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  • Cleopatra

    La regina che sfidò Roma e conquistò l’eternità

    by Alberto Angela ...
    Il mondo di oggi non sarebbe lo stesso senza Cleopatra, una donna di potere, intelligente e abile che appartiene all'immaginario collettivo universale, ma la cui figura storica è ancora per molti aspetti avvolta nel mistero e non priva di risvolti enigmatici.Alberto Angela ha deciso di ricostruire le vicende della regina che in un certo senso ha conquistato Roma, rintracciando fonti storiche e ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

    Volumes I and II

    by Suetonius ...
    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by 2nd Century Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is our key primary source for biographical information of the first twelve rulers of ancient Rome - Emperors Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian.This new digital edition of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars includes an image gallery ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SPQR

    A History of Ancient Rome

    by Professor Mary Beard ...
    Ancient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today.SPQR is a new look at Roman history ... Read more

    10,38 €

  • HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE COMPLETE VOLUMES 1 - 6

    [Deluxe Annotated & Illustrated Ultimate Edition] Including Many Colorful Timeline Maps, Illustrations, Photographs, Plus BONUS ENTIRE Audiobook Narration

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE COMPLETE VOLUMES 1 - 6 [Deluxe Annotated & Illustrated Ultimate Edition] Including Many Colorful Timeline Maps, Illustrations, Photographs, Plus BONUS ENTIRE Audio Narration."Enjoy the most thorough & complete edition of this book anywhere to be found!"*** Featuring Dynamic Chapter Navigation and Professional Formatting for a Premium Reading ... Read more

    1,76 €

  • Son of Mars

    A Novella of Ancient Rome

    by Vincent B. II Davis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Marius Scrolls
    Before Julius Caesar ruled Rome, his uncle Gaius Marius was the most powerful man in the eternal city. Once a provincial nobody with a ruined family, Marius only had one way to power: the sword.Years later, he writes to his protege Quintus Sertorius, explaining to him how he rose through the ranks of the Roman legion to become the most powerful man in the Republic.He wants to encourage and inspire ... Read more

    Free

  • Rubicon

    The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

    by Tom Holland ...
    'The bloodstained drama of the last decades of the Roman republic... is told afresh with tremendous wit, narrative verve and insight''I owe a debt of gratitude to Tom Holland not just for reminding me of the great figures who bestrode the Roman world - Pompey and Crassus, Cato, Cicero and Caesar - but for explaining what it was that made Rome the greatest superpower the world has known, why it ... Read more

    8,49 €

  • The Complete Tacitus Anthology

    The Histories, The Annals, Germania, Agricola, A Dialogue on Oratory

    by Publius Cornelius Tacitus ...
    Series series Texts From Ancient Rome
    Publius Cornelius Tacitus (AD56 - AD117) was a Roman orator, lawyer and senator. He is considered one of antiquities greatest historians. The surviving portions of his major works - "The Histories" and "The Annals" - examine the reigns of the Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the "Year of the Four Emperors". These two works cover the span of history from the death of ... Read more

    2,49 €

  • L'ultimo giorno di Roma

    by Alberto Angela ...
    Series Book 1 - La trilogia di Nerone
    EDIZIONE SPECIALE CON DEDICA ESCLUSIVA DI ALBERTO ANGELAL'ULTIMO GIORNO DI ROMA: il primo libro della “Trilogia di Nerone” dedicata al più controverso imperatore di Roma e all’incendio del 64 d.C.“Un bestseller annunciato, ma è all’altezza delle aspettative? Assolutamente sì. L’autore, come è suo metodo, ci porta dentro la Storia”.Il Venerdì di Repubblica"Un racconto dallo stile cinemato... ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • The Military Institutions of the Romans

    by Flavius Vegetius Renatus ...
    The Military Institutions of the Romans is a classic treatise about Roman warfare and military principles. Its author emphasizes things such as training of soldiers as a disciplined force, orderly strategy, maintenance of supply lines and logistics, quality leadership and use of tactics and even deceit to ensure an advantage over the opposition. ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le invasioni barbariche

    by Ludovico Gatto ...
    Lo scontro epico tra i popoli barbari e l'Impero RomanoIl periodo delle invasioni barbariche viene generalmente considerato un'età di violenti scontri che determinarono il crollo definitivo dei vecchi ordinamenti. Ludovico Gatto sostiene questa tesi, sottolineando tuttavia l'importanza, nell'ambito di tali impetuosi conflitti, del processo di integrazione che ha portato popoli diversi - germani e ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • The Rise of the Roman Empire

    by Polybius ...
    Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert ...
    The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • Sulla

