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Ovid: Heroides
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 32.00A commentary on seven of Ovid's twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse. more...
The Histories of Herodotus,I and II (Complete)
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories tells the story of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus travelled extensively around the ancient... more...
Julius Caesar: Lessons in Leadership from the Great Conqueror
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 6.79No ancient ruler inspired more legends than Julius Caesar. Under his leadership, Rome conquered territory throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, reaching the North Sea and conducting the first Roman invasion of Great Britain. His tactical acumen and intuitive understanding of how armies work birthed a military structure that allowed Roman generals... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 32.00This volume offers seventeen essays on Virgil from an internationally distinguished team of scholars. more...
Plato: Phaedrus
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 28.00This book provides all the tools necessary to read and understand Plato's Phaedrus in the original Greek. more...
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 28.00This book provides a text, translation and detailed commentary for this seminal work for the study of Roman history. more...
Meditations
Dover Publications 2012; US$ 3.00Stirring reflections on the human condition provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personality of a highly principled Roman warrior and emperor of the 2nd century. more...
Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 46.00Susan Lape demonstrates how a race ideology grounded citizen identity. more...
The Essential Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2000; US$ 9.75While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature. more...
Killing Jesus
Henry Holt and Co. 2013; US$ 8.49Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln , page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history:... more...