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The early history of Rome
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Titus Livius Livy, Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator)
Livy (c. 59 BC AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic brilliance, he chronicles nearly 400 years of history, from the founding of Rome (traditionally dated to 757 BC) to the Gallic invasion in 386 BC an era which witnessed the reign of ...
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The Campaigns of Alexander
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Arrian, Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator), J R Hamilton (Notes by)
Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most reliable we have. Arrian's own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the world's greatest conqueror. He tells of Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his defeat of ...
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The Early History of Rome: Books I-IV of the History of Rome from Its Foundation
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Titus Livius Livy, Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator), Aubrey de Selincourt (Translator)
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Snakes with Wings and Gold-Digging Ants
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Herodotus, Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator), John Marincola (Revised by)
So much of what is known of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus that he will always remain the greatest of historians. In this collection, he reveals his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories of distant lands and strange creatures.
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Herodotus : the histories
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Aubrey De Selincourt
During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk tales and stories.
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Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps
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Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator), Titus Livy
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Xerxes Invades Greece
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Herodotus, Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator), John Marincola (Revised by)
This work talks about a king who would be worshipped as a god. When Xerxes, King of Persia, crosses the Hellespont at the head of a formidable army, it seems inevitable that Greece will be crushed beneath its might. But, the Greeks are far harder to defeat than he could ever have imagined. As storms lash the Persian ships, and sinister omens ...
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The Book of the Sea: An Anthology
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Aubrey De Selincourt (Editor)
An unequalled anthology of poetry and prose from Homer to T.S. Eliot, describing the sea in all its moods and man's experience of it. Travelers, novelists, poets, small-boat sailors, oceanographers, deep-sea captains, have all fallen under the spell of the sea. They have been drawn by its sacred qualities, by its beauty; they have been fascinated ...
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The World of Herodotus
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Aubrey Selincourt, Aubrey De Selincourt
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Phoenix: The World of Herodotus
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Aubrey De Selincourt
Herodotus himself provides a strong focus through his histories to this fascinating account of the Greek world from the eighth to the fifth centuries BC - both the geographical world that Herodotus saw in his travels and the complex of thought, feeling and tradition which Herodotus crystallized.
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Campaigns of Alexander
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Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator), Arrian, Arriam
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Six Great Englishmen
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Aubrey Selincourt
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The history of early Rome
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Livy, Aubrey De Selincourt
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The world of Herodotus.
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Odysseus the wanderer
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The life of Alexander the Great
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Cat's cradle
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The book of the sea
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The schoolmaster.
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The Histories: Revised Edition
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Herodotus, John M Marincola (Introduction by), Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator)
During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk tales and stories.
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Six Great Poets: Chaucer, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, the Brownings
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The Channel shore.
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On Reading Poetry
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Six great Englishmen.
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Young Schoolmaster
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