Download or read book Augusta The Lost Epic of Rome s Last Days written by L.A. Henneke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Augusta written by L. A. Henneke and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ages past, the Roman Empire sprawled from the fringes of Scotland all the way down to Syria, but five hundred years of Imperium over the West have taken their toll. Rome limps upon her last legs. Attila prepares to march to war, spurned by the will of his dread battle-god. A dragon brought low by an ancient curse stirs in Gallic mountains, and creatures from time immemorial once more prowl the wilds of Europe. Into this world an exile from Italy is thrust, and the weight of the world rests upon her shoulders, scorned and rejected as a herald of strife and an accomplice to this apocalypse. Her name cursed by all the world, she has but one charge laid upon her: to strive without rest for peace and for redemption at this ending of an age. The Scourge of God has fallen upon the West.
Download or read book Unto C sar written by Baroness Orczy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", Baroness Emma Orczy is the author of the novel "Unto Caesar". The novel is set in ancient Rome, at the time of the dreaded Roman Emperor Caligula. The trader Arminius Quirinius had committed every crime, sunk to every kind of degradation which an inordinate love of luxury and the insatiable desires of jaded senses had suggested as a means to satisfaction, until the treachery of his own accomplices had thrown the glaring light of publicity on a career of turpitude such as even those decadent times had seldom witnessed. His suicide had brought a life of extortion and of fraud to an ignominious end through the force of public opinion, and by the decree of that same Cæsar who himself had largely benefited by the mal-practices of his minion. But the subsequent auction of his possessions would become the subject of a far greater controversy than the man himself...
Download or read book Caesars Wives written by Annelise Freisenbruch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the stories of eight wives of Roman rulers, assessing their historical contributions and cultural influence and drawing parallels between modern first ladies and the lives of such ancient-world figures as Livia, Helena, and Julia.
Download or read book The British Quarterly Review written by Robert Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Roman Empire the Final Days of Marcus Aurelius written by K. C. Squire and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROME. Inspired by true events and the facts as we know them, The Final Days of Marcus Aurelius is the dramatic story of one of Rome's great emperors and philosophers--a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the great emperor's life, philosophy, battles, and the drama of his final days and hours. K.C. Squire has long been inspired by ancient history and presents the culmination of his life in powerfully epic fashion. The Eternal City. A sacred city of myth, legend, war and conquest, and the home of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, the last of the "Good Emperors." Through Squire's deft and dramatic prose emerges a picture that makes these seemingly long-ago myths of this great emperor and philosopher breathe true and real. Relive his final days. *Although part of The Eternal City Series, the books are standalone and may be read in any order. These books are inspired by true events and as true to historical facts as possible; as a result, these books are most appropriate for those 18 years old and older. K.C. Squire fashions these legends and facts into a novelistic arc that begins just days before Marcus Aurelius's death, and culminates with his death. Or does it?
Download or read book Spices Scents and Silk written by James F. Hancock and published by CABI. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury products of far-off lands and established long-reaching trade networks. Over time, great powers fought mightily for the kingdoms where silk, spices and scents were produced. The New World was accidentally discovered by Columbus in his quest for spices. In this book, eminent horticulturist and author James Hancock examines the origins and early domestication and culture of spices, scents and silks and the central role these exotic luxuries played in the lives of the ancients. The book also traces the development of the great international trade networks and explores how struggles for trade dominance and demand for such luxuries shaped the world.
Download or read book Nero s Killing Machine written by Stephen Dando-Collins and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire–a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Roman losses–an accomplishment that led the emperor Nero to honor the legion with the title "Conqueror of Britain." In this gripping book, second in the author’s definitive histories of the legions of ancient Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion to life, offering military history aficionados a unique soldier’s-eye view of their tactics, campaigns, and battles.
Download or read book Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity written by Rita Lizzi Testa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a number of case studies to show some of the ways in which, as soon as the Roman Senate gained new political authority under Constantine and his successors, its members crowded the political scene in the West. In these chapters, Rita Lizzi Testa makes much of her work – the fruit of decades of research –available in English for the first time. The focus is on the aristocratics' passion for aruspical science, the political use of exphrastic poems, and even their control of the hagiographic genre in the late sixth century. She demonstrates how Roman senators were chosen as legates to establish proactive relations with Christian emperors, their ministers and military commanders, and Eastern and Western provincial elites. Senators wove a web of relations in the Eastern and Western empires, sewing and stitching the empire's fabric with their diplomatic skills, wealth, and influence, while lively and highly litigious assembly activity still required of them a cultured rhetoric. Through employing astute political strategies, they maintained their privileges, including their own beliefs in ancient cults. Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity provides a crucial collection for students and scholars of Late Antique history and religion, and of politics in the Late Roman Empire.
Download or read book Heaven Walker The Story of the Master of Cabestany written by Michael Barnes Selvin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artwork of the Master of Cabestany served as the inspiration and skeleton of this novel. As one of the great sculptors during the twelfth century in Catalonia (southern France and northeastern Spain), the Master of Cabestany is well known today, but nothing is known of his life. Heaven Walker is the fictional account of his life and times. The location of the novel on the Costa Brava (Spain) and in Roussillon (France) is exciting and real. The sites and cities exist today. The time, the twelfth century, was an essential period in the modernization of Europe. Twelfth century sculpture ranks with the greatest sculpture of all time. It was a time of conflict between the nobility, church, and growing bourgeoisie. Most importantly, the story is exciting, rapidly paced adventure, filled with intrigue and romance, and addictive from page one to the denouement. The novel will open your eyes to the high middle ages and the men and women who lived during that remarkably important and turbulent time.
Download or read book The Story of Royal Eltham written by R. R. C. Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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