Author: James ThomsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Ancient and modern Italy compared
Author: James ThomsonThe seven kings of Rome
Author: LivyThe Poetical Works of James Thomson: Ancient and modern Italy compared
Author: James ThomsonVestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs
Author: John James BluntPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, Discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily by John James Blunt, first published in 1823, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Ancient and modern Italy compared, being the first part of Liberty, a poem. Greece, being the second part of Liberty. Rome, being the third part of Liberty. Britain, being the fourth part of Liberty. The prospect, being the fifth part of Liberty. A poem to the memory of the Lord Talbot, late Chancellor of Great Britain. Agamemnon, a tragedy
Author: James ThomsonThe War for Gaul
Author: Julius CaesarPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069121669X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Imagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying army - a vivid and dramatic propaganda piece that forces the reader to identify with the conquerors and that is designed, like the war itself, to fuel the limitless political ambitions of the author. Could such a campaign autobiography ever be a great work of literature - perhaps even one of the greatest? It would be easy to think not, but such a book exists -and it helped transform Julius Caesar from a politician on the make into the Caesar of legend. This remarkable new translation of Caesar's famous but underappreciated War for Gaul captures, like never before in English, the gripping and powerfully concise style of the future emperor's dispatches from the front lines in what are today France, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. While letting Caesar tell his battle stories in his own way, distinguished classicist James O'Donnell also fills in the rest of the story in a substantial introduction and notes that together explain why Gaul is the "best bad man's book ever written"--A great book in which a genuinely bad person offers a bald-faced, amoral description of just how bad he has been. Complete with a chronology, a map of Gaul, suggestions for further reading, and an index, this feature-rich edition captures the forceful austerity of a troubling yet magnificent classic - a book that, as O'Donnell says, 'gets war exactly right and morals exactly wrong.'" -- Front jacket flap
Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East
Author: Paul ErdkampPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030811034
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth millennium BCE up to the end of the first millennium CE. This book contributes to the multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on climate and society from various backgrounds. The chronological boundaries of the book are set by the emergence of complex societies in the Neolithic on the one end and the rise of early-modern states in global political and economic exchange on the other. In order to stimulate comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization, this book ends with demography and climate change in early-modern and modern Italy, a society whose empirical data allows the kind of statistical analysis that is impossible for ancient societies. The book highlights the role of human agency, and the complex interactions between the natural environment and the socio-cultural, political, demographic, and economic infrastructure of any given society. It is intended for a wide audience of scholars and students in ancient economic history, specifically Rome and Late Antiquity.
Ancient Italy and Modern Religion
Author: Robert Seymour ConwayPublisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A Pictorial History of Ancient Rome
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
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Category : Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Roman Conquest of Italy
Author: Jean-Michel DavidPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The book opens with a description of the peoples of Italy at around the end of the fourth century B.C. It describes the early success of Roman diplomacy and force in creating client populations among the Etruscans, the Latins and the Hellenized populations of the south. At the beginning of the period the Italian peoples sought to preserve their independence and ethnic traditions. By its end those who had not achieved Roman citizenship were demanding it.