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Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
Demetrius - Sacker of Cities by James Romm
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back againThe life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323-282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ...Show more
How to Die - Ancient Guide / End of Life by Seneca; James S. Romm (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers ...Show more
How to Give - An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving by Seneca; James S. Romm (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do--but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral ...Show more
How to Keep Your Cool: Anger Management by Seneca Seneca; James S. Romm
Category: History | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca In his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." Thi ...Show more
The Age of Caesar - Five Roman Lives by Plutarch; James Romm (Editor); Pamela Mensch (Translator); Mary Beard (Foreword by)
Category: History
"Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of year ...Show more
The Landmark Arrian by James Romm
Category: History
The Landmark Arrian is an important new edition of The Campaigns of Alexander, the most authoritative ancient account of one of the world's most brilliant military leaders. uring twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edg ...Show more
The Sacred Band - Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom by James Romm
Category: History
From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.The story of the Sa ...Show more
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom by James Romm
Category: History
From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes-and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male ...Show more
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