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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Robert C. Knapp [Knapp, Robert C.]

Freeborn: C. Cornelius Cai filius Lupulus = Gaius Cornelius Lupulus, son of Gaius. Freedman: C. Cornelius Cai libertus Lupulus = Gaius Cornelius Lupulus, freedman of Gaius. Gaius Lupulus the freedman ...

epub |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

'Several times.' 'Who by? I thought this part of Beirut escaped the worst of the war.' 'The first time, in '75, it was by the Palestinians. Then there was a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-22 | Author:Ward-Perkins, Bryan [Ward-Perkins, Bryan]

Patterns of Change There was no single moment, nor even a single century of collapse. The ancient economy disappeared at different times and at varying speeds across the empire. If, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Unable to resign even at the price of his huge estate, Seneca had nonetheless withdrawn from court to the degree that was safe.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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-06-25 | Author:Keith Hopkins & Mary Beard [Hopkins, Keith & Beard, Mary]

THE PEOPLE ON PARADE It is the first rule of any spectacle that the audience is as important an element as the display itself: we go not only to watch, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Caesar, Julius [Caesar, Julius]

1:72. Caesar had conceived hopes of ending the affair without an engagement, or without striking a blow, because he had cut off the enemy’s supplies. Why should he hazard the ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

He wrote on other subjects which scholars have reconstructed from the first discoveries at this palatial seaside villa. Much effort has been devoted to explaining his charred thoughts on sound ...

epub |eng | 2007-08-22 | Author:E.M. Berens [Berens, E.M.]

CONSUS. Consus was the god of secret counsel. The Romans believed that when an idea developed itself spontaneously within the mind of an individual, it was Consus who had prompted ...