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by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity’s two great Western civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. This was the epoch of Alexander’s vast expansion of the Greco-Macedonian world, the rise and fall of his successors’ major dynasties in Egypt and Asia, and, ultimately, the establishment...
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria
Birthplace of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first millennium. In this compulsively readable narrative, Justin Pollard and Howard Reid bring one of history's most fascinating and prolific cities to life, creating...
From Democrats to Kings
The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Michael Scott explores the dramatic and little-known story of how the ancient world was turned from a democracy into a monarchy in this superb example of popular history writing.
Following Hadrian : A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
One of the greatest--and most enigmatic--Roman emperors Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders established peace throughout the empire patronized the arts and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli the domed wonder of the Pantheon and the eponymous wall that...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III
A.D. 1185 to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2000
"I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all....I was not even estranged by his naughty...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II
A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
"I devoured Gibbon," wrote Winston Churchill. "I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all." Gibbon's magnum opus -- which encompasses thirteen hundred years of history, swinging across Europe, North Africa, and Asia -- remains one of the greatest works of...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged)
Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin
Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the...
by Roger Kean
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
It is often forgotten that the period of Byzantine power is one of the major epochs in world history. The Empire was for eleven centuries the center of Christendom, mistress of the Mediterranean, and the symbol for all the rest of the world of splendor, wealth, and cultural ascendancy. Its period...
Roman Urban Street Networks
Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the...
by Smith Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016
NEARLY three thousand years ago a bright, handsome Hebrew lad was playing a harp while watching his father’s sheep on the hills of Bethlehem. One dark night there was a great stir among the sheep, and David saw a bear making off with one of the lambs. There were no guns in those days, but David...
The Complete Cicero Anthology
The Collected Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The Cicero Anthology is a collection of the most acute and incisive works of one of the greatest and most celebrated orators in all of history.
Cicero is still celebrated to this day for his skills as a Roman Senator, rhetorician, orator, lawyer, and writer; and for the courage and conviction...
by Chris Spiller
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
The book is a factual investigation into the true origins of Christianity, with very controversial conclusions.
An intensive 6-year period of investigating and reviewing many historical documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls, University archives, USA microfilm, the Bible etc which conclude that...
by James Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
History, in the broadest sense of the word, is all that we know about everything that man has ever done, or thought, or hoped, or felt. It is the limitless science of past human affairs, a subject immeasurably vast and important but exceedingly vague. The historian may busy himself deciphering hieroglyphics...
by Eugene Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This brief, well annotated piece describes a brief history of Loyola's Jesuits and their battle for the Catholic Faith in the face of the Reformation.