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Master the brutal ancient history of a muddy settlement that forged a world-conquering empire through endless warfare. Perfect for an engaging daily commute, this immersive narrative thrusts you into bustling forums and blood-stained battlefields. Feel the dramatic tension of a civilization...

In 46 BC, at just two years old, a young North African prince named Juba was paraded through the streets of Rome as part of Julius Caesar’s victory parade. This traumatic beginning, however, did not define his future. As a young man, Juba fought alongside Emperor Augustus and was sent back to...

In this sharp, eye-opening account, classics professor Michelle Berenfeld redirects our gaze. The Roman Empire isn’t the lesson—the Roman Republic is. Nearly five centuries of representative government, undone by forces that should sound familiar: wealth and power concentrated in the hands of elites, rampant political violence, endless expansionist wars, and a Senate that normalized emergency measures until it had nothing left to protect.

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for 500 years. Encompassing the period from Rome's founding in the eighth century BC through Justinian's rule in the sixth century AD, he offers a distinctive perspective on the Romans and their civilization by employing fundamental Roman values as a lens through which to view both their rise and spectacular fall. 

Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to understanding Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. Machiavelli's close analysis of Livy's history of Rome led him to advance his most original and outspoken view of politics--the belief that a healthy political body was characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability.

The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching...

Julius Caesar was possibly the most important man of antiquity, if not all of history. Alexander Hamilton once remarked that “the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar.” Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a...

One broken Republic. One impossible choice. One bargain no honest politician should ever accept.Lucilla Minor has never wanted power. She prefers laws to speeches, ledgers to glory, and believes Rome's problems can usually be solved by competent administration.Then someone offers her the chance...

Un roi barbare a mis Rome à sac en 410, et quinze siècles plus tard, on en accuse encore des adolescents. Ils l'ignorent. D'ailleurs, les bâtisseurs de cathédrales, les auteurs de romans d'horreur et les ingénieurs qui programment aujourd'hui des machines dans des salles obscures...

Beleef de epische geschiedenis van een vervolgde sekte die de machtigste religie van het Romeinse Rijk werd. Tijdens je dagelijkse reis of ontspannen wandeling word je direct meegesleept in een sfeervol, waargebeurd verhaal over absolute macht, meedogenloze strijd en miraculeuze overleving in de...

当维苏威火山的灰烬以狂暴之势掩埋繁华街巷，一座古罗马帝国的喧嚣巨镇瞬间化作被时光封印的沉默胶囊。无论你是在漫长的通勤途中寻找思维的火花，还是渴望在静谧夜晚沉浸于深邃的历史回响，这场两小时的考古听觉之...

Ervaar de epische geschiedenis van de politieke machtsstrijd die een stad aan de Tiber smeedde tot een wereldrijk. Deze fascinerende reis is perfect voor je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer en brengt de complexe Oudheid direct tot leven in je oren. Vergeet droge jaartallen; dompel je onder in een...

在这场波澜壮阔的古代地中海大国博弈中，一个延续千年的璀璨文明如何在强权夹击下，走向令人叹息的权力崩塌与帝国陨落？对于渴望在通勤时光或独处之夜汲取历史智慧的求知者而言，这段充满权谋与血腥的衰亡史将彻底...

边缘化的少数宗教如何在血腥打压下逆袭，最终颠覆古代地中海世界的权力秩序与信仰版图？带着对权力更迭与思想演变的深层求知欲，你将重返那个神明林立、政治角力错综复杂的古典时代。这场看似不可思议的崛起并非注...

ابتلع ثوران بركاني مباغت مدينة بأكملها، ليحفظ لنا أسرار التاريخ الروماني وعلم الآثار تحت أطنان من الرماد. استمع خلال تنقلاتك اليومية لتعيش أجواء درامية وتأملية،...

ادخل قلب روما القديمة مع هذا السرد التاريخي، حيث تحول العنف البشري إلى أداة ترفيه وسيطرة سياسية. استمع إلى أصوات المدرجات الحجرية وتنفس أجواء الساحة العتيقة خلال...

The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar. The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in...

'Terrific ... this is serious but popular history writing at its best' - Spectator The dynamic, expansionist dynasty that forged the Middle Ages. Today, the Carolingians are best known as the dynasty of Charlemagne. In a few remarkable decades spanning the late eighth and early ninth centuries...

In ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside ancient Rome’s darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life and death and what it means to be human.

Brought to you by Penguin. In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna. From...