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Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1 by Peter Adamson
epub |eng | 2014-05-10 | Author:Peter Adamson [Adamson, Peter]

25 WHAT’S IN A NAME? PLATO’S CRATYLUS In this book I’ve been emphasizing that Plato dealt with nearly all the topics philosophers have thought about ever since. I suppose even ...
( Category: Rome January 27,2016 )
The Ides: Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-24 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

In Piso’s absence, Antony proposed to the Senate “that the body should not have a private or dishonorable interment,” on the grounds that this might “further exasperate the people.”² More ...
( Category: Rome January 26,2016 )
Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

Three separate plots to kill Caligula were now in existence. Conceived by leading men of the state, they had been in the works for many months. Two plots had been ...
( Category: Rome January 23,2016 )
Germanicus: The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General by Philip Matyszak & Lindsay Powell
epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Philip Matyszak & Lindsay Powell [Matyszak, Philip and Powell, Lindsay]

certainly, there were found hidden in the floor and in the walls disinterred remains of human bodies, incantations and spells, and the name of Germanicus inscribed on leaden tablets, half-burnt ...
( Category: Rome January 22,2016 )
The Great Fire of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Stephen Dando-Collins]

This plan was put to Piso, who approved it. Pledging himself to marry Antonia, daughter of Claudius, and to accept the throne when it was offered, Piso said that on ...
( Category: Rome January 13,2016 )
Cleopatra's Kidnappers by Stephen Dando-Collins
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Stephen Dando-Collins]

Marching north now, Caesar was determined to swiftly terminate this Egyptian war with a decisive victory here beside the Nile. In coming out to face him on the Delta, the ...
( Category: Rome January 12,2016 )
The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by David M. Gwynn
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:David M. Gwynn [Gwynn, David M.]

The Gracchi Tiberius Gracchus (born c. 163 BC) came from the Republic’s highest nobility. His father of the same name twice held the consulship and his mother was Cornelia, the ...
( Category: Rome January 10,2016 )
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) by Aurelius Marcus
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-14 | Author:Aurelius, Marcus [Aurelius, Marcus]

24. Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it. 25. So other ...
( Category: Greek & Roman December 20,2015 )
Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece by Philip Matyszak
epub |eng | 2015-12-17 | Author:Philip Matyszak

A legionary (top left), Roman officer (bottom left) and cavalryman (top right) from the altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, discovered in the Campus Martius in Rome and now in the Louvre, ...
( Category: Greece December 18,2015 )
Roman Conquests: North Africa by Nic Fields
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Nic Fields

Throwing off all semblance of negotiations, in the spring Scipio sent a small body of troops towards Utica equipped with a siege train. The ploy was to make the Carthaginians ...
( Category: Rome December 18,2015 )
The Crisis of Rome by Gareth Sampson
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Gareth Sampson

Then, at the very moment that the consul learned from his scouts of the presence of the enemy, they appeared, and before the army could be drawn up or the ...
( Category: Rome December 18,2015 )
Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae, and the Invasion of the East by Gareth C Sampson
epub |eng | 2008-02-20 | Author:Gareth C 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 December 18,2015 )
Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Salway Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-17 | Author:Salway, Peter [Salway, Peter]

Map 7. The changing general arrangement of provinces down to the early 4th century (details uncertain, particularly for the 4th century). The planned conquest of Scotland was called off—but only ...
( Category: Great Britain December 14,2015 )
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 )
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 )

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