‎Rome‎

‎Bury, J. B.‎

‎HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE [2 VOLUMES] From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian. in Two Volumes‎

‎Minor shelfwear. Minor chipping to base of spines. Faint tanning to wraps. ; 2 volume set. V1 494 pp; V2: 471 pp. ; 2 Volume Set; 0.94 x 7.98 x 5.44 Inches; One of the world's foremost historians chronicles the major forces and events in the history of the Western and Byzantine Empires from the death of Theodosius (395 AD) to the death of Justinian (565 AD).‎

‎(Badian, Ernst) & Robert W. Wallace & Edward M. Harris (Eds. )‎

‎TRANSITIONS TO EMPIRE Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor of E. Badian‎

‎Top corners are bumped else book has Minor shelfwear. DJ spine slightly discolored. ; During the period 360-146 BC, the Greco-Roman world underwent the transition from independent city states and small regional powers to large and potent empires of the Hellenistic age. The essays in this volume consider various aspects of this central political transformation. Essays on Greco-Roman history of the period 360-146 BC are by students and colleagues of Ernst Badian. Nine chapters on the `Early Imperial History of Macedon, 360-300 BC' (Peter Green, Julia Heskel, Edward Harris, John Buckler, George Cawkwell, Eugene Borza, A. B. Bosworth, William Calder, Thomas Martin) ; five chapters on `Cultural Transitions in Athens and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic Age' (Mogens Herman Hansen, Mortimer Chambers, Robert Wallace, Sarah Pomeroy, Erich Gruen) ; and seven chapters on `The Rise of Rome' (Kurt Raaflaub, Corey Brennan, William Loomis, Valerie Warrior, Jerzy Linderski, Judith Hallett, Walter Eder). ; Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture; 1.39 x 9.25 x 6.31 Inches; 498 pages‎

‎Fenik, Bernard‎

‎HOMER AND THE NIBELUNGENLIED Comparative Studies in Epic Style‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (Emmet Robbins). Very light shelfwear else fine. ; A sturyd of certain kinds of artistic design shared by the ancient Greek and medieval European epic. Also looks at Chanson de Roland and Rolandslied. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 0.87 x 9.64 x 6.45 Inches; 230 pages‎

‎Reinhold, Meyer‎

‎STUDIES IN CLASSICAL HISTORY AND SOCIETY‎

‎Very minor wear to DJ. ; Professor Reinhold, a distinguished senior classicist, has produced a fascinating and accessible collection of essays devoted to the study of ancient history. Among the articles included are "The Generation Gap," a major survey exploring myths of the uprising of one generation against another; "Augustus' Conception of Himself," a detailed summary and interpretation of Augustus' life and career; and "The Declaration of War against Cleopatra," an investigation of the charge against Cleopatra that she betrayed her pledge to Rome as a client ruler. Taken together, these essays form a unified and coherent survey of ancient history that will appeal to a broad audience. ; American Philological Association American Classical Studies Series 45; 151 pages‎

‎Mommsen, Theodor; Edited and with an Introduction By T. Robert S. Broughton‎

‎THE PROVINCES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE The European Provinces. SELECTIONS from the HISTORY of ROME, VOL. 5, BOOK 8‎

‎Former owner's bookplate to inner cover. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Dustjacket has rubbing to extremities and spine slightly sunned. ; 363 pages; A master of history, law, language, numismatics and epigraphy, Mommsen describes and illuminates the political, social and cultural institutions of the many people of a vast empire.‎

‎Pinsent, John‎

‎MILITARY TRIBUNES AND PLEBEIAN CONSULS: THE FASTI FROM 444 V TO 342 V‎

‎Light shelfwear. Minor tanning to pages. ; Historia : Einzelschriften ; Heft 24; 83 pages‎

