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Years after her son’s crucifixion, Mary finds herself alone, fearful, while attempting to reconstruct the events leading to her son's cruel death. With no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel and during a time fraught with upheaval and transition, she tries to tell the truth, revealing herself as a figure of towering moral integrity, and a historical woman portrayed in all her humanity.

"I've heard Cretan archers are good bowmen but weak skirmishers," a Tribune offered. "It has something to do with the teeny, tiny shields they wear like jewelry on their left forearms." "They wear jewelry into combat," Tribune Scipio moaned. "What have I done?" Set in the desperate years of the Second Punic War, the series follows the exploits of Cretan archer Jace Kasia and Roman Legion Tribune Cornelius Scipio. One is a castaway searching for a home while the other seeks to step out of the shadow of a famous father.

AD 211: Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome, has invaded what is now Scotland, but Tullius, second-in-command of the legendary Sixth Victrix Legion, has more to worry about. Severus’s eldest son, a young Caracalla, is already testing the limits of his power as his monstrous nature begins to reveal itself. With his family under threat of death from him, Tullius must balance their safety with a sworn duty to his emperor and turn to the only people who can help – those north of Hadrian’s Wall – his enemies.

Este audiolibro, continuación de "La Luz del Oriente", recoge las vivencias de Félix, un hispano-lusitano en el siglo III. A lo largo de la narración nos encontramos envueltos en el anárquico periodo del primer milenio del Imperio Romano, cuando la presión de los bárbaros comienza a...

Onaisín es un indio ona de Tierra del Fuego que vive tranquilo junto a su perro, hasta que los españoles llegan en busca de la supuesta Ciudad de los Césares. Un relato que muestra cómo un joven empieza a convertirse en adulto a razón de las experiencias que debe vivir...

En plena Edad Media, la Reconquista avanza, a pesar de la fuerza del imperio Almohade. El rey Alfonso VIII funda, en un paraje idílico de los amplios territorios de la Trasierra, la populosa ciudad de Ambrosía (nombre griego que sonaba a pagano en la Edad Media y que se transformó en...

Xishi’s beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue—convinced that the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor, Fanli, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon. One that could topple the rival neighboring kingdom of Wu, improve the lives of her people, and avenge her sister’s murder. All she has to do is infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy, seduce their immoral king, and weaken them from within.

In the tumultuous world of ancient Israel, Ahinoam—a dagger-wielding Kenite woman—flees her family farm with her unconventional father to join the ragtag band of misfits led by the shepherd-turned-warrior David ben Jesse. As King Saul's treasonous accusations echo through the land, Ahinoam's conviction that David's anointing makes him Yahweh's chosen king propels her on a perilous journey to Moab and back into Judah's unforgiving wilderness, only to encounter more hardship and betrayal.

Miriam longs to become The Magdalene, High Priestess of Asherah, as her mother and grandmother before her, but learns she is to marry an obscure rabbi from Galilee, Yeshua bar Yosef. Determined to control her own life, she runs away and is brutally attacked in the streets of Jerusalem. Broken in body and spirit, she resigns herself to her fate.

Yen Se has lost everything to the Khan's brutality. Left with one eye and one arm, he is forced out of his home village to work in the city as a horse handler. Witness to the Khan's violent crusade, their raids sweeping across Eurasia, he travels with the theatre of war, but exists outside of it; stunned every morning to find himself alive. Yen Se moves randomly across Europe with a loose band of survivors – men who think of survival, men who think of resistance, and women who dare to dream of peace.

¿Te imaginas poder viajar en el tiempo a la época y lugar que tú elijas? Eso es lo que le ocurre a Manuel en Historias de la Historia. La Antigua Roma, Egipto, la Edad Media o la Alemania nazi son algunos de los destinos que nuestro protagonista decide visitar en pos de desmentir a los...

¿Te imaginas poder viajar en el tiempo a la época y lugar que tú elijas? Eso es lo que le ocurre a Manuel en Historias de la Historia. La Antigua Roma, Egipto, la Edad Media o la Alemania nazi son algunos de los destinos que nuestro protagonista decide visitar en pos de desmentir a los...

Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.

Infantry tactics at a sea battle offer dangerous options. Run the boarding ramp into the tips of the enemy's blades. Or fall into the gap between warships. Welcome to 260 B.C. Death waits at both, but if you make it to the enemy's deck you have a fighting chance. With the sea, you are doomed by the weight of your armor as soon as you splash down. There is another option: Be the first Legionary to board an enemy ship. You might surprise and disrupt the Empire soldiers. And win medals and accolades. Or you might die as an unjust sacrifice.

Pella, Greece; 341 B.C. Alexandros is a middle child caught between two warring spouses, born to both a king and queen, but never meant to rule himself. When a mysterious young man arrives from the north, fleeing his own family, and meets Alexandros in a garden in the Macedonian capital, the bond that's created between them will soon become unbreakable and ultimately define both the direction of the Ancient World and ours.

Abandoned by his people and destined for Valhalla, do not stand in the way of his fury. Ribe is lost, its hall burnt, and Charles is still missing. Sven must once more sail into dangerous waters to rescue his grandson. King Louis of East Francia, the man who took Sven’s son from him almost twenty years ago, has Charles captive and uses him to force Sven to do his bidding and create chaos raiding his brothers Kingdom of West Frankia.

"Scappa, e non guardarti più indietro." Il passato di Giulia è una somma di scelte sbagliate. La scelta di suo padre di allearsi con Marco Antonio contro l'imperatore Augusto ha portato la sua famiglia a essere cacciata da Roma ed esiliata a Brixia, circondata dai barbari della Gallia Cisalpina. La sua scelta di sposare il Legatus Quirino l'ha lasciata vedova troppo giovane, custode di ricordi preziosi e irripetibili che la morte ha reso insopportabili.

Порой один человек меняет ход истории, при жизни становится легендой, а после смерти — недосягаемым образцом для подражания. Порой на свете рождаются подлинно эпические персонажи, и один из них — Юлий Цезарь, фигура многогранная и сложная, защитник народа и борец с элитами, который превратился в диктатора и за свое стремление к власти поплатился жизнью. Впрочем, в 77 году до н. э. Рим еще не знает, до чего важен окажется этот юноша для государства.

In the sun-scorched lands of ancient Kemet, Ari, a mere shepherd, finds himself ensnared in a deadly game of power and deception. Falsely accused of espionage against the sacred land, Ari and his brothers are dragged before the ruthless king. Their lives hang in the balance as they're forced to make an unthinkable decision: surrender their youngest brother to the King or perish in the catastrophe devouring the world around them.

Ivan Minchov Vazov was born on the 9th July 1850 (although that date is disputed) in the town of Sopot, in Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. After primary education at the local school he was sent to Kalofer to continue his studies and work as an assistant teacher. He later spent a short time in Plodiv where he began to write poetry. Fascinated by literature he abandoned work as an apprentice to move to Brăila, in Romania, where he lived with exiled revolutionaries and befriended the poet Hristo Botev.