Rome category: 2065 books
by The Non Fiction Author
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Welcome to Rome!
It was once the seat of a vast and powerful empire known for its conquering armies, grand architecture, ahead of its time engineering, and lavish lifestyles of the ruling elite. Today’s modern Rome has all of the elegant, ancient history of its past life mixed with the modern...
Under the Shadow of the Moon
The Story of Cleopatra Selene Continues, Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Book Two
Cleopatra Selene was born to a world of plenty, where all of her wishes were granted. She was a princess of an ancient and powerful family of Egypt. Her own mother was a pharaoh, what else could a girl want more than that. Her whole life was planned out and sung to her by her own mother...
Legacy of the Moon
The Story of Cleopatra Selene, Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Book One
Cleopatra Selene was born to a world of plenty, where all of her wishes were granted. She was a princess of an ancient and powerful family of Egypt. Her own mother was a pharaoh, what else could a girl want more than that. Her whole life was planned out and sung to her by her own...
The Rise of Rome
The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR
From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian*,* comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest...
by J. C. Stobart
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
ATHENS and Rome stand side by side as the parents of Western civilisation. The parental metaphor is almost irresistible. Rome is so obviously masculine and robust, Greece endowed with so much loveliness and charm. Rome subjugates by physical conquest and government. Greece yields so easily to the...
The Rise of Rome
From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
By the third century BC, the once-modest settlement of Rome had conquered most of Italy and was poised to build an empire throughout the Mediterranean basin. What transformed a humble city into the preeminent power of the region? In The Rise of Rome, the historian and archaeologist Kathryn Lomas reconstructs...
Rome's Revolution
Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian--emerged...
The Fate of Rome
Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate...
Sacred Stimulus
Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Sacred Stimulus offers a thorough exploration of Jerusalem's role in the formation and formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fifth centuries. The visual vocabulary discussed by Galit Noga-Banai gives an alternative access point to the mnemonic efforts conceived while Rome converted...
Rome's Last Citizen
The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
"Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life...
Are We Rome?
The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks
The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the...
by James Tan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal sociology and makes the case that no understanding...
by Joyce Tyldesley
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In a companion book to the best-selling Stories from Ancient Egypt, Joyce Tyldesley re-tells some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from the Classical world. These stories tell us how the spider spun the first web, how a simple ball of string defeated the fearsome minotaur,...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This is Roman history roughly from its mythological dawning about 753 BC to the time when free adult males within the Roman Empire were declared by Emperor Caracalla as citizens of Rome in 212 CE.Beard starts the history of ancient Rome with an account of how Lucius Sergius Catalina (Cataline)...