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Series
Imagination station volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Patrick and his cousin Beth travel back in time to ancient Rome, where they meet Telemachus and help put an end to the spectacle of gladiators fighting to the death.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common: murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city. Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of The Doing of Important Things, and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through "the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that. Emma...
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