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subject:"Rome" from books.google.com
The new millennium forces us to reflect on systems for counting time and distinguishing historical eras.
subject:"Rome" from books.google.com
The Eagle of the Ninth tells the story of a young Roman officer who sets out to discover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of the Ninth Legion, who marched into the mists of northern Britain and never came back.
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But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC. In this richly illustrated book—the first biography of ...
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Even when unmasked, Hermes remained a byword for the arcane. Historians of ancient philosophy have puzzled much over the origins of his mystical teachings; but this is the first investigation of the Hermetic milieu by a social historian.
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"Editions and helpful books": p. 26-28.
subject:"Rome" from books.google.com
The book opens with the arrival of the Nahataean Arabs in their magnificent capital at Petra and describes the growth of their hellenized culture based on trade in perfume and spices.
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This book examines the age of Attila, roughly the fifth century CE, an era in which western Eurasia experienced significant geopolitical and cultural changes.
subject:"Rome" from books.google.com
In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy places Caesar firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C.
subject:"Rome" from books.google.com
An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome.