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The Rise of Rome
Head of Zeus 2013; US$ 14.57Beginning with the founding myths of Romulus and Remus and a succession of probably fictitious kings, Anthony Everitt charts the development of Rome from its origins as a small market town in the eighth century BC, through various forms of patrician government, up to Caesar's victory in the Civil War that defeated the Roman Republic and paved the... more...
Cicero
C.H. Beck 2011; US$ 8.72Hauptbeschreibung «[.] In der Dauer seines Glücks wurde er bisweilen von Schlägen getroffen, vom Exil, vom Untergang der Partei, für die er gestanden hatte, vom Tod seiner Tochter, von seinem eigenen schrecklichen und bitteren Ende. Nichts von diesen Widerwärtigkeiten ertrug er so, wie es sich für einen Mann gehört hätte - bis auf seinen Tod. [.]... more...
Of Jewish Race
Vagabond Voices 2013; US$ 8.74On 16 October 1943, the German army tore 1,056 Jewish Italians from their homes, from their lives and loves, from their routine and familiar objects, and from their home city of Rome. The author of this book was not amongst them, because his father had prepared their flight. He was a Jewish boy of seven on the run and moving from house to house. He... more...
Caligula
University of California Press 2011; US$ 36.95The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him, turned part of... more...
Roman History
The Floating Press 1904; US$ 3.99Titus Livius, often known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own time. Livy's writing style was poetic and archaic in contrast to Julius Caesar's and Cicero's styles. Also, he often... more...
Remembering the Roman People
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 44.99In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but... more...
The Twelve Caesars
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.95De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars , is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars has remained a major source of Roman history. more...
Res Publica Constituta
BRILL 2009; US$ 136.00The years surrounding the decisive battle of Actium in 31 BC, and the various measures undertaken by the victor Augustus to create and legitimate a new system of government in Rome are among the most. discussed aspects of Roman history. This book re-evaluates Augustus'rise to power, first as triumvir along with Antonius and Lepidus, and then as... more...
Politik im Vorfeld von Irak-Krieg und Zweitem Makedonischen Krieg
Diplomica Verlag 2007; US$ 52.40Hauptbeschreibung Diese Arbeit ist konzipiert als Politikfeldanalyse, und zwar in zweifacher Hinsicht. Sie untersucht und vergleicht ein bestimmtes Politikfeld, die Außenpolitik, in zwei verschiedenen Systemen, den USA und der Römischen Republik. Somit ist sie dem Bereich der vergleichenden Policy-Forschung zuzurechnen. Die politischen Inhalte (Policies)... more...









