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[2017]
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A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire. Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome's power--a story of nature's triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative...
83) Ancient Rome
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Text, maps, illustrations, charts, tables, and chronologies depict the history, society, and political life of ancient Rome and its vast empire.
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
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Vicky Bliss, a beautiful brainy art historian, is embroiled in a mystery involving a forgery ring, meticulously produced antique jewelry and a handsome English rascal.
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[1962]
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
While in prison awaiting a brutal execution, Boethius produced arguably the most famous work of early medieval philosophy and literature, the celebrated Consolation of Philosophy. In alternating sections of prose and poetry, Boethius describes the circumstances of his rapid fall from the upper echelons of society and power. In a conversation with lady Philosophy,...
90) Rome & Romans
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2003
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This book describes the everyday life of the Romans, including gladiator fights, chariot races, feasts, and battles.
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2003
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First published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the Rome of Julius Caesar. Through imaginary letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of its magnetic personalities.
In this novel, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being as he appeared to his family, his legions, his Rome, and his empire in the months just before his death. In Wilder's inventive narrative, all...
92) Roman blood
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Roma Sub Rosa series volume 4
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Gordianus the Finder unwittingly becomes embroiled in a dangerous situation when he accepts a commission in 80 B.C. to investigate the case of an Umbrian landowner who is accused of killing his own father.
93) Angels & demons
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[2009]
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
97) Plutarch's lives
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2016
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These forty-eight biographies by the ancient Greek scholar demonstrate the parallel lives of famous rulers such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
A Greek priest of Delphi who acquired Roman citizenship later in life, Plutarch undertook his Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans to demonstrate the influence of character on the fates of famous men. He also wished to show that the legacy and achievements of his native Greece were no less impressive...
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Masters of Rome volume 5
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A novel on Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor, describing his rise to power. It follows him pacifying Britain and Gaul, after which he leads his army across the Rubicon, the frontier between Gaul and Italy, which starts a civil war. He defeats Pompey and becomes dictator. By the author of Caesar's Women.
100) The sacred cut
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Nic Costa mysteries volume 3
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2006.
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For the first time in decades Rome is paralyzed by a blizzard, and a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon, one of the City's most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling snow is the body of a young woman--her back horribly mutilated. But before Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni of the Questura can begin a formal investigation, the US Embassy has brought in its own people, FBI agents who want the case closed down as quickly...