Ancient Civilizations
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:David M. Gwynn [Gwynn, David M.]

The Gracchi Tiberius Gracchus (born c. 163 BC) came from the Republic’s highest nobility. His father of the same name twice held the consulship and his mother was Cornelia, the ...
( Category: Rome January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Podany, Amanda H. [Podany, Amanda H.]

7. In this cuneiform letter found in Kanesh, the Assyrian merchant Assur-idi writes to his son Assur-nada about their trading operations transporting textiles to Anatolia. The father and son kept ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

The Three Golden Apples Did you ever hear of the golden apples, that grew in the garden of the Hesperides? Ah, those were such apples as would bring a great ...
( Category: Greek & Roman January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]

10 THEBES This has come from my counsel: Sparta has cut the hair of her glory: Messene takes her children in: a wreath of the spears of Thebe has crowned ...
( Category: Greece January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-09 | Author:Weaver, Stephan [Weaver, Stephan]

Caesar & Cleopatra’s Relationship For Cleopatra, this was the time to make use of the fury of Julius Caesar toward Ptolemy. Still in exile, Cleopatra knew the possibility of entering ...
( Category: Egypt December 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-14 | Author:Aurelius, Marcus [Aurelius, Marcus]

24. Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it. 25. So other ...
( Category: Greek & Roman December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-17 | Author:Philip Matyszak

A legionary (top left), Roman officer (bottom left) and cavalryman (top right) from the altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, discovered in the Campus Martius in Rome and now in the Louvre, ...
( Category: Greece December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Nic Fields

Throwing off all semblance of negotiations, in the spring Scipio sent a small body of troops towards Utica equipped with a siege train. The ploy was to make the Carthaginians ...
( Category: Rome December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Gareth Sampson

Then, at the very moment that the consul learned from his scouts of the presence of the enemy, they appeared, and before the army could be drawn up or the ...
( Category: Rome December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-02-20 | Author:Gareth C Sampson

In reality, Crassus and his army were heading along a main caravan route which led towards the Belikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates, which would have been swollen with ...
( Category: Rome December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Homa Katouzian

THE AZERBAIJAN REVOLT AND CONFLICTS OVER OIL When the war ended, Iran was facing all the difficulties mentioned above, to which the revolt in Azerbaijan was now added. There were ...
( Category: Satire December 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Chadwick, Henry [Chadwick, Henry]

The rules of discipline were not casually administered. We (once only) hear of corporal punishment being administered to a young monk found chatting with the nuns at an ‘unfitting hour’. ...
( Category: Christianity December 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Justin Pollard & Howard Reid [Pollard, Justin & Reid, Howard]

Then trouble arose, because ignorant rebels interrupted in the South the works on the Throne-of-the-gods [i.e., the temple of Edfu]. The rebellion raged in the South until year 19 of ...
( Category: Egypt December 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-17 | Author:Salway, Peter [Salway, Peter]

Map 7. The changing general arrangement of provinces down to the early 4th century (details uncertain, particularly for the 4th century). The planned conquest of Scotland was called off—but only ...
( Category: Great Britain December 14,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Romer, John [Romer, John]

An image of a storehouse engraved upon the Narmer Palette There is no archaeological evidence, however, within this considerable ruin, of the presence of a military garrison; nor indeed of ...
( Category: Egypt December 2,2015 )