Tag: Emperors

Two Roman Revolutions The Senate, the Emperors and Power, from Commodus to Gallienus (AD 180-260)


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English | May 18, 2024 | ISBN: 1399037188 | 224 pages | PDF | 7.18 Mb
Much has been written about the events of 69AD, the famous ‘Year of Four Emperors’, but this book offers a new perspective on the Roman Empire as the shift of power between Senate and Emperor turned deadly.

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Ten Caesars Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine


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English | 2019 | pages: 410 | ISBN: 145166883X, 1451668848 | EPUB | 28,2 mb
Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.

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Ancient Rome’s Worst Emperors


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English | ISBN: 1399084429 | 2024 | 240 pages | AZW3, EPUB | 3 MB + 7 MB
Who qualifies as the worst of Roman emperors and why? Join L J Trafford for a tour of the very worst leadership in ancient Rome featuring Caligula, Commodus and many more.

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Emperors of Dreams Drugs in the Nineteenth Century


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English | 2002 | pages: 277 | ISBN: 1873982488 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Coleridge and de Quincey swilling bitter draughts of opium, Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes dallying with cocaine, Baudelaire and Gautier rapt in hashish fantasies behind velvet curtains, even Queen Victoria swallowing her prescription dose of cannabis – these snapshot images are familiar, but what is the story which lies behind them? How did cannabis and cocaine, opium and ether, mushrooms and mescaline enter the modern world, and what was their impact on the nineteenth century’s dreams and nightmares?

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Ten Caesars Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine


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English | 2019 | ISBN: B07JR2D9DN | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 52 minutes | 350 Mb
Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.
Barry Strauss’ Ten Caesars is the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople.
During these centuries, Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. The empire reached from modern-day Britain to Iraq, and gradually, emperors came not from the old families of the first century but from men born in the provinces, some of whom had never even seen Rome. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus.

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Emperors and Rhetoricians Panegyric, Communication, and Power in the Fourth-Century Roman Empire (Volume 65)


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English | ISBN: 0520394976 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 17 MB
Panegyric, the art of publicly praising prominent political figures, occupied an important place in the Roman Empire throughout late antiquity. Orators were skilled political actors who manipulated the conventions of praise giving, taking great license with what they chose to present (or omit). Their ancient speeches are rare windows into the world of panegyrists, emperors, and their audiences. In Emperors and Rhetoricians,

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