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Fall of the Roman Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-02-22 | 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 May 13,2014 )
The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives (Classics) by Plutarch
mobi, epub |eng | 1973-09-26 | Author:Plutarch

7 NICIAS [c. 470 – 413 B.C.] THERE is a true parallel, I believe, between the lives of Nicias and Crassus,1 and between the disasters of the Sicilian and the ...
( Category: Europe May 13,2014 )
The Age of Alexander (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Plutarch

Accordingly, Alexander rose and immediately visited Pharos: at that time it was still an island77 near the Canopic mouth of the Nile, but since then it has been joined to ...
( Category: Rome May 13,2014 )
Roman Lives by Plutarch & Robin Waterfield & Philip A. Stadter
mobi, epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Plutarch & Robin Waterfield & Philip A. Stadter

[79] With these last words to his family he climbed on board the boat. It was a long way from the trireme to land, and since none of the men ...
( Category: Rome May 13,2014 )
The Diary of a Young Girl by Frank Ann
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Frank, Ann [Frank, Ann]

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1944 Dearest Kitty, I (there I go again!) don’t know what’s happened, but since my dream I keep noticing how I’ve changed. By the way, I ...
( Category: Women May 11,2014 )
Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises by Xenophon & Robin H. Waterfield & Paul Cartledge
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Xenophon & Robin H. Waterfield & Paul Cartledge

CHAPTER 10 The usual way of getting a good war-horse to put on a grander and [1] more imposing display as it rides by is to pull at its mouth ...
( Category: Europe April 28,2014 )
Mithridates the Great by Philip Matyszak
epub |eng | 2009-04-19 | Author:Philip Matyszak

Peace talks Whilst Sulla delicately fenced with the envoys of Archelaus on talks about talks, Fimbria took his army into Asia Minor and, by damaging Mithridates there, improved Sulla’s negotiating ...
( Category: Rome March 26,2014 )
The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:William Manchester [Manchester, William]

With the vote of censure behind him and the decision made in favor of Torch, Churchill’s attention turned to Egypt, and Stalin. Based on Ultra decrypts, he had prodded Auchinleck ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Everitt Anthony
epub, mobi |pol | 2009-08-31 | Author:Everitt, Anthony [Everitt, Anthony]

What was the actual offense of which they were accused? Two versions of the story have come down to us. According to the Historia Augusta, Nigrinus and the others planned ...
( Category: Rome March 26,2014 )
The Gallic War and The Civil War (Illustrated) by Julius Caesar
epub |eng | | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

XLIX.—Caesar, when he perceived that his soldiers were fighting on unfavourable ground, and that the enemy's forces were increasing, being alarmed for the safety of his troops, sent orders to ...
( Category: Rome March 26,2014 )
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Tom Reiss [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
Da Vinci's Ghost by Lester Toby
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Lester, Toby [Lester, Toby]

IT WAS THE moment Leonardo had been waiting for. “When fortune comes,” he would write in about 1490, “seize her firmly by the forelock, for she is bald at the ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-29 | Author:Suetonius

DIVUS CLAUDIUS 1. When, three months after her marriage to Augustus, Livia gave birth to Decimus (later Nero) Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, people suspected that Augustus, not her ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS
mobi | | | Author:Erik Larson

( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Cicero by Anthony Everitt
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Anthony Everitt

8 THE IDEAL CONSTITUTION Writing about Politics: 55–43 BC Now that he was no longer able to play an active role in the conduct of affairs, Cicero decided to find ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )

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