Download or read book The Caligula Curse written by Andrei Kozyrev and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia is a young American doctor who comes to Russia during the raging years of the country’s attempt to create a democratic nation after the specter of Soviet totalitarianism. As an emerging democracy makes everything seem possible, Pat meets a brave security officer named Victor, and they fall in love. However, their romance begins to crumble as the KGB regains power and forges an unholy alliance with a priest and his shadowy cabal, which is but a fraction of an international conspiracy that professes, and practices, centuries-old black magic known as “the Caligula curse.” The noose of corruption and anti-American sentiments tightens around Pat and Victor. The couple tries to save their love as dark forces seize Russia. Danger arises in America. Powerful conspiracies, an ancient curse, and modern fallacies work against democracy and personal freedom. Pat, her love and friends are in mortal danger.
Download or read book Caligula written by Simon Turney and published by Orion. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An engrossing new spin on a well-known tale' Antonia Senior, The Times 'Caligula as you've never seen him before! A powerfully moving read from one of the best ancient world authors in the business' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network Everyone knows his name. Everyone thinks they know his story. Rome 37AD. The emperor is dying. No-one knows how long he has left. The power struggle has begun. When the ailing Tiberius thrusts Caligula's family into the imperial succession in a bid to restore order, he will change the fate of the empire and create one of history's most infamous tyrants, Caligula. But was he really a monster? Forget everything you think you know. Let Livilla, Caligula's youngest sister and confidante, tell you what really happened. How her quiet, caring brother became the most powerful man on earth. And how, with lies, murder and betrayal, Rome was changed for ever . . . 'A truly different take on one of history's villains . . . All through this I am seeing Al Pacino in The Godfather, slowly stained darker and darker by power and blood' Robert Low, author of The Oathsworn series 'Enthralling and original, brutal and lyrical by turns. With powerful imagery and carefully considered history Simon Turney provides a credible alternative to the Caligula myth that will have the reader questioning everything they believe they know about the period' Anthony Riches, author of the Empire series
Download or read book Caligula written by Anthony A. Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Empire has always exercised a considerable fascination. Among its numerous colourful personalities, no emperor, with the possible exception of Nero, has attracted more popular attention than Caligula, who has a reputation, whether deserved or not, as the quintessential mad and dangerous ruler. The first edition of this book established itself as the standard study of Caligula. It remains the only full length and detailed scholarly analysis in English of this emperor’s reign, and has been translated into a number of languages. But the study of Classical antiquity is not a static phenomenon, and scholars are engaged in a persistent quest to upgrade our knowledge and thinking about the ancient past. In the thirty years since publication of the original Caligula there have been considerable scholarly advances in what we know about this emperor specifically, and also about the general period in which he functioned, while newly discovered inscriptions and major archaeological projects have necessitated a rethinking of many of our earlier conclusions about early imperial history. This new edition constitutes a major revision and, in places, a major rewriting, of the original text. Maintaining the reader-friendly structure and organisation of its predecessor, it embodies the latest discoveries and the latest thinking, seeking to make more lucid and comprehensible those aspects of the reign that are particularly daunting to the non-specialist. Like the original, this revised Caligula is intended to satisfy the requirements of the scholarly community while appealing to a broad and general readership.
Download or read book Caligula written by Anthony A. Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all Roman emperors none, with the possible exception of Nero, surpasses Caligula's reputation for infamy. But was Caligula really the mad despot and depraved monster of popular legend or the victim of hostile ancient historians? In this study of Caligula's life, reign and violent death, Anthony A. Barrett draws on the archaeological and numismatic evidence to supplement the later written record. In Professor Barrett's view, the mystery of Caligula's reign is not why he descended into autocracy, but how any intelligent Roman could have expected a different outcome - to grant total power to an inexperienced and arrogant young man was a recipe for disaster. This book, scholarly and accessible, offers a careful reconstruction of Caligula's life and times, and a shrewd assessment of his historical importance.
Download or read book Caligula written by Anthony Barrett and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1991 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caligula written by Anthony A. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Curse of Gutenberg written by Dan Daniels and published by Broken Jaw Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caligula written by Allan Massie and published by Ediouro Publicações. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaio Júlio César Germânico - o Calígula - é considerado pelos historiadores um dos mais cruéis, sangrentos e autoritários imperadores romanos. Tinha menos de 25 anos quando se tornou imperador, sem nunca ter servido no exército ou assumido um cargo público. Seu reinado foi breve e marcado pela instabilidade mental, com relatos de orgias e devassidão sexual, delírios de loucura e grandeza. Nesta biografia romanceada, o autor questiona a versão da maioria dos historiadores e filósofos a respeito desse personagem símbolo da decadência romana.
Download or read book Cal gula written by David Lapham and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blessing for the Nations and the Curse of the Law written by Jeffrey R. Wisdom and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Durham, 1998.
Download or read book Caligula written by Aloys Winterling and published by C.H.Beck. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caligula written by Aloys Winterling and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him, turned part of his palace into a brothel, and committed incest with his sisters. He wanted to make his horse a consul. Torture and executions were the order of the day. Both modern and ancient interpretations have concluded from this alleged evidence that Caligula was insane. But was he? This biography tells a different story of the well-known emperor. In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys Winterling opens a new perspective on the man and his times. Basing Caligula on a thorough new assessment of the ancient sources, he sets the emperor's story into the context of the political system and the changing relations between the senate and the emperor during Caligula's time and finds a new rationality explaining his notorious brutality.
Download or read book Caligula written by Stephen Dando-Collins and published by Turner. This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book about Rome's most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins' chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details the horrors of his manic reign and the murderous consequences brought about at the hand of his sister Agrippina the Younger, his uncle Claudius and his nephew Nero."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Caligula written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of 'good books for all'. Graves wrote two of the greatest historical novels of the twentieth century: I Claudius and Claudius the God. Written as Claudius' autobiography, they follow his progress from a stammering figure of fun to the ruler of the Roman Empire. Here, he describes the glory and decadence of the mad Emperor Caligula's reign - an age of wild debauchery and whimsical cruelty.
Download or read book Caligula written by Hanns Sachs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sands of the Arena and Other Stories written by Ben Kane and published by Orion. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sunday Times Bestselling author Ben Kane comes a collection of short stories: Sands of the Arena Can a wet-behind-the-ears gladiator survive a bloody contest ordered by Emperor Caligula? The Shrine Centurion Tullus discovers that Fate will always hold him in her grip. The Arena Legionary Piso's much anticipated payday plays out very differently than he expected. Eagles in the East Caught up in a bloody rebellion, Centurion Tullus battles to keep his men alive. Eagles in the Wilderness Bored with retirement, Centurion Tullus takes service with an amber merchant, voyaging to unknown, dangerous lands far beyond the empire. Hannibal: Good Omens History's most famous general seeks the gods' approval before his war with Rome. The March Romulus and Tarquinius travel to the ends of the earth, searching for their lost friend Brennus.
Download or read book The Madness of the Emperor Caligula written by A. T. Sandison and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
