Best Selling Books by Hazel Dodge

Recreates the public buildings, temples, shops, and houses of ancient Athens and Rome, providing a window through which to look at the development of the cities and their architecture, and to discuss various aspects of daily life, including religion, food, drama, games, food, culture, and entertainment.

An authoritative account of Roman imperial, military and political power, and of classical Rome''s influence on Western culture, architecture and art.

The magnificent world of ancient Rome is revealed through the lives and works of its many citizens, freedmen and slaves as well as through its art, architecture and daily social routines.

This authoritative, fact filled history traces the growth of the Roman army fromits earlydays as an unpaid citizen''s mililtia to its establishment as a world conquering professional force.

Gladiatorial combat, animal displays, naumachiae (staged naval battles) and spectacular executions were all an important part of Roman culture. The provision of a wide range of purpose-built buildings (from theatres to amphitheatres to circuses) as venues across the empire is testimony to the popularity and significance of these displays. This book offers an introduction to the main forms of spectacle in the Roman world (human and animal combat, chariot racing, aquatic displays), their nature, context and social importance. It will explore the vast array of sources, from literary to archaeological material, that informs the subject. It will examine the spectacles with special emphasis on their physical setting, and will also consider the variation in the provision of venues and their context across the Empire. A final section will review the modern reception of Roman spectacles, especially those involving gladiators.

An illustrated military and political chronicle of the world''s greatest Empire: its leaders generals, wars and campaigns.

This sourcebook uniquely gathers a wide range of texts that illustrate the physical structures of the city, the rhythms of its daily life and the interaction between topography, monuments and the people from Rome''s earliest days, through its imperial heyday until its transformation into the Western Christian capital. The chapters examined within this comprehensive introduction include: the early and republican city the emperor art and architecture leisure, life and death religion and late antiquity. Ancient City of Rome is designed to be directly relevant to those studying Roman civilization, or the city of Rome, at school or university level.

An introduction to warfare, government, conquest, power and leadership in ancient Rome, this work presents full-colour photographs, illustrations, maps, battle plans and diagrams that bring military campaigns, invasions, victories and defeats to life.

Looks at the history, architecture, religion, politics, philosophy, art, mythology, and rituals in classical Rome, Greece, and Egypt.