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  • Stranger-Kingship in Antiquity

    Edited by Julius Guthrie, Henry Anderson, Emma Nicholson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient History
    This volume introduces the notion of “stranger-kingship” to the field of ancient history and evaluates its use as a new way of thinking about kingship as a political, social, and cultural phenomenon.The chapters highlight the clear and widespread value of the “stranger-king” as a new approach for understanding patterns of political life across time and space in antiquity. The volume begins with ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories

    Politics, History, and Fiction

    by Emma Nicholson ...
    Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian. It takes a chronological and thematic approach, exploring how Polybius' political, historiographical, and didactic aims impact the king's depiction from beginning ... Read more

    $25.09 USD

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  • Alexander the Great

    A Reader

    Edited by Ian Worthington ...
    This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander, examining the main areas of debate and discussion:The ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A Companion to Ancient Macedonia

    Edited by Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington ...
    Series Book 84 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike.Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in the fieldExamines the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Macedonia from the ... Read more

    $188.00 USD

  • Alexander the Great

    A New History

    Edited by Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle ...
    Alexander the Great: A New History combines traditional scholarship with contemporary research to offer an innovative treatment of one of history's most famous figures.Written by leading experts in the fieldLooks at a wide range of diverse topics including Alexander's religious views, his entourage during his campaign East, his sexuality, the influence of his legacy, and his representations in art ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

  • Cicero

    by Dr. Gesine Manuwald ...
    Series series Understanding Classics
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entirely new. But for all the sophistication of his thinking, it is perhaps for his political and oratorical career that Cicero is best remembered. He was the nemisis of Catiline, whose plot to overthrow the Republic he famously denounced to the Senate. He ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Roman Power

    A Thousand Years of Empire

    by W. V. Harris ...
    The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian W. V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community's internal power structures (political power, social power, gender power and economic power). Effectively integrating ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History

    by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price ...
    This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Empire and Communications

    by Harold A. Innis ...
    Series Book 4 - Voyageur Classics
    It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mad Emperor

    Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

    by Harry Sidebottom ...
    **What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy?**Discover the scandalous life of Rome's worst emperor'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The TimesOn 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious.Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Alexander to Actium

    The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age

    by Peter Green ...
    Series Book 1 - Hellenistic Culture and Society
    The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David M. Gwynn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage and the successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great, and brought the surrounding peoples to east and west ... Read more

    $7.99 USD