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41) When in Rome
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Beth, an ambitious young New Yorker who is disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she inexplicably ignites the passions of an odd group of suitors. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zeal, Beth doubts his love is the real thing.
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Series
Language
English
Description
It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in the far reaches of Britannia-a calmer place for a tired man.But the edge of the Roman Empire is a volatile place; the independent tribes of the North dwell...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For more than 2000 years, those wishing to rule Rome and leaders inspired by their example have claimed they, and only they, could restore their society's past glory and make it great again. They left millions of victims in their wake. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have...
46) Caesar's women
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Caesar returns from the battlefield to Rome and prepares to conquer the political arena and the women he left behind--his mistress Servilia, his mother Aurelia, his daughter Julia, and the celebrated Vestal Virgins.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Maeve Leahy is forced to revisit the tragic night that separated her from her twin sister nearly ten years earlier when she travels to Rome to learn about the legendary properties of a Javanese dagger she won at an auction.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture wars"-Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than...
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about significant people, places, events, and ideas in the history of the Roman Empire, from the period of Julius Caesar and the Gallic Wars to the fall of the empire in the West, and includes cross-references, a time line, maps, and photographs.
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Language
English
Description
To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea: Mithridates Eupator VI of Pontus, known to history as Mithridates the Great.
At age eleven, Mithridates inherited a small mountain kingdom of wild tribesmen, which his wicked mother governed in his place. Sweeping to power at age twenty-one, he proved to be a military genius and...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His arrival in Deva (more commonly known as Chester, England) does little to improve his mood, and after a straight thirty-six-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner.Now...
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Former government assassin Toby O'Dare is summoned to the fifteenth century by the angel Malchiah to investigate a case of poisoning and to search out the truth about a haunting, and the quest reconnects O'Dare with his past and offers him the promise of salvation.
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