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Che cosa possiamo imparare dall'incredibile ascesa e dalla misteriosa morte del più grande conquistatore del mondo antico? Sono passati più di due millenni da quando Alessandro Magno costruì un impero che si estendeva dal remoto regno di Macedonia, alla Persia e infine all'India - e tutto prima della sua prematura morte a soli trentatré anni. I racconti degli eventi della sua vita, reali e leggendari, lo hanno re...

A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome“Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at ActiumThe Roman emperor Nero’s name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the stories go, he set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre ...

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A striking, nuanced biography of Nero--the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars--and a fascinating, street-level portrait of ancient Rome itself, from an acclaimed biographer and historian.The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Ro...

A complete account of the ascent of Rome - from agrarian backwater to capital of the world's greatest empire.

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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait."[An] infectious sense of narrative momentum . . . Its energy is unflagging, including the verve with which it tackles that teased final mystery about the specific cause of Alexander's death."-The Christian Science Monitor More than...

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched to every corner of the ancient world, from the backwater kingdom of Macedonia to the Hellenic world, Persia, and ultimately to India-all b...

Het Romeinse Rijk spreekt enorm tot de verbeelding, want het is het grootste rijk dat de wereld ooit gekend heeft en de bakermat van ons huidige Europa. Veel is geschreven over de levens van beroemde Romeinse keizers als Augustus, Hadrianus en Marcus Aurelius en over de val van het Romeinse Rijk, een van de interessantste gebeurtenissen die ooit hebben plaatsgevonden.Veel minder bekend is de geschiedenis van de - minstens zo fascinerende - opk...

La de Marco TUlio Cicerón (106 a. C.-43 a.C.) es la historia de un hombre que, procedente de una familia de caballeros (équites), se hizo a sí mismo después de adquirir una impresionante cultura literaria, científica, filosófica y jurídica de la mano de los más reputados filósofos de su tiempo en Grecia y Asia y que, de regreso a Roma, llegó a ser uno de los principales abogados y oradores de su tiempo y emprendió una fulgurante carrera. Sin e...

Le imprese di Atene hanno lasciato una traccia profonda nella cultura occidentale. Gli Ateniesi hanno inventato la prima vera democrazia della storia (anche se includeva solo i maschi adulti), trasformando così la nozione stessa di governo. Hanno fondato il concetto di filosofia, affrontando per primi questioni su cui i pensatori si arrovellano ancora oggi, hanno plasmato le arti della tragedia e della commedia, dell'architettura e della scult...

Le vicende che tutti abbiamo studiato sui banchi di scuola - la leggenda di Romolo e Remo, i sette re di Roma, l'apologo di Menenio Agrippa, le oche del Campidoglio, l'umiliazione delle Forche Caudine, i tribuni della plebe Gaio e Tiberio Gracco, Mario, Silla e la prima guerra civile, il primo triumvirato e le Idi di marzo - rivivono in un appassionante racconto, dove ha pieno risalto la maestria di Anthony Everitt. In una Roma che si trasform...

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world-from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, through the city's political and cultural golden a...

De politicus en filosoof Marcus Tullius Cicero geldt als een van de oorspronkelijkste en invloedrijkste geesten van het Romeinse Rijk. Zijn talloze brieven en filosofische traktaten zijn nog altijd uiterst leesbaar en hebben een enorme invloed gehad op de westerse filosofie en literatuur. Het Rome van Cicero geeft naast het verhaal van Cicero ook een helder beeld van de roerigste en meest belangwekkende periode uit de Romeinse geschiedenis: de...

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