Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World : Extracts from the Ancient Colloquia

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Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World : Extracts from the Ancient ColloquiaWhat did Roman children do first when they arrived at school in the morning? What excuse for missing school could be counted on to stave off a whipping from the teacher? What did a Roman banker do when someone came to borrow money? What did a Roman wife say when her husband came home drunk? The answers to such questions can be found not in mainstream ancient literature (whose writers had their minds on higher things) but in language textbooks for

Internationally bestselling author Jessie Burton flips the script in this astonishing retelling of Greek myth

the plodding irresolute Emperor

This edition of Books I & II of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only edition in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity

his return to Gaul and his campaigns against the Belgae

Πλέον επιθυμούν να χαλαρώσουν στο γαλήνιο περιβάλλον του Κούπερς Τσέις

Each Latin word is translated and given a set of derivatives

But he also says that drinking to excess on occasion is okay—and he even tells us how to win drinking games

Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people

δέχεται μια πρόσκληση για το Στάιλς Κορτ

and Circe’s independence draws the wrath of men and gods alike

an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BCE

It is Livy's best and most dramatic book

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