azw3, epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Jeremiah McCall [McCall, Jeremiah]

Chapter 4 The Political Battle for Syracuse Late in 211 or early in 210, Marcellus returned from Sicily. He left his troops there under his successor, though apparently unwillingly, since ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2005-11-30 | Author:Morgan, Gwyn [Morgan, Gwyn]

8 The Beginning of the End: Vespasian through August 69 To understand the campaign by the Balkan legions that unseated Vitellius in late December 69, we must deal first with ...

mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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 ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Mithradates and his entourage ascended Buyuk Evliya Dag, to the sanctuary of Zeus the Warrior. Archaeologists have discovered many inscriptions in this important site of native Anatolian and Iranian- influenced ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:B.h. Liddell Hart

Following up Syphax, Lælius and Masinissa arrived in Massylia (Masinissa’s hereditary kingdom from which he had been driven) after a fifteen days’ march, and there expelled the garrisons left by ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:David Rohrbacher

The bureaucracy With the exception of the army, the Roman empire had always operated with a surprisingly small number of government employees by modern standards. Tax collection and the erection ...

epub |eng | | Author:Scullard, H. H. [H. H. Scullard]

2. THE THIRD MACEDONIAN WAR The consul P. Licinius Crassus landed on the Illyrian coast near Apollonia, where he had some 37,000 men, many of whom were recruits. The officers ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Aloys Winterling [Winterling, Aloys]

RESHAPING THE EMPEROR’S ROLE The conspiracy of Agrippina, Livilla, and Lepidus had presented Caligula with the same threat in extreme form that had always been present under the rule of ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Stuart Laycock

CHAPTER 6 The Last of Rome Whatever may or may not have happened in 367-369, the account by Ammianus of the so-called ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’ is significant in another way. It ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-19 | Author:Philip Matyszak

Peace talks Whilst Sulla delicately fenced with the envoys of Archelaus on talks about talks, Fimbria took his army into Asia Minor and, by damaging Mithridates there, improved Sulla’s negotiating ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Tom Holland

Scandal Early every December women from the noblest families in the Republic would gather to celebrate the mysterious rites of the Good Goddess. The festival was strictly off limits to ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

22 Birth and death The infant mortality rates of the medieval period were high, with over a third of boys and a quarter of girls dying at or soon after ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2011-12-12 | Author:Aloys Winterling

RESHAPING THE EMPEROR’S ROLE The conspiracy of Agrippina, Livilla, and Lepidus had presented Caligula with the same threat in extreme form that had always been present under the rule of ...