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Free Download The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Life, Liberty, And The Death Of The Republic (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868625152 | 2023 | 3 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Barry Linton
Narrator: Jim D. Johnston
Arguably the greatest Empire to ever exist, Rome has indelibly left a significant mark on the modern world. The posthumous influence of the Roman Republic and Empire have no equal in all of history. Their varied culture, stunning art, brilliant philosophy, and towering architecture is embedded in our modern world. Roman innovation has left behind a legacy that has remained admired and emulated for over a thousand years. They built massive networks of roads before the birth of Christ. They constructed elaborate public sewer systems over 1,500 years before the United States became a Nation, and had networks of aqueducts bringing running water.

Free Download The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7NJ7V5 | 2023 | 12 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: John F. White
Narrator: Keval Shah
Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world. The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces.

Free Download Roman Warfare (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYL728YH | 2023 | 4 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Narrator: Richard Poe
From an award-winning historian, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire. Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthless approach to combat played a major part in Rome’s history, creating an empire that eventually included much of Europe, the Near East and North Africa. What distinguished the Roman army from its opponents was the uncompromising and total destruction of its enemies. Yet this ferocity was combined with a genius for absorbing conquered peoples, creating one of the most enduring empires ever known. In Roman Warfare, celebrated historian Adrian Goldsworthy traces the history of Roman warfare from 753 BC, the traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus, to the eventual decline and fall of Roman Empire and attempts to recover Rome and Italy from the "barbarians" in the sixth century AD. It is the indispensable history of the most professional fighting force in ancient history, an army that created an Empire and changed the world.

Free Download Frida Pellegrino, "The Urbanisation of the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire: A Juridical and Functional Approach to Town Life in"
English | ISBN: 1789697743 | 2021 | 314 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The Urbanisation of the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire investigates the development of urbanism in the north-western provinces of the Roman empire. Key themes include the continuities and discontinuities between pre-Roman and Roman ‘urban’ systems, the relationships between cities’ juridical statuses and their levels of monumentality, levels of connectivity and economic integration as illuminated by the geographical distribution of cities and town-like settlements belonging to various size brackets, and the shapes and nature of regional urban hierarchies, as reconstructed on the basis of not only the administrative centres but – crucially – all places that fulfilled urban ‘functions’.

Free Download Myrto Garani, "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 0199328382 | 2023 | 648 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer many perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy explores a range of such Roman philosophical perspectives through thirty-four newly commissioned essays. Where Roman philosophy has long been considered a mere extension of Hellenistic systems of thought, this volume moves beyond the search for sources and parallels and situates Roman philosophy in its distinctive cultural context.

Free Download Rudloph Sohm, "The Institutes of Roman Law"
English | ISBN: 1593330065 | 2002 | 560 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Sohm’s book presents a uniform systematic and historical exposition of the elements of Roman private law. While leaving intact the advantages secured by our present system, it will introduce a new very fertile element into the legal studies of the English-speaking world.

Free Download Thea S. Thorsen, "Roman Receptions of Sappho "
English | ISBN: 0198829434 | 2019 | 480 pages | EPUB | 968 KB
Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we know of. Furthermore, Sappho’s poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very conspicuous interpretative strategies to deal with issues of gender and sexuality, revealing the values of the societies that have received her works through time. Finally, Sappho’s legacy has been very well explored from the perspective of reception studies: important investigations have been made into responses both to her as poet-figure and to her poetry from her earliest reception through to our own time. However, one of the few eras in Sappho’s longstanding reception history that has not been systematically explored before this volume is the Roman period. The omission is a paradox. Receptions of Sappho can be traced in more than eighteen Roman poets, among them many of the most central authors in the history of Latin literature. Surely, few other Greek poets can rival the impact of Sappho at Rome. This important fact calls out for a systematic approach to Sappho’s Roman reception, which is the aim of Roman Receptions of Sappho that focuses on the poetry of the central period of Roman literary history, from the time of Lucretius to that of Martial.

Free Download Paolo Sachet, "Publishing for the Popes The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing (1527-1555) "
English | ISBN: 9004348646 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In Publishing for the Popes, Paolo Sachet provides a detailed account of the attempts made by the Roman Curia to exploit printing in the mid-sixteenth century, after the Reformation but before the implementation of the ecclesiastical censorship.

Free Download Basil Dufallo, "Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy"
English | ISBN: 0472133403 | 2023 | 394 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
The story of Roman Hellenism-defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power-begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated. Think of the architecture of the Roman capital, the Campanian towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius, and the Hellenic culture of the Etruscans. Perhaps "everybody knows" that Rome adapted Greek culture in a steadily more "sophisticated" way as its prosperity and might increased. This volume, however, argues that the assumption of smooth continuity, let alone steady "improvement," in any aspect of Roman Hellenism can blind us to important aspects of what Roman Hellenism really is and how it functions in a given context.

Free Download Caitlin C. Gillespie, "Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain "
English | ISBN: 0190609079 | 2018 | 216 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a Roman legion, and caused the deaths of an untold number of veterans, families, soldiers, and Britons. Yet with one decisive defeat, her vision of freedom was destroyed, and the Iceni never rose again. Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain introduces readers to the life and literary importance of Boudica through juxtaposing her different literary characterizations with those of other women and rebel leaders. This study focuses on our earliest literary evidence, the accounts of Tacitus and Cassius Dio, and investigates their narratives alongside material evidence of late Iron Age and early Roman Britain. Throughout the book, Caitlin Gillespie draws comparative sketches between Boudica and the positive and negative examples with which readers associate her, including the prophetess Veleda, the client queen Cartimandua, and the rebel Caratacus. Literary comparisons assist in the understanding of Boudica as a barbarian, queen, mother, commander in war, and leader of revolt. Within the ancient texts, Boudica is also used as an internal commentator on the failures of the emperor Nero, and her revolt epitomizes ongoing conflicts of gender and power at the end of the Juilio-Claudian era. Both literary and archaeological sources point towards broader issues inherent in the clash between Roman and native cultures. Boudica’s unique ability to unify disparate groups of Britons cemented her place in the history of Roman Britain. While details of her life remain elusive, her literary character still has more to say.