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Vie d’Alexandre le Grand est un livre écrit par le philosophe grec Plutarque (46 - 125). Résumé : Alexandre le Grand (336 av. J.-C. – 11 juin 323 av. J.-C.) est un roi de Macédoine et l’un des personnages les plus célèbres de l’Antiquité....

“A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume...

Que dois-je faire ? L’homme est souvent tiraillé entre le choix de l’honnête, l’accomplissement de son devoir et celui du strictement utile, qui n’est pas forcément le plus vertueux. Quelle pourrait-être une authentique sagesse pratique ?En 44 avant J.-C., juste après la mort de César,...

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary,...

Am Tag, an dem Augustus bestattet wurde, kamen alle öffentlichen und privaten Geschäfte zum Stillstand. Ganz Rom und Hunderttausende von Menschen aus ganz Italien beteiligten sich an den Trauerfeierlichkeiten. Die Leiche wurde auf einem Prunkbett auf den Scheiterhaufen gesetzt. Darüber ruhte, für...

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair...

The life of the first-century man born Saul of Tarsus, who went on to become Paul the Apostle, by the acclaimed historian and author of Thermopylae. Paul, born into Asia Minor’s Jewish aristocracy and a passionate student of scripture, was part of the crowd that killed Stephen, a deacon regarded...

Constantine the Great (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus) lived from 272 337 A.D. Also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, he was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 and is perhaps best known for being the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He and co-Emperor Licinius...

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Une table des matières interactive vous permet de naviguer facilement d'un livre à un autre. Les Confessions est une œuvre autobiographique d'Augustin d'Hippone, écrite entre 397 et 398, où il raconte sa quête de Dieu. Il...

Constantine the Great (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus) lived from 272 337 A.D. Also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, he was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 and is perhaps best known for being the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He and co-Emperor Licinius...

Die römische Republik war im Inferno der Bürgerkriege untergegangen: Seit den sechziger Jahren des ersten Jahrhunderts v. Chr. hatte das Recht immer mehr der Willkür weichen müssen, war der Friede dem Morden privater Banden und dem organisierten Schlachten der Heere zum Opfer gefallen. Caesar...

This Bybliotech anthology of Gaius Suetonius Tranquilus contains his most famous work - "The Lives of the Twelve Caesars", as well as the lesser known, "Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians and Poets". Written in the time of the Emperor Hadrian, "The Twelve Caesars"...

It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear, distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those great personages who have in various ages of the world made themselves celebrated as leaders among mankind, and, by the part they have taken in the public affairs of great nations,...

In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the reading community of this country an accurate and faithful account of the lives and actions of the several personages that are made successively the subjects of...