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Infographics 2 - Het Romeinse Rijk in infographics

Het reservoir aan soldaten moet bijna onuitputtelijk zijn geweest op het immense grondgebied van het Romeinse Rijk. Deze oorlogsmachine vormde een belangrijke succesfactor in de militaire geschiedenis...

Ad fines imperii Romani anno bismillesimo cladis Varianae

During the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, or clades Variana (9 ad), an alliance of Germanic tribes led by the German ‘hero' Arminius defeated three Roman legions and their auxiliaries led by Publius...

Oude Rome

Knossos

The legend of the Minotaur imprisoned in the Labyrinth beneath the palace of King Minos has haunted Europe's imagination since ancient times. Excavating the site in search of the truth, Arthur Evans u...

The Pocket Stoic

To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very diff...

The Five Good Emperors

Dynasty

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman peo...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, the year of American Independence, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787 Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-w...

Mythos

STEP INTO ANOtheR WORLD - OF MAGIC, MAYHEM, MONSTERS AND MANIACAL GODS - IN STEPHEN FRYS MOMENTOUS SUNDAY TIMES bestseller, MYTHOS A romp through the lives of ancient Greek gods. Fry is at his story-t...

Byzantine Athens, 10th - 12th Centuries

In this masterful synthesis, Charalambos Bouras draws together material and textual evidence for Athens in the Middle Byzantine period, from the mid-tenth century to 1204, when it was conquered by Cru...

Over drogredenen

Als de machtigste politicus van het westelijk halfrond zonder veel schaamte ondeugdelijk redeneert, niet kloppende beweringen weggeeft, halve en nog minder dan halve waarheden debiteert, ronduit liegt...

Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture

During the transition from Republic to Empire, the Roman aristocracy adapted traditional values to accommodate the advent of monarchy. Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture examines the ways in whic...

Decline & Fall of the Roma 6d

Charts the gradual collapse of Roman rule, from Augustus (23 BC to AD 14) to the first of the Barbarian kings, Odoacer (476-490 AD). It documents the corruption and depravity, and the great achievemen...

De komst van Alexander

Het Perzische rijk was het eerste wereldrijk in de geschiedenis. Het was een conglomeraat van eeuwenoude beschavingen en strekte zich uit van de Egeïsche Zee tot de Indus en van Soedan tot het Aralmee...

Athene

De Atheense democratie was meer dan een staatkundig systeem van volksmacht (dèmokratia). Debatten over haar betekenis deed mensen voor het eerst in de geschiedenis nadenken over politiek. De volksverg...