books by subject
Historical Biographies BCE-500 AD

Augustan Rome, 44 BC to AD 14: the Restoration of the Republic and the Establishment of the Empire (Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome)

Cleopatra

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Cicero: A Turbulent Life

Emperors of Rome

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past Through its Proverbs

Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past

Scipio Africanus: A Greater Than Napoleon

The Book of the Pharaohs

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Nero: The Man Behind the Myth

The Trial of Socrates

Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism

Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Harvard University Press Reference Library)

The Great Commanders of the Ancient World 1479BC - 453AD (Art of War)

Nero: The Man Behind the Myth

Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor

It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics

The Lives of the Monks of Paulestine: The Lives of the Monks of Palestine: 114 (Cistercian Studies Series, 114)

The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos

Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics)

The Life and Times of Julius Caesar

Pericles and the Conquest of History: A Political Biography

Lives, Volume I: Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola (Loeb Classical Library 46)

Who are the Celtic Saints?

Attila

Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-king

Antony and Cleopatra

EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
