Rome's wars in Parthia : blood in the sand by Sheldon, Rose Mary, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…First contact -- The high price of failure : Crassus and the Parthians -- The Parthian response -- The campaigns of Antony -- The diplomatic solution : Augustus and Tiberius -- The campaigns of Corbulo and the Neronian settlement -- Trajan's Parthian adventure : with some modern caveats -- From Hadrian to Caracalla -- What did the Romans know, and when did they know it? …”


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Roman Britain and classical deities : gender and sexuality in Roman art by Morelli, Angela

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Death, society, and culture : inscriptions and epitaphs in Gaul and Spain, AD 300-750 by Handley, Mark A.

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Vindolanda by Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith

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Chemical arts and technologies of indigenous Americans by Gordon, B. Le Roy (Burton Le Roy), 1920-2015

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Willful child : wrath of Betty by Erikson, Steven

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Star dust by Bidart, Frank, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…1: Music like dirt -- For the twentieth century -- Music like dirt -- Young Marx -- For Bill Nestrick (1940-96) -- Little fugue -- Advice to the players -- Stanzas ending with the same two words -- The poem is a veil -- Luggage -- Hammer -- Injunction -- Heart beat -- Legacy -- Lament for the makers -- 2: Curse -- Knot -- Phenomenology of the prick -- The soldier who guards the frontier -- Romain Clerou -- Hadrian's deathbed -- Song -- Star dust -- The third hour of the night.…”


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The warrior's bride prize by Fletcher, Jenni

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Men of taste : from Pharaoh to Ruskin. by Briggs, Martin S. (Martin Shaw), 1882-1977

Table of Contents: “…--Pericles, ruler of Athens.--Hadrian, Roman emperor.--Justinian I, Byzantine emperor.…”


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Toxiques : quand les livres font mal by Jouannaud, Laurent

Table of Contents: “…Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal (1857) -- Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) -- Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer (1873) -- Marguerite Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrian (1951) -- Albert Cohen, Belle du Seigneur (1968) -- Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927) -- Samuel Beckett, L'Innommable (1953).…”


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Greek and Roman art, 3000 B.C. to A.D. 550 by Kjellberg, Ernst, 1891-1938, Säflund, Gösta, 1903-2004

Table of Contents: “…From Augustus to Trajan -- The age of Hadrian and the Antonines -- Late antiquity.…”


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The mute stones speak : the story of archaeology in Italy by MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan, 1914-1998

Table of Contents: “…Prehistoric Italy -- The Etruscans -- Early Rome -- Roman colonies in Italy (Ostia, Alba Fucens, Cosa) -- Nabobs as builders: Sulla, Pompey, Caesar -- Augustus: buildings as propaganda -- Hypocrite, madman, fool, and knave -- The victims of Vesuvius (Pompeii) -- Flavian Rome (the Colosseum, the Arch of Titus) -- Trajan: port, forum, market, column -- An emperor-architect: Hadrian -- Roman engineering -- Caesar and Christ.…”


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Recent archaeological excavations in Britain, selected excavations 1939-1955; with a chapter on recent air-reconnaissance.

Table of Contents: “…Excavations include: Star Carr, Yorkshire -- Snettisham treasure -- Brigantian fortifications at Stanwick -- Cult of Mithras Temple at Carrawburgh, Hadrian's Wall -- Lullingstone Roman Villa -- Excavations in the City of London -- Sutton Hoo ship-burial -- Dark Age settlement at Mawgan Porth, Corwall -- Jarlshof, Shetland -- Norman motte at Abinger and wooden castle -- Deserted Medieval villages at Wharram Percy, Yorkshire.…”


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Historia Augusta. Volume II

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Historia Augusta. Volume III

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Best plays of the sixties : edited with an introductory note and prefaces to the plays

Table of Contents: “…/ Brian Friel -- The odd couple / Neil Simon -- The royal hunt of the sun / Peter Shaffer -- The killing of Sister George / Frank Marcus -- Hadrian VII / Peter Luke -- The boys in the band / Mart Crowley -- The great white hope / Howard Sackler.…”


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Pax : war and peace in Rome's Golden Age by Holland, Tom

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Sources for the history of Greek athletics in English translation

Table of Contents: “…From the fall of Corinth to the age of Hadrian, 146 B.C.-A.D. 118 -- 8. The renaissance in the second century -- 9. …”


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Studies in the Apostolic Fathers and their background by Barnard, L. W. (Leslie William)

Table of Contents: “…-- The Dead Sea scrolls, Barnabas, the Didache and the later history of the 'two ways' -- The use of testimonies in the early church and in the Epistle of Barnabas -- Hadrian and Christianity -- Hermas, the church and Judaism -- The enigma of the Epistle to Diognetus.…”


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The son of a star by Borchsenius, Poul

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