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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

8 best books like The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives (Plutarch): The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, De Anima (On the Soul), Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580, Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire, The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped, A New Aristotle Reader, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0140443339
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
AuthorRoger Crowley
ISBN1401308503
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between...
De Anima (On the Soul)
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0140444718
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance'

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that...
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
AuthorRoger Crowley
ISBN0571232302
Cervantes, of the "Don Quixote" fame, was in one of these battles. He was a 24-year-old volunteer.

Now I know that hundreds of years ago the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding land areas were considered the center of the world and were a battleground for two great conflicting forces: the...
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
AuthorJames Romm
ISBN0307271641
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 age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.

The story of Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic...
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
AuthorPaul Strathern
ISBN0553807528
Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia, three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when...
A New Aristotle Reader
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0691020434
In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle's philosophy. In selecting the texts Professor J. L. Ackrill has drawn on...
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
AuthorRichard Miles
ISBN0670022667
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.

The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians...
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