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Inscriptions Grecques Et Latines De La Syrie Tome IIi 1èRe Partie Region De L'Amanus - Antioche No 698-988
by Jalabert Louis - Mouterde René
Rome Books & Ephemera
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask
by Peter Jones
Atlantic Books, 2021. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Includes appendix, index, timeline, and photos. 303 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the...
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Pompeii: Public and Private Life
by ZANKER, PAUL
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Paperback. Good. Some pencil marginalia, especially to early chapters. Binding tight.. 8vo. 5.875 x 8.75 in. 251 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs, maps, plans etc., as well as two suites of color reproductions. Translated by DEBORAH LUCAS SCHNEIDER. Published as No. 11 of the 'Revealing Antiquity' series, edited by G.W. BOWERSOCK. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl...
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Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide
by CLARIDGE, AMANDA
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Later Printing. Paperback. Very good. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Binding tight, text unmarked.. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 455 pp. Original glossy pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs, maps, plans, diagrams, etc. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer.
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NZ$18.72
Roman Social History
by Susan Treggiari
Routledge, 2001. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (5.08 x 0.42 x 7.8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Case studies. Includes a glossary, appendices [2], notes, bibliography and an index. 170 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This lively and original guidebook is the first to show students new to the subject exactly what Roman social history involves, and how they can study it for themselves. After presenting a short history of the...
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NZ$49.28
Latin Wordsearch: Carpe Diem! Solve the Puzzles and Learn the Language!
by Eric Saunders
Sirius, 2022. Paperback. New. New oversized softcover workbook in printed wraps. 4to. (8 x 0.5 x 9.75 inches). Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W word searches studying Latin. 128 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This wonderful collection of wordsearch puzzles is a fun way to improve your knowledge of the Latin language. Each puzzle is themed with useful topics that will be essential in your language learning, and asks you to seek the words in Latin while...
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Pianta Guida della Citta di Roma ; Veduta a volo d'uccello; (Rome)
by BULLA, Romolo
Romolo Bulla, 1885. Map. Color lithograph, dissected and mounted on cloth. Measures 26 1/4" x 20 7/8"<br/> <br/> This bird's eye view of Rome offers a unique vantage point of the city from an elevated perspective, showcasing its districts, landmarks, streets, railways, fortifications, cultivated land, and other points of interest. Bulla issued several editions of this map, all undated. Later editions show the continued development of Rome's tramway system. He also made...
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NZ$765.99
The Roman Republic
by HEITLAND, W. E
London: Cambridge University Press, 1909. hardcover. very good(+). 3 volumes. 8vo, blue boards. London: Cambridge University Press, (1909). Pages toned but still a very good solid ex-library copy with some stamps and residue at foot of spine from removed labels.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$212.78
The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry
by Heslin, Peter
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (7 x 1.2 x 10 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Rich b&w and color photos and illustration on glossy pappy. Includes bibliography and an index. 352 pp Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, "I have built a monument more enduring than bronze,"--a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and built environment of ancient Rome are...
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Roma Antica.; Con Note, ed Osservazioni Storico, Critiche, Alla Santita' di Nostro Signore Papa Clemente XIV
by NARDINI, Famiano
Rome: Carlo Barbiellini, 1771. Third. hardcover. very good(+). With 18 copper engravings including a frontispiece and 3 folding plates and many text illustrations throughout. Rubricated title page. Over 500 pages, printed in double columns with wide margins, small water stain at the back. Thick 4to, full vellum, lightly soiled. Rome: Carlo Barbiellini, 1771. Third Edition. An amazingly clean tight copy.<br/><br/>
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The Holy Roman Empire:Eighth Edition
by James Bryce
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Holy Roman Empire:Eighth Edition.
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NZ$89.97
Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE
by Paul Chrystal
Pen and Sword History, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.75 x 1 x 9.75 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [2], bibliography, index, timeline, maps, and photo plates. xvii, 243 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Rome: Republic into Empire looks at the political and social reasons why Rome repeatedly descended into civil war in the early 1st century BCE and why these conflicts continued for most of the...
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A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War
by Gary Forsythe
University of California Press, 2006. Paperback. Like new. Like new trade softcover in printed wraps. Cover has some scuffing. 8vo. (5.98 x 1.05 x 8.82 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes works cited, chronology, and an index. 400 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. During the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C., the Romans in large measure developed the social, political, and...
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Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC
by Mike Roberts
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.4 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches) Includes bibliography, index, maps, and photo plates. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 - 203 BC'. Most studies concentrate on Hannibal's series of stunning victories in...
