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  • How to Make Money

    An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management

    by Luca Grillo, Pliny the Elder ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    An enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made—and thought about—moneyAncient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws; systems of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus Oratio

    by Luca Grillo ...
    Series series Society for Classical Studies Texts & Commentaries
    Perhaps no other single Roman speech exemplifies the connection between oratory, politics and imperialism better than Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus, pronounced to the senate in 56 BC. Cicero puts his talents at the service of the powerful "triumviri" (Caesar, Crassus and Pompey), whose aims he advances by appealing to the senators' imperialistic and chauvinistic ideology. This oration, then, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar

    Edited by Christopher B. Krebs, Luca Grillo ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Julius Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and remains a central figure in the history of Latin literature. With twenty-three chapters written by renowned scholars, this Companion provides an accessible introduction to Caesar as an intellectual along with a scholarly assessment of his multiple ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile

    Literature, Ideology, and Community

    by Luca Grillo ...
    Traditional approaches have reduced Caesar's Bellum Civile to a tool for teaching Latin or to one-dimensional propaganda, thereby underestimating its artistic properties and ideological complexity. Reading strategies typical of scholarship on Latin poetry, like intertextuality, narratology, semantic, rhetorical and structural analysis, cast a new light on the Bellum Civile: Ciceronian language ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    How to Make Money

    An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management (series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

    by Pliny ...
    Narrated by Graham Mack ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

    Unabridged

    4 hours 34 min

    Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws; systems of banking and taxation; and a wide range of occupations, from merchant and doctor to architect and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
    The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Embark on a thrilling adventure to a prehistoric world with Edgar Rice Burroughs's "The Land That Time Forgot." In this novel, a World War I U-boat crew finds themselves in an ancient land filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Burroughs's imaginative storytelling takes readers on a journey of survival, exploration, and mystery.Why ... Read more

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  • Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1

    by Thomas Malory ...
    Series Book 1 - Le Morte D'Arthur
    Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, it magically weaves together adventure, battle, love and enchantment. Le Morte D'Arthur ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Augustine's Confessions

    A Biography

    by Garry Wills ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    From Pulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine’s ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Greek Mythology

    A Traveler's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy

    by David Stuttard ...
    A hands-on traveler's guide to the enthralling tales of Greek mythology, organized around the cities and landscapes where the events are setThe Greek myths have a universal appeal, beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific landscapes: the city of Thebes and mountain range Cithaeron dominate the tale of Oedipus; the city of Mycenae broods ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Lives of the Later Caesars

    One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Classical Literature

    An Epic Journey from Homer to Virgil and Beyond

    by Richard Jenkyns ...
    The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • «My Name is Freida Sima»

    The American-Jewish Women’s Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

    by Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz ...
    Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four ... Read more

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