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Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? The Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy Who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds more have been passed down to us over the centuries. The man credited with writing them, Aesop, was an Ancient Greek slave born about 620 BC. Aesop is known as a fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables shining glaringly true light on our human foibles now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. 

Drengen Laris tilhører det etruskiske folk og bor i byen Veia, der er blevet belejret af romerne. Kort tid før byen bukker under for romernes pres, får Laris adoptivfar, der er byens øverste præst, ham til at flygte og bringe en magisk tordensten med sig til et fjernt og helligt sted. Men han advarer også Laris om stenens stærke kræfter, for hvis den falder i de forkerte hænder, kan den bringe stor ulykke. Undervejs på flugten lærer Laris både om kærlighed og had, og han bliver på godt og ondt klogere på sin etruskiske arv og kultur.

Platäa, 500 v. Chr: Arimnestos ist noch ein Kind, als sein Vater ermordet und er ins ferne Ephesos verschleppt wird. Nach Jahren der Sklaverei erlangt er, zum Mann gereift, die Freiheit. Von Rache beseelt macht er sich auf, den Mörder seines Vaters zu finden. Dabei gerät er in den aufbrechenden Konflikt zwischen Athenern und Persern und geht den Weg des Kriegers. Und wie sein Vorbild Achilles kennt er keine Gnade. Bald nennt man ihn erfurchtsvoll den "Menschenschlächter". Die Fortsetzung des historischen Schlachten-Epos rund um die Perser-Kriege.

Platäa, 500 v. Chr: Arimnestos ist noch ein Kind, als sein Vater ermordet und er ins ferne Ephesos verschleppt wird. Nach Jahren der Sklaverei erlangt er, zum Mann gereift, die Freiheit. Von Rache beseelt macht er sich auf, den Mörder seines Vaters zu finden. Dabei gerät er in den aufbrechenden Konflikt zwischen Athenern und Persern und geht den Weg des Kriegers. Und wie sein Vorbild Achilles kennt er keine Gnade. Bald nennt man ihn erfurchtsvoll den "Menschenschlächter". Der packende Auftakt zur neuen Reihe um die Perserkriege.

Born in the Greek city of Miletus, Aspasia was destined for a life of tragedy. Her wealthy father vowed to abandon any female child, so Aspasia was secreted away, educated independently of her family, and raised as a courtesan. She discovered at an early age how to use her powers of intellect as ingeniously as those of the flesh. Ensconced in the Persian harems of Al Taliph, she meets the man who will change her fate: Pericles, the formidable political leader, statesman, ruler of Athens, and Aspasia’s most cherished lover.

Ramses, il "Figlio del Sole": mai nome fu più appropriato per uno dei so­vrani più illuminati della Storia. Condottiero valoroso, amante appassionato, guerriero invincibile e costruttore magnifico, Ramses II è universalmente noto come il Grande, in virtù delle eccezionali testimonianze lasciate ai posteri in ambito politico, militare e architettonico.

122-124 d.C. Dopo la scomparsa della Legio IX Hispana nelle oscure terre della Caledonia, l'imperatore Adriano decide di visitare l'estremo confine della Britannia, ma durante il sopralluogo viene assalito dai Pitti. A salvargli la vita è Marco Sestilio Annio, tribuno laticlavio, che guadagna la nomina a legatus legionis. Spaventato dalla ferocia dei Pitti, Adriano ordina al nuovo governatore Aulo Platorio Nepote di erigere una barriera per difendere la provincia dai barbari.

La historia novelada de un antepasado muy remoto, aquí bautizado como Ansoc, el gran pintor que hace alrededor de 15.000 a?os convirtió una cueva en el más asombroso escenario de la vocación artística y el excepcional talento creativo del ser humano. Mile....
 

At eight years old, Lucia is torn from the life she knew. Her village burned to the ground and parents murdered by Romans, she is kidnapped, sold and shipped abroad to the Villa Tempestatis in Britannia to serve the young Roman army officer Castus. Faced with a bleak future of decades of servitude to her master, as well as sadistic brutality at the hands of his slave and manageress, Paltucca, she finds herself fixated by one thought alone. Fuelled by hatred and a belief that the gods saved her for a reason, she vows to never taste freedom until she gets her revenge.  

Un'aura di nefasto presagio avvolge Tutankhamon fin dai primi vagiti, una cappa scura destinata a diventare maledizione. Nato con un piede deforme e salito al trono in giovanissima età in un clima di grande tensione, per essere accettato dai sacerdoti riporta la capitale a Tebe, ripudia l'eresia e ripristina il culto di Amon, dando inizio a un periodo di splendore ed espansionismo per l'Egitto. Ma i successi politici non bastano a placare il suo desiderio di compiacere gli dèi e a cancellare la condanna divina di cui si sente vittima.

