Anthony Everitt: 10 books
The Rise of Athens
The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian
Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates...
The Rise of Rome
The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR
From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian*,* comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest...
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain.”—The Wall Street Journal
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher...
Augustus
The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow....
by Anthony Everitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
“A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)
Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author...
Alexander the Great
His Life and His Mysterious Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait.
More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire...
Hadrianus
de rusteloze keizer
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Een nieuwe grote biografie van keizer Hadrianus, de meest charismatische keizer ooit In deze biografie schetst Anthony Everitt de chaotische tijd waarin Hadrianus heerste, maar schrijft ook over zijn woelige privéleven: over het ongelukkige en kinderloze huwelijk met Sabina en zijn gedoemde relatie...
De geboorte van Rome
de opkomst van het grootste wereldrijk aller tijden
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Het Romeinse Rijk spreekt enorm tot de verbeelding, want het is het grootste rijk dat de wereld ooit gekend heeft en de bakermat van ons huidige Europa. Er is dan ook veel geschreven over de levens van beroemde Romeinse keizers als Augustus, Hadrianus en Marcus Aurelius en over de val van het Romeinse...
by Anthony Everitt
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Hij trof een stad aan in baksteen en liet er een achter in marmer. Caesar Augustus (63 v.Chr. tot 14 n.Chr.) geldt als een van de invloedrijkste heersers die ooit hebben geleefd. Zijn opkomst begon met de moord op Julius Caesar zijn oudoom en adoptievader en culmineerde in het titanische gevecht met...
by Anthony Everitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus.
A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world.
Do you know to what use the Romans put the excrement of the kingfisher? Or why a dinner party invitation from the emperor Domitian was such a terrifying...