Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | | Author:Strauss, Barry
MARCH 17: RECONCILIATION That same day, March 17, the conspirators invited the Roman people to the Capitoline and a large number accepted. Brutus addressed them, speaking, it seems, either in ...
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Rome
May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Hamilton, Edith [Hamilton, Edith]
A king sat on the rocky brow That looks on sea-born Salamis, And ships by thousands lay below, And men by nations—all were his. He counted them at break of ...
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Ancient & Classical
May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-12 | Author:Langdon, Robert John [Langdon, Robert John]
Mollusca If we look at the site at W58 Amesbury(Coneybury Henge), archaeologists (in this case Roy Entwistle for the ‘The Stonehenge Environs Project’) traditionally interpret the evidence gained by identifying ...
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Archaeology
May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]
86 As M. de Valois and the P. Ruinart are determined to change the Mosella of the text into Mosa, it becomes me to acquiesce in the alteration. Yet, after ...
( Category:
Rome
May 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Colin Wilson [Wilson, Colin]
Hell was a Christian concept that – like the Devil – was unknown to the Jews. ‘Sheol’, sometimes translated as ‘hell’, simply meant a place where rubbish was destroyed, and ...
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Ancient & Controversial Knowledge
May 25,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Lars Brownworth [Brownworth, Lars]
The trouble started in Rome, where Pope Leo III was growing more unpopular with each passing day. He had risen from peasant stock and as such was hated by the ...
( Category:
Rome
May 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jo Marchant
LORD CARNARVON’S DEMISE wasn’t the only source of dramatic stories constructed from evidence that some might consider rather thin. Attention also focused on Tutankhamun’s own death, or to be more ...
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Royalty
April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:James Romm
Unable to resign even at the price of his huge estate, Seneca had nonetheless withdrawn from court to the degree that was safe. He no longer kept up the routine ...
( Category:
Rome
April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Joan Breton Connelly
Death of Prokris, showing her “bird-soul” leaving her body while her husband Kephalos and father Erechtheus watch. Column krater, by Hephaistos Painter, ca. 440 B.C. (illustration credit ill.103) I would ...
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Landmarks & Monuments
April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Jack Turner
The Hindus who are the neighbours of those regions believe that the small-pox is a wind blowing from the island of Lanka towards the continent to carry off souls. According ...
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Herbs, Spices & Condiments
April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-03 | Author:John R. Hale
THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION, 415-413 B.C. He went peacefully, leaving Nicias and Lamachus in charge of the expedition. At one of the landing places on the Italian coast, however, Alcibiades eluded ...
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Naval
April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Luc Ferry
I. Tales of hubris: the case of those who “cheat death,” Asclepius (Aesculapius) and Sisyphus Within the category of stories addressing the tribulations to which mortals expose themselves by transgressing ...
( Category:
Folklore & Mythology
March 24,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Brian Haughton
CHAPTER 10 Lost Treasures of Afghanistan The 2,000-year-old Bactrian Gold is one of the largest hoards of gold ever discovered, and the story behind its loss and rediscovery is as ...
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Prehistory
March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
Idem tam parcus in aedificando, quam diligens in tuendo. Itaque non, ut ante, immanium transvectione saxorum urbis tecta quatiuntur. Stant securae domus, nec iam templa nutantia. Satis est tibi, nimiumque, ...
( Category:
Rome
March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Garland, Robert
The Origins of Economic Migration We have evidence that city-states were permitting economic migrants to settle permanently within their borders from the sixth century onward, though the legal status of ...
( Category:
Greece
March 22,2015 )
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