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Meditations - With Selected Correspondence

by Marco Aurélio

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 Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a private notebook of philosophical reflections with universal significance. Drawing on Stoic philosophy, Marcus confronts challenges that affect us all in our struggle to live meaningful lives. This edition includes a selection of Marcus' correspondence with his tutor Fronto which complements the Meditations.
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Armies Of The Germanic Peoples, 200 Bc To Ad 500 - History, Organization And Equipment

by Gabriele Esposito

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 Describes the armies of the Germanic foes that raided, invaded and resisted the Roman Empire for centuries and eventually brought it down.
Marco Aurélio - O imperador estoico

by Donald J. Robertson

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 Esta biografia singular apresenta Marco Aurélio, que viveu entre os anos de 121 e 180 da Era Cristã, a uma nova geração de leitores através do estudo da fascinante viagem psicológica do imperador. Donald J. Robertson examina o relacionamento de Marco Aurélio com figuras importantes na sua vida, como sua mãe, Domícia Lucila, e o imperador Adriano, além dos seus tutores estoicos. Analisa as ações do imperador tal como aparecem descritas na Historia Augusta e em outros textos antigos. Marco Aurélio esforçou-se por conciliar a sua filosofia e os seus valores morais com as pressões políticas que enfrentou como imperador no auge do poder de Roma. Robertson analisa a sua atitude em relação à escravatura e ao dilema moral colocado pelos guerreiros capturados em combate; a sua atitude em relação às mulheres; o papel do estoicismo na sua resposta à ameaça da guerra civil; o tratamento dado aos cristãos sob a sua governação; e a nomeação como sucessor do seu filho Cómodo, um jovem de carácter questionável.
Livro de Pantuns | Book of Pantuns

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 Esta edição bilingue (português e inglês) proporciona a primeira leitura integral deste documento histórico, acompanhada de análise filológica, linguística, literária e histórica. Editado com o apoio do Museu Nacional de Arqueologia e do Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa. «Versos como estes - de amor, de guerra e de moralidade - foram, ao que tudo indica, escritos na ilha de Java, em malaio e num extinto crioulo de base portuguesa. Chegaram até nós preservados num manuscrito com cerca de três séculos, que aqui é publicado pela primeira vez e na íntegra. O manuscrito que pertenceu a Leite de Vasconcelos, foi recentemente encontrado no seu espólio do Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, em Lisboa.» In contracapa.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told - An Eyewitness Account - The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

by Bear Grylls

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 The incredible true story about a Galilean stonemason who changed the course of the world forever. Beautifully told through the eyewitness accounts of those who knew him best. This real-life story will never leave you.
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The Battles of Forum Gallorum and Mutina, 43 BC - Caesar, Antony and the Next Generation of the Third Roman Civil War

by Gareth C Sampson

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 Although Julius Caesar was winning the ongoing civil war with the Pompeian faction, his murder on the Ides of March (44 BC) plunged the Republic into a further civil war and one closer to Rome itself. Mark Antony attempted to seize command of the Caesarian faction and its control of the Roman Republic but faced challenges from two quarters: a renewed Senate determined to rid itself of Caesarian domination and Octavian, a young man who had claimed the mantle of Caesar’s son. Facing a common enemy, these parties combined to thwart Antony’s attempt to replace Caesar, and Italy was ripped apart by two battles fought in quick succession. The Senatorial forces were led by the consuls Aulus Hirtius and Vibius Pansa, allied with Octavian Caesar, with each side battling for control of the Republic. The author sets the political context to the battles, showing how the Caesarian Republic collapsed without its late leader and how the Senate seized the opportunity to reassert its independence. He then analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the various armies and their commanders before giving as detailed an account as possible of the battles themselves. He explains the strategies, manoeuvres and tactics that culminated in a series of bloody stalemates, a Pyrrhic victory for the Senatorial forces (both consuls subsequently dying) and an opportunity for Octavian. Finally, he discusses the important aftermath of the battles, which saw Antony recover and first form an alliance with his rival Lepidus and then form the Second Triumvirate with his former opponent Octavian, finally restoring Caesarian control over the Republic.
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Athens And Sparta - The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece

by Adrian Goldsworthy

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 A dramatic exploration of two opposing cities, examining the politics, war and extremes of human behaviour in the ancient world.
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Rubicon - The Triumph And Tragedy Of The Roman Republic

by Tom Holland

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 ' The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon ...This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty.' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, GUARDIAN
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Talking Classics - The Shock Of The Old

by Mary Beard

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 FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EMPEROR OF ROME AND SPQR 'The rock star scholar of Ancient Rome' FINANCIAL TIMES 'The reigning Queen of Classics' SPECTATOR What's exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway? What's the point? The life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone. They are not the property of wealthy white men only. They make us wonder how to make sense of people who lived long ago (from angry landlords to giggling senators) - and to think harder about our own world, to look at it differently. In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present. From revolutionaries to dictators, Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, she joins forces with the varied modern characters who have been transfixed by the ancient world. It's not compulsory, she argues, to be excited by antiquity, but it's a shame not to be. After half a century teaching and studying classics, she fills the book with lively stories, curious facts and some good gossip. Talking Classics explains why the deep past does really affect us all.
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24 Hours In Ancient Athens - A Day In The Life Of The People Who Lived There

by Dr Philip Matyszak

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 During a day we meet 24 ancient Athenians from all levels of society and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company.
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The Twelve Caesars

by Robert Graves e Suetonius

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 Chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero and the recovery that came with his successors.
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Sparta - The Rise And Fall Of An Ancient Superpower

by Andrew Bayliss

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 A major new history of ancient Greece's most iconic city-state.
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Athens And Sparta - The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece

by Adrian Goldsworthy

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 A dramatic exploration of two opposing cities, examining the politics, war and extremes of human behaviour in the ancient world.
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The Roman World War - From The Ides Of March To Cleopatraâ€™S Suicide

by Giusto Traina

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 How the ruthless contest among Julius Caesar's heirs ignited a global war that raged far beyond the borders of Rome.
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Escape From Pompeii - The Great Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius And Its Survivors

by Steven L. (Professor Of History, Professor Of History, Miami University) Tuck

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 For centuries a debate has raged about whether people survived the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE; Steven L. Tuck settles that debate. After an exhaustive search for evidence, he locates survivors in twelve communities and reveals how they survived and rebuilt their lives, livelihoods, and identities after fleeing the volcano.
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Goliath's Curse - The History And Future Of Societal Collapse

by Luke Kemp

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 A radical retelling of human history through collapse, and what it means for our uncertain future A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. Why do civilisations collapse? Is human progress possible? Are we approaching our endgame? For the first 200,000 years of human history, hunter-gathering Homo sapiens lived in fluid, egalitarian civilizations that thwarted any individual or group from ruling permanently. Then, around 12,000 years ago, that began to change. As we reluctantly congregated in the first farms and cities, people began to rely on novel lootable resources like grain and fish for their daily sustenance. And when more powerful weapons became available, small groups began to seize control of these valuable commodities. This inequality in resources soon tipped over into inequality in power, and we started to adopt more primal, hierarchical forms of organization. Power was concentrated in masters, kings, pharaohs and emperors (and ideologies were born to justify their rule). Goliath-like states and empires - with vast bureaucracies and militaries - carved up and dominated the globe. What brought them down? Whether in the early cities of Cahokia in North America or Tiwanaku in South America, or the sprawling empires of Egypt, Rome and China, it was increasing inequality and concentrations of power that hollowed these Goliaths out before an external shock brought them crashing down. These collapses were written up as apocalyptic, but in truth they were usually a blessing for most of the population. Now we live in a single global Goliath. Growth obsessed, extractive institutions like the fossil fuel industry, big tech and military-industrial complexes rule our world and produce new ways of annihilating our species, from climate change to nuclear war. Our systems are now so fast, complex and interconnected that a future collapse will likely be global, swift and irreversible. All of us now face a choice: we must learn to democratically control Goliath, or the next collapse may be our last. 'A deeply sobering and strangely inspiring history of how societies collapse - and how we can still save ours. Read it now, or your descendants will find it in the ruins' JOHANN HARI 'Absolutely essential reading for understanding why past civilisations collapsed, and how to protect our own from the same fate' LEWIS DARTNELL
On The Ocean - The Mediterranean And The Atlantic From Prehistory To Ad 1500

by Sir Barry (Emeritus Professor Of European Archaeology, University Of Oxford) Cunliffe

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 The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500.
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The Dangerous Life And Ideas Of Diogenes The Cynic

by Jean-Manuel Roubineau

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 In Diogenes the Cynic, Jean-Manuel Roubineau presents a moving and authoritative portrait of one of the most idealized and mocked intellectuals in antiquity.
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The Greeks - A Global History

by Professor Prof Roderick Beaton

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 'Monumental . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.' Financial TimesThe Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aegean and myths of gods and heroes, to the politics of the European Union today.
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1177 B.C. - The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised And Updated

by Eric H. Cline

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 From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilised world ushered in the first Dark Ages
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Pax - War And Peace In Rome'S Golden Age - The Sunday Times Bestseller

by Tom Holland

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 The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland

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Death And Salvation In Ancient Egypt

by Jan Assmann

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 Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, the author arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt.
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On Sparta

by Plutarch

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 Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC.
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In The Name Of Rome - The Men Who Won The Roman Empire

by Adrian Goldsworthy

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 The complete and definitive history of how Roman generals carved out the greatest and longest-lasting empire the world has ever seen.

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