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Guide to Greece
Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed …
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161 and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical …
PLUTARCH'S LIVES, VOLUME 2
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all …
Theos Pompeji
En augustimorgon år 79, i staden Pompeji vid vulkanen Vesuvius, blir Theo vittne till något som förändrar hans liv för all framtid. Upplevelsen för honom till en sierska som …
Roman History, Volume VII
A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150–235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman …
The Civil War
`All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws of god and man were overturned.' The …
The Rise And Fall of Athens
Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch …
Bronsdolken. Ormgudinnans besvärjelse
För resten av världen ser Hylas bara ut att vara en före detta slav. En utstött. Få anar att han har ett storslaget öde, att det sägs att han är utvald att kämpa mot det …
Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome, C. 31 BC-AD 280
This well-documented study of the Roman army provides a crucial aid to understanding the Roman Empire in economic, social and political terms. Employing numerous examples, Brian …
Penguin Readers Level 3: Tales of Ancient Egypt (ELT Graded Reader)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the …
Persian Fire
A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC.