Ancient Rome Fiction

This fictional classic describes the factual persecution endured by the early Christians living in the catacombs beneath Rome through the character of Marellus, a captain in the Praetorian Guard and despised Christian. Penned by an anonymous 19th-century author, Martyr of the Catacombs has challenged and encouraged the faithful for over a hundred years.

Il quarto e ultimo volume in audiolibro sui più leggendari guerrieri romani, le loro biografie, il valore e i discorsi più emozionanti. Per chi ama la storia militare, ma soprattutto per chi ama le biografie dei grandi eroi di Roma antica. Le biografie del quarto volume: Marco Antonio - Agrippa - Varo - Tiberio - Druso Maggiore - Germanico - Tito - Traiano - Marco Aurelio - Settimio Severo - Aureliano - Costantino.

Lanista Laeca is the master of a gladiator school in Rome that has fallen on hard times. His business of providing skilled fighters for the Coliseum has begun to fail, and he is desperate to find a new spectacle of glory and battle to please the bloodthirsty crowds. He finds his answer in the cannibal corpse creatures brought to him from a distant land by a retired soldier, and soon the gladiators of House Laeca are being pitted against ravenous beasts that once were men. Will sword and shield win victory over tooth and claw?

390 a.C. Le mura che per secoli hanno protetto Roma sembrano destinate a cedere sotto la furia dei guerrieri celti. Dalla cittadella del Campidoglio, il tribuno Quinto Fabio Ambusto assiste con orrore alla strage in cui, con la sua vigliaccheria, ha trascinato la città. L’ira del nemico barbaro si placherà o segnerà la fine della potenza più temuta al mondo, prostrata dal lungo assedio?

Amor y traicion en la antigua Cartago. Mientras las hordas romanas asedian y esperan el momento de invadir Cartago, la sacerdotisa del templo de la diosa Tanit, Salambo, ama y es amada. Ella es la hija de Amilcar, el gran general cartagines y para recobrar el perdido velo que ha caido en manos del adversario, tiene que entregarse al general enemigo, que por Salambo olvida patria y honor.

Caesar and Brutus. Marius and Sulla. Cicero, Antony, Clodius, and Augustus. The end of the Roman Republic gave us a host of larger-than-life characters hailing from Rome. Only one was named Great. In the year 90 B.C.E., chaos and unrest erupts across the Italian peninsula. Rome's allies have rebelled and taken up arms against the most powerful military on Earth. Leading Rome's legions - and his only son - to the city's defense, an unproven and unloved commander will taste victory and defeat outside the capital's gates.

Welcome to 263 B.C. Between clashes of the Qart Hadasht Empire and the upstart Republic, men died. Whether from sharp blades held by strong arms or stones and bolts launched by ancient artillery, the hand of death grabbed souls from both sides of the battle line. Alerio Sisera will need more than an iron constitution, sharp steel, and a sturdy shield. To survive, he'll need his wits, luck, and infinite courage.

AD 381. Five years have gone by since a Roman governor ordered the deaths of a Gothic king and his attendants at a feast in their honor. This disastrous act led to warfare in the Roman Empire and the death of the Emperor Valens. The Empire is now at peace, but the powerful brother of the murdered king has sworn revenge on the regicides, and will not rest until they are hunted down. For the eight legionaries who carried out the killings, the bloodshed is only just beginning.

Welcome to January 263 B.C. Attacking a pair of long spears with his short dagger was going to hurt and add to Alerio's collection of combat scars. And only leave him injured, if Fortuna smiled on him. If not? That's why he prayed to the other Goddess. This should have been the easiest, most luxurious duty a heavy infantryman could ever imagine. It didn't turn out that way and, at the moment, he regretted throwing the spear. These are the adventures of Alerio Sisera, Corporal of the Republic's Legions, Weapons Instructor, experienced Raider, Combat Rower, and protege of a Roman Senator.

