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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Mary Beard

49. A Roman wall-painting depicts an idealised scene of an ancient wedding, mixing gods and humans. The veiled bride sits at the centre, on her new marital bed, being encouraged ...
( Category: Rome November 1,2015 )
Sulla by Keaveney Arthur;
epub |eng | | Author:Keaveney, Arthur;

But he prayed to no avail. The god was deaf to all entreaties and Sulla, swept away in the general panic, was forced to take refuge in his camp. The ...
( Category: Rome October 18,2015 )
The Birth of Classical Europe by Simon Price
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Simon Price

Carthage has so far made only cameo appearances in the story. It is time to redress the balance, and to start analysis of the relations between Carthage and Rome with ...
( Category: Greece September 8,2015 )
Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home by Sunshine Glenn S
mobi |eng | 2009-08-29 | Author:Sunshine, Glenn S. [Sunshine, Glenn S.]

CHAPTER 7 A NEW PARADIGM OF KNOWLEDGE While the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Wars of Religion, the implications of the New World, and Pyrrhonical skepticism were breaking down the medieval ...
( Category: Rome August 24,2015 )
Not the Impossible Faith by Richard Carrier
mobi |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Richard Carrier [Carrier, Richard]

And though “they were not concerned at all to reform society,” they were concerned to maintain a satisfactory society ‘within’ society, which strove to be accepted by outsiders, while realizing ...
( Category: Rome July 31,2015 )
Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics) by Plutarch
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

Marius [1] [1] Γαΐου Μαρίου τρίτον οὐκ ἔχομεν εἰπεῖν ὄνομα, καθάπερ οὐδὲ Κοΐντου Σερτωρίου τοῦ κατασχόντος Ἰβηρίαν οὐδὲ Λευκίου Μομμίου τοῦ Κόρινθον ἑλόντος· ὁ γὰρ Ἀχαϊκὸς τούτῳ γε τῆς πράξεως ...
( Category: Rome July 9,2015 )
Famous Men of Rome (Yesterday's Classics) by Haaren John H
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Haaren, John H. [Haaren, John H.]

IV SCIPIO now began to march towards the great, rich city of Carthage. He captured a number of towns and a great deal of treasure. In a few weeks, however, ...
( Category: Rome June 22,2015 )
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Anthony Blond [Blond, Anthony]

CLAUDIUS Claudius had more than one reason for keeping out of the way when he heard that his nephew, the Emperor Caligula, had been assassinated, just after one o’clock on ...
( Category: Great Britain June 21,2015 )
Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks by Deary Terry
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Deary, Terry [Deary, Terry]

* * * Dear Lucias, I have just heard this strange story which I think might interest you. In Athens there used to be a large and beautiful house which ...
( Category: Greece June 21,2015 )
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans by Deary Terry
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Deary, Terry [Deary, Terry]

AD 37 Cruel Tiberius dies. Romans are happy – little do they know the next emperor, Caligula, will be much, much worse! He lasts four years before they murder him. ...
( Category: Rome June 21,2015 )
Legions of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

AD 69 XXV. YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS Legion versus legion “A year … which well nigh brought the commonwealth to an end.” TACITUS, Histories, I, 11 From the moment ...
( Category: Christianity June 14,2015 )
Selected letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero
epub |eng | 1876-01-15 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

XII TO SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS YOU tell me in your letter that you are extremely alarmed by a dream; apprehending that it forebodes some ill success to you in the case ...
( Category: Rome June 12,2015 )
The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus by Flavius Josephus
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Flavius Josephus [Josephus, Flavius]

WHAT CHARGE DAVID GAVE TO HIS SON SOLOMON AT THE APPROACH OF HIS DEATH, AND HOW MANY THINGS HE LEFT HIM FOR THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE. 1. A LITTLE ...
( Category: Judaism June 12,2015 )
Romans and Barbarians: Four Views From the Empire's Edge by Derek Williams
epub |eng | 1999-02-01 | Author:Derek Williams [Williams, Derek]

EPISODE 3 The Soldiers THE RECITAL SEEMED INTERMINABLE, ITS prolongation assured by an enraptured audience and Nero’s eagerness to bask in its rapture. Nor was there likelihood of escape from ...
( Category: Rome June 11,2015 )
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion by Ando Clifford Rüpke Jörg
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Ando, Clifford,Rüpke, Jörg

3. Marcus’s Love Potions: Marking Territory inIrenaeus Ιrenaeus (c. 130 – c. 200 CE), bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, continues and significantly develops the territorialism we have discovered in the ...
( Category: Greece June 1,2015 )

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