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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

    $13.69 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

    $34.19 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

  • U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima

    by Captain Raymond Henri, 1st Lieut. Jim G. Lucas ...
    The US Marines on Iwo Jima, first published in 1945, and written by five on-the-scene combat correspondents, is a highly readable account of the invasion by U.S. Marines of this tiny yet strategically important volcanic island. The book is based on each author's own observations while on the island, plus the experiences of dozens of men involved in various aspects of the intense fighting. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

  • 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