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You know that Rome wasn't built in a day, but just how did a cluster of small hilltop villages expand to become one of the greatest empires in history? Why did Romulus kill his brother Remus? How wa……続きを見る

The principal aims of Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire are to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the urban systems of the Iberian Peninsula du……続きを見る

Der deutsche Historiker Theodor Mommsen erhielt 1902 als erster Deutscher den Nobelpreis für Literatur für die Veröffentlichung seiner mehrbändigen Darstellung der Römischen Geschichte. 続きを見る

330 d.C. - In una Cipro che assiste ai primi cambiamenti portati dall'ascesa di Costantino il giovane Calocaerus, figlio di un veterano mutilato e avverso a Roma, sceglie di entrare nell'esercito pe……続きを見る

Offers a broad range of texts spanning six centuries of imperial Roman historyーVolume II of Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justini……続きを見る

A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empireーfrom its establishment to decline and beyond Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of ……続きを見る

Two ancient Roman graffiti tell us a lot about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and Ken Down draws upon a deep knowledge of history, ancient literature, and the geography of Palestine in general and……続きを見る

During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successfu……続きを見る

Foodways in Roman Republican Italy explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period. Traditi……続きを見る

Die Christen wollen Frieden auf Erden, doch für Rom bedeuten sie Gefahr - der Krieger Roms in seinem zweiten großen Abenteuer Römisches Reich, 256 n. Chr.: Nach dem Fall von Arete kehrt Ballista nac……続きを見る

Written at the beginning of the second century A.D., Plutarch’s Lives is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by f……続きを見る

Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores the richly detailed story of Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat who renounced her staggering wealth to lead a life of asc……続きを見る

Roma antica è qualcosa di più che un elenco da mandare a memoria di consoli, guerre, poeti e imperatori, e non è neppure soltanto una serie di versioni dal latino con cui combattere al liceo, confid……続きを見る

Opera storica fra le più celebri dell’antichità, La guerra gallica racconta l’alternanza di vittorie e sconfitte, le astuzie tattiche, gli eroismi, i numeri vertiginosi delle perdite, le colossali i……続きを見る

In questa coppia di Vite Plutarco mette a confronto due maestri dell'oratoria, due campioni della libertà contro la tirannia e l'oppressione. Il romano Cicerone (106-43 a.C.), forse il più grande po……続きを見る

Nel suo testamento Virgilio disponeva che l’Eneide fosse bruciata. A trarla in salvo fu chi gliela aveva commissionata: l’imperatore Augusto. Ma nei suoi versi il poeta non celebra le gesta di Augus……続きを見る

Vita dei Cesari è una raccolta di dodici biografie dedicate a Cesare e agli imperatori da Augusto a Domiziano: scritte con lingua chiara e semplice, senza prolissità o ricercatezze, hanno stile rapi……続きを見る

Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike their Greek and Latin neighbours, the Etruscans lef……続きを見る

This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Director of Research and Honorary Professor of Roman Studies in the Faculty of Classics at the Univer……続きを見る

This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of ……続きを見る

The Roman Empire vs. America is an in-depth look at America and the Roman Empire, both in similarity and in diff erence. It discusses opinions of different books, authors, writers and most important……続きを見る

Hubo un tiempo en el que el Rubicón no era solo un río y a la Romaña se la llamaba Flaminia debido a una vía que llevaba a Roma.Y cuando en el año 49 a.C. Julio César llegó delante se encontró con q……続きを見る

Morto il grande Teodorico nel 526, il Regno Ostrogoto cadde in preda a contese successorie che offrirono il pretesto all’imperatore bizantino Giustiniano di poter intervenire in Italia nel 535 allo ……続きを見る

«Un racconto semplice e diretto, ricco di collegamenti inediti e illuminanti. Un’opera colta, ma al tempo stesso di grande leggibilità, che è una vera sorpresa.» Publishers Weekly La magnifica civil……続きを見る

DISCOVER THE ENDURING LEGACY OF ANCIENT STOICISM Since Roman antiquity, Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s Letters have been one of the greatest expressions of Stoic philosophy. In a highly accessible and time……続きを見る

Through much of its history, Italy was Europe’s heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks and antiquities. ……続きを見る

The incredible life of Kannon Ka where the extraordinary destiny of a woman who was successively Isis, Diana, Hathor, Ixchel, Mawru, Liza, Maât, Maa Durga, Athena, Brigitte, Kannon, Guanyin, Hypatie……続きを見る

This first volume, presenting research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and internation……続きを見る

Larinum, a pre-Roman town in the modern region of Molise, underwent a unique transition from independence to municipal status when it received Roman citizenship in the 80s BCE shortly after the Soci……続きを見る

Attila. Il Flagello di Dio - Commodo. Cesare Erculeo - Ban Chao. Il Generale dei Due Imperi 3 Romanzi in 1 Il racconto di tre figure le cui vite sono indissolubilmente legate all'impero Romano. Alcu……続きを見る