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  • History of Rome. Classic Collection. Illustrated

    The Gallic Wars, The Histories, Roman History and The Civil Wars, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The History of Rome

    by Julius Caesar, Tacitus, Appian, Edward Gibbon, Theodor Mommsen ...
    Translated by W. A. Macdevitt, Clifford H. Moore, John Jackson, Horace White, William Purdie Dickson ...
    This collection includes classic works on the history of Rome from its foundation to the collapse of the empire into Western and Eastern:Julius Caesar:The Gallic WarsThe Civil WarTacitus:The HistoriesThe AnnalsAppian:Roman HistoryThe Civil WarsEdward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireTheodor Mommsen: The History of Rome ... Read more

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  • The Gallic Wars. The Civil War. Illustrated

    by Julius Caesar ...
    Translated by W. A. Macdevitt ...
    The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, along with parts of Germany and the United Kingdom). Gallic, Germanic, and British tribes fought to defend their homelands against an aggressive Roman campaign.Caesar portrayed the invasion as being a preemptive and defensive action, but historians agree that ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Julius Caesar. Illustrated

    The Gallic wars, The Civil war, On the Alexandrine war, On the African war, On the Hispanic war

    by Julius Caesar ...
    Translated by W. A. Macdevitt, W. S. Bohn, Alexander Thomson ...
    During his lifetime, Caesar was regarded as one of the best orators and prose authors in Latin —even Cicero spoke highly of Caesar's rhetoric and style.Only Caesar's war memoirs The Gallic Wars and The Civil War have survived. These narratives were written and published annually during or just after the actual campaigns, as a sort of "dispatches from the front".A few sentences from other works are ... Read more

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  • THE GALLIC WARS & THE CIVIL WAR

    by Julius Caesar, W. A. Macdevitt ...
    The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul (mainly present day France and Belgium). The ... Read more

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  • Inside the Roman Army

    A Complete History

    by Robert Whitaker ...
    The Roman army, well-known for its discipline, organization, and invention in both weapons and tactics, allowed Rome to build and defend a vast empire which for centuries would dominate the Mediterranean world and beyond.Go on a journey throughout history and discover the ancient weapons, strategies, and military hierarchy that helped lead Rome in battle. This incredible historical piece covers it ... Read more

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  • The History of Rome: Livy plus Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy

    by Livy ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Titus Livius (59 BC AD 17) — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Books from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time." "The Discourses on ... Read more

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  • Agricola And Germania: Translation Based On Alfred John Church And William Jackson Brodribb (1876) (Mobi Classics)

    by Cornelius Tacitus ...
    The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, lit. The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire.This work survived only in one single manuscript that was found in Hersfeld Abbey, Holy Roman Empire and brought to Italy in 1455 where Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the later Pope Pius II ... Read more

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  • The Twelve Caesars

    by Suetonius ...
    Translated by Alexander Thomson ...
    De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars has remained a major source of Roman history. ... Read more

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  • The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars: (De Vita Caesarum) (Mobi Classics)

    by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus,Alexander Thomson (Translator) ...
    Revised and corrected by T.Forester, EsqDe vita Caesarum (Latin, direct translation: On the Life of the Caesars) commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.The work, written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that ... Read more

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  • Classics of Judaism, 11 Books of Jewish Wisdom

    by Moses Maimonides ...
    This file includes 11 books: Medieval Hebrew (featuring The Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend), Hebraic Literature (translations from the Talmud, Midrashim, and KabbalaTales and Maxims from the Midrash by Samuel Rapaport, The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot), Kitab al Khazari by Judah Hallevi, the Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Philo-Judaeus of ... Read more

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  • 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

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