Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Jerry Toner [Toner, Jerry]

COMMENTARY Falx’s tougher side re-emerges in this chapter. But the physical punishment of slaves by their Roman masters was normal, acceptable and routine. In Roman comedies by Plautus, for example, ...
( Category: Rome November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Kara Cooney [Cooney, Kara]

She continues with a section on how temple building is akin to marking herself as the chosen one. The temple of the mistress of Qusae, which had (completely) fallen into ...
( Category: Women November 23,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [Stothard, Peter]

Maurice did not enjoy his Nubian night. When I returned from the King’s Arms, I found the would-be seducer sitting on our two-seat settee almost exactly where I had left ...
( Category: General November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

[2]The Romans continued to use this formation effectively through the years of their republic and in the expansion of their Empire. [3]Alcibiades’ reputation for lack of discipline and unscrupulousness was ...
( Category: Greece November 19,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy

There was still heavy fighting, and the Romans' line was ragged as the legionaries formed up with the first officer or standard-bearer they met, just as they had done when ...
( Category: Rome November 14,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-26 | Author:Mika Waltari [Waltari, Mika]

12 aprilie 1453 M-am deşteptat în zori. Azi-noapte nimeni n-a dormit bine. Grecii s-au rugat, iar latinii au băut prea mult vin şi au vărsat pe dalele de marmură de ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 13,2014 )
epub | | 2010-03-24 | Author:Platon [Platon]

NOTE Preambul. în suita aproximativă a operelor platoniciene Lysis ocupă un loc destul de incert şi controversat de către comentatorii moderni. Aceasta întrucît se remarcă o neconcordanţă între factura compoziţională ...
( Category: Classics November 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

Yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim, And rest upon the earth comes never. But if any far-off state there be, Dearer than life to mortality, The hand ...
( Category: Holocaust November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

III. THE LAW OF PERSONS “All law,” says the precise Gaius, “pertains to persons, to property, or to procedure.”3 The word persona had signified an actor’s mask; later it was ...
( Category: Christianity November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2008-10-11 | Author:Clive Cussler

3 El cuartel general de la NUMA estaba en un edificio de treinta pisos en la orilla este del río Potomac, con vista al Capitolio. Su centro informático en el ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2009-07-21 | Author:Isaac Asimov

El nuevo imperio en Occidente En los tiempos del Séptimo Concilio Ecuménico, e1 emperador Constantino VI tenía cerca de veinte años y quiso poner fin a la regencia. Irene se ...
( Category: Rome November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Herodotus

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: Greece November 11,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]

[Footnote 46: Gregory of Tours (l. ii. c. 37, in tom. ii. p. 181) inserts the short but persuasive speech of Clovis. Valde moleste fero, quod hi Ariani partem teneant ...
( Category: Rome November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2011-10-31 | Author:William Peter Blatty

De regreso en la Comisaría, Kinderman pasó a través del ruidoso cuarto de la brigada, entró en su oficina y cerró la puerta. Atkins estaba esperándole. Se apoyaba contra una ...
( Category: Police Procedurals November 11,2014 )
epub |deu | 2012-08-23 | Author:Raimund Schulz [Schulz, Raimund]

Die Sasaniden – neuer Gegner in alten Dimensionen? Viele Gelehrte verbinden die Schwäche des Imperiums im östlichen Teil des Mittelmeerraums mit einer globalen machtpolitischen Veränderung: Im Jahr 224 (oder 227 ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 6,2014 )