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Cover of Centurion Valens and the Empress of Death
by James Mace
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014

In the year 44 A.D., following the Conquest of Britannia, Centurion Valens returns to Rome in Triumph. It will be his last official act as a soldier of the Empire, as he looks forward to a well-deserved retirement. Instead, a night of drunken debauchery leads him into a web of deceit, betrayal, and...
Cover of The Trojan War

The Trojan War

The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid

by Homer, Virgil
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

Presented in this book are three of the greatest literary works of the Ancient World: 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil. 'The Iliad' tells the tale of the ten year siege of Troy by the Greeks,  the exploits of King Agamemnon and the legendary Achilles,...
Cover of History of the Later Roman Empire: All Volumes
by J.B. Bury
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012

J.B. Bury was a celebrated historian who wrote around the turn of the 19th century. His classics on the Roman Empire and Greece still stand among the best texts on the classical civilizations. The period between the 4th and 6th centuries A.D. was one of incredible upheaval for the Roman Empire. The...
Cover of Caesar
by David Grace
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016

Gaius Julius Caesar was intelligent, courageous, and connected. For the majority of his adult life, though, he took little advantage of his gifts. Then, in his early forties, he came into his own as an orator, politician, general, writer, and statesman. Caesar dedicated himself to a singular mission:...
Cover of The Age of Justinian and Theodora: A History of the 6th Century A.D.
by William Gordon Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012

Justinian I ,commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Eastern Roman Emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire. Justinian's reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized renovatio imperii, or "restoration...
Cover of The Roman Empire in the 2nd Century
by William Capes
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

Before the murderers of Domitian raised their hands to strike the fatal blow, they looked around, we read, to find a successor to replace him. Others whom they sounded on the subject shrunk away in fear or in suspicion, till they thought of M. Cocceius Nerva, who was likely to fill worthily the office...
Cover of Italy and Her Invaders: The Imperial Restoration, Belisarius in Italy
by Thomas Hodgkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012

Flavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously. Belisarius led campaigns against the Vandals,...
Cover of Italy and Her Invaders

Italy and Her Invaders

Volume VI - The Lombard Kingdom

by Thomas Hodgkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016

            The century whose early years witnessed the death of Pope Gregory the Great, and the establishment of something like peaceful relations between the Empire and the Lombards in Italy, was one of a strangely mingled character. As far as Western Europe was concerned (perhaps we...
Cover of Attila, King of the Huns, and His Predecessors
by William Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012

Attila, often referred to as Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire, which stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. He was one of the most feared enemies of the Western and Eastern...
Cover of The Emperor Constantine
by Michael Grant
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011

A study of one of the ancient world's most fascinating figures. Fascinating and readable biography by a great populariser of classical civilisation. Directly responsible for momentous transformations of the Imperial scene, Constantine will always be famous as the 1st Christian Emperor of Rome,...
Cover of History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Complete 6 Volumes)
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes...
Cover of Encyclopedia Of Roman Empire (Mobi History)
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The illustrated Encyclopedia of Roman Empire covers time period from the 27 BC to 480 AD. Easily access the timeline, biography, information about the law, government, military and more.FEATURES:- Fully illustrated with maps, art, and photographs. - Navigate from TABLE OF CONTENTS:, Alphabetical Index,...
Cover of The Romans For Dummies
by Guy de la Bedoyere
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011

"A must for anyone interested in the Roman Empire and its impact on world history." —Tony Robinson star of Blackadder and Time Team. This entertaining and informative guide introduces readers to the amazing world of ancient Rome and its emperors, epic wars, awesome architecture,...
Cover of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

A Life

by Antony Kamm
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

This is a fresh account of Julius Caesar - the brilliant politician and intriguing figure who became sole ruler of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar examines key figures such as Marius, Sulla, Cicero, Mark Antony, Gaius Octavius (emperor Augustus), Calpurnia and Cleopatra, as well as the unnamed...
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