epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Daisy Dunn

It is tempting to see the influence of Pliny the Elder’s passages on art in the design of the Tuscan estate itself. Outside, in the hippodrome garden, Nature was shaped ...

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, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Adrienne Mayor [Mayor, Adrienne]

FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN Mithradates also celebrated his victory over Murena with a solemn ritual, a mountaintop fire ceremony to thank Zeus and Mithra. Appian described this ceremony, which he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Anthony Everitt

XIV SHOWDOWN 32–31 B.C. * * * In early 32 B.C., it became obvious to everyone that Antony and Cleopatra had made an important and highly controversial decision. She was ...