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Michael Grant Biografía y Hechos

Michael Grant (Londres, 21 de noviembre de 1914-Londres, 4 de octubre de 2004)[1]​ fue un filólogo clasicista y numismático británico; además fue caballero de la Orden del Imperio Británico. Según el obituario del periódico inglés The Times, fue uno de los pocos clasicistas que se ganó el respeto de los académicos y los lectores.[2]​ Muy prolífico, escribió y editó más de cincuenta libros no novelados y traducciones; escribió sobre temas muy variados, desde la moneda en la antigua Roma o la erupción del monte Vesubio hasta los Evangelios y Jesús. Su «muy convincentemente revisionista» biografía de Cleopatra ha sido descrita como «empática e inteligente».[3]​ Él se describió a sí mismo como «uno de los pocos escritores independientes en el ámbito de la historia antigua: un fenómeno raro». Publicaciones From Imperium to Auctoritas (1946), su tesis doctoral.[4]​ Roman Anniversary Issues. An explanatory study of the numismatic and medallic commemoration of anniversary years, 49 B.C.–A.D. 375 (1950).[5]​[6]​ Roman History from Coins (1958).[7]​ Myths of the Greeks and Romans (1962).[8]​ The Climax of Rome; The Final Achievements of the Ancient World A.D. 161-337 (1968).[9]​ Roman History from Coins. Some Uses of the Imperial Coinage to the Historian (1968).[10]​ The Fall of the Roman Empire — a reappraisal (1976).[11]​ Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels (1977).[12]​ The Founders of the Western World: A History of Greece and Rome (1991).[13]​ Sick Caesars: Madness and Malady in Imperial Rome (2000).[4]​ En 1994, publicó una autobiografía titulada My Eighty Years.[14]​ y fue editor, junto a Rachel Kitzinger, de la obra Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome (1988).[15]​ Referencias Bibliografía Adkin, Arthur W. H. (marzo de 1966). Greek and Roman Myths Michael Grant: Myths of the Greeks and Romans. Pp. 487; 97 plates. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962 (en inglés) 16 (1). pp. 78-79. ISSN 0009-840X. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00320443.  Alföldi, André (1951). «Michael Grant, Roman Anniversary Issues. An Study of the Numismatic and Medallic Commemoration of Anniversary Years 49 B. C. - A.D. 375». L'antiquité classique (en francés) 20 (20-2): 522-525. ISSN 2295-9076.  Carson, R. A. G. (noviembre de 1951). «Michael Grant, Roman Anniversary Issues. An explanatory study of the numismatic and medallic commemoration of anniversary years, 49 B.C.–A.D. 375. Cambridge : University Press, 1950. Pp. XXIV + 203, and 2 plates. 21s.». The Journal of Roman Studies (en inglés) 41 (1-2): 174-175. ISSN 0075-4358. doi:10.2307/298120.  Carson, R. A. G. (1959). «Roman History from Coins by Michael Grant». The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society (en inglés) (Royal Numismatic Society) 19: 235-237. ISSN 0267-7504.  Eedwards, Janet (abril de 1978). «Book Review: Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels. By Michael Grant». The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine (en inglés) 61 (2): 151-152. ISSN 0043-4035.  Hackens, Tony (1969). «Michael Grant, Roman History from Coins. Some Uses of the Imperial Coinage to the Historian». L'antiquité classique (en francés) 38 (38-2): 664. ISSN 2295-9076.  Jones, Tom B. (marzo de 1970). «The Climax of Rome; The Final Achievements of the Ancient World A.D. 161-337 by Michael Grant». The Classical Journal (en inglés) (The Classical Association of the Middle West and South) 65 (6): 285-287.  McAuslan, I. (octubre de 1989). «Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome by Michael Grant; Rachel Kitzinger». Greece & Rome (en inglés) (Cambridge University Press) 36 (2): 226-228.  Oliver, Myrna (29 de octubre de 2004). «Michael Grant, 89; Historian Focused on Ancient Cultures». Los Angeles Times (en inglés).  Varios autores (2003). Frank N. Magill, ed. The Ancient World: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 1: Dictionary of World Biography (en inglés) 1. Routledge. ISBN 9781135457402.  Wilson, R. J. A. (1976). «The fall of the Roman empire—a reappraisal by Michael Grant». Hermathena (en inglés) (Trinity College Dublin) (120): 86-88. ISSN 0018-0750.  . Descubre los libros populares de Michael Grant. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Michael Grant

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  • Mr. Grant Allen's New Story “Michael's Crag.” With ... marginal illustrations in silhouette, etc. sinopsis y comentarios

    Mr. Grant Allen's New Story “Michael's Crag.” With ... marginal illustrations in silhouette, etc.

    Grant Allen

    The NOVELS OF THE 18th & 19th CENTURIES collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection includes major and minor works from a period w...

  • The Soul Trade sinopsis y comentarios

    The Soul Trade

    E E Richardson

    When Nick Spencer stumbles upon Bargains, the odd little back street shop seems like the perfect place to buy the present he's been searching for. And when the shopkeeper wants to ...

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    White Night

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That'...

