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  • Alaric the Goth

    An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome

    de Douglas Boin ...
    Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire.Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, ... Leer más

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  • Coming Out Christian in the Roman World

    How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar's Empire

    de Douglas Boin ...
    The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later—and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that toppled the empire. The "intolerant zeal" of Christians, wrote Edward Gibbon, swept Rome's old gods away, and with them the structures that sustained Roman ... Leer más

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  • Clodia of Rome

    Champion of the Republic

    de Douglas Boin ...
    **"A breath of fresh air blowing through the history of the Roman world." —Mike Duncan, New York Times best-selling author of The Storm Before the StormA thrilling new history of the late Roman Republic, told through one woman’s quest for justice.**One of Rome’s most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot—thanks to her starring ... Leer más

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  • Ostia in Late Antiquity

    de Douglas Boin ...
    Ostia Antica was Rome's ancient harbor. Its houses and apartments, taverns and baths, warehouses, shops and temples have long contributed to a picture of daily life in ancient Rome. Recent investigations have revealed, however, that life in Ostia did not end with a bang but with a whimper. Only on the cusp of the Middle Ages did the town's residents entrench themselves in a smaller settlement ... Leer más

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  • A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity

    de Douglas Boin ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World
    *2019 PROSE Award finalist in the Classics category!A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity* examines the social and cultural landscape of the Late Antique Mediterranean. The text offers a picture of everyday life as it was lived in the spaces around and between two of the most memorable and towering figures of the time—Constantine and Muhammad. The author captures the period using a wide ... Leer más

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    Alaric the Goth

    An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome

    de Douglas Boin ...
    Narrado por Chris MacDonnell ...

    Completo

    8 hora 13 minutos

    Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire.Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization," at least in the conventional story of Rome's collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, ... Leer más

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    Clodia of Rome

    Champion of the Republic

    de Douglas Boin ...
    Narrado por Jonathan Todd Ross ...

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    7 hora 49 minutos

    One of Rome's most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot―thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero's most famous speeches in the Forum. But Cicero was lying, in defense of his own interests. Like so many women libeled or erased from history, Clodia had a life that was much more interesting, complex, and nuanced than the ... Leer más

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    The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

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  • Against the Grain

    A Deep History of the Earliest States

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  • The Sleepwalkers

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