A family from Ann Arbor, Michigan inherits a castle and spends the summer of 2002 in Durham, England. While exploring their castle, the three siblings discover Dulcinea, a parallel universe inside a magical mural. When they learn that the existence of this enchanted world is in danger, it is up to them to save it. Music, magic, family, first love, baseball, hockey, and fun. Join their adventures, their quest, learn a new saying, some sign language, a joke, or a new song. ‘Ohana.

PRE-ORDER THIS SIZZLING ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS ROMANTASY NOW!When a master thief attempts to steal a world-changing relic, she is forced to confront her forbidden power—and the man determined to kill her for it, in the new Robin Hood-inspired romantasy from NYT bestselling author Jennifer Estep.

A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 2,600 years ago, but still transfixes us with its tale of loss and battle, love and revenge, guided throughout by the active presence of the gods. Its beauty and...

The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox's spellbinding history spans almost a thousand years of change, from the foundation of the world's first democracy in Athens to the Roman Republic and the Empire under Hadrian. Bringing great figures such as Homer, Socrates, Alexa...

In questo libro, frutto di una consuetudine e di un amore per l'Iliade che vanno avanti da una vita intera, Robin Lane Fox, uno dei maggiori classicisti del nostro tempo, ci accompagna verso dopo verso in un percorso costellato di dèi iracondi o magnanimi e di esseri umani coraggiosi e fragili. E nel raccontare un mondo distante millenni eppure cosí vicino prova a dare una risposta anche a molte questioni rimaste irrisolte: come, quando e dove fu composto questo maestoso poema? E ...

The Bible is moving, inspirational and endlessly fascinating - but is it true? Starting with Genesis and the implicit background to the birth of Christ, Robin Lane Fox sets out to discover how far biblical descriptions of people, places and events are confirmed or contradicted by external written and archaeological evidence. He turns a sharp historian's eye on when and where the individual books were composed, whether the texts as originally written exist, how the canon was assembled, and ...

How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work from award-winning historian, Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civil life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered.

The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new s...

This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe how particular Greeks of the eighth century BC travelled east and west around the Mediterranean, and how their extraordinary journeys shaped their ideas of their ...

Un estudio apasionante del más célebre de todos los poemas épicos, de la mano de uno de los principales clasicistas de nuestros tiemposLa Ilíada de Homero, el famoso poema épico ambientado en las orillas de una Troya asediada, explora la divina cólera del héroe Aquiles y cómo esta causó infinitos daños a griegos y troyanos. A pesar de haber sido compuesto hace más de 2600 años, las historias sobre pérdida y duelo, amor y venganza, bajo una vigilancia inel...

A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins ('Give me chasti...

Un affresco affascinante. Una storia di viaggi, esplorazioni, scoperte che incrocia i grandi capolavori alle radici della nostra civiltà.Questo libro ricostruisce le peripezie e i modi in cui gli uomini dell'Eubea dell'VIII secolo a.C. cambiarono la storia della Grecia, del Mediterraneo e del mondo intero. Utilizzando le fonti piú diverse l'autore riscrive le origini della civiltà occidentale a partire dai viaggi e dalle esplorazioni che mercanti, coloni e avventurieri intrapresero...