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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2019-02-03 | Author:Plutarch

( Category: Rome June 28,2020 )
The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Martyn Rady [Rady, Martyn]

20 Archduchesses and the Habsburg Low Countries In the late 1760s Maria Theresa ordered that the Hall of the Giants (Riesensaal) in the Habsburg palace in Innsbruck in the Tyrol ...
( Category: Rome June 14,2020 )
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Douglas Boin [Boin, Douglas]

CHAPTER EIGHT Into the Labyrinth To the fight / which lies before me now I go with Justice. —EURIPIDES In 397 Arcadius’s men appointed Alaric general of Illyricum. He had ...
( Category: Rome June 11,2020 )
Galileo by Mario Livio
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Mario Livio

The last sentence alluded to the fact that due to the prohibition on discussing Copernicanism, Galileo didn’t feel free to speak his mind. Galileo/Guiducci added that “we should be content ...
( Category: Rome May 6,2020 )
The Greatest Empire by Emily Wilson
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold. 24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero. 25 ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 5,2020 )
Sulla: A Dictator Reconsidered by Lynda Telford
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Lynda Telford

Chapter Twelve Despite Sulla’s successes abroad and the validity of his claims as itemized in the letter he had sent to Rome, he still had opposition to face at home. ...
( Category: Rome May 3,2020 )
Rome in Crisis by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Plutarch

45. On the next day the Romans covered their advance more effectively, and when the Parthians attacked they met with a severe shock. They rode up expecting to have nothing ...
( Category: Rome April 19,2020 )
Murder Trials by Cicero
mobi |eng | 2005-10-05 | Author:Cicero

It is pointed out, in an effort to refute me, that Publius Septimius Scaevola, when his penalty was being assessed after conviction on another totally unrelated charge,1 received a severer ...
( Category: Rome April 19,2020 )
Letters of Pliny by Younger Pliny
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Younger Pliny [Younger Pliny]

LXXX — To PRISCUS THE illness of my friend Fannia gives me great concern. She contracted it during her attendance on Junia, one of the Vestal virgins, engaging in this ...
( Category: Rome April 13,2020 )
Complete Works of Pliny the Younger by Pliny the Younger
epub |eng | 2015-11-28 | Author:Pliny the Younger [Younger, Pliny the]

( Category: Rome March 22,2020 )
Two Lives of Charlemagne by Einhard & Notker
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Einhard & Notker

The Second Book of the Deeds of Charles 1. As I am going to found this narrative on the story told by a man of the world, who had little ...
( Category: Rome March 22,2020 )
The Histories & The Annals by Tacitus
epub |eng | 2018-08-01 | Author:Tacitus [Tacitus]

Suetonius, however, with wonderful resolution, marched amidst a hostile population to Londinium, which, though undistinguished by the name of a colony, was much frequented by a number of merchants and ...
( Category: History & Theory March 21,2020 )
Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold.24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero.25 For our ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 17,2020 )
Cicero's Brutus (Imperium Romanum) by Cicero
epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Cicero

“The three following years the city was free from the tumult of arms; but either by the death, the voluntary retirement, or the flight of our ablest Orators (for even ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 15,2020 )
Josephus's The Jewish War by Martin Goodman;
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-08-09 | Author:Martin Goodman;

FIGURE 4.3. Masada. The site of the mass suicide of Sicarii according to book 7 of the Jewish War. Photo, courtesy of Andrew Shiva. If the site of Masada struck ...
( Category: Rome March 11,2020 )

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