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  • Imperial Mines and Quarries in the Roman World

    Organizational Aspects 27 BC-AD 235

    by Alfred Michael Hirt ...
    Series series Oxford Classical Monographs
    The control over marble and metal resources was of major importance to the Roman Empire. The emperor's freedmen and slaves, officers and soldiers of the Roman army, equestrian officials, as well as convicts and free labour were seconded to mines and quarries throughout Rome's vast realm. Alfred Hirt's comprehensive study defines the organizational outlines and the internal structures of the mining ... Read more

    $128.69 USD

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    Flight to Eden

    by Douglas Hirt ...
    Narrated by Michael Taylor ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Cradleland

    Unabridged

    16 hours 36 min

    A dark power is at work, intent on gaining complete control of the CradleLand, the birthplace of the still-young world. All that stands in the Power's way is one troublesome line of humans. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Livia

    First Lady of Imperial Rome

    by Anthony A. Barrett ...
    The author of Rome Is Burning separates fact from fiction as he examines the life of an ancient Roman figure made famous in the TV miniseries I Claudius.Livia—wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius—wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eager for Glory

    The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania

    by Lindsay Powell ...
    "The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome's empire" (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier).Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one of ancient Rome's most beloved military heroes. Yet there has never been a full volume dedicated to his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medieval Cities

    Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition

    by Henri Pirenne ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine

    Edited by Noel Lenski ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Rome, the Greek World, and the East

    Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

    by Fergus Millar ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Galerius and the Will of Diocletian

    by William Lewis Leadbetter ...
    Series series Roman Imperial Biographies
    Drawing from a variety of sources - literary, visual, archaeological; papyri, inscriptions and coins – the author studies the nature of Diocletian’s imperial strategy, his wars, his religious views and his abdication. The author also examines Galerius’ endeavour to take control of Diocletian’s empire, his failures and successes, against the backdrop of Constantine’s remorseless drive to power.The ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Rome, the Greek World, and the East

    Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire

    by Fergus Millar ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar’s published essays draws together twenty of his classic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Handbook to Roman Legionary Fortresses

    by M.C. Bishop ...
    An extensive guide to the legionary fortresses of the Roman Empire, including locations, history, layout, and more.This is a reference guide to Roman legionary fortresses throughout the former Roman Empire, of which approximately eighty-five have been located and identified. With the expansion of the empire and the garrisoning of its army in frontier regions during the 1st century AD, Rome began ... Read more

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  • Botero: The Reason of State

    by Giovanni Botero ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    Niccolò Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful. Giovanni Botero disputed this argument and proposed a system for the maintenance and expansion of a state that remained moral in character. Founding an anti-Machiavellian tradition that aimed to refute Machiavelli in practice, Botero is an important figure in early modern political ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome

    Edited by Paul Erdkamp ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading ... Read more

    $40.99 USD