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More than two thousand years ago, at a time when the people in the British Isles and in most parts of Western Europe were living the lives of sav...

"Lucius Lucullus at about this period worsted the lords of Asia, —Mithridates and Tigranes the Armenian, —in the war, and having compelled them, t...

As an aspect of his attempt to curtail the rampant illegal export of Egyptian antiquities by tourists, collectors and agents for the major European an...

The value of the source-book has long been recognized in the teaching of general history. In ecclesiastical history quite as much use can be made of t...

This is a history book. The Apology (in full Apology of Socrates to the jury; Greek) is a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon, a student of Socrates. It rec...

Makers of History has once again spun a nonfiction tale about a noteworthy figure in history and captured the essence of the person.  In this edi...

Catiline, in his youth, had been guilty of many criminal connections, with a virgin of noble birth, with a priestess of Vesta, and of many other offen...

This book, like the volume on "society and politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, th...

They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an ...

They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an ...

Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civiliz...

Its theme is the most overwhelming phenomenon in recorded history the disintegration not of a nation, but of an old and rich and apparently indestruct...

A brief history of Greece/Hellas – the land everyone has heard and read so much about – is presented in this book. A most fascinating and splendid...

As an aspect of his attempt to curtail the rampant illegal export of Egyptian antiquities by tourists, collectors and agents for the major European an...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed nin...

This compilation is designed to be a companion to the author's History of Greece. It is hoped that it may fill a want, now felt in many high schools a...

This Egyptian text is considered one of the oldest in the world, and now it is translated into to give the English speaking world great, in-depth insi...

The Babylonian Legends of the Creation is a study that contains dense information, notes, explanations and the translation of the Seven Tablets, which...

The following is an understandable, detailed, and summarized timeline of events and people which have been proven scientifically, archaeologically, ge...

A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths...

It is as an attempt towards obviating the first of these hindrances to the study of Pindar, the difficulty of his language, that this translation is o...

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands al...

this historical book includes history of following monarchies: The series goes in the following order: -Chaldaea -Assyria -Media -Babylon -Persia -Par...

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As an aspect of his attempt to curtail the rampant illegal export of Egyptian antiquities by tourists, collectors and agents for the major European an...

The History, of which an English translation is now offered to the public, forms the second and third volumes of a work by Professor C. O. Müller, en...

This volume contains twelve chapters written at various times and in various places each dealing with some subject drawn from the great treasury of An...

Cornelius Tacitus' timeless history of three of Rome's most memorable emperors. Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as p...

Herodotus wrote a nine volume series called The Histories. An Account of Egypt or Euterpe is the second in the series. This is an eyewitness account o...

The book is The Egyptian Tales, Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty Translated From The Papyri, Second Edition. Brief, and in some cases incomplet...

It has been cited as the first robinsonade before Defoe's work. An example of arcadian fiction, the book presents its story through an Epistolary fram...

This book is the description of the country. It is the site of great Assyrian-monarchy was the upper part of the Mesopotamian valley.

The foundation of democracy, the genesis of the Olympic Games, the cradle of Western thinking; the inspiration of the Renaissance—the world owes Anc...

Explore the Intense History of the Assyrians. The ancient masters of war and conquest became the most powerful force in the Near East thousands of yea...

It became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn’t...

If Cicero, the most tender-hearted of Roman public men, could urge the claims of the companies so strongly, and, as in this last letter, without any a...

As an aspect of his attempt to curtail the rampant illegal export of Egyptian antiquities by tourists, collectors and agents for the major European an...

It is a history book. Of the nations which have contributed to the direct stream of civilization, Egypt and Mesopotamia are at present believed to be ...

Darius the Great was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. He ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, the Caucasu...

Olynthus was a city in Macedonia, at the head of the Toronaic gulf, and north of the peninsula of Pallene. It was colonized by a people from Chalcis i...

"Lucius Lucullus at about this period worsted the lords of Asia, —Mithridates and Tigranes the Armenian, —in the war, and having compelled them, t...

What does it mean to be great? There have been many that have come through the sands of time proclaiming their own greatness. We see it in the news ev...

This book, Legends of Babylon and Egypt, contains good historical information on this mysterious and ancient civilization and its influence on the sta...

This is a history book. Herodotus has been called by Cicero and other ancient critics `the father of history'. He was in fact the first to make the ev...

Criaturas Mitológicas Griegas: minotauro - Ortro - cerbero - quimera - sirenas...etc. Descubre a las criaturas de la mitología griega, poderosas y t...

Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the thr...

This book covers the history of seven great monarchies. The series goes in the following order: -Chaldaea -Assyria -Media -Babylon -Persia -Parthia -S...

