Rome category: 2065 books

An Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. Contents A Book of North Wales (1903) A Book of The Riviera (1905) Strange Survivals (1892)

Die Autorin spürt dem Leben und Wirken des G. Julius Caesar nach. Sie zeigt die Taten des römischen Feldherren und Staatsmannes im Zusammenhang mit den sozialen und politischen Gegebenheiten dieser Zeit. Gleichzeitig versucht sie, aus dem Überlieferten Rückschlüsse über Caesars Leben im Kreise...

«[…] In der Dauer seines Glücks wurde er bisweilen von Schlägen getroffen, vom Exil, vom Untergang der Partei, für die er gestanden hatte, vom Tod seiner Tochter, von seinem eigenen schrecklichen und bitteren Ende. Nichts von diesen Widerwärtigkeiten ertrug er so, wie es sich für einen Mann...

From acclaimed writer and scholar Philip Freeman, a contemporary retelling of classic Greek and Roman mythology. The Greek and Roman myths have never died out; in fact they are as relevant today as ever in their sharp observations about human nature. For thousands of years they have inspired...

History The Secrets of Ancient Civilizations and Great Empires that Shaped Modern World Curious on the past and how it still influences the present and perhaps even the future? Interested on the role those ancient civilizations played in shaping the world, as we now know it? Ready to...

The Roman province of Noricum occupied most of Austria as well as parts of Italy, Germany and the Balkans. Noricum, first published in 1974, presents a comprehensive history of Noricum, from 400 BC to the end of Roman rule in AD 600. Professor Alföldy’s account is predicated on the methodical...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC), soldier, politician, and statesman, set the standard of dictator for the generations that followed his death—the most famous dictator to follow Sulla's systematic path to power was Julius Caesar. In his lifetime, Sulla faced issues such as the decay of religious...

The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world. This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in military rank and social class, superseding the...

The Roman civilization was definitely one of the strongest societies that left a dent in human history. But what exactly are its lasting legacy? Did it leave behind infrastructure that we can still see today? How about philosophy and universal facts that we still acknowledge? Let’s learn to see their wit, talent and genius of the Ancient Romans. Open this book today!

An essay on the Roman auxilia might seem merely to be one of the many monographs in which students of the military system of the Roman Empire are patiently arranging material for some future scholar to utilize in a more comprehensive work. But while much space must necessarily be devoted to details...

In the spring of 73 AD the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking in its courage and self-sacrifice. Here the last of the Jewish Zealots who, for nearly eight years, had waged war against the Roman occupiers of their country made...

Die Überlieferung der Anfänge der römischen Republik ist dicht umrankt von Legenden. Fest steht, daß sich im Laufe des 5. Jahrhunderts und – klarer zu fassen – nach dem Galliersturm von 387/6 v. Chr. eine Herrschaftsform unter Beteiligung breiterer Volksschichten fest etabliert hat. In dieser...

Ravenna, 5. März 493: „Nicht ein Knochen war in diesem Schuft.“ So kommentierte der Gotenkönig Theoderich seinen Mord an Odoaker, den er gerade mit einem einzigen Schwerthieb aus dieser Welt verabschiedet hatte. Mit dem Ende seines Widersachers war eine Planstelle freigeworden: die des Herrschers...