Valley of the Kings by John Romer
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
Summary: Contains the history of the travelers and scholars who studied and excavated the royal tombs of the Valley; the tombs themselves; and the motives and methods of the people who made them.
The Archimedes Codex - How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist by Reviel Netz; William Noel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
At a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest-a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped o ...Show more
Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus - Inventing Private Life by Kristina Milnor
$18.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on "traditional" feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. Kristina Milnor takes up a series of texts ...Show more
Pandora's Daughters - The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity by Eva Cantarella
$10.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Ancient Society and History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, Pandora's Daughtersoffers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Moving outward from an examination of the legal evidence--the laws governing marriage and divorce, sexual behavior, and inhe ...Show more
Greek History for Schools by Charles Douglas Edmonds
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally importa ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion by Simon Price (ed.); Emily Kearns (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Mythology | Reading Level: very good
Augustus by Pat Southern
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Roman Imperial Biographies Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Despite his talent for self-promotion, the character of the emperor Augustus is rarely revealed and as such makes this biography unique in its presentation of Augustus the man. Pat Southern chronologically traces the life, works and times of the emperor, presenting ideology and events from his point of ...Show more
Slavery in the Roman Empire by R H Barrow
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
The Sons of Caesar - Imperial Rome's First Dynasty by Philip Matyszak
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
This book is the story of one of the most powerful dynasties in history. Following the coup that brought him to power, the bloodstained Octavian recreated himself as the emperor Augustus and allied the Julian clan with the Claudians. The principate which he created lasted for centuries, but the str ...Show more
A Noise of War - Caesar, Pompey, Octavian and the Struggle for Rome by A J Langguth
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
A Legal History of Rome by George Mousourakis
$15.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
This book equips both lawyer and historian with a complete history of Roman law, from its beginnings c.1000 BC through to its re-discovery in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth century. Combining a law specialist's informed perspective of legal history with a socio-political and cul ...Show more
Troy - From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic by Martin M. Winkler (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic ...Show more