The Slow Death of the Roman SuperpowerThe Fall of the Roman Empire has been a best-selling subject since the 18th century. Since then over 200 discrete reasons have been advanced for the collapse of the western half of...9999903238065Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
PHOENIX
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
This work pieces together the life history of the myth of Prestor John, the Christian potentate of the East, Emperor of Ethiopia.9999903233220Robert Silverberg
Phoenix Press
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
Complementing our enormously successful offerings on the bible and history, National Geographic Essential Visual History of World Mythology encompasses myths and creation stories f...9999903226796
National Geographic
martes, 19 de noviembre de 2024
A new captivating, inspiring, and totally perspective-shifting volume from the wife and husband team behind Gender Swapped Fairy Tales The Greek myths were first told thousands of...9999903225775Karrie Fransman Jonathan ...
Faber & Faber
lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2024
War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman WorldThe Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialist...9999903221371Adrian Goldsworthy
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that much of it endured to feed an endless fascinati...9999903221043Peter Berresford Ellis,
Robinson Publishing
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
The First World Empire and the Battle for the WestIn 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had s...9999903221012Tom Holland
London : Abacus, 2006.
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
"This outstanding study spans four rich civilizations in ancient Mexico, from 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest soon after A.D.1500: The "Olmecs," hunters and farmers who worshippe...9999903216087Nigel Davies
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 7 de noviembre de 2024
The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise...9999903215516Ronald Syme
Oxford University Press
jueves, 7 de noviembre de 2024
Revised EditionWritten four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance o...9999903205838Thucydides
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Strange Stories, Folklore Gleanings, Studies Here & ThereThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original a...9999903202035Lafcadio Hearn
Tuttle Publishing
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at The Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London, 21 November, 1978-18 March, 1979An exhibition presented at the Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly, London, 21 Nov., 1978-18 March, 1979.9999903201199Warwick Bray Royal Academ...
Times Books
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman EmpireCaesar's Legacy recounts the rise to power of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men...9999903196105Josiah Osgood
Cambridge University Press
sábado, 5 de octubre de 2024
A Life in the Far NorthWhen Jewish author/storyteller Sheldon Oberman met Inuit artist/hunter Simon Tookoome, he knew the encounter was special. Still, he had no idea their meeting would result in an ama...9999903193173Simon Tookoome Sheldon Ob...
Stoddart+publishing
sábado, 28 de septiembre de 2024
The book leads the reader through these vibrant stories, from the origins of the gods through to the homecomings of the Trojan heroes. All the familiar narratives are here, along w...9999903179115Stephen Kershaw,
Robinson Publishing
lunes, 26 de agosto de 2024
The classical medieval poem relating Sir Gawain's romances, his conflict with the Green Knight, and return to the Round Table9999903176633Anonymous
Penguin Classics
lunes, 19 de agosto de 2024
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