‎Broughton, T. Robert S.‎

‎CANDIDATES DEFEATED IN ROMAN ELECTIONS Some Ancient Roman "Also-Rans"‎

‎Spine is creased. A few small ink stains to front wrap. Light sunning to rear wrap. ; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; 10.25 x 0.25 x 7 Inches; 64 pages; Collects and presents the names of candidates in Roman elections for magistracies and priesthoods in the Middle and Late Republic who competed unsuccessfully. Looks at candidates for the major magistracies: the consulship, praetorship, and aedileships.‎

‎Heurgon, Jacques‎

‎THE RISE OF ROME TO 264 B.C.‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. DJ in plastic sleeve taped down to boards. ; An introduction to Early Roman history in the context of the peopling and development of the western Mediterranean. Contents: Original Population; Etruscans in Etruria; External Influences on Civilization in Italy; Rome under the Kings; Roman Republic etc...; 344 pages‎

‎Brauer, George C.‎

‎THE AGE OF THE SOLDIER EMPERORS Imperial Rome, A.D. 244-284‎

‎Foxing to textblock and endpapers. DJ is discolored along edges and spine. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Noyes Classical Studies; 288 pages; Looks at the history of the Roman Empire in the middle part of the third century A. D. From the reign of Philip the Arab to Carus and his dynasty before the reign of Diocletian. Book is heavily illustrated with pictures of coins of the period.‎

‎Manilius, Marcus; Alfred Edward (A. E. ) Housman (Ed. )‎

‎M. MANILII [MARCUS MANILIUS] ASTRONOMICON I & II [2 VOLUME SET COMPLETE] Recensuit Et Enarravit Alfred Edward Housman. Quinque Tomi in Duobus Tomibus‎

‎Books are fine. ; Unchanged reprint of 1903-1916 and 1920-1930 London editions. V1: ISBN: 348704272X. V2: ISBN: 3487042738. ; 5 Volume Set Reprinted in 2 Volumes. COMPLETE; Marcus Manilius (M Manilii) , 1st century A. D. Roman poet and astrologer. The Astronomicon contains the earliest appearance of astrological systems of Houses. Housman's is considered the authoritative edition. Introduction in English. Latin apparatus.‎

‎Southern, Pat‎

‎AUGUSTUS‎

‎Book is fine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear ; Roman Imperial Biographies; 0.95 x 9.43 x 6.38 Inches; 271 pages; Augustus, the heir to Julius Caesar, was the guiding light in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. In this biography, Pat Southern traces the life and works of the emperor chronologically, presenting idealogy and events as they occurred from Augustus' point of view, including his transition from heir and successor of Julius Caesar to head of the new Principate and his development of the Roman Empire. Augustus did not have a master plan of politics and legislation, but instead, he had to wait and occasionally change course before he settled on a version of government that the Senate and people found acceptable. While there have been many books covering the political, social, and aesthetic culture of the Augustan Age, this is the first book to present the life of Augustus, the man.‎

‎Barrett, Anthony A.‎

‎LIVIA First Lady of Imperial Rome‎

‎Book is fine. DJ has 1 small closed tear now in mylar. ; 1.23 x 9.46 x 6.36 Inches; 464 pages; Livia (58 B.C.-A.D. 29)-the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius-wielded power at the center of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in English devoted to her) Livia emerges as a much more complex individual. Achieving influence unprecedented for a woman, she won support and even affection from her contemporaries and was widely revered after her death. <P>Anthony A. Barrett, author of acclaimed biographies of Caligula and Agrippina, here examines Livia's life and her role in Roman politics. He recounts the events of her life, from her early days as a member of the wealthy and powerful Claudian family through her final conflicts with the new Emperor Tiberius. Barrett also considers how Livia helped shape the pattern of Roman government that prevailed for the next four centuries.‎

