Author: Richard L. TierneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780971152007
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The Gardens of Lucullus
Author: Richard L. TierneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780971152007
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Lucullus
Author: Arthur KeaveneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134968558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This is the first biography in English of Lucullus, one of Rome's greatest soldiers, traditionally considered a degenerate. Paring back the legends and misconceptions surrounding his name, the book examines Lucullus as a soldier, politician and aesthete. Inheritor of the ideals of his friend Sulla, his career spans the last years of the Roman republic when it was governed under the constitution the dictator had devised. Through the eyes of Lucullus, the failure of that constitution is depicted.
Yellow Wolf, His Own Story
Author: Lucullus Virgil McWhorterPublisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870044915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press" The Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West.a Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men.a His story is one that had never been told and will never be told again.a A first person account, through author L.V. McWhorter of the Nez Perce's ill-fated battle for land and freedom. "
Ancient Rome
Author: Christopher S. MackayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521809184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Plutarch’s >Parallel Lives
Author: Chrysanthos S. ChrysanthouPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110573911
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fast rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies to elicit readers’ active engagement with the act of judging. This book, drawing on the insights of recent narrative theories, especially narratology and reader-response criticism, examines Plutarch’s narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities entailed in it. Subjects discussed include Plutarch’s prefatory projection of himself and his readers and the interaction between the two; Plutarch’s presentation of the mental and emotional workings of historical agents, which serves to re-enact the participants’ experience at the time and thus arouse empathy in the readers; Plutarch’s closural strategies and their profound effects on the readers’ moral inquiry; Plutarch’s principles of historical criticism in On the malice of Herodotus in relation to his narrative strategies in the Lives. Through illustrating Plutarch’s narrative technique, this book elucidates Plutarch’s praise-and-blame rhetoric in the Lives as well as his sensibility to the challenges inherent in recounting, reading about, and evaluating the lives of the great men of history.
Plutarch's Lives
Author: PlutarchThe Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Etc
Author: The Poison King
Author: Adrienne MayorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691126836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A compelling biography of the legendary king, rebel, and poisoner who defied the Roman Empire Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. 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 Mithradates in fifty years—Adrienne Mayor combines a storyteller's gifts with the most recent archaeological and scientific discoveries to tell the tale of Mithradates as it has never been told before. The Poison King describes a life brimming with spectacle and excitement. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman citizens in 88 BC, he seized Greece and modern-day Turkey. Fighting some of the most spectacular battles in ancient history, he dragged Rome into a long round of wars and threatened to invade Italy itself. His uncanny ability to elude capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals. The Poison King is a gripping account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes.
The Annals of the World
Author: James UssherPublisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0890513600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
CD-ROM contains timelines, photographs, articles, maps, music.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Author: William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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