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  • A New Voyage Round the World by

    A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies

    The first great English-language travel ...

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  • The Twelve Caesars by

    A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material

    As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had ...

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  • On Sparta by

    A vivid and richly anecdotal portrait of Spartan society.

    Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source ...

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  • The Civil Wars by

    John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as historian and places ...

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  • History of Decline & Fall of Roman Empire Vols 1 & 2 by

    This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers

    Edward Gibbon's ...

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  • History of Decline and Fall of Roman Empire Vols 3 & 4 by

    This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers

    Edward Gibbon's ...

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  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 5 &6 by

    Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive ...

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  • The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by

    Eusebius is regarded as *the

    • historian of Christian antiquity

    Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first ...

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  • The Jewish War by

    Penguin Classics relaunch

    Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against ...

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  • The Civil War by

    Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome

    A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great ...

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  • The Campaigns of Alexander by

    Penguin Classics relaunch.

    Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most ...

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  • The Persian Expedition by

    Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad

    In The Persian Expedition ...

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  • History of the Peloponnesian War by

    Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent ...

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