The greatest contribution from the Greeks to civilization is their contribution of medicine. Modern medicine originated in Ancient Greece by a man nam...

As an aspect of his attempt to curtail the rampant illegal export of Egyptian antiquities by tourists, collectors and agents for the major European an...

This is a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.

Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms is a Book of History. This book illustrate that Halifax, which is situated in the heart of the great textile trade of...

Babylonia and Assyria were two great eastern empires before which all the states of Syria and Palestine fell. About their history, we learn partially ...

As an aspect of his attempt to curtail the rampant illegal export of Egyptian antiquities by tourists, collectors and agents for the major European an...

When we speak, in the language of our title page, of the 'Ancient Classics', we must remember that the word 'ancient' is to be taken with a considerab...

A sixth-grade, student created, ABC book of ancient Egypt. This book was created after studying ancient Egypt.

This book tells how Pompeii was like when it was being excavated over 100 years ago.

The geographical extent of the Fifth Monarchy was far greater than that of any one of the four which had preceded it. While Persia Proper is a compara...

The earliest authentic account we can obtain of the birth of this learned and celebrated writer, is from the Register Book of Eton College, in which h...

"Lucius Lucullus at about this period worsted the lords of Asia, —Mithridates and Tigranes the Armenian, —in the war, and having compelled them, t...

Les traités d'ethnologie ont une longue histoire dans la littérature classique et La Germanie s'inscrit parfaitement dans cette tradition établie p...

The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The Decline and Fall of the Rom...

The History of Rome (German: Römische Geschichte) is a multi-volume history of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903). Originally publ...

Política o La Política (en griego Πολιτικα, en latín Politica), es una obra de filosofía política...

As an aspect of his attempt to curtail the rampant illegal export of Egyptian antiquities by tourists, collectors and agents for the major European an...

This book of ancient history is a True account of one individual, John Procter, who was a victim of sorts in the Salem witchcraft episode. It also tel...

This elementary history of Greece is intended for supplementary reading or as a first history text-book for young pupils. It is therefore made up prin...

This book about the transfuse the spirit of the Original into a Translation must be admitted to be very difficult in any language, peculiarly so where...

An indispensable reference for the history of monasticism in the western work, Montalembert's seven-volume masterpiece on the subject still reads with...

The work is designed not only for children, but also for older people interested in the story of California, including the tourists who visit the stat...

This book takes a holistic look at Roman Britain, from the events leading up to its official inception in AD 43 until the Romans left the Isle entirel...

This book is George Rawlinson's classic account of the Phoenicians, one of the most important and compelling of ancient civilizations.

Traveling to Rome?  Need a quick guide?  If so, this is the book for you!  Rome: A Quick Guide will provide you with a multitude of Rom...

Though nobody doubted that a war was impending from the Tarquins, yet it broke out later than was generally expected; however, liberty was well-nigh l...

A study of the complicated ideas of the after life in which the Egyptians were so obsessed. Discussions from the Book of the Dead, as well as the thre...

"Lucius Lucullus at about this period worsted the lords of Asia, —Mithridates and Tigranes the Armenian, —in the war, and having compelled them, t...

"Lucius Lucullus at about this period worsted the lords of Asia, —Mithridates and Tigranes the Armenian, —in the war, and having compelled them, t...

This book is story with the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in ...

A highly political play, Coriolanus concerns a military hero of ancient Rome who attempts to shift from his career as a general to become a candidate ...

The classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817 1903) published his monumental History of Rome between 1854 and 1856. His work was received with widespr...

This book contains history of Rome. It contains event history of The first two Punic Wars and also it contains detailed history of The Macedonian and ...

The first of them was the fruit of his retirement, during the remains of the Civil War in Africa; and was composed in the form of a Dialogue. It conta...

The history of an idea. A collection of thoughts and discussions on Cerberus in art, literature and the myths behind the dog of Hades.

*Relato Corto. Mitología griega: La guerra entre titanes y dioses ****Parte 1 En esa lejana época El sol se opacó, los cielos se eclipsaron y un po...

Two ordinary Roman cities on the Bay of Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum would probably have been footnotes in history had it not been for the sudden a...

Thucydides is generally regarded as one of the first true historians. Like his predecessor Herodotus (often called "the father of history"), Thucydide...

In this short book, it includes facts about the discovery of King Tut's tomb and the mysterious things that occurred. It's your turn to discover the s...

The frontispiece portrait of Gibbon is after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the three engraved folding maps are of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire, and a f...

It was also conferred upon many things, which were esteemed princely and noble. Hence the red, or scarlet, a colour appropriated to great and honourab...

In this little book the attempt has been to trace Greek History so as to be intelligible to young children. In fact, it will generally be found that c...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the...

