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Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

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Zustand: New.

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Zustand: New.

Hardback. Zustand: New.

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Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Julius Caesar is dead. The Republic has fallen. Rivals vie for power. Who will emerge the victor And who will die trying When Julius Caesar is stabbed to death in Rome, 19-year-old Gaius Octavius is on the other side of the Adriatic Sea. Despite his youth and illness-riddled past, Octavius dreams of glory, and Caesar's death might just be the answer. Determined to write his own fate, Octavius sails to Rome with his close friend, Marcus Agrippa, who has followed the rich, charming, and ambitious Octavius since they were young.Meanwhile in Rome, Marcus Antonius has seized power, though his heart longs for his mistress, Cleopatra, who has fled back to Egypt. As Octavius goes head to head with Antonius, his friendship with Agrippa slips into something tantalizing and forbidden, threatening all that they know. Amidst the plotting and deceit of Rome's elite, Octavius and Agrippa realize that power always demands a price, and that love more than hate is the most dangerous power of all.Woven with history and forbidden romance, The Sun of God unveils the hidden world of Ancient Rome in the reimagined past of a young, ruthless Octavius as he defies all odds and rises to absolute power as Emperor Augustus, founding the Roman Empire and changing history forever.A 'gripping work of historical fiction,' says the US Review of Books. 'As the novel unfolds, readers become even more immersed in the treachery, brutality, and deception that formed some of Ancient Rome's most unforgettable-and most scandalous-stories.'.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - COLLECTOR'S EDITION - DUST JACKET, SPECIAL CASE COVER, & ILLUSTRATIONSA diary. A silver dagger. An ancient Greek text encased in gold.These were the only belongings left behind by Alex's mother, shoved in a box with her name on it-Elena de la Fuente-and forgotten for ten years.On the surface, Alex Montgomery has it all. She grew up in the manicured suburbia of New York. She has Warren, a Prince-Charming boyfriend who wants to marry her. And she goes to Harvard, her father's alma mater. But there is one blemish on her otherwise perfect life: the night before her tenth birthday her mother disappeared into thin air, leaving no trace or means of contacting her.Silenced by shame and anger at a mother who abandoned her husband and daughter, Alex shut out every memory she had of her. But opening the box with her mother's name on it awakens all the old doubts she had buried inside, along with the most burning question: Why did her mother leave Following the clues in her mother's diary, Alex abandons her studies and drives across the country to Tierra del Sol, a small town surrounded by California's mystical southern deserts, where her mother had attended the New Academy. There, Alex meets the young, charming Classics professor, Ari, the booksmart romantic, Penélope, and the moody, black-clad Zeb. But as the mystery of her mother's disappearance unfolds, Alex stumbles upon a hidden door to a magical city where a tyrant King stifles the once-vibrant streets and harbors.The hunt for her mother's fate entangles Alex and her friends in the political turmoil of the city as they piece together the fragments of an age-old prophecy and the forgotten myth of the Emerald Stone. According to a lost hymn to Hermes, legend tells that the Emerald Stone contains the secret of the universe, which has the power to overthrow Zeus, the King of the Gods, and restore Gaia, Mother Earth, as Queen. But not everyone wishes to see the Old Faith restored.On the run from hidden enemies-not all of them mortal-and chasing the ghost of her mother, Alex realizes that the prophecy runs deeper than mere myth and that her mother might not be who Alex thought she was. But in confronting her mother's precarious past, Alex must face the doubts in her own life, such as her strained relationship with Warren, her secret attraction to the older, dark-haired Ari, and the possibility that she, like her mother, will leave it all behind.Paralleled with the ancient, recurring story of Helen of Troy leaving her husband and daughter for love, The Song of Gaia tells a two-fold tale of womanhood as its own ancient legacy and the forging of a new one.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Four countries, two travelers, one month, ten essays.We don't consider ourselves scholarly experts, travel gurus, or essayists by nature. We are students of the Classical world, and with both passion and hubris, we set out one summer on a long and arduous journey throughout the Ancient Mediterranean.Our desire to cross the grand territory of the Roman Empire and document our travels in words arose somewhat accidentally. We only wished to blog and photograph our trip for family and friends, but our investigation into the past and present of each archeological site we visited turned into a more intense and perilous quest than we had expected.After all, time-traveling is not for the faint of heart. Buried beside the ruins of these ancient and sacred sites lay the remains of those who lived long before us, traces of them visible in the very rock and stone through which we picked a very old path. Trying to untangle the centuries of history from the ground, from shadows and memories now long forgotten, proved more difficult than we could have imagined. Even many months after our trip came to an end, the heavy burden of more than a millennia has stayed with us.Only two thousand years ago-a mere breath in the history of humanity-the Roman Empire spanned from the Western shores of Portugal to the edges of India in the east, and from the borders of Ethiopia in the south to Britain in the north. Our goal to cover the entire Empire in our travels was more of a dream than reality; in truth, we would hardly brush the surface of its once far-reaching territory, visiting a handful of cities and attempting to reimagine its full weight and texture from a few meager scraps.However, the few places we did reach were remarkably beautiful and vibrant with life, both then and now. Some have been extolled for centuries, others are obliviously left on the wayside. All of them hold memory. We understood early on that our pens were recorders not of facts or events, but of truth, that subtle, malleable substance that shines forth from the past like sunlight through a crack in rock.Truth is where present and past mingle, like song and myth once did in poetry, so that one might glimpse Clytemnestra lingering atop her crumbling acropolis or Odysseus and his ship dipping beneath the waves of a wine-dark sea.Accompanying our essays are photographs of just a few of the breathtaking and fascinating places and sites we visited, along with hand-drawn maps where applicable.Zoë Tavares Bennett and Grace DeAngelis have degrees in Classics, specializing in Ancient Greek and Latin. Bennett is currently a graduate student in UCLA's Proto-Indo-European Studies program and DeAngelis is currently a graduate student in Princeton's Classics department.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. 2nd ed.

Paperback. Zustand: New.

Hardback. Zustand: New.

Hardback. Zustand: New.