fading to spine of DJ. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes Notes, glossary, select bibliography, Index of Ancient sources, and a general index. xv, 324 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From household gossip to public beatings, this social history explores the many channels through which Athenians maintained public order. Virginia Hunter draws mostly on Attic court proceedings, which allowed for a wide range of evidence, including common rumors about a defendant's character and testimony, obtained under torture, of slaves against their masters. She describes Athenian "policing" as a form of social control that took place across a range of private and public levels. Not only does policing appear to have been a collective enterprise, but its methods were embedded in a variety of social institutions,… Leer más

University of Arkansas Press, 1987. First. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. ***Inscribe by Author*** Very good hardcover with tan cloth over boards and black lettering to spine. Dust jacket has closed tear near the bottom of the front cover and has been placed in a protective clear sleeve. 8vo. (6.5 X 0.75 X 8.75 inches). Decorative map endpapers. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature and inscription to Peter Green on the reverse side of the half-title page. Book is from Professor Greens personal library. Includes appendices [6], notes, bibliography and an index. 239 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Quintus Sertorius was among the first of the great guerrilla leaders, but until Philip Spann undertook this biography an account of his exploits had never been available in the English language. Here we meet not only the inspired warrior, but his adversaries- the patrician veteran Metellus and the youthful genius Pompey. We learn that Rome survived… Leer más

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 0.87 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W illustrations. Includes notes, bibliography and an index. 360 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Hamel takes us on a delightful, audacious romp through The History of the Persian Wars. Debra Hamel's book is a lively introduction to The History of the Persian Wars, Herodotus's account of Persia's expansion under four kings―Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes―and its eventual collision with the city-states of Greece. The History can be a long slog for modern readers, but it is full of salacious tales about sex, violent death, divine prophecies, and cannibals. Following the structure of the original work, Hamel leads the reader through a colorful tour of the central stories that compose The History. She highlights the more interesting and important parts of the story while providing readers who are new to… Leer más

Pen and Sword History, 2018. Paperback. New. New tightly bound trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 X 9). Clean text free of marks or underling. Jacket design by Dominic Allen. Maps. B&W illustrations. Includes source notes, bibliography and an index. 208 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit of his dream for a new Macedonian empire. Once Carthage was defeated, however, the Roman army for the first time turned its full attention to the Greek world. The stage was set for the clash of two of the most successful military systems of the ancient world, the Roman legions versus the Macedonian phalanx. Though sorely tested, the legions emerged victorious from the epic battles of Cynoscephalae and Pydna. The home of Alexander the Great fell under the power of Rome, along with the rest of Greece, the cradle… Leer más

Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6.8 x 0.85 x 9.7 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes a glossary, timeline, notes, suggested readings and an index. 253 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This sourcebook presents a wealth of material relating to every aspect of Roman spectacles, especially gladiatorial combat and chariot racing. Draws on the words of eye-witnesses and participants, as well as depictions of the games in mosaics and other works of art. Offers snapshots of "a day at the games" and "the life of a gladiator". Includes numerous illustrations. Covers chariot-races, water pageants, naval battles and wild animal fights, as well as gladiatorial combat. Combines political, social, religious and archaeological perspectives. Facilitates an in-depth understanding of this important feature of ancient life.

Casemate, 2018. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes timeline, bibliography, index, tables, photos, and illustrations. 160 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously trained, highly equipped, and motivated by pay, bonuses and a strong sense of identity and camaraderie. Legionaries wore full body-armor, carried a shield which could be used defensively to form a shield wall or a tortoise, or it could be used offensively to punch at opponents and throw them off-balance in close-quarters fighting, as well as two javelins, a sword, and a dagger. In battle they hurled their javelins and then immediately drew their swords and charged to close combat with the enemy. They were… Leer más

Pen and Sword Military, 2016. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [6], glossary, bibliography, index, timeline, diagrams, maps, and photo plates. 336 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. There is a tendency when dealing with world superpowers to focus on their successes. After all, these are what made them superpowers in the first place. However, reverses and disasters suffered on the way to preeminence are equally significant. The experience of ancient Rome is no different. This book is the first to examine the paradoxical role lost battles and defeat played in the success of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Over some 1200 years, the Romans proved adept at learning from military disaster and this was key to their eventual success and hegemony. Roman Military Disasters covers the most pivotal and decisive defeats, from the Celtic invasion of 390 BC to Alaric's sack of Rome in AD… Leer más

Focus Publishing, 2002. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes glossary, chronology, bibliography, index, maps, and illustrations. viii, 215 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Roman Religion: A Sourcebook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of ancient Roman religious beliefs and rituals through a rich collection of ancient source readings. The ancient sources are to be viewed with utmost respect as the primary means by which an accurate understanding of the past may be gained. By contrasting Roman action and opinion with our own, we may come to better understand ourselves and the culture in which we live. The book includes maps, glossary, a chronological table and lists of important gods. This book is designed as a companion to Valerie Warrior's Greek Religion: A Sourcebook.