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Salamis : The greatest naval battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC by Barry Strauss
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Reprint under consideration as at March 2010. Salamis" tells the story of possibly the greatest naval battle of the ancient world. Involving hundreds of thousands of combatants and well over a thousand triremes - the ranking naval war engine of the time - it was the culminating battle in a twenty-yea ...Show more
Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)--a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the ...Show more
Ten Caesars - The Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
$42.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. Barry Strauss's Ten Caesars is the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, w ...Show more
The Spartacus War by Barry S. Strauss
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men, armed with kitchen knives. It grew into a full scale rebellion against Rome, the most famous slave revolt in history. With an army of gladiators, ex-slaves and other desperadoes, he managed to defeat a succession of Roman armi ...Show more
The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men, armed with kitchen knives. It grew into a full scale rebellion against Rome, the most famous slave revolt in history. With an army of gladiators, ex-slaves and other desperadoes, he managed to defeat a succession of Roman armi ...Show more
The Trojan War by Barry S. Strauss
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
Did the Trojan War really happen? Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly translated Hittite texts reveal that Troy was a large, wealthy city allied with the Hittite Empire. Located at the strategic entrance to the Dardanelles, the link between the Aege ...Show more
The Trojan War by Barry S. Strauss
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Based on the latest archaeological research and written by a leading expert on ancient military history, the true story of the most famous battle in history is every bit as compelling as Homer's epic account - and confirms many of its details. "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are cornerstones of Western li ...Show more
The War That Made the Roman Empire - Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
$50.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
The gripping story of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerf ...Show more
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A "splendid" (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Following Caesar's assassination and Mark Antony's defeat of the conspirators ...Show more
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