Ideas & Influences of the Ancient World Bargain Book Box
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description: Ideas & Influences of the Ancient World Bargain Book Box The men and women who built the ancient world — and the fights that tore it apart. Inside: Caesar and Cato locked in the rivalry that killed a republic. Hannibal crossing the Alps with a promise to keep. Justinian rebuilding an empire from Constantinople. The Roman East defended against Persia in a war most people have never heard of. Sun Tzu's Art of War, unchanged after two and a half thousand years and still being handed to generals and executives alike. Then the sharper angles: the imperial women whose reputations were destroyed by the men who wrote the histories. The smoke, noise, and appalling mortality of daily life in ancient Rome. Tutankhamun as a twentieth-century phenomenon rather than a pharaoh. A woman who taught herself Latin in middle age and found it changed everything. Fifteen books for readers who understand that the ancient world isn't finished with us yet. Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century — Christina Riggs | ISBN: 9781838950514 | RRP: $49.99 Not a book about ancient Egypt so much as a book about us. Christina Riggs traces what happened after the tomb was opened — the colonial politics, the media frenzy, the commercial exploitation, and the way a boy king who mattered little in his own time came to dominate the modern imagination. Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic — Josiah Osgood | ISBN: 9781541620117 | RRP: $49.99 Two men, irreconcilably opposed, whose mutual loathing helped bring down a political system that had lasted four centuries. Josiah Osgood tells the story of the late Republic through the personal enmity at its heart — rigorous scholarship with genuine dramatic force. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint — Peter Sarris | ISBN: 9781541601338 | RRP: $49.99 A major biography of the emperor who codified Roman law, built the Hagia Sophia, and came within reach of restoring the empire in the West — before plague and war undid nearl…
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