In this compelling work of fiction, the author places Jesus in the historical context of ancient Jewish practice and tradition; he is at once a charismatic rabbi and a political activist who uses his awareness of a transcendent reality - culminating in the Kingdom of Heaven - to try to bring justice to his people and a broader compassion for humankind. With The Gospel According to Lazarus, Richard Zimler brings the familiar story vividly to life and finds fresh meaning in the Passion and Crucifixion.

Nato diverso, nell'aspetto e nelle idee, Akhenaton ha sfidato l'eredità del padre cambiando per sempre il volto dell'Egitto e della storia. Sposando la splendida Nefertiti, "la donna più bella dell'antichità", ha dato vita a una delle più appassionanti storie d'amore della storia. Ma soprattutto, Akhenaton "l'eretico" ha sconvolto un impero imponendo un unico dio, Aton il sole, e guidando una rivoluzione religiosa costellata di intrighi, passioni, tradimenti e lotte per il potere. Una gloriosa e dorata utopia, in una spirale crescente di colpi di scena.

51 n. Chr.: Endlich kann Vespasian seinem Kaiser einen der zähesten Widersacher Roms vorführen: den britannischen Häuptling Caratacus. Doch Agrippina, Claudius‘ neue Gemahlin, blockiert Vespasians Karriere, wo sie nur kann. Gleichzeitig stiften Parther Unruhe in Armenien und anderen oströmischen Provinzen. Gehen die Spannungen auf eine List von Agrippina zurück? Um sich und seine Familie zu retten, muss Vespasian den weiten Weg bewältigen und es herausfinden.

It is a time of troubles. In Cahokia, the corn crop is failing again and a warchief - and the warrior woman he may never possess - are disgusted by their Chief's lust for tribute. Now even the gods have turned their faces, closing the underworld to the seers. If the gods have abandoned the people, there is no hope - unless it comes in the form of a young girl who is learning to Dream of Power.

Cheope è stato un sovrano determinato, ambizioso, giusto eppure spietato. Figlio di secondo letto, per diventare faraone ha dovuto dimostrare di possedere il Ka degli eletti. Ha conquistato terre, annientato avversari, schiavizzato popoli. Dopo migliaia di anni, la Grande piramide di Giza, unica delle sette meraviglie del mondo antico sopravvissuta fino ai giorni nostri, testimonia intatta la sua grandezza. Ma i templi edificati, il porto di Wadi al-Jarf sul Mar Rosso, l'apertura dei commerci al di fuori dell'Egitto non sono stati sufficienti a placare la sua brama di potere.

Set 5,000 years ago and ranging through what is now Montana, Wyoming, northern Colorado, and Utah, People of the Earth follows the migration of the Uto-Aztecan people south out of Canada. It is the unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two peoples and two dreams, of the two men who love her and the third who must have her, and of the vision given to the peoples long ago by the spirit of the wolf.

It is a time of fire. A small band of pioneers struggle valiantly to keep their ancestors' dreams alive in an unforgiving, drought-stricken land. Driven by the promise of an awesome vision, a heroic young dreamer and a fearless woman warrior unite to lead their people to a magnificent destiny. A towering epic filled with tragedy and triumph, courage and conflict, People of the Fire is the second compelling novel in a majestic saga of America's first peoples.

45 n. Chr.: Vespasians Bruder Sabinus wurde in Britannien von Druiden gefangen genommen und nun muss Vespasian ihn vor dem Opfertod retten - und zugleich den Kampf gegen seinen alten Feind Caratacus fortsetzen. Nachrichten aus Rom verheißen nichts Gutes: Am wenigsten Kontrolle über das Reich hat Kaiser Claudius selbst. Seine unersättliche Gemahlin Messalina weiß ihn durch ihre Einflüsterungen zu lenken. Claudius’ drei Freigelassene ringen um die Macht, und kaum aus Britannien zurückgekehrt, wird Vespasian in ihre Intrigen hineingezogen...

Una expedición de paleontólogos y científicos descubre una isla sin cartografiar en mitad del Atlántico con restos de una civilización muy antigua. En ella hay una cueva y en el centro de esta una inmensa columna con unas inscripciones en una lengua ya perdida. Cuando el grupo que entra en la cueva regresa a sus respectivos hogares comienzan a tener visiones de una grotesca presencia. Uno de los paleontólogos mata a su familia y reproduce en la pared de su salón las extrañas escrituras de la cueva antes de suicidarse.

The seventh of Joan Grant's Far Memory novels, So Moses Was Born, is set in Egypt, in the time just before the birth of Moses. The story is a familiar one: Found in the bulrushes, Moses's upbringing in the court of Egypt gave him the influence and power to set the Israelites free. Joan Grant enlarges the picture by depicting the events that led up to the discovery of the baby Moses, convincingly portraying the man she believed was his father, Ramoses II, through the words of his reclusive half-brother Nebunefer.