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Book Britain and Its Empire in the Shadow of Rome

Download or read book Britain and Its Empire in the Shadow of Rome written by Sarah J. Butler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on new primary source evidence, this volume evaluates ancient Rome's influence on an English intellectual tradition from the 1850s to the 1920s as politicians, scientists, economists and social reformers addressed three fundamental debates of the period – Empire, Nation and City. These debates emerged as a result of political, economic and social change both in the Empire and Britain, and coalesced around issues of degeneracy, morality and community. As ideas of political freedom were subsumed by ideas of civilization, best preserved by technocratic governance, the political and historical focus on Republican Rome was gradually displaced by interest in the Imperial period of the Roman emperors. Moreover, as the spectre of the British Empire and Nation in decline increased towards the turn of the nineteenth century, the reception of Imperial Rome itself was transformed. By the 1920s, following the end of World War I, Imperial Rome was conjured into a new framework echoing that of the British Empire and appealing to the surging nationalistic mood.

Book Shadow of Rome

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Shadow of Rome written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow of Rome

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  • Author : Dan Birlew
  • Publisher : BradyGames
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780744004380
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Shadow of Rome written by Dan Birlew and published by BradyGames. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BradyGames' Shadow of Rome Official Strategy Guide includes the following: LEARNHOW TO PLAY AS BOTH AGRIPPA AND OCTAVIANUS WALKTHROUGH AND MAPS BOSS-BASHING STRATEGIES! GAME SECRETS AND CHEATS ALL GLADIATORIAL EVENTS COVERED COMPLETE LISTING OF SALVOS Platform: PlayStation 2 Genre: Action and Adventure This product is available for sale in North America only.

Book The Shadow of Rome

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  • Author : H. C. Pedder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Shadow of Rome written by H. C. Pedder and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cleopatra

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  • Author : Julian Morgan
  • Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
  • Release : 2002-12-15
  • ISBN : 9780823935918
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Cleopatra written by Julian Morgan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Egyptian Queen who attempted to ally with the Roman Empire, but eventually was taken captive, allowing the Rome to gain control.

Book The Enemies of Rome

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  • Author : Stephen Kershaw
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-01-07
  • ISBN : 1643133756
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book The Enemies of Rome written by Stephen Kershaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and vivid narrative history of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the “barbarian” enemies of Rome. History is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous impact on the Roman imagination. Resisting from outside Rome’s borders or rebelling from within, they emerge vividly in Rome’s historical tradition, and left a significant footprint in archaeology. Kershaw builds a narrative around the lives, personalities, successes, and failures both of the key opponents of Rome’s rise and dominance, and of those who ultimately brought the empire down. Rome’s history follows a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a tiny village of refugees from a conflict zone to a dominant superpower. But throughout this history, Rome faced significant resistance and rebellion from peoples whom it regarded as barbarians: Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Goths, Vandals, Huns, Picts and Scots. Based both on ancient historical writings and modern archaeological research, this new history takes a fresh look at the Roman Empire through the personalities and lives of key opponents during the trajectory of Rome’s rise and fall.

Book The Shadow of Ararat

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  • Author : Thomas Harlan
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2000-05-15
  • ISBN : 9780812590098
  • Pages : 820 pages

Download or read book The Shadow of Ararat written by Thomas Harlan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternate-history novel on a 7th century war in which Rome and Byzantium ally themselves to invade Persia. The plot follows a group of Roman warriors versed in magic and sorcery, among them a female assassin.

Book The Phantom of the Colosseum  Volume 1

Download or read book The Phantom of the Colosseum Volume 1 written by Sophie De Mullenheim and published by In the Shadows of Rome. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phantom of the Colosseum is the first volume of the gripping new series for 10 yr. olds and up titled In the Shadows of Rome (5 books total). Being a Christian in ancient Rome was very dangerous. To spread the faith and stay alive, you had to live in the shadows . . . Now that Blandula's master has been arrested for being a Christian, what will she do? Little does she know that she is about to meet three boys who will help her to find the answer: Maximus, the son of a senator; his slave Aghiles; and Titus, who never goes anywhere without his pet monkey. Follow their adventures as Blandula and her new companions forge priceless friendships--and discover the many secrets lurking in the shadows of the Colosseum.

Book History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

Download or read book History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages written by Ferdinand Gregorovius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern study of the history of medieval Rome, translated between 1894 and 1902 from the fourth German edition.

