Rome
epub |eng | | Author:Bronwen Riley
CHANGING FASHIONS The fullers will have been hard at work in the run-up to Julius Severus’s appearance in town, as local dignitaries prepare their outfits for the visit. The British ...
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England
May 27,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:John Warry
■ Hannibal’s Victories Publius Cornelius Scipio, consul in 218 BC, having dispatched his own army into Spain under the command of his brother Gnaeu, returned with exemplary speed to North ...
( Category:
Greece
May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Thomas R. Martin
Figure 18. The gladiators shown in this mosaic are armed and armored according to their different styles of fighting and their names are recorded. The most exciting gladiatorial matches often ...
( Category:
Rome
May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Mary Beard
In the fourteenth century Dante cast the Roman poet Virgil as his guide in his poem Inferno (or Hell—part of his Divine Comedy). In this painting, Dante and Virgil in ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
April 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-04-02 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy
THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN, 48 BC The pretence on both sides of hoping for a negotiated settlement had prevented either leader from overtly massing troops. In previous months Pompey had blithely ...
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Rome
April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Stephan Weaver [Weaver, Stephan]
Temple of Zeus (1999) The master of marble and stone, Myron, structured the Discus Thrower. Hippocrates, ‘the Father of Medicine,’ began his practice. Historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides rose ...
( Category:
Greece
March 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Lionel Casson [Lionel Casson]
Sometime in the second century A.D. a young fellow named Apion left his little village in Egypt to join the navy. He was promptly shipped to the great base at ...
( Category:
Rome
March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Mark Olly [Olly, Mark]
It is said that, at the time of Caligula’s murder, Claudius was found hiding behind a curtain in the palace! He was brought out into the camp of the Praetorian ...
( Category:
Rome
March 4,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Giusto Traina [Traina, Giusto]
The community in Jerusalem had every reason to celebrate. Following the destruction of the Temple and the subsequent Jewish diaspora at the time of Hadrian, the city had lost its ...
( Category:
Rome
March 4,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Kirsty Corrigan [Corrigan, Kirsty]
Chapter Ten Prelude to Civil War August–November 44 BC Brutus Departs for Athens Plutarch narrates an anecdotal event which reportedly took place before Brutus’ departure from Italy, concerning his wife, ...
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Rome
February 12,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]
The road that Gallus chose to lead his soldiers along dipped five hundred feet into a valley beyond Gaba, then swung to the right. There were two villages in the ...
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Christianity
January 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-10 | Author:Peter Adamson [Adamson, Peter]
25 WHAT’S IN A NAME? PLATO’S CRATYLUS In this book I’ve been emphasizing that Plato dealt with nearly all the topics philosophers have thought about ever since. I suppose even ...
( Category:
Rome
January 27,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-24 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]
In Piso’s absence, Antony proposed to the Senate “that the body should not have a private or dishonorable interment,” on the grounds that this might “further exasperate the people.”² More ...
( Category:
Rome
January 26,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]
Three separate plots to kill Caligula were now in existence. Conceived by leading men of the state, they had been in the works for many months. Two plots had been ...
( Category:
Rome
January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Philip Matyszak & Lindsay Powell [Matyszak, Philip and Powell, Lindsay]
certainly, there were found hidden in the floor and in the walls disinterred remains of human bodies, incantations and spells, and the name of Germanicus inscribed on leaden tablets, half-burnt ...
( Category:
Rome
January 22,2016 )
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