For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Penguin Classics. The greek statesman Polybius c. 200–118 bc wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome.
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The Age of Alexander Penguin Classics
This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men, revealing why the mild Artaxerxes forced the killer of his usurping brother to undergo the horrific "death of two boats"; why the noble Dion repeatedly risked his life for the ungrateful mobs of Syracuse; why Demosthenes delivered a funeral oration for the soldiers he had deserted in battle; and why Alexander self-destructed after conquering half the world.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Plutarch's influential writings on the ancient worldPlutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers since the Renaissance.
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Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V Penguin Classics Bks. 1-5
C. Livy vividly depicts the great characters, and tales, legends, including the story of Romulus and Remus. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Reprinting robert ogilvie's lucid 1971 introduction, this highly regarded edition now boasts a new preface, examining the text in light of recent Livy scholarship, informative maps, bibliography, and an index.
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Fall of the Roman Republic Penguin Classics
Whether describing the would-be dictators marius and sulla, Julius Caesar's harrowing triumph in Gaul or the eloquent oratory of Cicero, the death of political idealist Crato, the battle between Crassus and Spartacus, all offer a fascinating insight into an empire wracked by political divisions. Penguin Books.
With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Deeply influential on shakespeare and many other later writers, they continue to fascinate today with their exploration of corruption, decadence and the struggle for ultimate power.
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The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives Penguin Classics
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Penguin Books. Penguin Classics. In recounting the lives of these great leaders, Plutarch also explores the problems of statecraft and power and illustrates the Roman people's genius for political compromise, which led to their mastery of the ancient world.
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Selected from plutarch's roman lives, such as soldierly Marcellus, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, eloquent Cato and cautious Fabius.
The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius Oxford World's Classics
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The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX Penguin Classics Bks. 21-30
In the war with hannibal, livy chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they approached the gates of Rome; and the decimation of the Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
. Penguin Books. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Oxford university Press USA. Penguin Classics. Penguin Books. Livy never hesitates to introduce both intense drama and moral lessons into his work, and here he brings a turbulent episode in history powerfully to life.
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Oxford university Press USA. Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever. The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.
C. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
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Ancient Rome: A New History Second Edition
The book is beautifully illustrated with over 200 illustrations―maps, battle plans, paintings, portraits, sculpture, and more. The new second edition of the definitive history of Rome―from its beginnings to the Arab conquest, and beyond. Oxford university Press USA. Great book! Penguin Classics.
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The Campaigns of Alexander Penguin Classics
While alexander emerges from this record as an unparalleled and charismatic leader, Arrian succeeds brilliantly in creating an objective and fully rounded portrait of a man of boundless ambition, who was exposed to the temptations of power and worshipped as a god in his own lifetime. Aubrey de sélincourt’s vivid translation is accompanied by J.
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He tells of alexander’s violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, and his campaigns through Egypt, his total defeat of Persia, India and Babylon – establishing new cities and destroying others in his path. Arrian’s own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the world’s greatest conqueror.