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Las legiones malditas by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPublio Cornelio Escipión. que pasaría a la historia con el sobrenombre de Africanas. sólo tenía 26 años cuando aceptó comandar las tropas romanas en Hispania. Poseedor de las cualidades militares de su padre y su tío. el joven Escipión también heredó a algunos de los feroces enemigos de éstos. como Asdrúbal. el hermano de Aníbal. o el general pánico Ciscón...Categorized as:
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The Thief by Stephanie Landsem
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Roman centurion longing for peace and a Jewish woman hiding a deadly secret witness a miracle that transforms their lives and leads them to the foot of the cross.My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Nissa is a Jewish woman with a sharp tongue and no hope of marriage...Categorized as:
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![Death to the Emperor by Simon Scarrow]()
Death to the Emperor by Simon Scarrow
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 21st Eagle of the Empire novel. If you don't know Simon Scarrow, you don't know Rome!It is AD 60. The hard-won province of Britannia is a thorn in the side of the Roman Empire, its tribes swift to anger, and relentless in their bloody harassment of the Roman military...Categorized as:
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![Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Carol Wallace]()
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Carol Wallace
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs one of the bestselling stories of all time, Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has captivated and enthralled millions around the world--both in print and on the big screen. Now Lew's great-great-granddaughter has taken the old-fashioned prose of this classic novel and breathed new life into it for today's audience...Categorized as:
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![Aeneid Book VI by Virgil]()
Aeneid Book VI by Virgil
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the centuryIn a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld... -
![Spartacus: Rebellion by Ben Kane]()
Spartacus: Rebellion by Ben Kane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe mighty slave army, led by Spartacus, has carried all before it, scattering the legions of Rome. Three praetors, two consuls and one proconsul have been defeated. Spartacus seems invincible as he marches towards the Alps and freedom.But storm clouds are massing on the horizon. Crixus the Gaul defects, taking all his men with him...Categorized as:
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![A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell]()
A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe spirit of ancient Rome in its last days of glory. The hero of the story, the man called "a pillar of iron" is Marcus Tullius Cicero, the lawyer-statesman who tried vainly to save the republic he loved from the forces of tyranny... -
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Metamorphoses: Volume I, Books I-VIII by Ovid
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.Book I – The Creation, the Ages of Mankind, the flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha, Apollo and Daphne, Io, Phaëton... -
![The Martyr of the Catacombs by James De Mille]()
The Martyr of the Catacombs by James De Mille
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Martyr of the Catacombs chronicles the treatment of early Christians by the Romans. A well written novel with a message... -
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The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsArmed with just a few antique facts, Bradshaw ably recreates the extraordinary life of Archimedes, the great mathematician and engineer who built sophisticated weapons during the first Punic War. Archimedes lived in the Greek city of Syracuse from 287 to 212 B.C., except for a brief but glorious youthful stint in Alexandria, the hub of intellectual life in the classical age... -
![The Course of Honor by Lindsey Davis]()
The Course of Honor by Lindsey Davis
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRome in the first century A.D. saw the corrupt and bloody reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, as well as the Year of the Four Emperors. It also saw the rise of Vespasian, the destitute son of a provincial senator who brought peace to the empire after years of strife, court intrigue, and murder... -
![Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana by Virgil, G.P. Goold]()
Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana by Virgil, G.P. Goold
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsVirgil, Volume Ii : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64) Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life... -
![The Three Fates by Kate Quinn]()
The Three Fates by Kate Quinn
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Three Fates Beloved Emperor Trajan is dead. His brutal successor Hadrian draws ever nearer to Rome. And three desperate souls try to forge new paths in a world turned upside down . . . THE EMPEROR’S NEMESIS. Battered warrior Vix has always been Hadrian’s bitter enemy, and he vows that will never change, even when he is made Praetorian Guard and Imperial watchdog...Categorized as:
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![The Man With Two Names by Vincent B. Davis II]()
The Man With Two Names by Vincent B. Davis II
