Rome

How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines....

Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....

Updated and revised for this edition, this accessible introduction provides an important reference resource for the academic or student listener as well as those with a general interest in the ancient world.

Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general listener. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history....

Cicero's letters, speeches, and other writings are filled with timeless wisdom and practical insight about how to solve problems of leadership and politics....

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....

This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points....

Hardly anyone who was educated was unaware of at least some of the more famous stories of Roman myth and history as told by Titus Livius....

Procopius appeared to be a loyal part of the Byzantine establishment, his official writing glorifying the deeds of the Emperor Justinian (d. AD 565). However, he also produced a work that he knew could never be published within the Emperor’s lifetime: The Secret History....

Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.

Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history....

The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers.

"Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon" throws down a historical gauntlet. Author B.H. Liddell Hart argues that Roman general Scipio, famed for defeating Hannibal, outshines even the mighty Napoleon. Published in 1927, the book dives deep into their strategies, campaigns, and leadership styles.

Volume Two of Appian's Roman History consists of his incredible chronicle of the Roman Civil War, which began in 133 B.C. with the conflict between the plebeians and the aristocracy over the attempted land reforms of the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus....

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....

This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power....

This is the story of Messalina–third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world....

This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....

Julius Caesar is one of the most famous figures of the ancient Roman world. A skillful general and leading politician of the late Roman Republic, he secured a 10-year proconsular command in the province of Gaul, during which he accumulated both wealth and power....

The book covers the history of the Byzantine Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD....

Long sources of mystery, imagination, and inspiration, the myths and history of the ancient Mediterranean have given rise to artistic, religious, cultural, and intellectual traditions....

To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world....

Classical Mythology A to Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to Greek and Roman mythology....

Generally considered to be J. B. Bury's magnum opus, this kaleidoscopic and assiduously accurate reconstruction of the Western and Eastern Roman empire covers the crucial years from the death of Theodosius in 395 to the death of Justinian in 565.

This history by Charles Oman is a catalog of good, bad, and indifferent emperors who either pushed Byzantine Civilization to new heights or savagely drove it to defeat and dissolution....

In 52 BC, after six years of war against the Gallic tribes, Julius Caesar had tamed another enemy of the Roman Republic. Almost one million Gauls were taken as slaves, while their land became just another Roman province. Soon tonnes of grain along with lucrative taxes were flowing towards the imperial capital, whose inhabitants enjoyed all the luxuries of the provinces. Everything had changed since outlaws had founded Rome almost 500 years earlier.

"كبيرة الورد" رواية قصيرة بنيت على أحداث تاريخية وقعت في مطلع القرن الأول بعد الميلاد.

"يوم المغفرة" رواية مأخوذة من أحداث حقيقية وقعت في القرن الأول بعد الميلاد داخل مدينة القدس، أو أورشليم كما كانت تسمى قديمًا.

Hannibal Barca moved through the countryside burning, looting, and attracting recruits and supplies from disgruntled city residents and tribesmen. Cornelius Scipio remained with the forward Legions, taking any position available. It spoke well of his loyalty, but his actions hid a deeper secret. Cornelius feared the Scipio men would be accused of being cowards. Jace Kasia had no family but had a goal to be recognized as a Cretan archer. On the banks of Lake Trasimene, he earned the position of File Leader.

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For listeners eager to experience Gibbon’s brilliant primary historicism, to understand the long decline of Rome—and the reasons for the Empire’s demise—there exists no better or more accessible condensation of Decline and Fall.

كتاب "101 حرب الفاندال" للمؤلف جهاد الترباني، يحكي عن العديد من الحقائق المجهولة لاغلبنا وذلك في صورة شيقة ومثيرة، كما يشمل معلومات تاريخية وجغرافية عن مرويات وأحداث مفصلية وقعت في التاريخ القديم. الآرسيون والدولة الرومانية.

Generally considered to be J. B. Bury's magnum opus, this kaleidoscopic and assiduously accurate reconstruction of the Western and Eastern Roman empire covers the crucial years from the death of Theodosius in 395 to the death of Justinian in 565. This 170 year period reveals the forces and cross-currents which engulfed Constantinople, Rome, Antioch, along with the Germanic and Persian peoples. Various tribes like the Huns, Lombards, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and Vandals are carefully investigated.

Rom hält den Atem an, als Gaius Julius Caesar während der Senatssitzung am 15. März 44 v. Chr. unter den Dolchen der Verschwörer fällt – tödlich verwundet durch mindestens 23 Stiche. Wie konnte es nur so weit kommen? Wer waren die Täter? Und vor allem: Welche Motive trieben sie zu dem Mord? Als historischer Ermittler haucht Michael Sommer dieser weltberühmten Kriminalgeschichte neues Leben ein und lässt die beteiligten Akteure samt ihren Beweggründen, Ambitionen und Hoffnungen wieder lebendig werden. Das Attentat mag Caesar unerwartet getroffen haben, doch aus heiterem Himmel kam es nicht.

Attila is a household name. But his true character and impact on the Roman Empire have always remained elusive. Until now. In the first major work written about Attila in decades, Nick Holmes rewrites the story of Attila and Rome. Contrary to his brutal legend, Attila was a complex and captivating personality. A great warlord who despised ostentation, admired bravery, and valued loyalty.