Book Augusta  The Lost Epic of Rome s Last Days

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:

Book The Shadow of Rome

Download or read book The Shadow of Rome written by One who has "emerged". and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Shadow of Heroes

Download or read book In the Shadow of Heroes written by Nicholas Bowling and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest novel from the critically-acclaimed author of WITCHBORN ... Fourteen-year-old Cadmus has been scholar Tullus's slave since he was a baby - his master is the only family he knows. But when Tullus disappears and a taciturn slave called Tog - daughter of a British chieftain - arrives with a secret message, Cadmus's life is turned upside down. The pair follow a trail that leads to Emperor Nero himself, and his crazed determination to possess the Golden Fleece of Greek mythology. This quest will push Cadmus to the edge of the Roman Empire - and reveal unexpected truths about his past ...

Book The Shadow of Vesuvius  A Life of Pliny

Download or read book The Shadow of Vesuvius A Life of Pliny written by Daisy Dunn and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.

Book Rome s Third Samnite War  298   290 BC

Download or read book Rome s Third Samnite War 298 290 BC written by Mike Roberts and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Samnite War (298-290 BC) was a crucial episode in the early history of Rome. Upon its outcome rested mastery of central Italy, and the independent survival of both Rome and the Samnites. Determined to resist aggressive Roman expansion, the Samnites forged a powerful alliance with the Senones (a tribe of Italian Gauls), Etruscans and Umbrians. The result was eight years of hard campaigning, brutal sieges and bitter battles that stretched Rome to the limit. The desperate nature of the struggle is illustrated by the ritual self-sacrifice (devotio) by the Roman consul Publius Decimus Mus at the Battle of Sentinum (295 BC), which restored the resolve of the wavering Roman troops, and by the Samnite Linen Legion at the Battle of Aquilonia (393 BC), each man of which was bound by a sacred oath to conquer or die on the battlefield. Mike Roberts, who has travelled the Italian landscape upon which these events played out, mines the sources (which are more reliable, he argues, than for Rome’s previous wars) to produce a compelling narrative of this momentous conflict.

Book The Eternal City

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  • Author : Ferdinand Addis
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-11-06
  • ISBN : 1681775999
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book The Eternal City written by Ferdinand Addis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent and definitive history of the Eternal City, narrated by a master historian. Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization? Ferdinand Addis addresses these questions by tracing the history of the "Eternal City" told through the dramatic key moments in its history: from the mythic founding of Rome in 753 BC, via such landmarks as the murder of Caesar in 44 BC, the coronation of Charlemagne in AD 800 and the reinvention of the imperial ideal, the painting of the Sistine chapel, the trial of Galileo, Mussolini's March on Rome of 1922, the release of Fellini's La Dolce Vita in 1960, and the Occupy riots of 2011. City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholic Christianity, city of the artistic imagination, enduring symbol of our common European heritage—Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the twenty-seven centuries of its existence. Ferdinand Addis tells this rich story in a grand narrative style for a new generation of readers.

Book Soldier of Rome

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  • Author : James M. Mace
  • Publisher : James Mace
  • Release : 2008-02-12
  • ISBN : 059560420X
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Soldier of Rome written by James M. Mace and published by James Mace. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been three years since the wars against Arminius and the Cherusci. Gaius Silius, Legate of the Twentieth Legion, is concerned that the barbarians-though shattered by the war-may be stirring once again. He also seeks to confirm the rumors regarding Arminius' death. What Silius does not realize is that there is a new threat to the Empire, but it does not come from beyond the frontier; it is coming from within, where a disenchanted nobleman looks to sow the seeds of rebellion in Gaul. Legionary Artorius has greatly matured during his five years in the legions. He has become stronger in mind; his body growing even more powerful. Like the rest of the Legion, he is unaware of the shadow growing well within the Empire's borders, where a disaffected nobleman seeks to betray the Emperor Tiberius. A shadow looms; one that looks to envelope the province of Gaul as well as the Rhine legions. The year is A.D. 20.

Book The Lost Girls of Rome

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  • Author : Donato Carrisi
  • Publisher : Mulholland Books
  • Release : 2013-11-19
  • ISBN : 0316246816
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book The Lost Girls of Rome written by Donato Carrisi and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grieving young widow, seeking answers to her husband's death, becomes entangled in an investigation steeped in the darkest mysteries of Rome. Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon. A few months ago, in the dead of night, her husband, an up-and-coming journalist, plunged to his death at the top of a high-rise construction site. The police ruled it an accident. Sanda is convinced it was anything but. Launching her own inquiries, Sanda finds herself on a dangerous trail, working the same case that she is convinced led to her husband's murder. An investigation which is deeply entwined with a series of disappearances that has swept the city, and brings Sandra ever closer to a centuries-old secret society that will do anything to stay in the shadows.