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UnRoman Britain by Miles Russell
epub |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:Miles Russell

* * * 109Russell 2006, 181-93; McWhirr 1981. 110Palladius Lausiac History LXI. 6 BRITANNIA – REBEL EMPIRE IT probably can’t be emphasised enough the extent to which Britain’s fate within ...
( Category: England November 19,2015 )
The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World by Broodbank Cyprian
epub |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:Broodbank, Cyprian [Broodbank, Cyprian]

8.58 A boat-shaped house at Es Coll de Cala Morell on Menorca, mid-2nd millennium BC in date and still broadly similar to those occupied by the first generations of Balearic ...
( Category: Rome November 8,2015 )
Greek Warfare by Lee L. Brice
epub |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Lee L. Brice

References Burn, A. R. Persia and the Greeks: The Defence of the West. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984. Cawkwell, George. The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia. Oxford: Oxford ...
( Category: Greece November 8,2015 )
Thermopylae by Ernle Bradford
epub, mobi |eng | 1980-11-15 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

There can certainly never have been any possibility of the Spartans having been undecided as to their course: they had been sent to hold the pass to safeguard the fleet ...
( Category: Greece November 5,2015 )
Dictionary of Classical Mythology by March Jennifer R
epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:March, Jennifer R.

Fig. 91. A bull rises from the sea in front of Hippolytus’ chariot, while a Fury brandishes a torch and an old man looks on in horror. Hippolytus’ story is ...
( Category: New Age, Mythology & Occult November 4,2015 )
Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western by Hanson Victor Davis
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Hanson, Victor Davis [Hanson, Victor Davis]

Greek hoplite battle between phalanxes before the Peloponnesian War was predictable in time, place, sequence, and aftermath of infantry fighting. This prompts us to ponder just how one particular Greek ...
( Category: Greece November 2,2015 )
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 )
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons by Geoffrey Hindley
epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Geoffrey Hindley [Hindley, Geoffrey]

In the winter of 872 Burgred of Mercia was forced to negotiate a peace deal with the Danish main force now at Torksey in Lindsey. Late the next year, a ...
( Category: Great Britain October 30,2015 )
A History of the Hellenistic World by R. Malcolm Errington
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:R. Malcolm Errington

II Seleukid Asia When Seleukos III was assassinated in 223 while on campaign against Attalos of Pergamon, his army tried to persuade his uncle Achaios, an experienced man with family ...
( Category: Greece October 27,2015 )
Blood of the Celts by Jean Manco
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Jean Manco

71 Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul. The southern part of the lands of the Gauls had been taken by the Romans before Caesar’s day. As governor of Cisalpine Gaul and Gallia ...
( Category: Ethnic & Tribal October 20,2015 )
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 )
A Smaller history of Greece / From the earliest times to the Roman conquest
epub |eng | 2000-03-01 | Author:Sir William Smith [Smith, Sir William]

CHAPTER XIV THE THIRTY TYRANTS, AND THE DEATH OF SOCRATES, B.C. 404-399. The fall of Athens brought back a host of exiles, all of them the enemies of her democratical ...
( Category: Greece October 12,2015 )
The Authenticity of the New Testament Part 2: Acts, the Epistles and Revelation by Bill Cooper
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Bill Cooper

Back to contents Chapter Seven: 1 John 5:7 - and a man named Richard Porson “Gurney (the Baron) had chambers in Essex Court, Temple, under Porson’s. One night (or rather, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 9,2015 )
The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Jonathan Harris

CHAPTER SEVEN The Long Shadow For [the Phokas family] held perpetual dominance, I daresay, until we came on the scene. Land Law of Basil II (996) Of the three groups ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 9,2015 )
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 )

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