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Is it better to be a bad man and accomplish great things, or be a great man and accomplish nothing?" Quintus Sertorius has spent the first 20 years of his life training horses on his family farm, but this must end when his father dies and his village's political connections to Rome are severed. For the sake of his family, Quintus must leave his village for the Eternal City...Categorized as:
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![Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6 by Virgil]()
Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6 by Virgil
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts... -
![The Erotic Poems by Ovid]()
The Erotic Poems by Ovid
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis collection of Ovid’s poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress...Categorized as:
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![Horace: Odes and Epodes by Michèle Lowrie]()
Horace: Odes and Epodes by Michèle Lowrie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes. Formalist, structuralist, and historicizing approaches alike offer insight into this complex poet, who reinvented lyric at the transition from the Republic to the Augustan principate... -
![The Etruscan by Mika Waltari]()
The Etruscan by Mika Waltari
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHaving abducted Arsinoe, the wanton priestess of Eryx, Lars Turm's troubles began as he followed her to whatever lands promised her wealth & luxury. When she fell in love with another, he was forced to flee to Etruria & found a destiny beyond his wildest expectations & powers... -
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Empire by Steven Saylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the bestseller 'Roma', Steven Saylor told the story of the first 1,000 years of Rome by following the descendants of a single bloodline. Now, in 'Empire', Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the Pinarius family, from the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, to the glorious height of Rome's empire under Hadrian... -
![Swords Around the Throne by Ian James Ross]()
Swords Around the Throne by Ian James Ross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRome is in peril. The old order is changing—and Centurion Aurelius Castus has been summoned back from Britain to find himself caught up in a treasonous conspiracy threatening to bring down the Emperor Constantine. Rewarded for saving the emperor's life in battle, Castus is promoted to the Corps of Protectores, the elite imperial bodyguard. The swords around the throne...Categorized as:
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![Lady of the Light by Donna Gillespie]()
Lady of the Light by Donna Gillespie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAuriane, warrior maiden of the Chattian tribe, was sworn to remove the cursed Romans from the lands of the Rhine. Then fate intervened: she was captured, brought to Rome in chains, and trained to fight in the arenas as a gladiator - only to fall in love with a Roman aristocrat, Marcus Arrius Julianus, and become his wife...Categorized as:
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![Imperial Purple by Gillian Bradshaw]()
Imperial Purple by Gillian Bradshaw
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in early Christian times, the tale of the weaver Demetrias portrays her entrapment in a treasonous plot against the Byzantine emperor and her fight to protect her family and self as the battle for Constantinople...Categorized as:
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![A Pattern of Blood by Rosemary Rowe]()
A Pattern of Blood by Rosemary Rowe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibertus witnesses the stabbing of Quintus Ulpius, a wealthy decurion—but he is not fatally wounded. Libertus is commanded by his wealthy patron Marcus to investigate the attack, but Quintus is soon found dead. When one of his enemies is found with blood stains on his toga, for Marcus the case is closed. But Libertus thinks otherwise...Categorized as:
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![Fire and Sword by Harry Sidebottom]()
Fire and Sword by Harry Sidebottom
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is April 238 AD, and the empire is in turmoil. With both Gordian the Elder and Younger dead in North Africa, tyrant and former emperor Maximinus Thrax seeks to reclaim the throne. The Senate, who supported the Gordian revolt, choose two of their own to claim power. But fighting erupts in the streets as ambitious men call for violent revolution...Categorized as:
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![The Patrician by Joan Kayse, Lyndsey Lewellen]()
The Patrician by Joan Kayse, Lyndsey Lewellen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJared of Alexandria shuns both his Roman and Hebrew blood, a curse that’s kept him on the fringes of society, to become a powerful and successful merchant prince. When his trading empire is threatened by an unknown enemy who not only wants to see him ruined but dead as well, he uses every means to put an end to it...Categorized as:
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![Murder in the Forum by Rosemary Rowe]()
Murder in the Forum by Rosemary Rowe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Perennis Felix, favorite of the Roman Emperor and would-be enemy of all, heralds his arrival in Glevum with the capricious execution of a slave, there are few who dare to question his actions. Indeed, a feast in his honor is universally approved in the cause of self-preservation...Categorized as:
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![A Gladiator Dies Only Once by Steven Saylor]()
A Gladiator Dies Only Once by Steven Saylor