Carbo and his loved ones leave Rome for the sleepy Italian countryside, desperate to recover from their recent traumas. But a chance encounter with locally notorious masked bandits leads to a devastating outcome. Carbo has to fight his own demons and an evil conspiracy to save himself and his friends, and avenge his loss.

Shattered by a defeat that costs him his wife, his son, his city, and his army, Syagrius, King of the Romans, wanders through the collapsing world of a dying empire to find refuge with a procurator broken by his past, a centurion haunted by betrayal, and a priestess desperate for love, all too proud and too honorable to compromise with the corruption that threatens to destroy them. Together they will make their final stand...

Listening to The Satires by Juvenal is to come face to face with the corruption, the debauchery, the waste, the sloth, and the mean-spirited greed of ancient Rome...or is it more like modern times? Indeed, these masterpieces of biting social commentary could easily have been written today about any number of metropolitan areas we are all familiar with.

Primo audiolibro di una serie dedicata alle più importanti battaglie della storia romana, dal periodo regio alla fine dell’impero. Dal Lago Curzio (753 a.C.) a Zama (202 a.C.), dai popoli latini ad Annibale tutte le più grandi battaglie combattute da Roma antica.The first audiobook in a series dedicated to the most important battles of Roman history, from the regal period to the end of the empire. From Lake Curtius (753 BC) to Zama (202 BC), from the Latin peoples to Hannibal, all the biggest battles of ancient Rome.

Secondo audiolibro di una serie dedicata alle più importanti battaglie della storia romana, dal periodo regio alla fine dell’impero. Questo secondo volume racconta le più importanti battaglie del II secolo a.C e del I secolo a.C.: dalla Battaglia di Cinocefale (197 a.C.) alla Battaglia di Alesia (52 a.C.), dalla Seconda guerra punica al trionfo di Giulio Cesare in Gallia.

Returning to Rome from a forced sabbatical, a newly appointed Jesuit cardinal discovers a dark force that has ruled a single family for over 700 years has been unleashed against the world. With the clock ticking, he joins with a dedicated group of Israeli and Spanish scientists who are thrust into an endgame scenario as they race across the globe in an effort to stop the greatest threat mankind has ever faced, only to discover that they may already be too late.

This fourth book in Dando-Collins’ definitive history of Rome’s legions tells the story of Rome’s 3rd Gallica Legion, which put Vespasian on the throne and saved the life of the Christian apostle Paul. Named for their leader, Mark Antony, these common Roman soldiers, through their gallantry on the battlefield, reshaped the Roman Empire and aided the spread of Christianity throughout Europe.

Storia d'Italia - Roma repubblicana approfondisce gli aspetti politici, economici, sociali e culturali che hanno contraddistinto quei secoli di storia durante...

454 AD. Northern Italy. Dux Ambrosius Aurelianus has served the Roman Empire with distinction. His bucellarii, a small band of irregular soldiers, have helped to bring a fragile peace to the beleaguered empire in the west. But, with the empire now at peace, his master, Flavius Aetius, decides to chain up his dogs of war. Ambrosius and his men are left to idle away their days in a rural backwater, but Ambrosius’ boredom is brutally swept aside when old rivals seize the opportunity to destroy him.

Estamos en el año 576 y Roma acaba de caer, pero hay un grupo de hombres que están dispuestos a intentar recuperar el poder del Imperio. Basilisco, funcionario imperial viaja hacia el norte de Hispania con la caballería pesada al mando de Mayorio en busca del apoyo de los terratenientes de la zona. Ambos sueñan con la restauración de Roma.

En pleno siglo II antes de Cristo, Roma es la máxima potencia del Mediterráneo tras haber derrotado a la Cartago de Aníbal y a los poderosos reinos de Siria y Macedonia. Sin embargo, pese a su posición dominante, ya nada es suficiente para los miembros de las familias senatoriales, sean Escipiones, Claudios, Fabios, Licinios, Fulvios o Sulpicios.