Rome category: 2065 books

Cover of Hannibal
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016

Hannibal by the American writer of children's books, Jacob Abbott.Hannibal was a Carthaginian general. He acquired his great distinction as a warrior by his desperate contests with the Romans. Rome and Carthage grew up together on opposite sides of the Mediterranean Sea. For about a hundred years...
Cover of The Appian Way

The Appian Way

Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

by Robert A. Kaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia “the Queen of Roads,” and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroyed by time, neglect, and the incursions of modernity;...
Cover of The Idea of a Town

The Idea of a Town

The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World

by Professor Joseph Rykwert
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or the economic historian. In this famous, unusual and radical book which touches on such disparate themes as psychology and urban architecture, Joseph Rykwert has considered them as works of art. His starting...
Cover of The Collapse of Ancient Rome
by Nunziante Mastrolia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015

The free market economic theory as one of the causes that turned a Republic into a despotism.
Cover of The Fifth Century
by Edward Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

The movements within and without the Empire which, in the course of a few years at the beginning of the fifth century, altogether changed the face of Western Europe have never, as far as I know, been told in our own tongue, perhaps not in any other tongue, as a connected tale. The facts are recorded...
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Scipio Africanus

Greater Than Napoleon

by B.h. Liddell Hart
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004

From one of the most brilliant military historians of our time, this is the classic biography of Rome's greatest general and the victor over Rome's greatest enemy, Hannibal Scipio Africanus (236-183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander, he never lost...
Cover of History of Rome
by Livy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents. This edition of Livy's classic history is translated by Rev. Canon Roberts.
Cover of Ancient Rome
by Evelyn Shuckburgh
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

As it was my object to present in as vivid a manner as possible the wonderful story of the gradual extension of the power of a single city over so large a part of the known world, I have dwelt perhaps sometimes at too great length on the state of the countries conquered and the details of their conquest.
Cover of Augustus Cæsar
by John B. Firth
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017

When Julius Cæsar died, there were two men who could have succeeded him: Antonius and Augustus. For a while it seemed as though both could rule together, but when Antonius started his affair with Cleopatra, his hold on the reigns of Rome grew weaker and allowed Augustus to take control. A...
Cover of The Roman History (Volume I: The Foreign Wars)
by Appian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

A Roman historian of Greek descent, Appian was born in Alexandria (c. 95), received a formal education and later moved to Rome to serve as a barrister (c. 120). He was eventually presented with the title of procurator under Antoninus Pius, which allowed him to spend time on his "Historia Romana"....
Cover of Caesar De bello Gallico, VII
by Julius Caesar, A. H. Allcroft, M. A.
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017

The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52...
Cover of When Rome Ruled Palestine
by Norman Kotker
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017

In the twelfth year of Emperor Tiberius's reign, a new Roman procurator was sent to the eastern Mediterranean to govern the subject land of Judaea. Some ten years later, he was removed from office for a misdeed and exiled to Gaul, where he may have committed suicide. The man, Pontius Pilate, could never...
Cover of Greek and Roman Accounts of India
by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder & Strabo
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012

Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories his masterpiece...
Cover of Livy's Roman History Vol. I, II & III (Mobi Classics)
by Titus Livius,John Henry Freese (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Livy's History of Rome was in demand from the publication of the first packet. Livy became so famous that a man from Cadiz travelled to Rome just to see him, and once he had seen, returned home. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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