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Rome, AD238 Emperor Maximinus’ reign hangs in the balance. At the helm of an empire that is bleeding manpower and money to sustain his wars in the north, rebellions flare in the far reaches of its territories. In Africa, Gordian the Elder and Younger are proclaimed as the new Augusti. A family descending from the…
A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the sun is setting over the centre of the known world. Far below, the river is in full flood. The City of Rome lies spread out before him on the far bank.
Footsteps pound up the stairs. He’s been set up. An enemy is closing in; he is…
AD265 – In the shadow of Mount Etna, slaves are rising up. As the rebel leader declares Sicily the new land of the free, men and women are slaughtered, and cities across the island are sacked and burned. When a ship is wrecked off the island’s west coast, all but two survivors are cut down in the surf by…
Året är 255 e. Kr. och det romerska kejsardömet har vuxit till sin bristningspunkt. Dess makt och auktoritet är hotad längs med rikets alla gränser men det största hotet kommer från öst, från Persien och den begynnande sasanidiska dynastin. Där ligger den isolerade romerska staden Arete och väntar på den ofrånkomliga…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
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On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was…
Året är 255 e. Kr. och det romerska kejsardömet har vuxit till sin bristningspunkt. Dess makt och auktoritet är hotad längs med rikets alla gränser men det största hotet kommer från öst, från Persien och den begynnande sasanidiska dynastin. Där ligger den isolerade romerska staden Arete och väntar på den ofrånkomliga…
334 BC. Alexander the Great is just twenty-one years old when he sets out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world.
Together, his Macedonian army marches East into the unknown – winning battles against overwhelming odds, storming impregnable fortresses from the…
Det är år 256 e.Kr. och oron över ett kommande förräderi kastar en skugga över det romerska imperiet. Den kristna glöden har spridits snabbt som vinden över kejsardömet och under ytan intrigerar maktens män. Samtidigt pressar sassanidernas styrkor oförsonligt på längs östfronten.
Påtagligt märkt av strid återvänder…
Det är år 256 e.Kr. och oron över ett kommande förräderi kastar en skugga över det romerska imperiet. Den kristna glöden har spridits snabbt som vinden över kejsardömet och under ytan intrigerar maktens män. Samtidigt pressar sassanidernas styrkor oförsonligt på längs östfronten.
Påtagligt märkt av strid återvänder…
When Valens, a junior officer in the Roman Army, joins a crack squad of soldiers on a dangerous mission, little does he know what’s in store for him. Tasked with rescuing the young Prince Sasan, who has been imprisoned in the impenetrable Castle of Silence, the troops set out across Mesopotamia and into the…
When Valens, a junior officer in the Roman Army, joins a crack squad of soldiers on a dangerous mission, little does he know what’s in store for him. Tasked with rescuing the young Prince Sasan, who has been imprisoned in the impenetrable Castle of Silence, the troops set out across Mesopotamia and into the…
From the bestselling author of WARRIOR OF ROME comes the first book in a new series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war. In a single year six Emperors will lay claim to the Throne of the Caesars…SPRING AD235 Dawn on the Rhine. A surprise attack and the…
145BC – CALABRIA, ANCIENT ROME. After many years of spilling blood for Rome, Gaius Furius Paullus has returned home to spend his remaining days working quietly on the family farm.But it seems death has followed Paullus from the battlefield. Just days after his arrival, bodies start appearing – murdered and…
Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors. The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne. The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect two Senators to share the…
145BC – CALABRIA, ANCIENT ROME. After many years of spilling blood for Rome, Gaius Furius Paullus has returned home to spend his remaining days working quietly on the family farm. But it seems death has followed Paullus from the battlefield.
Just days after his arrival, bodies start appearing –…
A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the sun is setting over the centre of the known world. Far below, the river is in full flood. The City of Rome lies spread out before him on the far bank. Footsteps pound up the stairs. He’s been set up. An enemy is closing in; he is…