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

By John Richardson

Cleopatra

By Hughes Hallett

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

By Max Hastings

Cicero: A Turbulent Life

By Anthony Everitt

Emperors of Rome

By David Potter

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

By Adeline Yen Mah

Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past

By Paul Cartledge

Scipio Africanus: A Greater Than Napoleon

By B. H. Liddell Hart

The Book of the Pharaohs

By Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

By Daisy Dunn

Nero: The Man Behind the Myth

By Richard Holland

The Trial of Socrates

By Stone, I. F.

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

By Wills, Garry

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

By J. Brunschwig, Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd

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

By Andrew Roberts

Nero: The Man Behind the Myth

By Richard Holland

Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor

By Allen, Charles

It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics

By Launay, Mickael, Wilson, Stephen S.

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

By Cyril Of Scythopolis, Binns, John, Price, R. M.

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

By Horwitz, Sylvia L.

Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics)

By Suetonius, Edwards, Catharine

The Life and Times of Julius Caesar

By A Noble

Pericles and the Conquest of History: A Political Biography

By samons II, Loren J.

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

By Plutarch, Bernadotte Perrin

Who are the Celtic Saints?

By Jones, Kathleen

Attila

By Man, John

Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-king

By El Mahdy, Christine

Antony and Cleopatra

By Goldsworthy, Adrian, Dr Adrian Goldsworthy Ltd

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

By Adkins, Lesley

Julius Caesar: a Beginner's Guide

By Kamm, Antony