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Vie de Cicéron est un livre écrit par le philosophe grec Plutarque (46 - 125). Résumé : Cicéron, né le 3 janvier 106 av. J.-C. à Arpinum en Italie et assassiné le 7 décembre 43 av. J.-C. (calendrier julien) à Gaète,...

L’an de Rome 687, Aulus Cluentius Avitus, chevalier romain du municipe de Larinum. en Apulie, fut accusé, par Caius Oppianicus, d’avoir empoisonné Statius Albius Oppianicus son père, autre chevalier romain de la même ville. Or, huit ans auparavant, cet Oppianicus père avait été lui-même...

PREMIER DISCOURS CONTRE CATILINA PRONONCÉ AU SÉNAT. ANALYSE. – Après avoir échoué dans sa demande du consulat, Catilina. appuyé sur tout ce que Rome renfermait d’hommes corrompus, avait résolu le meurtre des plus illustres citoyens et l’incendie de la ville. Informé du complot, Cicéron,...

Remembered for his excesses and little else, Roman emperor Nero was passionate about technology, was a discriminating patron of the arts and a keen judge of character - and, while Rome burned, an energetic firefighter. Here, in this short-form book from award-winning historian Lionel Casson, is his surprising story.

Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander...

The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, lit. The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire.This work survived only in one single manuscript that was found in Hersfeld Abbey, Holy...

The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world. Completed in 8 AD, it has remained one of the most popular works of mythology, being the Classical work best known to medieval writers and thus having a great deal of influence...

Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour....

In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives us a detailed...

Travel through time and explore the ancient empires of Rome, Byzantine, Inca and Persia. What were the characteristics of these empire that made them unique from the rest? What were their legacies? How did they live and what did they believe in? Questions like these, and more, will be answered in this ebook. Start reading today.

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Histories Book I sections 4 (finis Neronis ...) to 7, 12–14, 17–23 and 26, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Histories Book I sections 27–36, 39–44 and 49, giving full Latin...

This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Tacitus' Annals I. Sections 3–7, 11–14, 16–30 and 46–49 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed to be...

This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Cicero's Philippic II. Sections 44–50 (… viri tui similis esses), 78 (C. Caesari ex Hispania redeunti…)–92 and 100–119 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately...

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where...