Oude Rome

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...

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...

Constantine the Great General

Constantine the Great is a titanic figure in Roman, and indeed world history. Most famed for making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire (and thus ensuring its survival and spread),...

The Eagle and the Wolves

Ordered by the emperor Vespasian of 44 AD's Roman empire to provide an aged ruler with an army, centurions Macro and Cato find their efforts compromised by a deadly plot against their eagles comrades,...

Praetorian

The brand new thrilling Roman adventure from the bestselling author of THE LEGION and THE GLADIATOR. The city of Rome in AD 50 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on every corner, and a shadowy Repu...

The Twelve Caesars

The personalities of the Twelve Caesars of ancient Rome - Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him - have profoundly impressed themselves upon the world. They formed the them...

Soldatenkaiser

The Roman Forum

*Includes pictures.*Includes ancient descriptions of the Forum.*Includes footnotes for further reading.“A circular trench was dug around what is now the Comitium, and in this were deposited first-frui...

The Eagle's Prophecy

The arresting sixth novel in Simon Scarrow's epic series of the Roman armyIt is spring A.D. 45 in Rome, and Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are waiting for an i...

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire

An authoritative account of Roman imperial, military and political power, and of classical Rome's far-reaching influence on Western culture, architecture and art. Nearly 1000 colour photographs, fine...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Discusses the Roman Empire's rise to greatness as well as its eventual decline and fall brought about by increasingly dramatic military, economic, and social changes.

The Fall of the Roman Household

Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life ... whole legions w...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates th...

Germanicus

GERMANICUS (a.k.a. Germanicus Iulius Caesar) was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mould of Alexander the Great. His untimely death, in suspicious circumstances, ended the possibility of a retu...