Ancient Rome and the fall of the Republic People Antony Augustus Brutus Caesar Cassius Cato Cicero Cleopatra Clodius Pulcher Crassus Lepidus Pompey Sextus Pompey Marcus Agrippa Events First Triumvirate Caesar's Civil War Assassination of Julius Caesar Second Triumvirate Battle of Philippi Bellum Siculum...
Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia: The Age of Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina of Sweden, 1622-1656. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-09395-9. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2020. ^ a b Rodis-Lewis, Geneviève (1999). Descartes: His Life and ...
On the Consolation of Philosophywas written in AD 523 during a one-year imprisonment Boethius served while awaiting trial—and eventual execution—for the alleged crime of treason under the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great. Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome, holding the presti...
The miracle ofAnna Karenina(1878)is that all of Tolstoy’s multitudinous living and reading comes together onto these pages, seamlessly. From that big messy life emerges this novel, “Flawless art” in the opinion of Nabokov; a “masterpiece” if you’re Dostoyevsky (whom, by the way, T ...
Surely this website will be useful for autodidacts who would like to learn more on their own in a given field and wouldn't know where to start, then they could be inspired by the topics that occur and start learning them from this site or from other [type of] source. Wikisource (...
out of which they must have broken in their last delirium of hunger or rat-fear. There had been great herds of them, evidently fattened on the coarse vegetables whose remains could be found as a sort of poisonous ensilage at the bottom of the huge stone bins older than Rome. I knew now...
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare: Greece, the Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521782732. Sacks, David (1995). Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World. Constable and Co.. ISBN 0094752702. Stoneman, Richard (2004). Alexander the Great....
"At the conference of 1999, when the “election” came up for the new leader, it was a two-sided race between Howling ‘Laud’ Hope and Catmando. The voting was very close; they each got 112 votes. It was decided that they should both become Joint Leaders of the first political party...
That the modern Christian world continues to reject the very words spoken by God to mankind, and continues to preach the dogma of Pagan Rome -- even after being shown the truth -- is both the reason why the Christian world dwells in the abyss of profound spiritual ignorance, and why the...
[112] During his visit from Rome, Bernini also executed a renowned portrait bust of the king. Image and depiction Bronze bust of Louis XIV. Circa 1660, by an unknown artist. From Paris, France. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Few rulers in world history have commemorated ...