  • Michael A. Grant v. State Alaska sinopsis y comentarios

    Michael A. Grant v. State Alaska

    Supreme Court of Alaska

    MATTHEWS, Justice. OPINION. On the night of September 27, 1976, Michael Grant was visiting a friend, Jary Crutchfield, at his home in Bethel. Crutchfield received a telephone call ...

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    Proven Guilty

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That'...

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    Wild Olives

    William Graves

    In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father the poet Robert Graves had returned wit...

  • Michael Wagner v. Grant County Department sinopsis y comentarios

    Michael Wagner v. Grant County Department

    Fifth District Court of Appeals of Indiana

    LATIMER, Justice. The appellant, Roscoe Taylor, Jr., was jointly indicted with Garfield Burkhart, Jr., for the crime of murder. They were jointly tried and convicted. The appellant...

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    The Glass Collector

    Anna Perera

    Fifteenyearold Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo.His job? To collect broken glass.His life? Wasted.His hope? To find a future he can believe in . . .

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    Ghost Story

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That's...

  • Michael A. Whitman v. W. T. Grant Company sinopsis y comentarios

    Michael A. Whitman v. W. T. Grant Company

    Supreme Court Of Utah

    Michael A. Whitman sued to recover for personal injuries suffered in falling down an elevator shaft in the defendants department store in downtown Salt Lake City. The court granted...

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    Leading Without Authority

    Keith Ferrazzi & Noel Weyrich

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone redefines collaboration with a radical new workplace operating system in which leadership no longer demands an offi...

  • Changes sinopsis y comentarios

    Changes

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That'...

  • Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (Book 3) sinopsis y comentarios

    Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (Book 3)

    Rick Riordan

    Rick Riordan's Norse hero faces his greatest challenge yet in the final instalment of the series.Loki the trickster god is free from his chains. Now he's readying Naglfar, the Ship...

  • Magic Kitten: A Summer Spell and Classroom Chaos sinopsis y comentarios

    Magic Kitten: A Summer Spell and Classroom Chaos

    Sue Bentley

    Never in Lisa and Abi's wildest dreams had they imagined having a Magic Kitten for a friend!In A Summer Spell, Lisa's boring summer is transformed when tiny marmalade kitten Flame ...

  • The Money And The Power sinopsis y comentarios

    The Money And The Power

    Sally Denton & Roger Morris

    Sally Denton and Roger Morris make clear how and why Las Vegas became the greatest 'business success story' of the twentieth century, and how the rest of America ensured this succe...

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    Death Masks

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That'...

  • Dead Beat sinopsis y comentarios

    Dead Beat

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world isfull of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That's...

  • CHERUB The Fourth Collection sinopsis y comentarios

    CHERUB The Fourth Collection

    Robert Muchamore

    Books 10, 11 and 12 in Robert Muchamore's bestselling CHERUB series. The General (Book 10): The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas...

  • Darkness, Be My Friend sinopsis y comentarios

    Darkness, Be My Friend

    John Marsden

    Darkness is the friend and enemy of those who hunt by night. Ellie and her friends have found safety after months of fighting. But the New Zealand Defence Force needs their help to...

  • Grave Peril sinopsis y comentarios

    Grave Peril

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That'...

  • Texas Gothic sinopsis y comentarios

    Texas Gothic

    Rosemary Clement-Moore

    A spooky, electrifying love story.Amy Goodnight's family are far from normal. She comes from a long line of witches, and grew up surrounded by benevolent spirits and kitchen spells...

  • The Rains sinopsis y comentarios

    The Rains

    Gregg Hurwitz

    Winner of the Thriller Award for Best YA Novel 2018THE FIRST BOOK IN THE HIGHOCTANE YOUNG ADULT ADVENTURE THRILLER SERIES FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR GREGG HURWITZ.It's never really be...

  • Small Favour sinopsis y comentarios

    Small Favour

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That'...

  • Hugh Grant: The Unauthorised Biography sinopsis y comentarios

    Hugh Grant: The Unauthorised Biography

    Jody Tressider

    Hugh Grant is the quintessential English movie star. He is also a man of opposites; his easy charm belies a malicious wit and as heart throb star of Four Weddings and a Funeral he ...

  • Carve the Mark sinopsis y comentarios

    Carve the Mark

    Veronica Roth

    Fans of Star Wars and Divergent will revel in internationally bestselling author Veronica Roth’s first title in a stunning new sciencefiction fantasy series.Cyra is the sister of t...

  • Complete Mystery Detective of Grant Allen sinopsis y comentarios

    Complete Mystery Detective of Grant Allen

    Grant Allen

    Grant Allen was a  a science writer and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution. His scandalous book titled The Woman Who Did, promulgating certain star...

  • The Toll Bridge sinopsis y comentarios

    The Toll Bridge

    Aidan Chambers

    Everyone seems to know best when it comes to Jan's future but he's still working out for himself who he really is. Jan feels so hemmed in by the pressures of family and fr...

  • Brief Cases sinopsis y comentarios

    Brief Cases

    Jim Butcher

    Magic. It can get a guy killed. Return to the world of the Dresden Files with Harry Dresden (the only wizard in the Chicago phone book) and friends as they solve supernatural myste...

