Rome category: 2065 books
by Plutarch, Robin Seager
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman...
by Marcus Aurelius
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
One of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121–180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and administrator of an empire. Ascending to the imperial throne in A.D. 161, Aurelius found his reign...
The Gallic War
Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1998
The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns Caesar fought against the Gauls, Germans and Britons,...
The Complete Ovid Anthology
Metamorphosis, Fasti, Ars Amatoria (the Art of Love), The Art of Beauty, Love's Cure, The Amours, The Heroides, The Pontic Epistles, Invective Against the Ibis, Tristia
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The Complete Ovid Anthology is a collection of all the works of Publius Ovidius Naso, the great Roman poet in English translation. Ovid has remained popular through the ages, to artists and fellow poets, as well as scholars and historians. Ovid was notably the favourite poet of William...
by Ovid, Horace Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum.
Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world...
Prose Unseens for A-Level Latin
A Guide through Roman History
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification in Latin (first teaching September 2016), with practice unseen passages from Livy, the set prose for Paper 1, together with passages from a selection of other writers to support Paper 2, for which no author is set. A bank of 80 passages...
Selections from Virgil Aeneid X
An Edition for Intermediate Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Virgil's Aeneid X. Lines 215–250, 260–307, 362–398 and 426–542 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Horace's Satires, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Satires 1.1 lines 1–12, 28–100; 1.3 lines 25–75; and 2.2 lines 1–30, 70–111. A detailed introduction places...
Selections from Horace Odes III
An Edition for Intermediate Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Horace's Odes. Odes 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately limited number of poems, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the...
Selections from Ovid Amores II
An Edition for Intermediate Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Ovid's Amores. Poems2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10, 2.12 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately limited number of poems, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Apuleius' Metamorphoses V, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for sections 11–24. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text to be read in English, placing the work in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's pro Milone sections 24–32, 34–35 and 43–52, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 53–64 (to defendere) and 72–80, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Ovid's Amores 1.1 and 2.5, Propertius 1.1 and Tibullus 1.1 with the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Amores 2.7 and 2.8, Propertius 1.3 and 2.14 and Tibullus 1.3, giving full Latin text,...
Figli di Enea
L'invenzione delle origini: eroi e città italiche ai confini tra storia e mito
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Da Atlante a Enea, dagli Argonauti a Dardano, da Saturno ai Pelasgi, le città italiche hanno sempre legato le proprie fondazioni a figure mitologiche nel tentativo, spesso rivelatosi paradossale, di rafforzare la propria identità. L’esistenza di questi personaggi si è così frammentata ed espansa...