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The remarkable story of the Ancient Olympic Games, narrated in invigorating style by a leading classical scholar and translator.

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An enthralling journey through the history of books and libraries in the ancient world and those who have helped preserve their rich literary traditions

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The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland

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The rediscovery of the Roman cities overwhelmed by the rage of Vesuvius is one of history's most extraordinary adventure stories. Pompeii Awakened revels in that adventure, and tells of the re-emergence of a long-vanished cosmopolis which profoundly inspired a later age - from its arts and architecture to its science, sex and religion.

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An enlightening, entertaining and bitesize book about how Ancient Athenian democracy relates to the most urgent political issues of our day, for fans of Mary Beard's Women & Power and Yanis Varoufakis's Talking to my Daughter about the Economy

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The powerful and surprising story of the four remarkable women who changed Augustine's life - and history - forever.

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The powerful and surprising story of the four remarkable women who changed Augustine's life - and history - forever.

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At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. This title investigates how Roman Army units in the Western provinces were equipped, exploring the local influences and traditions that caused the variations in attire.

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An accessible, highly illustrated introduction to the history, society, culture and art of Britain when it was a province of the Roman Empire

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Fully illustrated, this study investigates the origins, evolution and use of the mail and scale armour worn by the soldiers and gladiators of Imperial Rome.

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This fascinating book explores the epic clash between two ancient empires in a 250-year conflict which would define the boundaries of the ancient world for more than seven centuries.

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Roman Woman is a vivid portrayal of life in Roman Britain; in this fascinating, authentically detailed, deftly woven narrative, a family struggles to come to terms with new customs and to reconcile their cultural differences.

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From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civilisation forward.

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Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire.

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They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancient Greeks And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much This title offers a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, and more.

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From the award-winning author of The Discovery of France and Parisians.

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A sparkling introduction to the Ancient World that brings its peoples and cultures vividly to life.

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This comprehensive, readable survey of the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it ranges from the Aegean world of the second millenium BC to Augustine's City of God . More than that, it considers not only how the ancient world is remembered today but also how the Greeks and Romans perceived and felt the influence of their own past.

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Euclids Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics often hailed as the worlds first textbook shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

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Euclids Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics often hailed as the worlds first textbook shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

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A remarkable insight into the real story of the seven Queen Cleopatras of Ancient Egypt

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Robert Knapp finds a new answer to the old question: why did Christianity take root and spread in the ancient Roman world