Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2014-10-02 | Author:John Sadler [Sadler, John]

On Tuesday after the octave of Easter [16 April] Edward de Brus, Robert’s brother, invaded England by way of Carlisle, contrary to agreement, and remained there three days at the ...
( Category: Military February 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-23 | Author:Birgitta Hoffmann [Hoffmann, Birgitta]

On the other hand over the last few years excavations at Silchester continue to encounter evidence for destruction that appears to date to the mid first century and which is ...
( Category: Military February 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Frank Joseph [Joseph, Frank]

15 Lost Motherland, Drowned Fatherland No two peoples could have been more different from each other than those who dominated the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. It is fitting that ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-21 | Author:Ronald H. Fritze

Sax Rohmer, the Mummy’s Curse and Egyptomania Fiction Sax Rohmer (1883–1959), real name Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, is best known as the creator of the iconic villain Dr Fu Manchu, ...
( Category: World February 9,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:plato

BOOK VI SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared in view. I do ...
( Category: Philosophy February 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen English [English, Stephen]

These Tyrian vessels are of unknown type, but they must have been smaller and more manoeuvrable than triremes. They probably had some form of bladed weapon protruding from the sides ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-20 | Author:Robbert Bosschart [Bosschart, Robbert]

• 8 • THE DEATH OF HEFAISTION In October 324 BC, Alexander had accompanied Hefaistion to Ekbatana. They were organising a Games festival, when Hefaistion went down with fever. It ...
( Category: World February 5,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-04-11 | Author:Dexter Hoyos [Hoyos, Dexter]

naries just arrived from Spain, and then with them and Syphax was shatteringly defeated by Scipio all over again. Only the doomed valour of the Celtiberians allowed Hasdrubal and his ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-17 | Author:Elizabeth Carney [Carney, Elizabeth]

Olympias’ afterlife 115 Figure 6.1 Vienna Cameo Source: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna more dramatically with the accompanying female head than is the case with the more generalized features of both the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Guy Maclean Rogers [Rogers, Guy Maclean]

CHAPTER 20 The Mutiny at the Hyphasis River THE MARCH TO THE HYPHASIS RIVER After respects had been paid to those who had fallen at the Hydaspes, Alexander performed customary ...
( Category: Military February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:James J. O'Donnell [O'Donnell, James J.]

Being Justinian s 225 Justinian as general: a spin doctor’s fantasy. venient Mediterranean port for caravans from southern Arabia, and pro- vided a no less distinctive advantage for the scholars ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-30 | Author:Garry J. Shaw [Shaw, Garry J.]

Chapter 8 The Hittites and the Ramessides (1298–1187 BCE) With the Mitanni now swallowed by the Hittite Empire, and Egypt’s dynastic succession severed, the wider world was changing. To make ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Marc Hyden [Marc Hyden]

XIV DRUSUS ‘O my relatives and friends, will my country ever have another citizen like me?’ – Marcus Livius Drusus As Marius and other Romans were searching further afield for ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 30,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Selcuk Aksin Somel

– M – MACEDONIA. Geographical area in the Balkans and embracing the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, present northern Greece, western Bulgaria, and southeastern Albania. The Ottoman presence in Macedonia ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses January 29,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Mary Emerson

Decoration It seems that no sculpture was planned for the Propylaia. Metope carvings would have to have been put in place at an early stage of building, so their absence ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 27,2018 )