496円 Hannibal by the American writer of children's books, Jacob Abbott.Hannibal was a Carthaginian general. He acquired his great distinction as a warrior by his desperate contests with the Romans. Rome and Carthage grew up together on opposite sides of the Mediterranean Sea. For about a hundred years...

496円 The Comic History of Rome by the English humorist, Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett.

496円 History of the Wars, Books III and IV by the prominent late antique scholar from Palaestina Prima, Procopius.Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian, he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars (or Histories), the Buildings of Just...

2,334円 The Roman Empire rules the civilised world with an iron fist, seemingly all-powerful and limitless. And yet, the power of Rome is secured not by its mighty legions, but by small bands of warriors and agents fighting a secret war. Tasked by the Emperor to explore ancient temples, forgotten labyrin...

2,262円 **"Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life." ーMichael Dirda, Washington Post A brilliant new translation of five of history’s greatest lives from Plutarch, th...

496円 Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work composed by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus,a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer, who was born in Jerusalemーthen part of Roman Judeaーto a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal an...

7,695円 Scholars have long emphasized the importance of scripture in studying religion, tacitly separating a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman religious culture to gra...

6,210円 Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories over foreign enemies and the need of the great commanders to give full expression to their prestige and charisma...

1,320円 Un récit incluant les dernières découvertes sur les Etrusques. Une nouveauté dans ce domaine peu connu de l'Antiquité. Apparus au VIIIe siècle avant Jésus-Christ, les Etrusques dominent presque toute l'Italie avant de se fondre dans le moule imposé par Rome. Lorsque, à la Renaissance, on découvre...

5,300円 What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate was delibe...

6,482円 Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitution--the concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee and achieve certain interests of the individual....

226円 The Natural History is an early encyclopedia published circa AD 77–79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to cover all ancient knowledge. The work's subject area is thus not limited to what is today unders...