  • Who Moved My Friggin' Provolone? sinopsis y comentarios

    Who Moved My Friggin' Provolone?

    Michael Grant

    Follow the adventures and travails of Joey Boddaboom and Vinny Boddabing, two Mafia guys who are confronted with all the unpleasant aspects of “change in their everyday workplace.”...

  • Lies They Teach in School sinopsis y comentarios

    Lies They Teach in School

    Herb W. Reich

    It is a cliché that history is written by the victors, but what we accept as history is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn’t happen the...

  • Toughness sinopsis y comentarios

    Toughness

    Jay Bilas

    ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player Jay Bilas looks at the true meaning of toughness in this New York Times bestselling book that features stories from basketball legend...

  • Side Jobs: Stories From The Dresden Files sinopsis y comentarios

    Side Jobs: Stories From The Dresden Files

    Jim Butcher

    Harry is the best and technically the 'only' at what he does, being the lone professional wizard PI in the Chicago phonebook. So when the Chicago PD has cases that transcend mortal...

  • Cold Days sinopsis y comentarios

    Cold Days

    Jim Butcher

    You can't keep a good wizard down even when he wants to stay that way.For years, Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional wizard, but a bargain made in desperation wit...

  • The Third Day, The Frost sinopsis y comentarios

    The Third Day, The Frost

    John Marsden

    Ellie and her friends have achieved more than they ever thought possible as an unarmed bunch of amateur teenage fighters. But it's not enough. The war wages on, their families are ...

  • The Ghost and the Author sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ghost and the Author

    Michael Grant

    Dan Grier is a serious writer. At least that’s what he thought until his debut book tanked. It seems the critics loved it, but, alas, no one thought enough of it to actually buy it...

  • The Other Side of Dawn sinopsis y comentarios

    The Other Side of Dawn

    John Marsden

    The war is at a turning point. The enemy is growing weaker, and more desperate. And so is Ellie. As the conflict intensifies around her, she is captured and separated from her frie...

  • Hollowgirl sinopsis y comentarios

    Hollowgirl

    Sean Williams

    Save friends first, then save the world. But the world can't wait forever.The mindbending conclusion to the Twinmaker trilogy from New York Times bestselling author ...

  • Ghost Abbey sinopsis y comentarios

    Ghost Abbey

    Robert Westall

    'Ninetyeight keys, none of them labelled. Ninetyeight keys, and they say there are ninetynine rooms . . . What will you find in the ninetyninth room, I wonder?'Maggi is delighted w...

  • Complete Adventure of Jules Verne sinopsis y comentarios

    Complete Adventure of Jules Verne

    Julio Verne

    A French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. A widely popular series of scrupulo...

  • Fool Moon sinopsis y comentarios

    Fool Moon

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That'...

  • Turn Coat sinopsis y comentarios

    Turn Coat

    Jim Butcher

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things and most of them don't play well with humans. That'...

  • The Devouring sinopsis y comentarios

    The Devouring

    Simon Holt

    'The Dark seeps in and eats the light, so bury your fear on Sorry Night.For in the winter's darkest hours, comes the feasting of the Vours'On the longest night of the year, Reggie ...

  • The Dead of the Night sinopsis y comentarios

    The Dead of the Night

    John Marsden

    When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight high school teenagers band together to fight. Seventeenyearold Ellie and her friends have survived the invasion, b...

  • Aquinas sinopsis y comentarios

    Aquinas

    F. Copleston

    Aquinas (122474) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenthcentury ideal of ...

  • The Moon's a Balloon sinopsis y comentarios

    The Moon's a Balloon

    David Niven

    ONE OF THE BESTSELLING MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME WITH OVER FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEDiscover the heartfelt, laughoutloud account of one of Hollywood's greatest actors and, above...

  • American Prince sinopsis y comentarios

    American Prince

    Peter Golenbock & Tony Curtis

    He has appeared in over a hundred films. Elvis copied his looks. The Beatles put him on the cover of Sgt. Pepper. Tony Curtis is without question a Hollywood legend and part of its...

  • Monster Republic: The Judas Code sinopsis y comentarios

    Monster Republic: The Judas Code

    Ben Horton

    The explosion at the Prime Minister's visit to Long Harbour means the cover of the Monster Republic is blown, and they are forced deep into hiding. Lazarus Fry turns his tactics to...

  • The Devil's Footsteps sinopsis y comentarios

    The Devil's Footsteps

    E E Richardson

    It was just a bit of fun, a local legend. The Devil's Footsteps: thirteen stepping stones, and whichever one you stopped on in the rhyme could predict how you would die. A harmless...

  • Skin Privilege sinopsis y comentarios

    Skin Privilege

    Karin Slaughter

    'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLYThe sixth book in Karin Slaughter's #1 bestselli...

  • Michael Grant v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company sinopsis y comentarios

    Michael Grant v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company

    Supreme Court of Florida

    The Court has accepted jurisdiction of this case and will hear oral argument at 9 a.m. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1994. A maximum of TWENTY minutes to the side is allowed, but counsel is ...