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Sex in History:
"Thoroughly fascinating." DS, New York Post...."An intelligent and mature look at the history of sex. Loved it.. captivated my mind and attention through all of the 400 and some odd pages.."  
Sex in History (Revised)
 Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra:
A remarkable compendium of information gleaned from a great variety of sources. . . . analyzing in detail the varied roles of Greek women as queens, wives, and slaves in the social and economic life of Ptolemaic Egypt.
 Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra
The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature: The Romans encountered Druidism in Gaul and Britain and were appalled by the cult. Written by the world's leading authority on Celtic culture, Jean Markale painstakingly pieces together all that is known for certain about them... A comprehensive and revealing look at the druids and their fundamental role in Celtic society that dispels many of the misconceptions about these important religious figures and their doctrine. Provides the modern reader with a better understanding of the doctrine that took druidic apprentices 20 years to learn in the remote forests of the British Isles and Gaul.
 
The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature
The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius:
 
The Rise of the Roman Empire
 Discovering the Roman Family:
This volume is a significant contribution to the study of the Roman family since it explores, in a series of insightful and well documented papers, aspects rarely investigated by modern scholarship.
 Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History
 Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities:
Pomeroy offers a highly original and authoritative account of the Greek family as a productive and reproductive social unit in Athens and elsewhere during the classical and Hellenistic periods, taking account of a mass of literary, inscriptional, archaeological, anthropological, and art-historical evidence.
 Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities
A History of Pagan Europe:
 
History of Pagan Europe
Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece:
Serious food history buffs will enjoy this study of Greek foodstuffs and culinary attitudes from prehistory to the present day.
 
Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece
The Conquest of Gaul:
The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Between 58 and 50 BC Julius Caesar not only conquered almost the whole of modern France, Belgium and Switzerland, with parts of Holland and Germany, but also invaded Britain twice. It was partly as a piece of personal propaganda that he recorded his campaigns against the various Gallic tribes in Latin. These simple, direct and lucid texts are a unique direct source on Gaul in that period and also the only narrative actually written by a great general of antiquity about his own campaigns.
 
The Conquest of Gaul
The Civil War:
After conquering Gaul, Caesar turns his armies against the Senate. "THE CIVIL WAR" is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War the following year. This generously annotated edition places the war in context and enables the reader to grasp it both in detail and as a whole. 368 pp.
 
The Civil War
Set in 480 B.C., Pressfield's elegiac historical novel is an epic retelling of the Persian victory over 300 Spartan soldiers, who held back an overwhelming number of rampaging soldiers from the Persian Empire for six days before being wiped out, at the Battle of Thermopylae...An eloquently written book that's got it all: suspense, drama, daring battlefield courage, and battle scenes that last long after the read is over. An incredibly gripping, moving, and literate work of art.
 
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
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 Ancient Greece:
Four leading authorities on the classical world gather to tell a complete history of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic era that followed the death of Alexander the Great. Unlike many other histories, the book goes into depth on the Hellenistic period, as well as the Bronze and Dark Ages.
 Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
 
Rediscovering Antiquity: Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae
Three important sites of classical antiquity that first came to light in 1738,.... explains how Weber, rather than simply recovering artifacts as his contemporaries did, sought evidence of the ancient urban fabric and related his discoveries to their archaeological context.
Seneca: Tragedies, Volume 8 (Hercules Furens, Troades, Medea, Hippolytus or Phaedra, Oedipus) (Loeb Classical Library):
 
Seneca: Tragedies, Volume 8 (Hercules Furens, Troades, Medea, Hippolytus or Phaedra, Oedipus) (Loeb Classical Library)
Pliny the Younger: Volume 1, Books 1-7, Letters & Panegyricus (Loeb Classical Library):
 
Pliny the Younger: Volume 1, Books 1-7, Letters & Panegyricus (Loeb Classical Library)
Pliny the Younger: Volume 2, Books 7-10, Letters, Panegyricus by Pliny the Younger(Loeb Classical Library):
 
Pliny the Younger: Volume 2, Books 7-10, Letters, Panegyricus (Loeb Classical Library)
Cicero: De Re Publica & De Legibus, Volume 16, Philosophical Treatises by Marcus Tullius Cicero:
 
Cicero: De Re Publica & De Legibus, Volume 16, Philosophical Treatises (Loeb Classical Library)
 Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation:
450 short works and excerpts reveal the life of women in classical Greece and Rome. Included are women's voices in poetry and women characters' speeches by men playwrights and philosophers' opinions, and documents on legal status, public and private life, occupations, medicine, and religion. Greatly expanded from the 1980 first edition. "The texts are well and widely chosen, and newly translated...The modern reader can enter the ancient world through this text."
 Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt:
 
Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt
Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies:
This handbook provides a sorely needed and thorough overview in English of the current state of Etruscan studies....Throughout, new and old have been combined in a way that enables this book to cater effectively to the needs both of beginners and of scholars in areas adjacent to the Etruscans in space (Iron Age Europe, Classical Greece) and time (Mediterranean prehistory, the Roman period). Another new and welcome feature of this well-integrated collection is Tripp's succinct guide to Etruscan coinage, which to my knowledge has never been treated at this level in any language. paperback
 Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies
The Gnostic Gospels:
 
The Gnostic Gospels
The historical and theological implications of an ancient library of Gnostic texts, found near Nag Hammadi in upper Egypt in 1945. These old texts were banned by the early Christian hierarchy, suppressed for 2000 years. Judge for yourself the reason why these texts were not made available by the Church.
In Quest of the Lost Legions:
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It was a military disaster on a huge scale. It dealt a body blow to the might of Imperial Rome, and may have changed the course of European history.
Two thousand years ago the Teutoburg Forest, located in what is now the German state of Westphalia, was a gloomy wilderness of giant trees, dismal swamps, and tangled undergrowth: In September of AD 9 three Roman legions commanded by P. Quinctilius Varus ventured into that grim, green nether-world, where they ere annihilated by German Cherusci tribesman. Some 20,000 Roman soldiers and as many as 5,000 servants and dependents, mostly women and children, were slain either in combat or in the Cherusci's post-battle sacrificial rites. Read the story of how the battle-site was finally located in 1988 and what that discovery revealed.
 The In Quest of the Lost Legions: The Varrusschlacht
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