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Biographies & Memoirs
In AD 132 began the bloody struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation. One was Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, then at its zenith, who some regarded as divine; the... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
"The story of a Roman Emperor that might have been" (Fighting Times). Germanicus was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mold of Alexander the Great. His untimely death, in suspicious circumstances, ended the... See More
A penetrating assessment of Augustus as ancient Rome's military commander-in-chief. The words Pax Augusta -- or Pax Romana -- evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this... See More
History
In AD 132, Shim'on Ben Koseba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Shim'on Bar Kokhba ('Son of a Star'), led the people of Judaea in open rebellion, aiming to establish their own independent Jewish state and to... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
"The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome's empire" (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier). Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the... See More
History
The authoritative biography of the ancient Roman general and loyal deputy to Emperor Augustus by the acclaimed historian and author of Augustus at War. Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated... See More
History
We have been here before... Natural disasters, financial problems, political corruption, the Middle East... The issues that make the headlines today are also the things people worried about 2,000 and more years ago... See More
History
The reigns of Augustus and his successor Tiberius saw an epic struggle between the Romans and local peoples for the territory between the Rhine and Elbe rivers in what is now Germany. Following two decades of Roman... See More