Rome
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
May 27,2019 )
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 – ...
( Category:
Rome
May 27,2019 )
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
May 6,2019 )
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 ...
( Category:
Renaissance
March 14,2019 )
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
March 6,2019 )
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
March 6,2019 )
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
March 5,2019 )
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
June 8,2017 )
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. ...
( Category:
Rome
March 30,2017 )
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, ...
( Category:
Rome
December 4,2016 )
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
September 26,2016 )
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
July 12,2016 )
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, ...
( Category:
Rome
February 12,2016 )
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 ...
( Category:
Rome
January 22,2016 )
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 ...
( Category:
France
December 16,2015 )
Categories
Popular ebooks
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina by Eugenia Russell & Eugenia Russell(40196)Fanny Burney by Claire Harman(26565)
Empire of the Sikhs by Patwant Singh(23025)
Out of India by Michael Foss(16824)
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson(13238)
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult(7075)
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (WOMEN IN HISTORY) by Fraser Antonia(5458)
The Wind in My Hair by Masih Alinejad(5060)
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey(4909)
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing(4772)
The Crown by Robert Lacey(4764)
Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance by Janet Gleeson(4425)
The Iron Duke by The Iron Duke(4323)
Papillon (English) by Henri Charrière(4229)
Sticky Fingers by Joe Hagan(4148)
Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon(4058)
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read(3998)
Stalin by Stephen Kotkin(3922)
Aleister Crowley: The Biography by Tobias Churton(3606)
Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla(3442)