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Presents the text of Julius Caesar, in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate him on the Ides of March, and includes introductory and textual notes, brief character profiles, a synopsis, teaching tools and suggestions, historical background, and biographical information about Shakespeare.
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Written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus in 121 AD while he was the personal secretary to emperor Hadrian, "The Twelve Caesars" is a series of twelve biographies of Roman rulers beginning with Julius Caesar and ending with Domitian. The tales of Rome's emperors are deeply personal and informative, while also entertaining and often filled with drama. Suetonius included invaluable descriptions of the rulers' public and private lives, physical appearances,...
3) The Aeneid
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The Aeneid (19 BC) is an epic poem by Roman poet Virgil. Translated by English poet laureate John Dryden in 1697, Virgil's legendary epic is the story of the hero Aeneas, a castaway from Troy whose adventures across the Mediterranean led him to Italy, where he discovered what would later become the city of Rome. Presented here in faithful translation, though rearranged to accommodate Dryden's rhyming couplets, The Aeneid is a treasure of classical...
4) Woman of god
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"St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor...
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The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of The Doing of Important Things, and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that. Emma...
7) Rome
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Children's Press
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1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the history, culture, daily life, food, people, sports, and points of interest of the city that was once the capital of the mighty Roman Empire.
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From the beginning, Rome was a hotbed of power, overweening ambition, desire, political genius, and corruption. Hughes details the turbulent years that saw the formation of empire and the establishment of the sociopolitical system, along the way providing colorful portraits of all the major figures, both political and cultural. For almost a thousand years, Rome would remain the most politically important, richest, and largest city in the Western world.
Having...
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Run away with me is a profoundly romantic YA novel about two teenage boys finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome.
I'm going to call you Danny. What are you going to name me?
Angelo.
Danny is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome. As his mother spends the day at work in a mysterious museum, he wanders the ancient sites and streets. Soon after his arrival, he encounters a shadow... who becomes a voice... who becomes a boy...
10) The Romans
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G. Stevens Pub
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1997
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Describes daily life in ancient Rome, discussing the home, shopping, farming, theater, sports, and religion.
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Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information...
14) The Romans
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Heinemann Library
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c1998
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Describes various aspects of life in ancient Rome and provides instructions for creating related crafts, including scrolls, temples, statues, and terracotta lamps.
15) The terror trail
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DK Pub
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2007
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English
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The story of two Mauritanian children whose father's service to Rome had earned him citizenship, but were sold into slavery anyway.
16) The Romans
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Silver Burdett Press
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1989
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English
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Discusses the civilization of ancient Rome, including the hunting, medicine, clothing, religion, laws, legends, and recreation.
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Whispered secrets about her parents' past take on new urgency for Chariline as she pays one last visit to the land of her forefathers, the ancient kingdom of Cush. Raised as an orphan by her aunt, Chariline has only been told a few pieces of her parents'tragic love story. Her beautiful dark skin is proof that her father was Cushite, but she knows nothing else. While visiting her grandfather before his retirement as the Roman official in the queen's...
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