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Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
epub |eng | 2018-10-04 | Author:Matthew Sturgis [Sturgis, Matthew]

* Douglas, in later life, after he converted to Roman Catholicism and renounced his homosexual past, became almost frantic in his insistence that he had never been sodomized by Wilde. ...
( Category: Authors November 24,2019 )
Cassius Dio by Jesper Majbom Madsen
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Jesper Majbom Madsen

Democracy fails As shown in chapter 1, Dio describes the Late Republic as a time when war and political violence became a fully integrated part of Roman politics. The political ...
( Category: Rome October 14,2019 )
Caligula - An Unexpected General by Lee Fratantuono
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Fratantuono [Lee Fratantuono]

Chapter Seven The Evidence of Philo’s In Flaccum The De Legatione ad Gaium that we have just examined closely is generally considered to be rather unhelpful in terms of providing ...
( Category: Rome September 23,2019 )
The Reign of Emperor Gallienus by Ilkka Syvanne
epub |eng | | Author:Ilkka Syvanne [Ilkka Syvanne]

6.4The War against the Macriani 260/261–262 ²³ The reasons why the Macriani and Ballista rose in revolt are shrouded in mystery. One possible reason could be that Gallienus refused to ...
( Category: Rome September 22,2019 )
Mark Antony: A Plain Blunt Man by Paolo de Ruggiero
epub |eng | | Author:Paolo de Ruggiero [Paolo de Ruggiero]

“I believe nothing ever happened that was crueller than this barter: trading death for death, they killed those they handed over just like those that they were given, but they ...
( Category: Rome September 22,2019 )
The Emperor Nero by Barrett Anthony A.; Fantham Elaine; Yardley John C
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Barrett, Anthony A.; Fantham, Elaine; Yardley, John C.

VI THE GREAT FIRE INTRODUCTION The major fire that broke out in Rome in AD 64 marked an important turning point in Nero’s reign and had political repercussions that went ...
( Category: Rome September 20,2019 )
Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Daisy Dunn [Dunn, Daisy]

Murder, adultery, injustice, and careless disregard for the gods were rife. Near the beginning of the poem, in contrast, Catullus praised the Heroic Age: ‘Heroes, born in the moment most ...
( Category: Rome August 23,2019 )
Frederick the Second by Ernst Kantorowicz
epub |eng | | Author:Ernst Kantorowicz [Kantorowicz, Ernst]

* The Hebrew scholars of Spain and of Provence with whom Frederick established relations, or whom he even brought to court, contributed rather to the astronomical and philosophical than to ...
( Category: Rome August 3,2019 )
The Emperors of Rome by David Potter
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:David Potter [Potter, David]

Eastern cults The Romans also had the sense that Graeco-Roman culture was relatively young compared with the ancient cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Tourists – including the emperor Hadrian – ...
( Category: Rome August 3,2019 )
Soldier, Priest, and God by F S Naiden
epub |eng | 2018-10-09 | Author:F S Naiden

Anonymous color drawing of the western bank of the Beas River, 1848. Illustrated London News. in early fall, the army marched back to the place on the Jhelum where they ...
( Category: Rome August 3,2019 )
Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Barry Strauss [Strauss, Barry]

THE JEWISH WAR Hadrian incited a new, massive Jewish revolt against Rome, lasting from 132 to 135. The proximate cause was probably his decision to refound Jerusalem as a Roman ...
( Category: Rome July 18,2019 )
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
epub |eng | 2013-02-02 | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

2 The second crossing of the Rhine (53 B.C.) 9. After marching from the country of the Menapii to that of the Treveri, Caesar determined to cross the Rhine for ...
( Category: Rome June 25,2019 )
Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Plutarch

26. So for the time being the assembly was adjourned. When the day came for voting on the law, Pompey went quietly out of the city into the country. There ...
( Category: Rome June 21,2019 )
A Companion to Julius Caesar by Griffin Miriam;
epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Griffin, Miriam;

(Luc 9.980–6, trans. S. H. Braund) Where Achilles had his Homer, and Alexander but the feeble Choerilus, Caesar will now have Lucan. The hero hastens on to Alexandria, pausing only ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
epub |eng | | Author:Plutarch

8 BRUTUS [85–42 B.C.] 1. Marcus Brutus was a descendant of that Junius Brutus in whose honour the ancient Romans erected a statue of bronze and placed it in the ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )

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