Rome Fiction

В истории Древнего Рима фигура Марка Туллия Цицерона одна из самых значительных и, возможно, самых трагических. Ученый, политик, гениальный оратор, сумевший искусством слова возвыситься до высот власти… Казалось бы, сами боги покровительствуют своему любимцу, усыпая его путь цветами. Но боги — существа переменчивые, человек в их руках — игрушка. И Рим — это не остров блаженных, Рим — это большая арена, где если не победишь ты, то соперники повергнут тебя, и часто со смертельным исходом. Заговор Катилины, неудачливого соперника Цицерона на консульских выборах, и попытка государственного переворота.

Et si la ​bibliothèque d'Alexandrie n'avait pas disparu... Plongez dans un passionnant roman historique grâce à la lecture enveloppante de Geert Van Herwijnen. 47 av. J.-C. César profite de la confusion générale à Alexandrie, en proie aux flammes, pour s'emparer de la bibliothèque, où toute la connaissance de l'humanité est consignée. Car posséder le savoir, se dit-il, c'est détenir le pouvoir absolu. L' imperator convoque une équipe de marins, de soldats et de savants capables d'accomplir cette entreprise périlleuse et folle : déplacer 700 000 ouvrages sans que personne le sache, dans un lieu lointain et invisible.

Book One of the Tharion Cycle In the mist-drenched marshes of a dying empire, the land begins to forget—and so do the people. As Rome crumbles in Britain’s farthest province, a hidden girl with starlit blood begins to dream of a Bell that tolls not in sound, but in memory. Caelwyn has lived her whole life in Elderglen, veiled from the world, raised by a seer who speaks in silence. But when the mists thicken and the rune-stones begin to hum, she’s forced from hiding—into a world where names vanish, roads shift, and even time no longer flows as it should.

From the destruction of the ancient city of Troy; we are taken on a fabulous journey, filled with adventure and romance, to the birth of a new, greater city, and at last to the days of glory in imperial Rome.

Imperial Tragedy tells the story of Rome's gradual collapse. Full of palace intrigue, religious conflicts and military history, as well as details of the shifts in social, religious and political structures, Imperial Tragedy contests the idea that Rome fell due to external invasions.

Une nouvelle tempête d'emmerdes s'abat sur le Val d'Aoste et le sous-préfet Rocco Schiavone. Après s'être réveillé à côté de la meilleure amie de son ex et avoir passé la journée sur un simple accident de circulation, il voit débarquer en pleine nuit le petit ami de celle-ci dans son appartement. Mais il n'est pas venu pour parler sentiments. Une amie de sa fille, Chiara Berguet, élève modèle issue d'une famille d'industriels locaux, a disparu.

In the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara left his family in Milan and moved to Rome for work. Soon unemployed, he has spent his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between hotels, bars, romantic entanglements and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends. Rome is indifferent. Leo drifts, aimless and alone. On the evening of his thirtieth birthday, he meets Arianna, a young woman who is both fragile and seductive. All night they drive the city in Leo’s run-down Alfa Romeo, talking and talking. They eat brioche for breakfast, drink through the dawn, drive to the sea and back.

Warmaiden Ima has survived the cataclysm sparked by the Alemanni. Now she finds herself in an alien world. The walls of Rome are the only haven for the German refugees, but the Romans have other plans. The refugees are being sent away, and Ima--as their self-appointed defender--must guard her charges against the dangers of the unknown frontier. Meanwhile, destinies intertwine as the last survivors of a dying race fight annihilation and a familiar pirate returns in glory to a changing land.

Rom zur Kaiserzeit: Caligula sitzt auf dem Thron, doch im Volk brodelt es, und immer wieder kommt es zu politischen Unruhen. Als die Stadt von einer grausamen Mordserie erschüttert wird, beauftragt der Kaiser ein ungleiches Ermittlerduo, der Sache nachzugehen. Gerüchte werden laut, dass ein großes Tier in den Kanälen Roms sein Unwesen treibt, Menschen tötet und seine Opfer dabei bestialisch zurichtet. Doch die Ermittlungen führen auf eine unglaubliche Spur: Wurden die Morde nicht von einem gewöhnlichen Tier verübt, sondern von einem mächtigen Wesen aus der antiken römischen Mythologie?

