Ancient History Bookshelf

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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

Accessing Antiquity : The Computerization of Classical Studies

Art of War
Tzu Sun 

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

Ancient Astronomers (Exploring the Ancient World)

The Ancient Celts

Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Greece (World History)

Ancient Greece : The Dawn of the Western World

Ancient Israel : A Short History from Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple

The Ancient Mediterranean

The Ancient Near East

The Ancient Orient : An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East

Ancient Pueblo Peoples (Exploring the Ancient World)

AncientScotland

Ancient South America (Cambridge World Archaeology)

The Ancient World (Time Link Series)

The Ancient World : A Social and Cultural History

The Ancient World : Readings in Social and Cultural History

The Age of Augustus (World History Series)

The Age of Constantine the Great

Age of Knights & Castles

The Age of Pericles (World History Series)

Alexander the Great : Man of Action Man of Spirit (Discoveries)

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