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Some Penguin Classics get overshadowed by others, and that's certainly the case with the Aubrey De Selincourt translation of the first f...

Our book today is Stephen Dando-Collins’ new work of history, The Ides: Caesar’s Murder and the War for Rome (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). ...

Our books today form the "Emperor" series written by Conn Iggulden - all the paperbacks of which bear the same ominous blurb, ...

Our book today is Domitian and the Senatorial Order , a Prosographical Study of Domitian's Relationship with the Senate, A.D. 81-96 , wh...

Our last look at the Penny Press in 2008 features two accounts of the shot and fray of war - and some of the perils attendant in writing abo...

Our book today is The Rise of the Roman Empire (for want of a better title) by the first century b.c. historian Polybius, a Greek living am...