From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate, from the foreign wars that created an empire to the betrayals that almost tore it apart, the Emperor novels tell the remarkable story of the man who would become the greatest Roman of them all: Julius Caesar. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, The Gates of Rome introduces an ambitious young man facing his first great test. In the city of Rome, a titanic power struggle is about to shake the Republic to its core.

New Yorker Lena Castamolino has trouble. Big trouble. Every time the full moon shines, her body tries to turn into a wild beast, and she has no idea why. Her skin goes all leathery, and her shoulders begin the agonizing transformation into wings. Wings! Could it be something about moving to Rome - a magical city that has called to her for years? Or does the answer lie in the deadbeat father who abandoned her at birth?

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...

Séducteur, corrompu, sarcastique, Schiavone est aussi antipathique qu'attachant. Le genre de héros qu'on adore détester... Le commissaire Rocco Schiavone est romain jusqu'au bout des ongles : snob, macho et ronchon, il est doté d'un humour noir dévastateur. Muté à Champoluc dans le val d'Aoste, il vit son départ en province comme un exil. À son corps défendant, il doit quitter sa paire de Clarks adorée pour porter de répugnants après-ski et considère ses nouveaux collègues comme des ploucs.

"إلى بائع المخدّرات الذي سخرتُ منه قبل خمس سنوات عندما أقسمَ أنَ تجارة المخدّرات أصدق من تجارة الحب والجسد وأقل ضررًا من تجارة الكلمات الدينية والسياسية وكلمات العشق.. أهدي لكَ هذه الرواية وأعتذر عن جهلي وسخريتي وقتها..."

As greed, collusion, and corruption collide in the skies above him, Josh Simmons is forced to put the pieces of his life back together and quickly recover from the last two hellish weeks of his life. He's had to bury his ex-wife, received a letter from the grave, and gone looking for the bottom of the bottle - all in an attempt to suppress the demons from his failed marriage and the barbarism he experienced as a POW.

Contiene: Guerrieri di Roma vol.1, vol.2, vol.3, vol.4. Tutta la serie Guerrieri di Roma: la storia dei leggendari guerrieri romani, le loro biografie, il valore e i discorsi più emozionanti, dall’origine di Roma alla fine dell’Impero. Per chi ama la storia militare, ma soprattutto per chi ama le biografie dei grandi eroi di Roma antica.

The first book in the essays of Seneca deals with good and evil. The dialogue is opened by Lucilius complaining with his friend Seneca that adversities and misfortunes can happen to good men too. How can this fit with the goodness connected with the design of providence? Seneca answers according to the Stoic point of view.

Reicht ein unvergesslicher Abend aus, um das Leben zweier Fremder für immer miteinander zu verknüpfen, obwohl sie am anderen Ende der Welt voneinander wohnen? Als Josie ihre Italienreise bucht, will sie vor allem eins: ihrem Ex und der Männerwelt im Allgemeinen entfliehen. Im schönen Rom teilt sie sich ihr Hostel-Zimmer ausgerechnet mit dem Weltenbummler Leo. Der Chilene sieht nicht nur unverschämt gut aus, er bringt Josie mit seinen hartnäckigen Fragen auch so aus dem Konzept, dass sie ihre Lebensentscheidungen hinterfragt.

Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of the attack fleet of the Roman navy. But his commander is a young upstart whose position has been purchased rather than earned. Bound to obey his inexperienced commander's rash orders, Atticus sails straight into a carefully-laid trap. In the battle that follows, it is only by defying his commander that he can pull his men back from the brink of defeat.

Atticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome's small, coastal fleet, is from a Greek fishing family. Septimus, legionary commander, reluctantly ordered aboard ship, is from Rome, born into a traditionally army family. It could never be an easy alliance. But the arrival of a hostile fleet, larger, far more skilful and more powerful than any Atticus has encountered before, forces them to act together.