LIBROS DEL AUTOR: aleksander krawczuk

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  • The Devil’s Brood
    Aleksander Krawczuk
    Two stories in one: on the one hand, the horrifying tale of the reign of terror of the sons of Constantine the Great; and on the other--of Julian, an orphan prince, shy and retiring, a lover of nature and of books whom fate will one day raise to absolute power and whom posterity will call The Apostate.'News of his father’s sudden, serious illness came too late. By the time Cons...
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    13,31 €

  • The Thirteenth Apostle
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    A highly readable account of the life and career of Constantine the Great--one of the most influential Roman Emperors--from one of the best-read European scholars of antiquity. The book traces the emperor’s political career as well as his religious development from a worshipper of Sol Invictus-Apollo to an avid Christian. It does so against a rich tapestry of the economic reali...
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    14,14 €

  • Rome and Jerusalem
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    From Europe’s legendary scholar of antiquity, finally in English.The great denouement of everything: nations fall, loves die.Ecce terminus est: the conclusion of the Jewish Trilogy and of the story of Titus and Berenice.Following the Maccabee rebellion, one hundred years of wars reestablished the Kingdom of the Jews. Under Herod, it enjoyed thirty years of peace. Sixty years la...
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    14,02 €

  • Herod King of the Jews
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    Herod was an Idumean, a half-Jew at best; a monster; a killer; a ruthless political operator. He was also his people’s great benefactor and the last Jew to rule all of Palestine in antiquity.There have been scores of books on the subject of Herod. Is there any reason to have another one?Oh, yes! And how!First of all, no other biography of Herod situates him within the Graeco-Ro...
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    15,61 €

  • Titus and Berenice
    Aleksander Krawczuk
    For five years, the fate of the last Jewish polity of the ancient world hung on the outcome of a romance:A romance between the middle-aged, thrice-divorced Jewish queen, Berenice, and the youthful son of the first emperor of the Flavian dynasty.This volume, the first in a series of three on the subject of the Herodian Dynasty, describes the events of AD 66-69:--the outbreak of ...
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    13,24 €

  • A Meeting in Oea, or Concerning Plato
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    The quirkiest, zaniest, funniest book about Plato ever written by a scholar. Or anyone.Meet Apuleius, Rome’s all-time best-selling author (of The Golden Ass, no less!), a Platonic scholar, a part-time magician, and a dowry-hunter, as he works on his treatise on Plato at night and schemes to marry a rich African widow by day.And see Plato’s life and work through the eyes of an e...
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    13,46 €

  • The Last Olympiad
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    The Serapeum destroyed, the emperor murdered, pagans raise a revolt!The best-selling European author of books on Greaco-Roman antiquity paints a rich and highly readable panorama of the intellectual life of the Roman Empire of the period of the Last Olympic Games of antiquity (AD389-AD393). Here they are, debating topics ranging from the moral consequences of bathing and chario...
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    13,40 €

  • Seven Against Thebes
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    Seven Against Thebes was one of the most important myths of antiquity: in The Iliad, Agamemnon and Diomedes kept referring to its heroes as their personal ideals. For the next two thousand years, it was the subject of countless poetic and dramatic works. One of Europe’s best-selling authors of books on antiquity discusses the myth, its roots in the Bronze Age, its historical tr...
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    18,52 €