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  • Rome and Persia at War

    Imperial Competition and Contact, 193–363 CE

    de Peter Edwell ...
    This book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centuries AD. During this period, military conflict between Rome and Sasanian Persia was at a level and depth not seen mostly during the Parthian period. At the same time, contact between the two empires increased markedly and contributed in part to an ... Leer más

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  • Between Rome and Persia

    The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra Under Roman Control

    de Peter Edwell ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    This detailed history of explores Rome’s interaction with its Persian neighbour and enemy from the first century BC to the third century AD. Peter Edwell takes the innovative approach in treating the area in regional terms, giving more nuanced interpretations than are available in broader treatments of the Roman Near East. ... Leer más

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  • SPQR

    A History of Ancient Rome

    de Mary Beard ...
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  • The Death of Caesar

    The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

    de Barry Strauss ...
    In this story of the most famous assassination in history, “the last bloody day of the [Roman] Republic has never been painted so brilliantly” (The Wall Street Journal).Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC—the Ides of March according to the Roman calendar. He was, says author Barry Strauss, the last casualty of one civil war and the first casualty of the next ... Leer más

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  • Stilicho

    The Vandal Who Saved Rome

    de Ian Hughes ...
    A military history of the campaigns of Stilicho, the army general who became one of the most powerful men in the Western Roman Empire.Flavius Stilicho lived in one of the most turbulent periods in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present ... Leer más

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  • Constantine the Great

    de John Firth ...
    THE catastrophe of the fall of Rome, with all that its fall signified to the fifth century, came very near to accomplishment in the third. There was a long period when it seemed as though nothing could save the Empire. Her prestige sank to the vanishing point. Her armies had forgotten what it was to win a victory over a foreign enemy. Her Emperors were worthless and incapable. On every side the ... Leer más

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  • Xerxes

    de Jacob Abbott ...
    Xerxes I was born in 518 BC and ascended to the throne in 486 BC after the death of his father, Darius I. He is best known for his invasion of Greece in 480 BC, during which he led an enormous army and navy against the Greek city-states. The invasion ultimately failed, and Xerxes returned to Persia with only a fraction of his army intact.In the book, Abbott provides a detailed account of Xerxes' ... Leer más

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  • Romulus: Illustrated

    de Jacob Abbott ...
    Series series History Alive
    The book "Romulus" by Jacob Abbott nowadays is in the public domain, but a great work has been done by Publisher to this version to make an electronic book that contrasts favorably to the original version. A lot of errors that exist in the free versions have been corrected; proper navigation is available or shortly, the ASCII text has been converted into a proper e-book. And the most important, in ... Leer más

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  • The Roman Republic

    Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean.The loyalty of these marauding heroes, and of the Roman population as a whole, to their leaders was assured by a share in the rewards of victory, rewards which became ... Leer más

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  • The Eclogues (Mobi Classics)

    de Virgil ...
    The Eclogues (also called the Bucolics) are the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.Imitating the Greek Bucolica ("on care of cattle", so named from the poetry's rustic subjects) by Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil ... Leer más

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  • Six Tragedies

    de Seneca ...
    Traducido por Emily Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are ... Leer más

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  • Rome and China

    Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial ... Leer más

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