Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor
7 best books like Constantine: Roman Emperor, Christian Victor (Paul Stephenson): Zorro, Measure for Measure, The Letters of the Younger Pliny, The Bear, Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World, The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History, La Locandiera
A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother,...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743484908 |
Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning...
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
| Author | Pliny the Younger |
| ISBN | 0140441271 |
Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.
A prominent lawyer and administrator,...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0887343171 |
Although The Bear is one of Anton Chekhov’s lesser-known plays, this “Farce in One-Act," as it is subtitled, is an excellent representative of its genre. This is one of Chekhov's very short plays, an unquestionable comedy, as opposed to the author's full length dramas which he considered comedies,...
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0802717381 |
The story of the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time.
On a stiflingly hot day in August 30 b.c., the thirty-nine-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavian--the...
| Author | James J. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0060787376 |
This is not exactly a Fall of the Roman Empire book in the usual sense - it actually is concerned with the hundred years or so after the traditional date of 476 A.D. (and the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, traditionally seen as the "last" Roman emperor). In particular, the book examines and criticizes...
| Author | Carlo Goldoni |
| ISBN | 8804236167 |
Messa per la prima volta in scena sul palcoscenico del Teatro Sant'Angelo a Venezia nel 1753, La locandiera piacque subito molto, anche se forse non riuscì ad affascinare del tutto il pubblico del tempo. Originale, spiazzante, giocata su una storia d'amore che non si sviluppa secondo gli schemi consueti,...
