Titoli in Antica

Gibbon's masterpiece on Rome is a monument of literature and a model of modern historical research. There has never been anything quite like it since its publication between 1776 and 1788. Although some of Gibbon's views are considered controversial today, there is no doubt that his research and patient devotion to scholarship produced one of the most valuable and renowned histories of all time.

Millions of people have thrilled to best-selling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, works of nonfiction that have changed the way we view history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly 2,000 years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God.

In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not only the great battles - Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis - but also penetrating human insight and a powerful sense of epic destiny at work. Translated by George Rawlinson.

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces. This recording covers the final three volumes of Gibbon's work, tracing ten centuries in the life of the eastern half of the empire, whose capital city was Constantinople.

El 21 de diciembre de 2012 llegará el fin del mundo. O, al menos, eso es lo que algunos afirman que profetizaron los mayas. Muchos han teorizado con que la Tierra quedará asolada por el paso de devastadores tsunamis, erupciones volcánicas y terremotos de gran magnitud. Otros tantos creen en la existencia de señales apocalípticas que vienen ocurriendo desde hace meses. Las empresas negocian con productos especialmente diseñados para el trágico evento, incluso han surgido decenas de sectas y grupos que esperan el apocalipsis.

La boca del Nilo ficciona la expedición que el emperador Nerón mandó en el año 60 o 62 de nuestra era al corazón de África con una doble misión: indagar sobre el poder del reino de Meroe y llegar hasta las legendarias fuentes del Nilo. Sin embargo, la novela comienza años después, durante una fiesta que el potentado Africano da en su casa de Asia. Esta parte se narra en presente. En la fiesta se encuentra Agrícola, un mercader que participó en aquella expedición, cosa que el anfitrión conoce.

Każdy zna jego imię. Każdy myśli, że zna jego historię... Szaleniec? Rozpustnik? Sadysta? A może po prostu cesarz i człowiek o wielu twarzach? Historia osądziła Kaligulę dość surowo. Czy jednak rzeczywiście był tak jednoznacznie negatywną postacią? Przez wieki rządziło wielu tyranów, ale nawet w tak skandalicznym gronie Kaligula ma miejsce wyjątkowe. To podobno on wyniósł instytucję cesarskiej władzy na wyżyny deprawacji, a kompletna nieprzewidywalność jego nastrojów napawała otoczenie przerażeniem.

Hérodote (Vème siècle av. J.-C) est un historien et géographe grec. Considéré comme le premier historien, il a été surnommé le "Père de l'Histoire" par Cicéron en raison de sa grande œuvre historique, "les Histoires", également appelée "Enquête". C'est l'un des précurseurs de l'histoire universelle. Hérodote y expose le développement de l'empire perse, puis y relate les guerres médiques qui opposèrent les Perses aux Grecs. Les Histoires se composent de neuf livres, chacun portant le nom d'une muse.

Suétone est un haut fonctionnaire romain, membre de l'ordre équestre, auteur de nombreux ouvrages dont la "Vie des douze Césars" qui rassemble les biographies de Jules César à Domitien. Il a vécu à la fin du Ier siècle et au début du IIème siècle. En tant que secrétaire de l'empereur Hadrien, Suétone avait accès aux archives impériales, ce qui lui permettait de consulter les sources contemporaines telles que les procès-verbaux des séances du Sénat, des lettres et des testaments d'empereurs.

This sharp commentary on the rise and current decline of Western Civilization touches on historical moments - including the building of early universities in the Middle Ages and the American Revolution - and figures - including Augustine, Acquinas, Edmund Burke, and Adam Smith - that exemplify the faith-reason synthesis at the heart of Western Civilization, as well as the modern villains that threaten to destroy it.

Born into slavery in the first century AD, Epictetus was a leading Greek philosopher of the Stoic school. He spent most of his life in Rome before the Emperor Domitian banished all philosophers from the city in AD 93; his exile then took him to Nicopolis in Greece. His teachings were recorded by his pupil Arrian, who published both the Encheiridion and Discourses.

The Roman historian Tacitus was a successful politician who eventually became governor of the province of Asia. He is thought to have died around AD 120 and benefitted from the patronage of the Flavian emperors. The Histories, of which only just over four out of 14 books survive, covers the years following the assassination of the Emperor Nero: Rome was plunged into further civil war with the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69), which culminated in the accession of Vespasian, the first of the Flavians.

In this audiobook, you will find both the history and the mythology of ancient Egypt. This period of time in the Egyptian history is commonly accepted to be between the years circa 3900 BC and 332 BC. These are the years when the land of Egypt was united into a single kingdom and when Alexander the Great, the king of Macedonia, conquered Egypt and forced Queen Cleopatra the VII to surrender to the Roman Empire.

The history of the Emerald Tablets is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years B.C. The author is Thoth, an Atlantean Priest-King who founded a colony in ancient Egypt, wrote the Emerald Tablets in his native Atlantean language which was translated by Dr. Michael Doreal.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Carefully reproduced from the original artifact, this inspirational audiobook remains true to the original ancient Viking era texts.

The rise and fall of ancient Rome is one of the greatest stories in the history of the world. From a group of settlements huddled along the Tiber in Italy, Rome rose to conquer much of the Mediterranean world and Europe. At the height of the Roman Empire, one in every five people in the world lived within its territory. For Americans, Rome's unlikely ascent, spectacular ambitions, and gruesome decline have provided endless fuel for our national self-examination.

The life of Timoleon, as told by Plutarch in Parallel Lives, is a twisted and intriguing one. Deemed fiercely patriotic for helping plan the assassination of his tyrannical brother, Timoleon was multifaceted. He was integral in helping the citizens of Sicily, as well as his own citizens. But for the many things that he did, Timoleon suffered a lonely end - only to be celebrated further after his death.

Agesilaus was a notable king of Sparta prior to the Athens-Spartan war. Although he won and lost many battles for the city, his legacy lived on. He was a short-statured, lame man who managed to rule an entire city-state - and many looked up to him after his death.

Conquering and blood money - without it, and without the help of Lucius Licinius Lucullus, the Roman empire would have been a lot different. Plutarch details Lucullus’ intense military life, through which he finds himself the head of much of Rome’s Eastern territories. Surely deaths abound, but for Romans, the pillaging of other lands meant significant overhaul of public works. Said to have lost his mind in his later years, Plutarch overlooks this and says that his apparent insanity might not have been all that it seemed.

Smart, resourceful, and cruel - three words that might describe Titus Quinctius Flamininus, the subject of Plutarch’s The Life of Flaminius. Brother to the later-to-be-exiled Senator Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, the former Flamininus was a well-known general and state politician. As a general, he occupied many overthrown Greek and Macedonian lands, becoming quite well-known. Although his political prowess was well known, he became cruel during his latter life - even being pivotal in the death of a harmless citizen.