Ancient history

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George Rawlinson's 'MEDIA (Illustrated)' is a scholarly exploration of the ancient Median civilization, a once powerful empire situated in present-day Iran.

This monograph examines two insurgencies conducted by the Jews in ancient times: The Maccabee Revolt against the Seleucid Empire from 166-164 BC and the Revolt against the Roman Empire from 66-70 AD.

This is the only modern, scholarly biography of Catiline, based on an exhaustive study of the ancient sources and modern scholarship.

From the author of 'The Pike' - winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction - a compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives that span from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake.

It is now considered one of Aristophanes' most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.

Roman Emperors is a concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire.

Sun Tzu - Die Kunst des KriegesDie Weisheiten der chinesischen Kriegskunst, verfasst von den genialen Generälen Sun Tzu und Wu Tzu vor über 2000 Jahren.

1889 erschien die "Geschichte der Stadt Athen im Mittelalter" in zwei Bänden: eine nach allgemeinem Urteil in jeder Hinsicht vollendete Meisterleistung, beruhend auf mehrjähriger, eindringendster Arbeit und selbständiger Forschung in den Archiven Venedigs, Neapels, Palermos, wie auf umfassender Verwertung des gedruckten Materials - gleich ausgezeichnet durch die geniale Bezwingung des ungemein spröden Stoffes, der die Gefahr öder, langweiliger Zersplitterung und Detailmalerei in sich barg, wie durch die künstlerische Gestaltungskraft, welche neben der politischen Geschichte auch die übrigen kulturellen Faktoren, die geistigen und wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse, die Bau- und Kunstgeschichte wieder in gleicher Weise berücksichtigte, wie endlich durch die hier vorzüglich wirksame universal-historische Betrachtungsweise, welche eine Lokal- und Provinzialgeschichte zu einem Stück Weltgeschichte umschuf.

My purpose in the following pages has been to analyze, so far as the fragmentary sources permit, the precise influences that urged the Roman republic toward territorial expansion.

''Critias,'' one of Plato''s late dialogues, contains the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens.

The year 2017 is the Chinese Year of the Rooster - what will this mean for you?

17 Geschichten von der Antike bis zur Zukunft.

The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.

What if your dreams were ancient memories?

A study of the remains of the native religious literature of ancient Egypt which have come down to us has revealed the fact that the belief in magic, that is to say, in the power of magical names, and spells, and enchantments, and formulae, and pictures, and figures, and amulets, and in the performance of ceremonies accompanied by the utterance of words of power, to produce supernatural results.

The Greek hoplite and the phalanx formation in which he fought have been the subject of considerable academic debate over the past century.

Roman soldier Manoletus must face some of the most formidable creatures of the underworld, yet his time is running out.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Myths and Legends of the Greeks is a fascinating collection of those classic tales which contribute to the understanding of the literature of today.

First published in 1951, the present volume is a history of Egypt in its declining years.

This part of Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine.

"e;Ancient Rome is renowned for its distinctive calendar and frequent festivals dedicated to various Gods; classical scholar W.

Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time.

Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

Römische Geschichte: Mommsens berühmtestes Werk erschien von 1854 bis 1856 in drei Bänden und schilderte die Geschichte Roms bis zum Ende der römischen Republik und der Herrschaft Caesars, den Mommsen als genialen Staatsmann darstellte.

What caused the fall of the Roman Empire?

The year 2015 is the Chinese Year of the Goat - what will this mean for you?

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Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.

THERE WAS A TIME, NOT so very long ago, when the taunt was true that history was written as if it were a mere string of anecdotal biographies of great men.

Römische Geschichte: Mommsens berühmtestes Werk erschien von 1854 bis 1856 in drei Bänden und schilderte die Geschichte Roms bis zum Ende der römischen Republik und der Herrschaft Caesars, den Mommsen als genialen Staatsmann darstellte.

Ignatius Donnelly's "e;Atlantis: The Antediluvian World"e; is a groundbreaking exploration of one of the most enduring mysteries of human history-the lost continent of Atlantis.

Burckhardts Werk gehört auch heute noch zu den absoluten Klassikern der Kulturgeschichte und ist ein unerschöpfliches Referenzwerk.

Plutarch''s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch''s Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.

Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.

In this compilation from Plutarchs Moralia of famous sayings from over sixty Spartans we are shown that not were these ancients brave warriors in battle but had a complete philosophy of life which guided all their actions.