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The Battle of Dyrrhachium, 48 BC Caesar, Pompey, and the Early Campaigns of the Third Roman Civil War


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English | May 19th, 2022 | ISBN: 152679358X | 248 pages | True EPUB | 15.86 MB
An in-depth study of the rivalry between two of Rome’s greatest military commanders-and the battle where they met in combat.

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Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC-AD 1000 [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CNS7D4BF | 2023 | 18 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 516 MB
Author: Barry Cunliffe
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart

A sensational, interdisciplinary work which entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings. In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a geographical niche particularly favored in facing many seas. These seas, and Europe’s great transpeninsular rivers, ensured a rich diversity of natural resources while also encouraging the dynamic interaction of peoples across networks of communication and exchange. The development of these early Europeans is rooted in complex interplays, shifting balances, and geographic and demographic fluidity. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and history, Cunliffe has produced an interdisciplinary tour de force. His is a bold book of exceptional scholarship, erudite and engaging, and it heralds an entirely new understanding of Old Europe.

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Pharsalus 48 BC Caesar and Pompey – Clash of the Titans


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English | 2006 | pages: 100 | ISBN: 1846030021 | PDF | 38,7 mb
Increasing tension between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) after the death of Marcus Licinius Crassus soon degenerated into military conflict. With his hand considerably strengthened by his election as Dictator by the Senate in Rome, Caesar knew that power would only be a reality once he had militarily defeated Pompey. By August 49BC, Caesar had effectively destroyed Pompey’s armies in Spain, but, by the time he had crossed the Adriatic pursuing him eastward, his forces were heavily outnumbered. Even with the reinforcements brought by Mark Antony, his attempt to crush Pompey by laying siege to Dyrrachium was unsuccessful and he eventually had to withdrew into Thessaly, with Pompey in pursuit.

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Marathon 490 BC The first Persian invasion of Greece


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English | 2002 | pages: 93 | ISBN: 1841760005, 0275988368 | PDF | 30,2 mb
Osprey’s study of the first Persian invasion of Greece in 490 BC. The story of the Marathon campaign is an epic of the Ancient World. When the Ionian Greeks revolted against their Persian overlords in 499 BC, the cities of Athens and Eretria came to their aid. The Persian King Darius swore vengeance and in 490BC a fleet of 600 ships packed with troops was sent to take revenge on the Athenians. At Marathon the Greeks met the Persians in battle and drove them in rout back to their ships. The moral effect of this victory was enormous – for the first time a Greek army had defeated the Persians and demonstrated the superiority of hoplite tactics.

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Caesar’s Gallic Wars 58-50 BC


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English | 2002 | pages: 94 | ISBN: 1841763055, 0415968585 | PDF | 4,6 mb
Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France).

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Armies of the Roman Republic 264-30 BC History, Organization and Equipment


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English | April 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1399094025 | True EPUB/PDF | 192 pages | 82.5/244 MB
The period covered in this book saw the Roman Republic face its greatest military challenges. In 264 the Romans were pitted against the might of Carthage in the first of the three Punic Wars, which would push Rome to the brink but end with the destruction of this great rival city. In the following two centuries they would clash repeatedly with the Gauls, this recurrent threat finally overcome by Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul. In this period they defeated the Hellenistic Successor states, proud heirs to the military legacy of Alexander the Great, a process completed by the annexation of Egypt in 30 BC. These wars, and others, made the Romans masters of all Western Europe and the whole Mediterranean basin, though failure against the Parthians limited their ambitions in the East. The Roman armies of this era were also employed against each other in the vicious civil wars that marked the end of the Republican period.

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Late Republican Rome, 88-31 BC


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009383353 | 393 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series features offers a generous selection of primary texts on Late Republican Rome (88-31 BC), with accompanying maps, a glossary and note on the sources, concordances and appendices. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources as well as some key inscriptions, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.

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