Rome category: 2065 books

The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.

How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquity This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading...

It was fall and the late summer rains had produced an overly-abundant grape harvest. Such a large harvest was driving down grape prices but, since volumes were up, the grape producers would probably do well in the end. But what about the middlemen? Sophisticated growers were selling their grapes...

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : Ceci n’est ni un pamphlet ni même un livre politique. Si le lecteur y cherchait des considérations générales sur...

Un livre en forme de défi : faire revivre et donner à comprendre un personnage et une époque considérés comme familiers, et pourtant si éloignés de nous. Sur le Grand Camée de France, on le voit chevauchant Pégase, superbe et triomphant. Il est le prince de la jeunesse, le César que Rome...

11 Oeuvres de Gaston Boissier Historien et philologue français (1823-1908) Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 11 oeuvres de Gaston Boissier éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement...

Alfred J. Church was a 19th century historian best known for his comprehensive histories on different periods of the Roman Empire, including this one.

Historical novel. On the civil war between Caesar and Pompey and the dire consequences it had for Cicero. His arrest after being visited by the spirits of Scipios, fugitives from hell. Hannibal´s campaign in northern Italy. The annihilation of Carthage, the first genocide in history.

The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.

This book explains the lasting events of the Roman Republic influenced everything that followed, and how the Romans lasting legacy, and wars, have influenced life today.

Kings were the original Magistrates of Rome: Lucius Brutus founded Liberty and the Consulship: Dictators were chosen occasionally, and used only in pressing exigencies. Little more than two years prevailed the supreme power of the Decemvirate, and the consular jurisdiction of the military Tribunes...

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Robert Payne, is the extraordinary story of the Roman Empire - from its birth to the rise of the Caesars through the era of excess and its final collapse.

The Peace of the Gods takes a new approach to the study of Roman elites' religious practices and beliefs, using current theories in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as cultural and literary studies. Craige Champion focuses on what the elites of the Middle Republic (ca. 250–ca. 100...

More than two thousand years ago, at a time when the people in the British Isles and in most parts of Western Europe were living the lives of savages, occupied in fighting, hunting, and fishing, dwelling in rude huts, clad in skins, ignorant of everything that we call civilization, Rome was the centre...