    A Dictator Reconsidered

    by Lynda Telford ...
    Lucius Cornelius Sulla is one of the central figures of the late Roman Republic. Indeed, he is often considered a major catalyst in the death of the republican system. the ambitious general whose feud with a rival (Marius) led to his marching on Rome with an army at his back, leading to civil war and the terrible internecine bloodletting of the proscriptions. In these things, and in his ... Read more

    6,14 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Βυζαντινός πολιτισμός

    by Steven Runciman ...
    Translated by Χρήστος Πιερρακέας ...
    Το κλασικό έργο Βυζαντινός Πολιτισµός (1933) του Steven Runciman, ενός από τους σηµαντικότερους βυζαντινολόγους του 20ού αιώνα, είναι ένα πλήρες αν και συνοπτικό πανόραµα της Βυζαντινής Ιστορίας, από την ίδρυση της Κωνσταντινούπολης τον 4ο αιώνα έως την άλωσή της από τους Οθωµανούς το 1453.Επί αιώνες οι ιστορικοί της Δύσης αντιµετώπιζαν τον βυζαντινό πολιτισµό ως κατώτερο από τον αρχαίο ελληνικό ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Messalina

    The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress

    by Honor Cargill-Martin ...
    This is the story of Messalina – third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in the Western imagination. The stories they told about her included nightly ... Read more

    9,21 €

  • Medieval Europe

    by Chris Wickham ...
    A spirited history of the changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages: "A dazzling race through a complex millennium."— Publishers WeeklyThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of Whispers

    The thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Clockwork Girl!

    by Anna Mazzola ...
    **WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE FINGERPRINT AWARDS 2024!*Picked as one of the best historical novels of 2023 by The Times!*'A creepy, chilling story - another Anna Mazzola triumph!' JENNIFER SAINT'Chilling and compelling, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca' ESSIE FOXSometimes the secrets of the past are more dangerous than the presen... ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • The Way of the Gladiator

    Inspiration for the Gladiator Films

    by Daniel P. Mannix ...
    The book that inspired the stories of Gladiator & Gladiator II: Step into the ring with this classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans' obsession with the bloody and brutal games."[ The Way of the Gladiator is] this crazy, tawdry, wild book about the Coliseum. . . . It hardwired in my brain the absolute similarities between who we are and who we were." —David Franzoni, Academy Award ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Later Roman Empire: All Volumes

    by J.B. Bury ...
    J.B. Bury was a celebrated historian who wrote around the turn of the 19th century. His classics on the Roman Empire and Greece still stand among the best texts on the classical civilizations. The period between the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. was one of incredible upheaval for the Roman Empire. The West saw Rome sacked by invaders from the North, while the Eastern Empire flourished and saw much ... Read more

    2,67 €

  • Romanland

    Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium

    by Anthony Kaldellis ...
    A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself “Byzantine.” And while the identities of minorities in the eastern empire are clear ... Read more

    39,95 €

  • Storia di Roma antica

    by Giuseppe Antonelli ...
    Dalle origini alla fine della RepubblicaStoria della Città Eterna dalle origini alla fine della RepubblicaIl tentativo di contenere la storia dell'antica repubblica romana in cento pagine può risolversi facilmente nella compilazione di un elenco di argomenti, di date, di avvenimenti, di personaggi, di episodi più o meno esemplari a seconda del criterio del compilatore, cioè in una specie di indice ... Read more

    1,49 €

  • The Roman Empire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Kelly ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force - employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical ... Read more

    7,13 €

  • The Complete Josephus Collection: Antiquities of the Jews, Autobiography of Josephus, An Extract Out Of Josephus's Discourse To The Greeks Concerning Hades, and The Wars of the Jews

    by Josephus ...
    Titus Flavius Josephus (37 circa 100) was a 1st-century Roman-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First JewishRoman War which resulted in the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. He has been credited by many as recording some of the earliest history of Jesus Christ outside of the gospels, ... Read more

    2,67 €

  • Pensées pour moi-même

    by Marc Aurèle, Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire ...
    Edition Complète de " Pensées pour moi-même - Marc Aurèle  ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée. Les Pensées pour moi-même (En grec ancien, Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton), souvent simplement intitulé Pensées est le titre d'une série de réflexions divisées en douze li... ... Read more

    1,49 €

  • The History of Rome: Mommsen's Rome, volumes 1 to 5 in a single file, in English translation

    by Theodor Mommsen ...
    Mommsen's history of the Roman Republic in five volumes. These volumes cover from the founding of Rome up to the disintegration of the First Triumvirate (Caesar, Pompey, Crassus). The author cites dates in the Roman style, AUC, from the founding of the city in 753 BC. A table at the end shows modern-day equivalents. According to Wikipedia, Mommsen is "generally regarded as the greatest classicist ... Read more

    0,88 € or Free with Kobo Plus