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Best Selling Titles

1. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

2. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

3. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

4.  Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

5. The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika

6. The Complete World of Greek Mythology

7.  Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy

8. Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

9.  The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

10. Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000

Recommended Titles

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Raymond O. Faulkner/ 1990

Accessing Antiquity : The Computerization of Classical Studies
Published 1993

Art of War
Tzu Sun / 1984

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : An Abridged Version
Edward Gibbon / 1983

Ancient Astronomers (Exploring the Ancient World)
Anthony F. Aveni / 1995

The Ancient Celts
Barry Cunliffe / 1997

Ancient Civilizations
Christopher Scarre / 1997

Ancient Greece (World History)
Don Nardo / 1994

Ancient Greece : The Dawn of the Western World
Furio Durando / 1997

Ancient Israel : A Short History from Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple
Hershel Shanks / 1996

The Ancient Mediterranean
Michael Grant /  1990

The Ancient Near East
Amelie Kurht /  1999

The Ancient Orient : An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East
Wolfram Von Soden / 1994

Ancient Pueblo Peoples (Exploring the Ancient World)
Linda S. Cordell /  1995

AncientScotland
Nigel Blundell / 1997

Ancient South America (Cambridge World Archaeology)
Karen Olsen Bruhns / 1994

The Ancient World (Time Link Series)
Mike Corbishley  / 1992

The Ancient World : A Social and Cultural History
D. Brendan Nagle /  1996

The Ancient World : Readings in Social and Cultural History
D. Brendan Nagle  / 1994

The Age of Augustus (World History Series)
Don Nardo / 1996

The Age of Constantine the Great
Jacob Burckhardt  / 1983

Age of Knights & Castles
World Book Staff /  1996

The Age of Pericles (World History Series)
Don Nardo /  1996

Alexander the Great : Man of Action Man of Spirit (Discoveries)
Jeremy Leggatt (Translator), Pierre Briant /1996

Alexander to Actium : The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Hellenistic Culture and Society, No 1)
Peter Green /  1993