Category - Biography & Autobiography
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The Twelve Caesars: The Dramatic Lives of the Emperors of Rome
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and time...
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Sulla the Fortunate: Roman General and Dictator
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC), soldier, politician, and statesman, set the standard of dictator for the generations that followed his death—...
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Crassus: The First Tycoon
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory “A perfectly paced biography.”—Tom Holland, Tim...
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Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. ...
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Caesar
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /James Boswell called him ‘the greatest man of any age’. Christian Meier’s biography is the definitive modern account of Caesar’s life and career,...
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The Gallic War & The Civil War: Historical Account of Caesar's Military Campaign in Gaul & The Roman Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /"The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar d...
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Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good...
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Constantine the Great: And the Christian Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Roman Emperor Constantine is one of the most momentous figures in the history of Christianity, a ruler whose conversion turned the cult of Jesus ...
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Lives of the Caesars
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudiu...
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Marcus Aurelius: A Life
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity who still speaks to us today, more than two thousand years after his death....
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Constantine the Emperor
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but t...
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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destro...
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Marcus Aurelius: Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /There can be little doubt that Marcus Aurelius was one of the most exemplary leaders of all time. He held the most powerful and highest station i...
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust e...
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Julius Caesar
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A fascinating, comprehensive biography of the cunning Roman conqueror Julius Caesar.More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar r...
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Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following h...
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Sulla: The Last Republican / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /In this second edition of Arthur Keaveney's classic biography, a fresh generation of students, scholars and readers are introduced to one of the ...
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Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis of AD 96-99
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The imperial succession at Rome was notoriously uncertain, and where possible hereditary succession was preferred. John Grainger's detailed stud...
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Marcus Aurelius: A Biography / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor who ruled the Roman Empire between AD 161 and 180, is one of the best recorded individuals from antiquit...
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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerAn accessible interpretation of the ancient legacy of Aphrodite-Venus, this multi-century exploration of the relationsh...
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Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /By any measure, Seneca (?4-65AD) is one of the most significant figures in both Roman literature and ancient philosophy. His writings are voluminou...
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The Twelve Caesars (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The book discusses the significa...
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The story of Messalina - third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world The image of the ...
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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of Saint Augustin...
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