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Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic...
Publisher : Abacus
Language : English
Paperback : 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 034911563X
ISBN-13 : 9780349115634
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent....
Publisher : Abacus
Language : English
Paperback : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 0349117179
ISBN-13 : 9780349117171
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
Publisher : Abacus
Language : English
Paperback : 624 pages
ISBN-10 : 0349141207
ISBN-13 : 9780349141206
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Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic...
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall.It is a story of incomparable drama. This was the century of Julius Caesar, the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond; of Cicero, whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence; of Spartacus, the slave who dared to challenge a superpower; of Cleopatra, the queen who did the same....
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent.....
King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. As a result of those conquests, Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out. The Persians were turned back. Greece remained free. ...
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism.