Télécharger le livre :  The Rise And Fall of Athens
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Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? ForPlutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Makers of Rome
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These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent...

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Parution : 2004-04-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise of the Roman Empire
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The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the...

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Parution : 2003-08-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Roman History
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Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph - detailing the...

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Parution : 1987-02-26

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