‎Bradford, Ernle‎

‎HANNIBAL‎

‎Minor bump to top of spine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. ; Describes Hannibal's actions as soldier, general, statesman, and as a mortal human being. It explores the strategies of his greatest battles (at Cannae his troops killed 45,000 Romans in an afternoon and nearly brought the Roman Empire to its knees). ; 223 pages; During the second century B. C. , the North African city of Carthage was a powerful commercial center. One of its leading citizens was Hannibal. Carthagian excursions into Roman territory led to the Punic Wars and Hannibal was called into service. Ernle Bradford examines the campaign during the Second Punic War when Hannibal set out to invade Italy with a small force of select troops, crossing the Alps with a full baggage train intending to take Rome. For 16 years the campaign continued and Bradford examines the tactics of the major battles and traces the reasons why Hannibal failed to conquer the Romans.‎

‎Millar, Fergus‎

‎THE CROWD IN ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC‎

‎Small tear to head of spine (1/2 cm). Else book is fine. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic explores the consequences of a democracy in which public office could only be gained by direct election by the people. And while the Senate could indeed debate public matters, advise other officeholders, and make some administrative decisions, it could not legislate. An officeholder who wanted to pass a law had to step out of the Senate-house and propose it to the people in the Forum. In an expansion and revision of his Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures, Fergus Millar explores the development of the Roman Republic, which by its final years had come to cover most of Italy. To exercise their rights, voters had to come to Rome (or to live in or near the city as about one third of them did) and to meet in the Forum. Millar takes the period from 80 to 50 B. C. , the dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, and shows how crowd politics was central to the great changes that took place year after year. The volume will interest general readers, as well as students of politics and Roman history. Technical terms are explained, and foreign words are kept to a minimum. ; Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures; 1.06 x 9.32 x 6.34 Inches; 256 pages‎

‎Mattern, Susan P.‎

‎ROME AND THE ENEMY Imperial Strategy in the Principate‎

‎Tiny stain to rear board and obverse of DJ else book and DJ are fine/fine. ; 1 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 277 pages; How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. From this evidence, Susan P. Mattern reevaluates the roots, motivations, and goals of Roman imperial foreign policy especially as that policy related to warfare. In a major reinterpretation of the sources, Rome and the Enemy shows that concepts of national honor, fierce competition for status, and revenge drove Roman foreign policy, and though different from the highly rationalizing strategies often attributed to the Romans, dictated patterns of response that remained consistent over centuries. Mattern reconstructs the world view of the Roman decision-makers, the emperors, and the elite from which they drew their advisers. She discusses Roman conceptions of geography, strategy, economics, and the influence of traditional Roman values on the conduct of military campaigns. She shows that these leaders were more strongly influenced by a traditional, stereotyped perception of the enemy and a drive to avenge insults to their national honor than by concepts of defensible borders. In fact, the desire to enforce an image of Roman power was a major policy goal behind many of their most brutal and aggressive campaigns. Rome and the Enemy provides a fascinating look into the Roman mind in addition to a compelling re-examination of Roman conceptions of warfare and national honor. The resulting picture creates a new understanding of Rome's long mastery of the Mediterranean world.‎

‎Sinibaldi, Guilia‎

‎IL MUSEO DI S. MARCO IN FIRENZE (86 Illustrazioni)‎

‎Spine very slightly browned. Minor shelfwear. ; 48pp, illustrated. ; Itinerari Dei Musei E Monumenti D'Italia 51; 76 pages‎

‎Kenyon, Frederic G.‎

‎BOOKS AND READERS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME‎

‎Former owner's bookplate to front inner cover. Else Minor shelfwear. DJ is tattered and price-clipped with tears and chipping. DJ crudely repaired at spine with cellotape. ; Although the subject of the book is primarily bibliographical, namely, the methods of book making from the date of Homer until the supersession of papyrus by vellum in the fourth century CE, one of its main objects has been to show the bearings of the material and form of books on literary history and criticism, and to consider what new light has been thrown by recent research on the origin and growth of the habit of reading in ancient Greece and Rome. Contents: 1. The use of books in ancient Greece. 2. The papyrus roll. 3. Books and reading at home. 4. Vellum and the codex. ; 8.5 x 0.75 x 5.75 Inches; 136 pages‎

