Rome category: 2065 books
Roman Imperial Armour
The production of early imperial military armour
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms...
by Hilary & John Travis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Roman military is an iconic, ancient institution; everybody is familiar with the image of fearsome Roman soldiers marching in their famous columns. In this book, Roman military experts John and Hilary Travis turn their attention to the shields used by the historic Roman stalwarts, drawing on their...
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2016
L'interesse suscitato dal popolo e dalla civiltà etrusca negli archeologi, negli storici, negli artisti, negli scrittori, oltre che nel grosso pubblico, si è conservato fino ai giorni nostri.
Ma che cosa sappiamo esattamente di questo popolo un tempo potente, dalla civiltà brillante, che...
by Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
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...
El Louvre y la Biblia - Antigüedades egipcias, Antigüedades griegas y romanas
Un lector de la Biblia visita el Louvre, Desde la antigua Babilonia Hasta el cristianismo original
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Un recorrido inédito y original !
¿ Qué ver en el Louvre? ¿ Cómo orientarse en este laberinto inmenso de objetos y de testimonios del pasado? La Biblia demuestra ser una guía original y pertinente para descifrar fragmentos de la historia de laantigüedad.
Por ejemplo,...
Romano-British Settlement and Cemeteries at Mucking
Excavations by Margaret and Tom Jones, 1965–1978
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed extensive evidence for a multiphase rural Romano-British settlement, perhaps an estate center, and five associated cemetery areas (170 burials) with different burial areas reserved for different groups within the settlement. The settlement...
Pompeya y el Vesubio
Las últimas horas de la ciudad romana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Pompeya y el Vesubio, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Descubrir cómo sucedió la catástrofe de Pompeya y cómo era la vida de la ciudad antes de la erupción,...
The Eruption of Vesuvius
The Deadly Disaster of Pompeii
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the eruption of Vesuvius in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the eruption of Vesuvius. In the year 79, Pompeii was a lively resort town located on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius....
Pharsexia
The Adult Version of The Escapades of Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Do you remember when... you thrilled to hear the exploits and legendary deeds of Julius Caesar... one of history's most amazing men? Now... we bring you the new and very adult version of the life of the famous soldier-politician. all events are as they occurred and were recorded in numerous histories......
by Jennie Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
CALIGULA: DIVINE CARNAGE
Atrocities Of The Roman Emperors
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Caligula: most notorious of the Roman Emperors, who seduced his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, married a prostitute, tortured and killed hundreds of innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy....
by Anatole France
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2016
I. L’Orme du mail II. Le Mannequin d’osier III. L’Anneau d’améthyste IV. Monsieur Bergeret à Paris
by Jules Michelet
Language: French
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Les idées générales sur le rôle de l’Empire romain ne sont pas moins intéressantes que les jugements particuliers sur les empereurs. Loin de s’arrêter à faire ressortir le caractère oppressif et corrupteur du régime impérial,...
Ovid's Women of the Year
Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Roman love-poet Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published in his maturity circa 14 CE, the Fasti presents claims of aetiological, astronomical, and even antiquarian interests, but more importantly...