They had become weak, outsourcing their duties to defend their Empire to barbarian mercenaries, who then became so numerous and ingrained th...

In this volume of History of India, the principal object is on the Ancient History of India, an elaborate work of discussions on Indian antiquities. I...

Surveys the land and people of Egypt before taking the development of the nation through historic chapters. Told in a level of detail to rival Breaste...

The history book recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC.

Looking For Inner Peace & Happiness? Are you looking to become a Buddhist? Want to learn about Buddhism and whether or not it's the right path for...

A collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci , in his characteristic left-handed mirror-writing (reading from right to left), includ...

The wisdom of the east, The instruction of ptah-hotep and the instruction of ke'gemni: The oldest books in the world", London, john murray, Albemarle ...

THE century which separates Nero from Marcus Aurelius is of exceptional interest. The monster or mountebank who ruled the world when it opened was the...

The History, of which an English translation is now offered to the public, forms the second and third volumes of a work by Professor C. O. Müller, en...

Demetrius Phalereus in the government of that republick. His prudent administration. Eutne-- nes quits Nora. Various expeditions of Antigonusy Seleucu...

Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a s...

The rediscovery of the ancient empire of the Hittites has been a major achievement of the last hundred years. Known from the Old Testament as one of t...

One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman empero...

All the essential facts on ancient Egypt covering mummification, the pharaohs, the pyramids and the mysterious rituals. The ancient Egyptians have fas...

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a re...

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (French: Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïque...

A scholar explores the history of slavery in Ancient Rome using a fictional story as a backdrop. Marcus Sidonius Falx is an average Roman citizen. Bor...

In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead ...

A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome “This exciti...

Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire—and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire Accord...

Titus Flavius Josephus (37 – c. 100), born Joseph ben Matityahu, was a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer, who was born...

John Anthony West's revolutionary reinterpretation of the civilization of Egypt challenges all that has been accepted as dogma concerning Ancient Egyp...

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mighti...

Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the ...

The ten original lectures by Gerald Massey are presented here complete - together they offer the reader profound and detailed accounts of ancient Egyp...

GREEK MYTHOLOGY If you want to enter the world of Greek mythology and to learn about its heroes and villains, this book has all of it in store for ...

This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the my...

A historian of the first century BC, Dionysius of Halicarnassus taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material for his...

Most books on the Roman and Greek Empires deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things t...

A captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possible Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunnin...

In judging the 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' it should carefully be observed that it falls into two parts which ar...

A reinterpretation of biblical and Egyptian history that shows Moses and the Pharaoh Akhenaten to be one and the same. • Provides dramatic evidence ...

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” – attributed to Aristotle Aristotle was the most fa...

Heroes of Greek Mythology by Charles Kingsley is a retelling of classic Greek myths including the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, Perseus and T...

This meticulously edited collection has been formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The War of the Jews The Anti...

This is a history of the process of embalming dead bodies, something that people have been doing for thousands of years. From the preface: “I have c...

This unique approach to Egyptian mythology takes readers on a tour up the Nile, stopping at the most famous monuments and vividly retelling the myths ...

This collection includes the work of Titus Flavius Josephus, born Joseph ben Matityahu. Josephus was a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian ...

Dogon cosmology provides a new Rosetta stone for reinterpreting Egyptian hieroglyphs • Provides a new understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs as scien...

This is part 2 of the Gerald Masseys work about the comparisons between the Judeo-Christian religion and the Egyptian religion. No one ever understood...

“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome—“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Em...

There are few names able to evoke such contrasting feelings as that of Sparta.  In the modern man’s mind Sparta is quite often considered the r...

Livy's History of Rome was in demand from the publication of the first packet. Livy became so famous that a man from Cadiz travelled to Rome just to s...

The sheer age and endurance of the culture of ancient Egypt is staggering. The first pharaoh mounted his throne more than 5,000 years ago - when Europ...

The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC....

A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is “the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standar...

The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC is one of the most famous battles in history. The heroism of the 300 Spartans who opted to remain behind to face t...

'Probably the most important archaeological find in history ... Vermes' translations are a standard in the field' Los Angeles Times The discovery of t...

Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln , page-turnin...

From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch ...

Cassius Dio’s ‘Roman History’ in 80 Books spans the founding of Rome, the formation of the Republic, the creation of the Empire and charts some ...

A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and im...

Gladius  delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire. Empire...

No one ever understood the mythology and Ritual of Ancient Egypt so well as Gerald Massey since the time of the Ancient Philosophers of Egypt. This bo...

Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, copied by an anonymous monk. The manuscript is at leas...

Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the u...

