European history: the Romans

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.

"e;Boin offers a highly original approach to the social and religious anxieties that seized Jesus's followers in the years after his death.

Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination.

Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination.

In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b.

Edward Gibbon (17371794) personifies the calm and dignified rationalism of the 18th century.

The world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely.

The Romans' destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life.

"e;Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church.

A Christian author's inspiring biography of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning theologian and physician who built a hospital in French Equatorial Africa.

The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon gathers the writings of one of the Enlightenment's most commanding historians, centering on the monumental Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire while preserving the essays, memoirs, and ancillary pieces that illuminate his intellectual method.

There's much to learn about Ancient Rome, aside from their myths and architecture.

Ancient Rome was a melting pot of cultures.

The reason why scholars can effectively differentiate one ancient society from the other is because of outstanding features.

Travel through time and explore the ancient empires of Rome, Byzantine, Inca and Persia.

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Julius Caesar may have been a "e;dictator"e; but he was deeply loved by his people.

You got to show your kids that there's more to history books than just long names and ancient dates to honor and remember.

Take a stroll back in the ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome with this historical reference book.

Let's visit Ancient Rome, and have some great learning fun with the Romans.

Unleash both the historian and architect in your kids with this Ancient Roman Roads and Architecture History Book.

Niccolo Machiavelli provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter what era or by whom it is exercised.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide-book the Roman forts and ruins of Eskdale, a dale in Cumberland.

An in-depth study of the rivalry between two of Rome's greatest military commanders-and the battle where they met in combat.

An in-depth study of the rivalry between two of Rome's greatest military commanders-and the battle where they met in combat.

A fascinating and often-funny look into Romans' private (or not-so-private) lives, exploring the truth behind the empire's salacious reputation.

Considering that York was always an important Roman city there are few books available that are devoted specifically to the Roman occupation, even though it lasted for over 300 years and played a significant role in the politics and military activity of Roman Britain and the Roman Empire throughout that period.

In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a massed grave of thousands of bodies.

In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a massed grave of thousands of bodies.

The backbone of the Roman army was the infantry, armed with a javelin, or pilum, and sword, or gladius.

The backbone of the Roman army was the infantry, armed with a javelin, or pilum, and sword, or gladius.

The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians.

The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians.

Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units.

Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units.

A study of the two Late Republic slave revolts, exploring their social context, the nature of slavery at the time, and the causes of the conflicts.

This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history.

This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history.

"e;Essential reading for anyone with even a minor interest in the Roman invasion of Britain.

This military history of Ancient Rome analyses the empire's revitalized push against rising enemies to the East.

This military history of Ancient Rome analyses the empire's revitalized push against rising enemies to the East.

"e;An exceptional, well written, exhaustively researched, and detailed biography"e; of the controversial Roman emperor-from the author of Constantius II (Midwest Book Review).

There can be little doubt that the Romans experienced many of the illnesses that are still encountered today, and individuals have always had to decide how best to deal with their health-related concerns.

A doctor explores how ancient medical practices can be applied to modern heath issues and illnesses.

This is the story of how some Roman aristocrats grew so competitive in their political rivalries that they destroyed their Republic, in the late second to mid-first century BCE.