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Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy
by Erich S. Gruen
University of California Press, 1996. Paperback. Like New. Discusses the class between Roman politics and the intellectual class. Like new softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underling. Includes bibliography and an index. 209 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This book is an examination of the impact of Greek learning, literature, and religion on central aspects of Roman life in the middle Republic. Acclaimed historian Erich S. Gruen discusses the...
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Gladiators: Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome (Casemate Short History)
by M. C. Bishop
Casemate, 2017. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index, timeline, glossary, photos, and illustrations. 160 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duels in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared at the...
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For The Glory of Rome: A History of Warriors Warfare
by Ross Cowan
Pen and Sword, 2017. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6.14 x 0.87 x 9.21 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes a bibliography and an index. 272 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Ancient Rome was uniquely bellicose. Her legionaries are often cited as the original professional soldiers and famed for their iron discipline, but they were also formidable individual warriors, sometimes berserks, who gloried in single combat, taking...
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THE ROMAN HISTORY FROM THE BUILDING OF ROME TO THE RUIN OF THE COMMONWEALTH
by Hooke, Nathaniel
London: Printed by James Bettenham, and sold by G. Hawkins, 1771. Third edition. Spines with old wear and some chipping with a surface crack to joint on Vol 2, but all sound and internally clean. Third edition. Four volumes. Quarto. Illustrated with 4 copper-engraved frontispieces, 11 plates (7 folding) and 17 folding maps. Bound in full contemporary calf, the spines with brown title labels gilt, the panels densely gilt.
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NZ$2,978.85
Roman Military Disasters: Dark Days and Lost Legions
by Paul Chrystal
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [6], glossary, bibliography, index, timeline, diagrams, maps, and photo plates. 336 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. There is a tendency when dealing with world superpowers to focus on their successes. After all, these are what made them superpowers in the first place. However, reverses and disasters suffered on the way to...
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The Language of Images in Roman Art
by Tonio Holscher (Author), Anthony Snodgrass (Translator), Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass (Translator)
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in glossy printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes glossary, chronology, references, index, and photos. xxxiii, 151 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This book develops a new theory for the understanding of Roman pictorial art. By treating Roman art as a semantic system it establishes a connection between artistic forms and the ideological messages...
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NZ$68.00
Il Foro Romano. Volume II: Periodo Repubblicano e Augusteo
by COARELLI, FILIPPO
(Roma): Edizioni Quasar, 1992. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good, lightly worn and soiled, jacket. Binding tight.. Large 8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 351 pp. Full cranberry cloth, in plain glossy grey dust jacket. Illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs, plans. Text in Italian. Lectiones Planetariae, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his very occasional...
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NZ$161.71
Emperors of Rome: The Monsters: From Tiberius to Theodora, AD 14-548 History of Terror
by Paul Chrystal
Pen and Sword, 2019. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [3], index, and photos. 128 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-161) and Marcus Aurelius (161-180) were largely civilized and civilizing. The bad, on the other hand, were sometimes nothing less than...
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Plan de Civitavechia
by ROUX, Joseph
Marseille: Joseph Roux. unbound. Map. Uncolored engraving. Measures 5" x 7 3/4". In very good condition.<br/> <br/> Lovely miniature nautical chart depicting the port of Civitavecchia in Italy, also known as the Port of Rome. The chart depicts the harbor, which was built in the early 2nd century, as well as surrounding fortifications and structures -- including the now destroyed naval arsenal, designed by Bernini in 1663.<br> <br> Plate 32 from Roux's "Receuil...
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NZ$255.33
Rome's Third Samnite War, 298-290 BC: The Last Stand of the Linen Legion
by Mike Roberts
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, maps, and photo plates. 320 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This book is devoted to the Third Samnite War where, with the Samnites' own independence on the line, they mobilized a powerful coalition with Bruttians, Etruscans and the Senones Gauls to fight for their freedom The Third Samnite War (298-290 BC) was a crucial...
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NZ$35.66
Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
by Teller, Edward & Wendy Teller & Wilson Talley
Perseus. Near Fine. (2002). First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. 0738207659 . Book would be Fine/as new other than previous owner's name, place (Los Alamos) and date on half title page. There is also a very tiny bump at tail of spine. Not a remainder. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages .
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NZ$25.53
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian (Approaching the Ancient World)
by David S. Potter
Routledge, 1999. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. (5.51 x 8.5 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendix, bibliography, index, and figures. 232 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read. Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy...
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