STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS

On the night of July 19, AD 64, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus

Ariel. Barcelona. 2012. 23 cm. 315 p., [8] p. de lám. planos. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Traducción de Ana Herrera Ferrer. Bibliografía: p. 293-297. Índice. Título original: The great fire of Rome. Emperador de Roma. Incendios. Roma (Ciudad). Historia. Historia. 54-68 (Nerón) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o ...

The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire--;a force that achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Rom...

Could the killing of Germanicus Julius Caesar--the grandson of Mark Antony, adopted son of the emperor Tiberius, father of Caligula, and grandfather of Nero--while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have been the root cause of the empire's collapse more than four centuries later? This brilliant investigation of Germanicus Caesar's death a...