Ancient Civilizations
mobi |eng | 1890-01-01 | Author:Herodotus; Carolyn Dewald; Robin Waterfield

BOOK V THE IONIANS REVOLT, THE ATHENIANS ASSIST 1. IN THE MEANTIME THE Persians who had been left behind in Europe by Dareios, of whom Megabazos171 was the commander, had ...
( Category: Military December 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Adrian Coombs-Hoar [Coombs-Hoar, Adrian]

Fritigern was in an awkward position, his troops were no doubt demanding action and without his cavalry to hand, any hostile action against the Romans was potentially disastrous, so he ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 21,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2017-02-11 | Author:Cergat

“…a warrior you will never be, though you will have that reputation with the unthinking, nor ever a leader of men, no matter where you may engage in warfare… Yet ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 21,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-16 | Author:Kristi Upson-Saia [Upson-Saia, Kristi]

Not only did the cross-dressers’ lack the body parts that would firmly root them in the male category, but they displayed bodily signs that traditionally identified them as women. For ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Papagianni, Dimitra & Morse, Michael A.

A modern human skull found at Qafzeh, Israel, dated to around 100,000 years ago. Researchers were surprised to discover that the first modern humans reached northern Israel, and probably the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 21,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Peter Hopkirk [Hopkirk, Peter]

9. Von Le Coq Spins a Coin * * * The Buddhist monks who a thousand years ago built the great monastery complex at Bezeklik chose its position with ingenuity. ...
( Category: Asia December 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Thomas De Quincey [De Quincey, Thomas]

And, at the same time, to countenance the belief that he had been disappointed, he would affect to sigh, exclaiming—"Ah! that I should thus fruitlessly have squandered a sum of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Joseph Pietrykowski

With the advance of the allied phalanx and its covering screen of light infantry, meanwhile, the men of Antigonos’ centre were given another cause for concern. Large stretches of the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 17,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Grainger, John D.

Chapter 9 The Arabian Expedition Aelius Gallus was appointed prefect of Egypt in the wake of the recall of C. Cornelius Gallus, and arrived in his province in 27. Cornelius’ ...
( Category: Military December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Pliny the Younger [Younger, Pliny the]

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: Essays & Correspondence December 13,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Luke Roman, Monica Roman [Roman, Luke Roman, Monica]

0 Ion to be dead, and each experiences pity for the into which Creusa is born as a princess has other’s lot. In both cases, moreover, key char-an appropriately dark ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides December 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martin Goodman [Goodman, Martin]

Figure 28 The so-called ‘Maritime Theatre’ in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli from a part of the villa presumed to have housed the emperor's private apartments.. Photo © DeA/G. Nimatallah. I ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 12,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-19 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

By 989 Basil had been Emperor for twenty-nine of his thirty-one years. For sixteen he had been a minor; for nine a puppet; while for the last four he had ...
( Category: Europe December 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-30 | Author:John S McHugh

Chapter 8 War in the East AD 228–233 ‘And then the kings of Persia shall rise, and Roman Mars [will smite] the Roman king and pastoral Phrygia shall with earthquakes ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Ian Hughes

The Vandal Peace, 442–454 The treaty of 442 was a landmark in Roman affairs. Although Valentinian and Aetius saved face by claiming that the Vandals had settled in Africa under ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 11,2017 )