Rome category: 2065 books
by Gibbon, Edward
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
All six volumes are contained in this eBook. There is a linked table of contents, and the footnotes are also linked. Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
With notes by the Rev. H. H. MilmanThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89....
Pagans
The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point of view of traditional” religion from the religious scholar and critically acclaimed author of Augustine.
Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that...
The Ruin of the Roman Empire
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Anexotic and instructive tale, told with life, learning and just the right measure of laughter on every page. O’Donnell combines a historian’s mastery of substance with a born storyteller’s sense of style to create a magnificent work of art.” — Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary...
Dynastie
opkomst en ondergang van het huis van Julius Caesar
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Toen het Romeinse rijk eenmaal een wereldrijk was kwam er een einde aan de republiek. Rome baadde in bloed. De burgeroorlogen waren zo gewelddadig geweest dat het volk blij was met een alleenheerser die vrede bracht. Hij noemde zichzelf Augustus: ‘de door God begunstigde’.
De lugubere roem van...
The War of the Three Gods
Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century-with its chief focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610641)-a pivotal and dramatic time in world history. The Eastern Roman Empire was brought to the very brink of extinction...
by Maarten van Rossem
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Wat waren de oorzaken van de neergang en implosie van het Romeinse Rijk? Dat vragen historici zich al eeuwen af. Achter die schijnbaar koele vraag schuilt een angstige vraag: zou het ons ook kunnen overkomen? Regelmatig duiken er beschouwingen op waarin de trage, relatieve aftakeling van de Amerikaanse...
by Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) is one of the most influential statesmen in history, relied upon by the Romans of his day, political philosophers like John Locke, Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau, and Americas Founding Fathers. While De re publica, or The Republic, is his most well known work,...
The Complete Procopius
The Wars of Justinian, the Secret History of the Court of Justinian, and the Buildings of Justinian
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
"The Complete Procopius Anthology" contains the complete works of Procopius of Caesarea, including "The Buildings of Justinian" in digital ebook format for the first time, as well as "The Wars of Justinian", and "The Secret History of the Courts of Justinian"....
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
A.D. 180 to A.D. 395 (A Modern Library E-Book)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind,' recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude....
by Robert B. Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
More than 1,500 years have passed since the last blood - human or animal - was spilled in the Colosseum, but the massive building erected by the Flavian emperors has continued to play a role in history. This book tells the dramatic story of the Colosseum - from its bloody gladiatorial games and the...
by Tite Live
Language: French
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo
Une table des matières interactive vous permettra de naviguer facilement d'un livre à l'autre.
Plan de l'ouvrage :
Livre I : les origines et la royauté : la période royale (753 - 509), avec l’arrivée d’Énée, la dynastie...
by Nic Fields
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
One of the most powerful men in late antiquity, Attila's peerless Hunnic empire stretched from the Ural mountains to the Rhine river. In a series of epic campaigns dating from the AD 430s until his death in AD 453, he ravaged first the Eastern and later the Western Roman Empire, invading Italy in...
Ancient Worlds
A Global History of Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world."
Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and Rubicon
Twenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our world...