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  • INVASION!
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    INVASION!
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    A history of how one ancient European tribe battled the Roman army in a war that seriously threatened the destruction of Rome. "The author has mastered the technique of enrobing the reader in the trials and tribulations of the Roman soldier to the extent that the reader feels they are a part of the story." —Army Rumour Service Partly as a result of poor commanders and partly be...

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  • EXPEDITION TO DISASTER
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    EXPEDITION TO DISASTER
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    This thrillingly vivid history recounts a pivotal battle of the Peloponnesian War, bringing the drama and personalities of the Sicilian Expedition to life. The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the most significant military events of the classical period. At the time, Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The exp...

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  • ROMAN CONQUESTS: MACEDONIA AND GREECE
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    ROMAN CONQUESTS: MACEDONIA AND GREECE
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    The acclaimed ancient world historian presents an accessible and authoritative account of the Macedonian Wars of the 3rd century, BCE. While the Roman Republic was struggling for survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon attempted to take advantage of its apparent vulnerability by allying with Hannibal and declaring war. The Romans first ne...

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  • GREECE AGAINST ROME
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    GREECE AGAINST ROME
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    The acclaimed ancient world historian examines the centuries-long decline of Greek powers in the face of the growing Roman threat. Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms were near their peak. In terms of population, economy and military power, each was vastly superior to Rome, not to mention in fields such as medicine, architecture, science, philos...

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  • THE RISE OF THE HELLENISTIC KINGDOMS, 336–250 BC
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    THE RISE OF THE HELLENISTIC KINGDOMS, 336–250 BC
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    The author of 24 Hours in Ancient Athens "tells the powerful story of how Greek history survived the meteor of Alexander and his brief world empire" ( Firetrench).   When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the mountains of Afghanistan. This empire did not survive Alexander's death, and rapidly broke into sever...

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  • SPARTA: FALL OF A WARRIOR NATION
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    SPARTA: FALL OF A WARRIOR NATION
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    The author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation continues his revealing history of the Ancient Greek city-state in this chronicle of its decline and defeat. Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans became masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? In Sparta: Fall of a Warri...

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  • SPARTA: RISE OF A WARRIOR NATION
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    SPARTA: RISE OF A WARRIOR NATION
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths.   The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image sugge...

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  • IMPERIAL GENERAL
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    IMPERIAL GENERAL
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    The biography of a 1st century Imperial Roman officer whose colorful life and remarkable career spans many of the era's major events. Few Imperial Romans below the level of emperor left a historic imprint as complete or as fascinating as that of Petilius Cerealis. From Boudicca's rebellion in Britannia to the infamous "year of the four emperors" in Rome, Cerealis had a knack fo...

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  • MITHRIDATES THE GREAT
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    MITHRIDATES THE GREAT
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    This military biography of the ancient King of Pontus, one of the Roman Republic's greatest rivals, draws on a wealth of new scholarly evidence. Fought between the Roman Republic and the Kingdom of Pontus, the Mithridatic wars stretched over half a century and two continents. Their story is one of pitched battles, epic sieges, double-crosses, world-class political conniving, as...

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  • GREAT BATTLES OF THE PUNIC WARS
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    GREAT BATTLES OF THE PUNIC WARS
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    A battle-focused history of the Punic Wars that forged Roman Mediterranean dominance. The three Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage (264-241, 218-201 and 149-146) were among the most significant and bitterly contested wars of the Classical period. The second war famously pitted the Romans against the genius of Hannibal Barca, whose invasion of Italy brought Rome to the brink o...

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  • JULIUS CAESAR IN EGYPT
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    JULIUS CAESAR IN EGYPT
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    "Exceptionally informative . . . a history of Julius Caesar and Ancient Rome that reads with all the narrative style of a finely honed novel." — Midwest Book Review In forty-eight BC the armies of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great fought a decisive battle at Pharsalus in Greece. Pompey was comprehensively defeated and fled to the last power in the Mediterranean world that was ...

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  • JULIUS CAESAR IN EGYPT
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    JULIUS CAESAR IN EGYPT
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    In 48 BC the armies of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great fought a decisive battle at Pharsalus in Greece. Pompey was comprehensively defeated and fled to the last power in the Mediterranean world that was independent of Rome, Ptolemaic Egypt. Caesar pursued Pompey and was presented with his severed head, which the Egyptians hoped would make Caesar leave them in peace. Instead,...

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  • INVASION!
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    INVASION!
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    Partly as a result of poor commanders and partly because the Romans had an innate and misguided belief in the invincibility of their legions, the first battles against the Cimbri were a series of disasters. These culminated in the Battle of Arausio in 105 BC when two Roman armies were utterly destroyed. Rome finally realized that their republic faced an existential threat, and ...

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  • CATACLYSM 90 BC
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    CATACLYSM 90 BC
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    A dramatic account of a rebellion against the Roman republic—by a confederation of its Italian allies.   We know of Rome's reputation for military success against foreign enemies. Yet at the start of the first century BC, Rome faced a hostile army less than a week's march from the capital. It is probable that only a swift surrender prevented the city from being attacked and sac...

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  • SERTORIUS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SPAIN
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    SERTORIUS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SPAIN
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    The epic battle to liberate Spain from Roman rule is a masterclass of ancient guerilla warfare, recounted by the author of Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day.   In the year 82 BC, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome. But among those who refused to accept his rule was the young army officer Quintus Sertorius. Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to S...

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  • 24 HORAS EN LA ANTIGUA ROMA
    24 HORAS EN LA ANTIGUA ROMA
    MATYSZAK, PHILIP
    Demos un paso atrás en la historia, hasta los tiempos de la antigua Roma, y pasemos un día con la gente que allí vivía, con sus habitantes. En el año 137 d.C., Roma se acerca al culmen de su poder: la riqueza y la prosperidad fluyen por todo el imperio y la ciudad es símbolo de cultura y saber. Sin embargo, el ciudadano romano medio no ve en ello beneficio alguno, ni le importa...
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  • SPARTA: RISE OF A WARRIOR NATION
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    SPARTA: RISE OF A WARRIOR NATION
    PHILIP MATYSZAK
    This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths.   The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image sugge...

    $279.00

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