The Story of Civilization, Volume III: A history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325. This is the third volume...

The fast-paced and “engrossing account” ( The New York Times Book Review ) of “one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history” ( ...

A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves. To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-l...

This 75th anniversary edition of a classic bestseller is stunningly illustrated and designed to enchant fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology at a...

Thinkers at the forefront in alternative theories on history, the origins of civilization, technology, and consciousness • With contributions by Gra...

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Cons...

A thorough account of the war between Athens and Sparta by the historian who witnessed it. The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, and the Delian Lea...

The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek ...

An Asiatic Greek in the time of Augustus, Strabo was a keen voyager that explored the four corners of the ancient world and compiled an important ‘G...

The book Germania by Tacitus, with Latin-English facing-page translation.

Este ebook presenta "Los nueve libros de la Historia" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El libro de Heródoto tiene como objetivo narrar l...

Gerald Massey’s masterwork is presented to readers anew in this splendid new edition, which combines all twelve books plus the appendix into a singl...

The Cicero Anthology is a collection of the most acute and incisive works of one of the greatest and most celebrated orators in all of history.  ...

This volume presents in new English translations the scattered fragments and testimonies regarding Hermes Thrice Great that complete Brian Copenhaver'...

This study of ancient Roman shipping and trade across continents reveals the Roman Empire’s far-reaching impact in the ancient world.   In anci...

The Pyramid Texts Translation by Samuel A. B. Mercer To the Greek philosophers and other peoples of the ancient world, Egypt was regarded as the home ...

Explora la Fascinante Historia de la Antigua Grecia La cultura y los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en Grecia fueron tan influyentes que tienen un...

Polybius' account of Rome's rise to world power and her method of rule is a major source for the history of the years 220-146 BC. This new translation...

Here are the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, stylishly retold by Stephen Fry. The legendary writer, actor, and comedian breat...

Though the 'Scythian period' in the history of Eastern Europe lasted little more than 400 years, the impression these horsemen made upon the h...

A study of the remains of the native religious literature of ancient Egypt which have come down to us has revealed the fact that the belief in magic, ...

**The Final Conquest** Following the assassination of Emperor Gaius Caligula in 41 A.D., his uncle, Claudius, assumed the imperial throne. After estab...

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.   Hatshepsut—the ...

New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Aff...

On a late September day in 480 B. C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle...

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon —his masterful, witty, brilliantl...

For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been fals...

A chronicle of forty forgotten ancient civilizations which highlights the important contributions that each has made to modern society. The ancient wo...

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. He...

This Matt laws book gives basic ideas on how to incorporate Concepts/Principles/Negative Confessions into your life to experience a more loving, joyfu...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”�...

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, the THE EMPEROR’S HANDBOOK (or MEDITAT...

  This lively ancient history demonstrates how the Athenian victory against Persian invaders was critical to the development of Western society. ...

A vivid story of an astonishing period in ancient Egypt’s history—1550 BC to 1295 BC—that tears away the gold and glamour to reveal ho...

Here, from the award-winning writer and historian Alexander Eliot, is the dramatic story of the rise of ancient Greece to the fall of the Greek Empire...

A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The phar...

Early in the first century B. C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celt...

EDIZIONE SPECIALE CON DEDICA ESCLUSIVA DI ALBERTO ANGELA L'ULTIMO GIORNO DI ROMA : il primo libro della “Trilogia di Nerone” dedicata al più cont...

The Pyramid Texts of Ancient Egypt are the oldest large body of written material in the world. They are incised on limestone in thousands of lines of ...

The Roman civil officer Frontinus enjoyed a distinguished career, leaving behind his famous ‘Aqueducts of Rome’ treatise, offering an intriguing v...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of West...

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of fe...

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on iPad and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked ...

The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination, from mummies and pyramids, to curses and rituals. In this second edition of his Very Shor...

The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius . A translation into English by A. S. Kline . Published in entirety with in-depth name index. In the Twelve Caesars ( D...

Learn the secrets to conquering the world like a Caesar: “A fun concept and an entertaining way to teach the history of Roman society” (Historical...

“The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a r...

The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad , one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many rea...

A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the foundin...

Widely considered the most famous work of the professional soldier and writer Xenophon, "Anabasis" is a true tale of dangerous adventure in an...

More than 1,500 years have passed since the last blood - human or animal - was spilled in the Colosseum, but the massive building erected by the Flavi...

The leading orator and rhetorician of his age, Fronto has left behind an invaluable correspondence, providing a window into the aristocratic life and ...

A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, mo...

The epic battle to liberate Spain from Roman rule is a masterclass of ancient guerilla warfare, recounted by the author of Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a...