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  • John Boardman on the Parthenon

    par John Boardman ...
    Collections series Pocket Perspectives
    Britain's most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art recounts what the Parthenon and its sculptures meant to the citizens of fifth-century BCE Athens.The sculptural friezes of the Parthenon in Athens are the most recognizable, if least well understood, of all the monuments of Classical antiquity. Created in the mid-fifth centuryBCE to adorn the new temple on the Acropolis, they represent a ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Life in Ancient Rome

    par Lionel Casson ...
    ". . . gracefully written" - The New York Times. Award-winning historian Lionel Casson paints a vivid portrait of life in ancient Rome - for slaves and emperors, soldiers and commanders alike - during the empire's greatest period, the first and second centuries A.D. ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Gladiators

    par Rupert Matthews ...
    The great spectacles of ancient Rome have become proverbial for their cruelty, bloodlust and glory. In the arena, the games were savage and brutal. Gladiators fought each other to the death, wild animals were put to fight each other and criminals were executed by barbaric means. Military victories were marked by the Triumphs when generals paraded through the city, the defeated were sacrificed to ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Pax

    War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

    par Tom Holland ...
    From an award-winning historian, the definitive account of the golden age of Rome—an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness.**“Rarely has the distant past seemed so vividly alive.” —**Financial TimesThe Pax Romana has long been shorthand for the empire’s golden age. Stretching from Caledonia to Arabia, Rome ruled over a quarter of the world’s population. It was the wealthiest and ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $25.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

  • Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

    par Anthony Everitt ...
    “A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

  • The Colosseum: A History

    More than 1,500 years have passed since the last blood - human or animal - was spilled in the Colosseum, but the massive building erected by the Flavian emperors has continued to play a role in history. This book tells the dramatic story of the Colosseum - from its bloody gladiatorial games and the sacrifice of early Christians to the dismantling of the arena and its final restoration. The book ... En savoir plus

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  • Dominus

    A Novel of the Roman Empire

    par Steven Saylor ...
    Collections Livre 3 - Rome
    The New York Times –bestselling author continues his saga of the greatest empire in history from the eternal city at the very center of it all.A. D. 165: The empire of Rome has reached its pinnacle. Universal peace—the Pax Roma—reigns from Britannia to Egypt, from Gaul to Greece. Marcus Aurelius, as much a philosopher as he is an emperor, oversees a golden age in the city of Rome. The ancient ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Parthenon

    Democracy's symbolic birthplace, the famed Acropolis, stands today as a reminder of the glory that was ancient Greece. Atop this ancient citadel - once the center of Athenian civil pride and religion - stands the most famous structure in the Western world, the Parthenon. Here, historian R. Taylor Austen tells the stirring story of the Parthenon but also traces the history of Athens itself - its ... En savoir plus

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  • The Philosopher and the Druids

    A Journey Among the Ancient Celts

    par Philip Freeman ...
    **Early in the first century B.**C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, Posidonius traveled from his home on the island of Rhodes to Rome, the capital of the expanding empire that had begun to dominate the Mediterranean. From there Posidonius planned to ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Those Who Are About to Die

    A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator

    **ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • See ancient Rome through the eyes of a gladiator—from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien world of the Roman Amphitheatre both accessible and comprehensible." —Tom Holland, co-host of The Rest is History**What did a gladiator feel when he stepped out onto the sand of the ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Gladiators

    Deadly Arena Sports of Ancient Rome

    A history of gladiators-with an added bite!It’s hard for modern readers to truly grasp the spectacle that was arena sports in ancient Rome, which pitted man against man and man against beast in mortal combat. Our modern games of football and hockey, or even boxing and MMA, truly pale in comparison. The Gladiators is a comprehensive survey of these ancient sports, focusing on gladiatorial combat ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Nero

    Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome

    **A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome“Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium**The Roman emperor Nero’s name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $11.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD