Rome
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Appian [Appian]

( Category: Rome May 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-13 | Author:Suetonius

50. His stature was tall, his coloring pale, and his body large, except that his neck and legs were very thin. He had hollow temples and eyes, and a wide, ...
( Category: Rome May 5,2020 )
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 )
epub |eng | 1987-04-18 | Author:Cassius Dio

6. While these events were in progress, Augustus visited Sicily to settle affairs in that island and in other territories, and travelled as far as Syria. While he was still ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julius Caesar

4. The last stages 26. Meanwhile, Mithridates of Pergamum, a man of high standing at home, skilled and courageous in war, and a loyal and esteemed friend of Caesar’s, had ...
( Category: Rome April 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:David Womersley [Gibbon, Edward]

[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category: Historiography April 19,2020 )
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 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-08-27 | Author:Polybius

BOOK V Affairs in Egypt THE DEATH OF CLEOMENES The young Ptolemy Philopator took possession of the throne of Egypt early in 221 B.C. Seleucus, King of Syria, had died ...
( Category: Greek April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Tacitus

Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-06-18 | Author:Gibbon, Edward [Gibbon, Edward]

[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category: Rome April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-03-26 | Author:Virgil

BOOK 7 War in Latium You too, Caieta, nurse of Aeneas, have given by your death eternal fame to our shores; the honour paid you there even now protects your ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-06-24 | Author:Tacitus

The Flavian March on Rome 49. So in a convulsion felt around the world, imperial power changed hands. Meanwhile, the behaviour of Antonius Primus degenerated sharply after Cremona. He thought ...
( Category: Rome April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Seneca

There may be pleasure in the memory Of even these events one day.* He should put his whole heart into the fight against them. If he gives way before them ...
( Category: Letters April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:MacDowall, Simon;

34. A silver dish from Isola Rizza near Verona probably depicting a sixth-century East Roman soldier riding down a Lombard. The Roman’s weapons and equipment show Alan influences and many ...
( Category: Rome April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-30 | Author:Elliott, Simon;

• Quarrying the facing stone. • Cutting and dressing the stone. • Collecting stone rubble for the wall core filling. • Making lime mortar in enormous quantities (hence the need ...
( Category: Archaeology April 15,2020 )