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The tragic stories of Lucretia and Verginia, taken from the fourteenth-century French version of Livy's History of Rome, presented with facing page English translation.
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Indispensable for students and scholars of Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and Roman law, this new critical edition, destined to become the new standard, is accompanied by a thorough commentary that…
Neil Treble
The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Latin AS and A-Level prescription of Cicero's pro Roscio Amerino for examination in 2026-2028.
Andrew R. Dyck
Distinguished Latinist Andrew R. Dyck presents the first English commentary on Cicero's de natura deorum II in over fifty years. This text is the only connected exposition of Stoic theology…
First English commentary on Cicero's examination of the gods in over fifty years
Josiah Osgood
A top historian of Rome narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer…
A historian of Rome "at the height of his powers" (Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire) narrates the erosion of law and order in the…
Cicero,Livy,Tacitus
Selecta ex M. T. Cicerone, Tit. Livio, Corn Tacito, M. Velleio, Paterculo, C. Plinio est liber qui varias orationes et historias ex scriptis auctoribus antiquis continet. In hoc libro, lectores…
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Tacitus
Translated by Alfred J. Church. This edition is NOT a "mass market printing" but a high-quality edition printed on white paper. The Annals is without question one of the most…
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Translated by Alfred J. Church. This edition is NOT a "mass market printing" but a high-quality edition printed on white paper. Germania, or in its original Latin, "De Origine et…
The Histories, first published circa 110 AD, provides one of the most comprehensive records of Roman history from the time of the first civil war of the Empire ("The Year…
Selecta Ex M. T. Cicerone, Tit. Livio, Corn Tacito, M. Velleio, Paterculo, C. Plinio est liber qui scripta selecta ex operibus M. Tullii Ciceronis, Titi Livii, Corneli Taciti, M. Velleii…
William Bodham Donne
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Grady Brown
"Livi's Possibilities" is the story of a young gymnast struggling to find her confidence. Along with guidance from her coach, and his "possibility statements", she learns how to overcome her…
Ayelet Haimson-Lushkov
The study of Roman Historiography, and with it of individual historians, has undergone a sea change in the last half century, with emphasis increasingly placed on the structures of the…
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Livy Hart
One over-the-top Italian wedding. Two fake couples. And a million hilariously disastrous possibilities...
Nora D'Amato would do almost anything for her best friend. Pretend she's smitten with him to get…
Cicero
Cicero offers wisdom on aging, seeing it as a time for growth and peace, while also highlighting the value of trust and loyalty in deep, meaningful friendships for a fulfilling…
Alfred John Church
Stories From Livy, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in…
Bradley J Birzer
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder. Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton--the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence--was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders…
The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Cicero's presence in the cultural history of Basel - from the city's foundation to the heyday of humanist print culture, to…
Francesca K. A. Martelli
Souvenirs of Cicero studies the narratives that the letter collections of Cicero unfold and looks closely at the ancient format of Epistulae ad Familiares, the collection that incorporates Cicero's widest…
Douglas R. Thomas
This new edition of Cicero's Brutus by Douglas R. Thomas presents the first comprehensive study of the transmission of the text drawing on detailed stemmatic research, a new critical edition…
Few philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero consciously fashioned his own image for posterity and wrote…
Mark Simmons
The compelling story of the highest paid and most successful spy in history
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Cornelius Tacitus
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Judy Cicero
The Parasol Ants and the Bengal Cat (Unlikely Friends) is a heartwarming children's story that teaches valuable lessons about friendship, teamwork, and overcoming differences. The book follows an unlikely group…
Noah Cicero
Stay alert to the beauty.
Be in the moment.
Be mindful of what is happening.
If you are open and willing
to see it, there can be divine beauty
everyday…
A full edition of Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, which covers the years AD 23-28 when, under the influence of his henchman Sejanus, the emperor Tiberius famously changed for the…
The first volume of D. S. Levene's Livy: The Fragments and Periochae contains the fragments, citations, and testimonia presented with an introduction, facing-page translations, and commentaries.
The second volume of D. S. Levene's Livy: The Fragments and Periochae contains Books 1-45 of the Periochae presented with an introduction, facing-page translation, and commentaries.
Livi Deane
Diagnosed with a rare retinoblastoma at 12 years old, Livi Deane was desperate not to lose her eye. Sadly chemotherapy couldn't remove the cancer and her eye was removed at…
Anthony Trollope
Gesine Manuwald
This new edition of De re publica provides a revised Latin text and a new English translation of all the surviving text of Cicero's famous work on Roman constitutional theory…
The first modern commentary on Cicero's last dialogue, written in the months after Caesar's assassination. Designed for intermediate and advanced students of Latin, ancient philosophy, and Roman intellectual and political…
Alfred J Church
"This book does not claim to be a life of Cicero or a history of the last days of the Roman Republic. I have tried to group round the central…
David Ebony
The first book devoted to the enigmatic and thought-provoking drawings and watercolours of Carmen Cicero, born in 1926 - in a handsome oversize format.
Includes treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry.
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