‎Parker, H. M. D.‎

‎THE ROMAN LEGIONS With a Bibliography by G. R. Watson‎

‎Former owner's bookplate on inner cover and name on endpapers with blindstamp to half-title. Some highlighting to introduction and bibliography. Else VG. ; Reprint of the 1958 ed. 296pp. Alternate ISBN: 0389031267; 296 pages‎

‎Rea, J. R. (Ed. )‎

‎THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI [40] Volume XL. Edited with Translations and Notes‎

‎Very light shelfwear. ; Xi, 134pp, 8pls. Nos. 2892-2942 ; Graeco-Roman Memoirs No. 56; Vol. 40; 134 pages‎

‎Proctor, Sir Dennis‎

‎HANNIBAL'S MARCH IN HISTORY‎

‎Ex-school library with stamps. No exterior markings. Foxing to textblock. ; A scholarly chronology and routing of the march. ; 242 pages‎

‎Southern, Pat‎

‎JULIUS CAESAR‎

‎DJ is in mylar. ; This new study of Julius Caesar's life and achievements follows the author's widely acclaimed books on Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, and completes her trilogy on the Late Republic. As Pat Southern makes clear, although we know what Caesar did, we do not really know who he was. Certain features stand out but do not make up the whole man - his staggering energy, the ruthlessness and determination to achieve what he wanted, the loyalty that he inspired in some people and the extreme hatred in others. He became close to being defeated in battle, but never lost a war. He caused the deaths of many, but did not proscribe thousands like Marius and Sulla before him and Anthony and Octavian after him. His aim was to improve, augment and streamline the administration of Rome and the provinces. To do that he needed supreme power, and in achieving it he formed the bridge between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. ; 0.61 x 9.48 x 6.34 Inches; 160 pages‎

‎Adcock, F. E‎

‎CAESAR As Man of Letters‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown) , other name struck out. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and textblock. Spine sunned. ; Sir Frank Adcock's aim is to emphasize the literary character of Caesar's writings. He is worth reading, and this small book will help understanding. The Introduction reminds the reader what Caesar was and what he had accomplished when he wrote. In a chapter on "The Military Man" Caesar's literary interpretation of war and generalship is described. This short study gives insight into Roman literature and history as well as into the life and character of one of the world's great men. ; 114 pages‎

‎Beard, Mary & Michael Crawford‎

‎ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC‎

‎Light rubbin to wraps with a bit of colour loss. Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). ; 8vo; 106 pages; What were the reasons for the Roman revolution, wherein a republican form of government that had endured for centuries suddenly gave way, after civil war, to a dictatorship, which eventually dissolved under the peaceful sway of an autocratic principate? When did the process of change begin, what were its significant stages, and how are we to make sense of it? These are some of the questions addressed by two able scholars in this remarkably concise and accomplished survey of the history of the late Roman Republic. Setting themselves the challenging goal of making the first century comprehensible in twentieth-century terms, Mary Beard and Michael Crawford outline the factors that must be assessed for a proper understanding of the period-- from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of the state religion to the function of political institutions, and the reasons for imperial expansion. They offer no simple explanations, but instead supply a descriptive framework that clarifies a mass of conflicting and fragmentary evidence. Ideal for both introductory and graduate courses in the later Roman Republic, this book will make stimulating and provocative reading for anyone interested in the history of ancient Rome. From the Index: 1. The Nature of the Problem 2.The Cultural Horizons of the Aristocracy 3. Religion 4. Political Institutions 5. The Working of Politics 6. Rome and the Outside World‎

‎Shotter, David‎

‎THE FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC‎

‎Very Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else fine. ; Lancaster Pamphlets; 128 pages‎

‎Watson, G. R.‎

‎THE ROMAN SOLDIER‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Spine slightly discolored. ; This book is a study of the life and training of the Roman soldier from enlistment to discharge. Covers the period of the Empire to the accession of Diocletian, and pays especial regard to ranks below the centurionate. Takes account not only of the legions and the auxiliary forces, but also of the praetorian guard and the urban cohorts, the Vigiles, and the imperial fleets. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 256 pages‎