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Free Download Nick Holmes, Nigel Patterson (Narrator), "The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome"
English | ASIN: B0D48459T4 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:10:00 | 169 MB
describes the little known "crisis of the third century", and how it led to a revolutionary new Roman Empire. Long before the more famous collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between AD 235-275, barbarian invasions, civil war, and plague devastated ancient Rome. Out of this ordeal came new leaders, new government, new armies, and a new vision of what it was to be Roman. Best remembered today is the rapid rise of Christianity in this period, as Rome’s pagan gods were rejected, and the emperor Constantine converted to this new religion. Less well remembered is the plethora of other changes that conspired to provide an environment well suited to a religious revolution.

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Free Download Two Roman Revolutions
by John D Grainger;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9781399037181 | 233 pages | True PDF EPUB | 10.84 MB

Free Download Sven Betjes, "Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Em"
English | ISBN: 9004537457 | 2024 | 356 pages | PDF | 18 MB
This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.

Free Download Thirteen Roman Defeats: The Disasters That Made The Legions by Ian Hughes
English | August 30, 2023 | ISBN: 152672667X | 264 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
Covers thirteen battles or campaigns from the early Republic to the Late Empire.

Free Download The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
English | May 30, 2023 | ISBN: 0750996668 | 280 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
A sweeping history of the Roman Empire’s influence beyond its borders and through time

Free Download Adele Kudish, "The European Roman d’Analyse: Unconsummated Love Stories from Boccaccio to Stendhal"
English | ISBN: 1501352229 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Through close readings of a selection of European novels and novellas written between 1340 and 1827, this study of "analytical fiction" examines how unconsummated love stories probe the frailty of self-knowledge. Tracing elements of what the French call the roman d’analyse in the works of Boccaccio, Marguerite de Navarre, Cervantes, Marie de Lafayette, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Stendhal, Adele Kudish discusses how the metaphor of unconsummated love is deployed to represent a fundamental lack of insight into the self.

Free Download Sol: Image and Meaning of the Sun in Roman Art and Religion, Volume II (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) by Steven E. Hijmans
English | April 3, 2024 | ISBN: 9004514724 | True PDF | 636 pages | 73.4 MB
With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved.

Free Download Sol: Image and Meaning of the Sun in Roman Art and Religion, Volume I (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) by Steven E. Hijmans
English | March 29, 2024 | ISBN: 9004406697 | True PDF | 840 pages | 8.5 MB
With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved.

Free Download Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire: Author of Stratagems, Advisor to Emperors, Governor of Britain, Pacifier of Wales by John D Grainger
English | June 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1399051229 | 264 pages | MOBI | 9.86 Mb
First full-length biography of Sextus Iulius Frontinus.

Free Download Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-roman Religion, Jews and Christians (Brill’s Plutarch Studies) by Frederick E. Brenk, edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
English | May 4, 2023 | ISBN: 9004531955 | True PDF | 362 pages | 3 MB
Frederick Brenk has devoted a scholarly lifetime to explicating the complexities of Plutarch’s thought. Plutarch has been his intellectual interlocutor for over fifty years: in this time Brenk has produced a stream of brilliantly lucid, provocative and wise studies.