Greek Roman category: 1023 books

Extrait : Ô toi, qui traces la route parmi les astres de l’Ouranos et qui sièges sur un char d’or, Hèlios ! Toi, qui roules la flamme avec tes chevaux rapides, quel rayon funeste tu as envoyé sur Thèba, le jour où Kadmos, ayant quitté la terre Phoinissienne, vint dans...

This Virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called an eclogue, populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. Performed with great success on the Roman stage, they feature a...

Somewhere in Time SAMPLER Ancient Roman romance. Hitler’s Germany.  1890’s New Orleans. This historical fiction sampler will transport you to to the past and let you experience these worlds as if they were new. This sampler contains excerpts from the following novels: Artemis...

The young Cornelius marches with the fifth legion to chastise the barbarian hordes of Dacia who dared cross Roman borders; he dreams of glory, wealth and power, even thinking of a later life of ease in the senate. Dreams are but dust in the wind and in a decisive battle the legion is crushed....

This short, 40 page play reveals the prehistoric logic of the Christian Myth and presents a fictional scenario that could have inspired its author (Paul of Tarsus) to write it. The play also reveals that the Roman Catholic priesthood is a magnet for pederasts for more than the widely understood reason...

Extrait : Je suis venu sur cette terre Thèbaienne, moi, le fils de Zeus, Dionysos, qu’enfanta autrefois la fille de Kadmos, Sémélè, accouchée par le feu de la foudre. Ayant changé la forme d’un Dieu en celle d’un homme, me voici auprès des sources de Dirkè et des eaux de...

Extrait : Il n’est aucune chose si terrible à dire, aucun mal, aucune calamité envoyée divinement, dont la nature de l’homme ne supporte le poids. Car l’heureux Tantalos, né de Zeus, — et je ne rappelle point ceci pour insulter à sa fortune — craignant le rocher qui va...

Extrait : "Timon. Quel dieu, mon cher Arkésilaos, t'a envoyé le bonheur ? Ton visage respire la joie. Aurais-tu gagné cette gageure que tu fis, la semaine dernière, devant tes disciples, de convertir à la morale du Portique la courtisane Théodéta ? As-tu persuadé le vieil Epikouros de la nécessité...

Apuleius (/ˌæpjʉˈliːəs/; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – c. 170 AD)[1] was a Latin-language prose writer. He was a Numidian Berber who lived under the Roman Empire[2] and was from Madaurus (now M'Daourouch, Algeria). He studied Platonist philosophy in Athens, travelled to...

Based on actual events during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, The Wedding Cup is a drama about the tragic love triangle between Sophonisba, a Carthaginian generals daughter, and the rival rulers of two North African states. As Scipio, the Roman general, prepares to invade Africa, Sophonisba...

The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period. This work uses the interactions of a range of English Renaissance...

The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of collapse. It began with Nero's ruthless elimination of Julio-Claudian rivals and ended in his suicide and the civil wars that followed. Suddenly Rome was forced to confront an imperial future as bloody as its Republican past and a ruler...

A historical fiction novel which is heavily based upon fact. Adalhard, the ghost of a Germanic warrior  writes the text and takes you through history including, the geographical limits of Germania at the times of Augusts and Julius Caesar, the first meetings of Germanic tribes and Romans, How Rome...

Extrait : Voici les belles eaux vierges et courantes du Néilos, qui remplace la divine rosée pour la terre d’Aigyptos et qui arrose les plaines, à la fonte de la blanche neige. Prôteus, quand il vivait, était Maître de cette terre et Roi de l’Aigyptia, et il habitait l’Île...