Augusta: The Lost Epic of Rome's Last Days
Author | : L.A. Henneke |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1794881751 |
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Author | : L.A. Henneke |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1794881751 |
Author | : L. A. Henneke |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2017-09-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976274213 |
In ages past, the Roman Empire sprawled from the fringes of Scotland all the way down to Syria, but five hundred years of Imperium over the West have taken their toll. Rome limps upon her last legs. Attila prepares to march to war, spurned by the will of his dread battle-god. A dragon brought low by an ancient curse stirs in Gallic mountains, and creatures from time immemorial once more prowl the wilds of Europe. Into this world an exile from Italy is thrust, and the weight of the world rests upon her shoulders, scorned and rejected as a herald of strife and an accomplice to this apocalypse. Her name cursed by all the world, she has but one charge laid upon her: to strive without rest for peace and for redemption at this ending of an age. The Scourge of God has fallen upon the West.
Author | : James F. Hancock |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1789249740 |
Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury products of far-off lands and established long-reaching trade networks. Over time, great powers fought mightily for the kingdoms where silk, spices and scents were produced. The New World was accidentally discovered by Columbus in his quest for spices. In this book, eminent horticulturist and author James Hancock examines the origins and early domestication and culture of spices, scents and silks and the central role these exotic luxuries played in the lives of the ancients. The book also traces the development of the great international trade networks and explores how struggles for trade dominance and demand for such luxuries shaped the world.
Author | : Stephen Dando-Collins |
Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2011-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 111804021X |
The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire–a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Roman losses–an accomplishment that led the emperor Nero to honor the legion with the title "Conqueror of Britain." In this gripping book, second in the author’s definitive histories of the legions of ancient Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion to life, offering military history aficionados a unique soldier’s-eye view of their tactics, campaigns, and battles.
Author | : Edward J. Watts |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465093825 |
Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
Author | : Annelise Freisenbruch |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2011-10-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 141658305X |
Documents the stories of eight wives of Roman rulers, assessing their historical contributions and cultural influence and drawing parallels between modern first ladies and the lives of such ancient-world figures as Livia, Helena, and Julia.
Author | : Robert Vaughan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1875 |
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Author | : Welbore St. Clair Baddeley |
Publisher | : London : Dent ; New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Rome |
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Total Pages | : 1232 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
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Total Pages | : 1232 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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