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSteven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the later Roman Republic and featuring Gordianus the Finder, has garnered unusual acclaim from readers and reviewers alike, establishing him as one of the pre-eminent historical mystery writers. In A Gladiator Dies Only Once, the second collection of his award-winning stories featuring Gordianus, Saylor more than meets his own high standards...Categorized as:
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Caligula by Simon Turney
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaligula: loving brother, reluctant ruler and tortured soul.The five children of Germanicus are cursed from birth. Father: believed poisoned by the Emperor Tiberius over the imperial succession. Mother and two brothers arrested and starved to death by Tiberius. One sister married off to an abusive husband... -
![Attila: The Judgement by William Napier]()
Attila: The Judgement by William Napier
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAD 449: the future of the world hangs in the balance. The once mighty Roman Empire lies open and vulnerable to attack from a huge Hunnish army that has gathered on the banks of the Danube and is poised and ready to strike - but only one man has seen the danger.Master-General Aetius knows Attila still thirsts for blood and destruction, but he is helpless to stop the the pending onslaught...Categorized as:
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![Alexander the Great by Nikos Kazantzakis]()
Alexander the Great by Nikos Kazantzakis
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNikos Kazantzakis is no stranger to the heroes of Greek antiquity...Categorized as:
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Augustus by Allan Massie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReconstruction of the lost memoirs of Emperor Augustus; an account from the killing of Caesar to his own death.After Caesar and Antony, the third volume of this series of historical novels about the Roman Empire. The remarkable recovery of the drama and glory of a unique historic character... -
![Blood and Steel by Harry Sidebottom]()
Blood and Steel by Harry Sidebottom
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlending heart-pounding action and historical accuracy, Harry Sidebottom’s bestselling Warrior of Rome series took readers from the shouts of the battlefield to the whisperings of the emperor’s inner circle. In this second book of his new Throne of the Caesars series, Sidebottom continues his retelling of one of the bloodiest periods of Roman history—the Year of the Six Emperors...Categorized as:
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![Poems of the Late T'ang by A.C. Graham]()
Poems of the Late T'ang by A.C. Graham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClassical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C... -
![Attila: The Gathering of the Storm by William Napier]()
Attila: The Gathering of the Storm by William Napier
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe gripping and bloody story of one of history's most infamous and enigmatic villains - part II in the ATTILA trilogyThe 5th century has dawned in blood. The young boy exiled thirty years ago has grown into a man. One stormy autumn day, a mysterious rider is seen out on the plains. Attila has returned, his sentence served, to claim his kingdom...Categorized as:
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![The Mistletoe and the Sword: A Story of Roman Britain by Anya Seton]()
The Mistletoe and the Sword: A Story of Roman Britain by Anya Seton
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom a fascinating corner of history, comes a thrilling story of England in the time of the Romans. Quintus Tullius, a young standard bearer for the Ninth Roman legion, vows to properly bury his grandfather who had been killed by the Druids. In the strange foreign country of the Britons, Quintus meets lovely Regan, the mysterious foster daughter of the Warrior Queen of the Iceanians...Categorized as:
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![Doomed Love (Great Loves, #1) by Virgil]()
Doomed Love (Great Loves, #1) by Virgil
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove can be hopelessFrom the fall of Troy to the deadly Harpies, Aeneas’ epic voyage is filled with tragedy, destruction and omens of danger. As he recounts his adventures to Dido, who gives him sanctuary, they fall in love. But the Gods intervene and Aeneas realizes their relationship cannot last...Categorized as:
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![Iron and Rust by Harry Sidebottom]()
Iron and Rust by Harry Sidebottom
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Warrior of Rome comes the first book in a new major series for fans of George R. R. Martin and Bernard Cornwell Blending heart-pounding action and historical accuracy, Harry Sidebottom’s bestselling Warrior of Rome series took readers from the shouts of the battlefield to the whisperings of the emperor’s inner circle...Categorized as:
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![Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome by Hella S. Haasse]()
Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome by Hella S. Haasse
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorious cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the government...Categorized as:
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![The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]()
The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Last Days of Pompeii was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of the virtuous Greeks Glaucus and Ione, their escape from Pompeii amid the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, and their eventual conversion to Christianity, against a background of Roman decadence and corrupt Eastern religion...Categorized as:
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