Rome category: 2065 books
The Ghosts of Cannae
Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
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For millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. No general since has matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and brutal military victory. Now Robert L. O’Connell, one of the most admired names in military history,...
by Tacitus
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian...
by Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for...
by Polybius, Brian McGing
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward...
Julius Caesar
The Colossus of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar’s life and times. Richard Billows’ dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of...
On Roman Religion
Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion...
Defeat of Rome
Crassus, Carrhae & the Invasion of the East
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus' defeat and death and the 20,000 casualties his army suffered were an extraordinary disaster for Rome. The event intensified the bitter, destructive struggle...
by Stephen P. Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds.
He examines extraordinary personalities such...
by H.g. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
IT is now necessary to take up the history of the two great republics of the Western Mediterranean, Rome and Carthage, and to tell how Rome succeeded in maintaining for some centuries an empire even greater than that achieved by the conquests of Alexander. But this new empire was, as we shall try...
Antony & Cleopatra
The Doomed Love Affair That United Ancient Rome & Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The doomed love affair that united Ancient Rome & Egypt. The immortal lovers of novels, plays and films, Antony and Cleopatra were reviled by contemporary Romans, but history has transformed them into tragic heroes. Somewhere between their vilification by Augustus and the judgement of a later...
Between Rome and Persia
The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra under Roman control
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
This detailed history of explores Rome’s interaction with its Persian neighbour and enemy from the first century BC to the third century AD. Peter Edwell takes the innovative approach in treating the area in regional terms, giving more nuanced interpretations than are available in broader treatments of the Roman Near East.
by Simon MacDowall
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
An up-close look at the Germanic people who sacked Rome in the fifth century AD.
On 31 December AD 406, a group of German tribes crossed the Rhine, pierced the Roman defensive lines, and began a rampage across Roman Gaul, sacking cities such as Metz, Arras, and Strasbourg. Foremost amongst them...
The Ides
Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius Caesar
The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many compelling questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Did Caesar...
Cleopatra's Kidnappers
How Caesars Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
A powerful tale of war, romance, and one of history's most desperate gambles
Julius Caesar was nothing if not bold. When, in the wake of his defeat of Pompey at Pharsalus his victorious legions refused to march another step under his command, he pursued his fleeing rival into Egypt with an...