Rome category: 2065 books

The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian is a description of all Roman regions during the early imperial period, written by Theodor Mommsen. In separate chapters Mommsen describes the different imperial provinces, each as a stand-alone subject, starting from provinces on the northern...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Ovid was an ancient Roman poet who is best known for writing...

J. B. Bury was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. In print for more than thirty years, this book has long served as a standard text...

Virgil (70-19 B.C.) needs no formal introduction, as he has long been considered Ancient Romes greatest poet and is globally renowned for The Aeneid, one of the most famous epic poems in history. Virgils other greatest works are considered to be the Eclogues (or Bucolics), and the Georgics, although...

In the midst of three of the Wests greatest cities reside towering Ancient Egyptian obelisks that date back over 3,000 years. So how exactly did 60+ feet tall obelisks go from Alexandria to London, New York City, and Paris, and what do these obelisks hieroglyphics say? Each one of the obelisks, dubbed...

A fascinating journey through Greek mythology that explains the myths' timeless lessons and meaning Heroes, gods, and mortals. The Greek myths are the founding narratives of Western civilization: to understand them is to know the origins of philosophy, literature, art, science, law, and more....

A compilation of the recorded life, times, and influence of a Roman legend, Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal captures the essence of human virtue as it was embodied in the Roman Republics earliest days. Describing Cincinnatuss recorded life and times, Hillyard traces the legends major interpretations...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. Moral Letters to Lucilius is a classic from Seneca, originally published in the Loeb Classical Library.

The Moralia (loosely translatable as Matters relating to Customs and Mores) of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They give an insight into Roman and Greek life, but often are also fascinating timeless observations...

Is Anthimus' work the oldest European medieval cookbook? Well, it IS six centuries older than a twelfth century book that has recently been touted as exactly that. In fact, neither is exactly a cookbook; both are works on health which happen to include recipes. No cookbook has survived from...

Running horses. Proud Romans. Fearless Barbarians. This is the pilot short story of a trilogy leading the White Owl against the Roman Aquila over the foggy battlefields, North of Danube

The Satyricon of Petronius is the only directly realistic novel that has come down to us from the ancient world. Its value as a picture of everyday life under the early Roman Empire is thus unique. But the work itself is far from being merely a dry record of facts. It communicates with masterly force...

Studying Roman Law is an introductory guide aimed at sixth-formers, students and those with a general interest wishing to obtain a basic overview of Roman private law during the first three centuries of the Common Era. It is not meant to be a replacement for more comprehensive and technical manuals...

Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, Murder...