Rome
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Baikie, James [Baikie, James]

CHAPTER VII A Visit to Rome: The Town House and the City THE town house of our friend Publius Synistor is a much more elaborate affair than the little country ...
( Category: Rome June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Si Sheppard

THE YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS As the campaign season of AD 68 opened the Romans, observing affairs in Jerusalem with a wry detachment, were in no hurry to intervene. ...
( Category: Rome April 24,2017 )
epub, azw |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Michael Kerrigan [Kerrigan, Michael]

TORTURE AND TRUTH * * * Today, if torture is frowned upon, it is not only on humanitarian grounds, but also because we distrust the kind of information it supplies. ...
( Category: Rome March 30,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Richard Alston [Alston, Richard]

FIGURE 5 Cleopatra: A head of Cleopatra depicting her in the tradition of Greek queens. Antony and Cleopatra is the story that has everything, but as a story, it risks ...
( Category: Rome March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Cicero

PART TWO HOW TO LIVE CHAPTER FOUR A PRACTICAL CODE OF BEHAVIOUR (ON DUTIES · III) No one will ever write anything more wise, more true, or more useful. From ...
( Category: Medieval March 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Cassius Dio [Dio, Cassius]

BOOK 38 τάδε ἔνεστιν ἐν τῷ τριακοστῷ ὀγδόῳ τῶν Δίωνος Ῥωμαϊκῶν α. ὡς ἐστασίασαν Καῖσαρ καὶ Βίβουλος. β. ως Κικέρων ἔφυγεν. γ. ὡς Κικέρωνα ἐπὶ τῇ φυγῇ Φιλίσκος παρεμυθήσατο. δ. ...
( Category: Rome March 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Peter H. Wilson

Table 10. Imperial Taxation, 1521–1613 Although far above what previous emperors had received, this amount still fell far short of Charles’s burgeoning expenses. The 1544 grant provided only 3.7 per ...
( Category: Germany February 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-24 | Author:Mommsen, Theodor, Saunders, Dero A., Collins, John H.

The situation which Caesar found upon his arrival in Gaul in the spring of 58 B.C. was a difficult one. The Celtic culture of Gaul, prevented by the Romans from ...
( Category: Rome February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Mattern, Susan P.;

Chapter Seven GALEN AND HIS PATIENTS t this point we lose the narrative thread of Galen’s life. We know—from one vague reference—that he suffered in the reign of Marcus’s son ...
( Category: Rome September 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:John North Hopkins

THE THRESHOLD OF REPUBLIC Toward the end of the period, at the end of the sixth century and into the fifth, things begin to change. The primary reason one can ...
( Category: History July 26,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2016-06-04 | Author:Mike Duncan [Duncan, Mike]

The Battle of the Metaurus — 207 BC The Romans were aware of the threat they faced from this second invading army. When Hasdrubal passed into the Po valley, he ...
( Category: Rome July 21,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Lindsay Powell

At times it seems as though they were competing to see who could be the more generous of the two. As they passed through cities on their journey through Asia ...
( Category: Rome July 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-02-20 | Author:Gareth 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 July 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-06 | Author:Mitchell, Stephen [Mitchell, Stephen]

The first book of the Justinianic Code was concerned with religious legislation, leaving no doubt that the emperor's legislative priorities were significantly different from those of his predecessors. Active measures ...
( Category: Rome July 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:James J. O'Donnell [O'Donnell, James J.]

Chapter 12 THE BIRTH OF PAGANISM ALEXANDRIA OCCUPIED A MATCHLESS SITE ON ITS MAN-MADE harbor facing the Mediterranean at one of the mouths of the Nile. Easily the most cultured, ...
( Category: Paganism July 9,2016 )