The unification of Spain in 1479 and the establishment of its overseas empire, which began with Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the New World (1492–93), contributed to the emergence of the Renaissance in Spain, as did the introduction of printing to the country (1474) and the cultur...
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“Look, everything the Communists say about capitalism is true, and everything the capitalists say about Communism is true. The difference is, our system works because it’s based on the truth about people’s selfishness, and theirs doesn’t because it’s based on a fairy tale about people...
Claudius takes us through his early life and the reigns of his predecessors, Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula. His own time as emperor is the subject of the sequel, which I haven’t read yet. I enjoyed this fascinating novel, but my limited knowledge of the Roman Empire made it more challe...
“I am not talking about your face. I am talking about your soul. Too bad, you are in so much pain… what my father and brother had done to you must be painful…”And after that, Iris closed her eyes and fell asleep. She is the daughter of an alpha who has killed his family, ...
noblest Roman soldier she knows, Sebastian, is also a Christian. In this moving description of the Roman catacombs and the captured Christians who faced cruel death with unearthly fortitude, a story of faith and renewal unfolds in the decaying Roman empire. This is the version recommended by ...
by Harry Turtledove A novel about the momentous battle of Teutoberg Forest in 9 AD, which changed the destiny of the Roman Empire. MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES by Alan Stedall Philosophical fiction: the emperor explains himself to the physican Galen; Harnouphis, high priest of Isis; and ...
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Shusaku Endo was a Japanese Roman Catholic — a rare thing in Japan— who wrote this beautiful piece of Japanese historical fiction about faith and religious discrimination in Japan. Silence was also later adapted to the big screen by the legendary Martin Scorsese. Silence is set during the Sh...
“I had heard of Cicero, of course, but knew very little about his work and nothing at all about his personal life. Now that I’ve readImperium, the first in a trilogy of novels narrated by Cicero’s slave and secretary, Tiro, I know much more about both…A book about Roman ...