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Free Download The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7NJ7V5 | 2023 | 12 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: John F. White
Narrator: Keval Shah
Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world. The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces.

Free Download Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGPQQR1 | 2023 | 15 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Peter Sarris
Narrator: Mark Elstob
A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over nearly four decades of remarkable change, in an era of geopolitical threats, climate change, and plague. From the eastern Roman-or Byzantine-capital of Constantinople, Justinian’s armies reconquered lost territory in Africa, Italy, and Spain. But these military exploits, historian Peter Sarris shows, were just one part of a larger program of imperial renewal. From his dramatic overhaul of Roman law, to his lavish building projects, to his fierce persecution of dissenters from Orthodox Christianity, Justinian’s vigorous statecraft-and his energetic efforts at self-glorification-not only set the course of Byzantium but also laid the foundations for the world of the Middle Ages. Even as Justinian sought to recapture Rome’s past greatness, he paved the way for what would follow.

Free Download Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJG1W63J | 2023 | 17 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 409 MB
Author: Mary Beard
Narrator: Mary Beard
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by "the world’s most famous classicist" (Guardian). In her international bestseller, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? She tracks down the emperor at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. She introduces his wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers-and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hands. Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

Free Download Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Ancient Lives)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0300256647 | 167 Pages | PDF (True) | 2.4 MB
Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Julian fought to return Rome to the old gods who had led his ancestors to build their vast empire.

Free Download Robert A.G. Monks, "The Emperor’s Nightmare: Saving American Democracy in the Age of Citizens United (Issn) "
English | ISBN: 3110696959 | 2022 | 225 pages | PDF | 6 MB
From angry shareholders to concerned chief executives, almost everyone knows at a gut level that the present political system is not working. This book finds the root cause to be poor corporate governance. In the prequel to this book, The Emperor’s Nightingale, Robert A. G. Monks, one of the world’s foremost shareholder activists, had warned corporations against putting short-profit ahead of long-term value for all stakeholders. Few listened – and the result was system-wide trauma that only bold solutions can heal. In

Free Download Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
English | July 30, 2019 | ISBN: 1684422868, 168442285X | True EPUB | 272 pages | 5.77 MB
Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula.

Free Download Olivier Hekster, "Commodus: An Emperor at the Crossroads "
English | ISBN: 9050632386 | 2002 | 300 pages | PDF | 11 MB

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Free Download The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
English | September 26th, 2023 | ISBN: 0691227969 | 385 pages | True PDF | 10.70 MB
A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources

Free Download Emperor Septimius Severus
by Ilkka Syvnne;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 139906665X | 338 pages | True PDF EPUB | 49.52 MB

Free Download The Gospel Between Emperor and Temple in the Gospel of Mark: A Story of Epoch-making Proximity to the Divine Through Victory and Cult by Morten Horning Jensen
English | June 1, 2023 | ISBN: 3161618580 | 557 pages | PDF | 6.54 Mb
The Gospel of Mark pointedly opens with the statement, "the beginning of the gospel". This raises the question: What does ‘the gospel’ (t? e?a???????) mean to Mark? Traditionally, an explanation has been found in the so-called ‘religious use’ of the notion of the ‘messenger on the mountain’ in Isa 40:9 and 52:7, paving the way for an understanding of Jesus’s death as a sin sacrifice connected to Isa 53. Under the influence of recent postcolonial and/or anti-imperial reading strategies, however, Mark’s gospel notion has rather been understood as tailored to counter a Roman dressing of the emperor as ‘gospels’ to the world. Morten Horning Jensen re-investigates the entire concept of ‘gospel’ and concludes that Mark uses the concept to communicate the ‘epoch-making victory’ he finds to be the product of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.