azw3 |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Powell, Lindsay [Powell, Lindsay]

The discovery of the use of black magic would reinforce the impression of the couple’s wicked intentions. The little room of horrors may even have been stage-managed by friends of ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:David Potter

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 – ...

epub |eng | 2006-05-06 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Adrian]

XIV REBELLION, DISASTER AND VENGEANCE ‘And then, since he had not anticipated anything, Sabinus panicked, and rushed here and there deploying the cohorts, but even this he did timidly and ...

epub |eng | 1989-03-13 | Author:Sebastian De Grazia

Moses, perhaps his £freatest hero, is the model of the babe in the bulrushes. CHAPTER lO death of Lorenzo de’ Medici the elder, the Duomo was struck in its highest ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | 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 ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:The Younger Pliny

7. To his wife Calpumia You say that you are feeling my absence very much, and your only comfort when I am not there is to hold my writings in ...

epub |eng | | Author: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 ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CROSSING THE MARSHES Still, Hannibal concluded to cross it, and, in the attempt, he involved his army in difficulties and dangers as great, almost, as he had encountered upon the ...

epub, azw |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Michael Kerrigan [Kerrigan, Michael]

TORTURE AND TRUTH * * * Today, if torture is frowned upon, it is not only on humanitarian grounds, but also because we distrust the kind of information it supplies. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Derek Wilson

Notes 1 Halphen, op. cit., p.98 2 N. Machiavelli, The Prince (trs. W. K. Marriott), 1908, p.21 3 Allott, op. cit., p.98 4 Einhard and Notker, p.146 5 cf. Becher, ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Mattern, Susan P.;

Chapter Seven GALEN AND HIS PATIENTS t this point we lose the narrative thread of Galen’s life. We know—from one vague reference—that he suffered in the reign of Marcus’s son ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Daisy Dunn [Daisy Dunn]

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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Kirsty Corrigan [Corrigan, Kirsty]

Chapter Ten Prelude to Civil War August–November 44 BC Brutus Departs for Athens Plutarch narrates an anecdotal event which reportedly took place before Brutus’ departure from Italy, concerning his wife, ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Philip Matyszak & Lindsay Powell [Matyszak, Philip and Powell, Lindsay]

certainly, there were found hidden in the floor and in the walls disinterred remains of human bodies, incantations and spells, and the name of Germanicus inscribed on leaden tablets, half-burnt ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Blanchard, Jean-Vincent [Blanchard, Jean-Vincent]

Chapter 8 War (1635–1637) In the busy morning hours of May 19, 1635, the guards at Brussels’s Hau gate witnessed a curious spectacle. A proud-looking man arrived on horseback, wearing ...