Download or read book Pyrrhus Serapis Classics written by Jacob Abbott and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PYRRHUS, King of Epirus, entered at the very beginning of his life upon the extraordinary series of romantic adventures which so strikingly marked his career. He became an exile and a fugitive from his father's house when he was only two years old, having been suddenly borne away at that period by the attendants of the household, to avoid a most imminent personal danger that threatened him. The circumstances which gave occasion for this extraordinary ereption were as follows: The country of Epirus, as will be seen by the accompanying map, was situated on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, and on the southwestern confines of Macedonia. The kingdom of Epirus was thus very near to, and in some respects dependent upon, the kingdom of Macedon. In fact, the public affairs of the two countries, through the personal relations and connections which subsisted from time to time between the royal families that reigned over them respectively, were often intimately intermingled, so that there could scarcely be any important war, or even any great civil dissension in Macedon, which did not sooner or later draw the king or the people of Epirus to take part in the dispute, either on one side or on the other. And as it sometimes happened that in these questions of Macedonian politics the king and the people of Epirus took opposite sides, the affairs of the great kingdom were often the means of bringing into the smaller one an infinite degree of trouble and confusion...
Download or read book Stories from the History of Rome Serapis Classics written by Emily Beesly and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE once reigned in a town called Alba in Italy a king whose name was Numitor. He had a brother called Amulius, who was a proud and wicked man, and could not bear that his elder brother should be king over him. So Amulius plotted against his brother. He got together a number of men who were as bad and cruel as himself, and they attacked Numitor and drove him from his throne, and made Amulius king in his stead. They took the sons of Numitor, and his daughter Rhea Silvia, and killed them. Then Amulius seized the two little sons of Rhea Silvia, who were still only babies; he gave them to his soldiers, and told them to throw the poor little boys into the River Tiber. "Then," thought he, "they will be drowned. There will be none of my brother's children left to trouble me, and I shall be king all my life." The soldiers took the two babies in their cradle, lying side by side fast asleep, and carried them to the river...
Download or read book Roman Imperialism Serapis Classics written by Tenney Frank and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My purpose in the following pages has been to analyze, so far as the fragmentary sources permit, the precise influences that urged the Roman republic toward territorial expansion. Imperialism, as we now use the word, is generally assumed to be the national expression of the individual's "will to live." If this were always true, a simple axiom would suffice to explain every story of conquest. I venture to believe, however, that such an axiom is too frequently assumed, particularly in historical works that issue from the continent, where the overcrowding of population threatens to deprive the individual of his means of subsistance unless the united nation makes for itself "a place in the sunlight." Old-world political traditions also have taught historians to accept territorial expansion as a matter of course. For hundreds of years the church, claiming universal dominion, proclaimed the doctrine of world-empire; the monarchs of the Holy Roman Empire and of France reached out for the inheritance of ancient Rome; the dynastic families, which could hold their own in a period of such doctrine only by the possession of strong armies, naturally employed those armies in wars of expansion. It is not surprising, therefore, that continental writers, at least, should assume that the desire to possess must somehow have been the mainspring of action whether in the Spanish-American war or the Punic wars of Rome...
Download or read book The History of Pyrrhus Etc written by Jacob ABBOTT and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Richard I Serapis Classics written by Jacob Abbott and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Richard the First, the Crusader, was a boisterous, reckless, and desperate man, and he made a great deal of noise in the world in his day. He began his career very early in life by quarreling with his father. Indeed, his father, his mother, and all his brothers and sisters were engaged, as long as the father lived, in perpetual wars against each other, which were waged with the most desperate fierceness on all sides...
Download or read book Rome During the Later Republic Serapis Classics written by A. H. J. Greenridge and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of Roman history on which we now enter is, like so many that had preceded it, a period of revolt, directly aimed against the existing conditions of society and, through the means taken to satisfy the fresh wants and to alleviate the suddenly realised, if not suddenly created, miseries of the time, indirectly affecting the structure of the body politic. The difference between the social movement of the present and that of the past may be justly described as one of degree, in so far as there was not a single element of discontent visible in the revolution commencing with the Gracchi and ending with Caesar that had not been present in the earlier epochs of social and political agitation...
Download or read book Pyrrhus King of Epirus written by Petros Garouphalias and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Pyrrhus Classic Reprint written by Jacob Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Pyrrhus IT 18 doubtful if a burning ambition ever consumed more splendid talents than those with which Pyrrhus was gifted. So profound was the admiration he in, spired, that an entire hostile army at one time de serted bodily to his standard. Eaten up by his appe tite for military glory, his career was marked by a series of useless victories and a purposeless train of brilliant exploits. His personal prowess was incom parable, and Hannibal ranked him as the first of\all generals; but his name survives in modern speech as an adjective denoting victory so costly as to amount to defeat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pyrrhus of Epirus written by Jeff Champion and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of one of the greatest and most ambitious warlords of the ancient world, rated by Hannibal as a greater general than himself. It is full of epic battles, campaigns and twists of fate.
Download or read book The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus written by Nicholas Sekunda and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pyrrhus King of Epirus written by Petros Garoufalias and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pyrrhus Illustrated written by Jacob Jacob Abbott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyrrhus was a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic period. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house, and later he became king of Epirus. He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome.
Download or read book HIST OF PYRRHUS written by Jacob 1803-1879 Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
