Classical History / Classical Civilisation

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Sapiens: A Graphic History
Sapiens: A Graphic History
Yuval Noah Harari

In a manner that is both playful and provocative, Harari teams with co-creators adept at the graphic format to enliven h...

Pandora's Jar
Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes

The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but ...

Growth : From Microorganisms to Megacities
Growth : From Microorganisms to Megacities
Vaclav Smil

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civil...

21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the prese...

SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard

"Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inha...

Letters from a Stoic : Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Letters from a Stoic : Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing i...

The Lessons of History
The Lessons of History
Will Durant

A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of resea...

Discourses and Selected Writings
Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus

Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD....

(Download PDF) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
(Download PDF) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the underst...

Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Guy Debord

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of...