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Lucius Falerius is dead, and Rome in its entirety mourns the passing of its most powerful senator. It falls to his son Marcellus to carry out his father's legacy and restore the rights promised to the defeated Sicilian slaves, yet there are those who will not see the honour of Rome compromised and the slaves assuaged. On the Roman border provinces there is trouble, and the legions move north to neutralise the threat posed by the Celts.

Two boys appeal to the famed Roman oracle for a glimpse into their future, and the Sybil draws an omen of death. As they flee from the cave in fear, Aulus and Lucius make an oath of loyalty until death - one that will be tested in the years to come. Thirty years on and Aulus, now Rome's most successful general, faces his toughest battle. Barbarian rebels have captured his wife and are demanding the withdrawal of Roman legions from their land. It is unthinkable for Aulus to agree, and he fears she must be forfeit for Rome.

Iceland, AD 935. Einar Unnsson is destined to be great. When he fights, a frenzy comes upon him. It makes him lethal in battle – so lethal he just defeated the man his own father sent to kill him. Now, with Einar exiled from his kingdom, his father turns his vengeance on Einar's mother – his escaped former bedslave. Yet Einar is in no position to protect her. He's made an enemy of the powerful King Eirik and must fight for his own life before he can save her. Einar depends on the Wolf Coats, a band of fearsome, bloodthirsty warriors, but they're convinced the fates have cursed them.

AD 935 - Late Winter, City of Jorvik. Einar is destined to be a great Icelandic warrior. He has already defeated the men sent to kill him by his notorious father, Jarl Thorfinn, the 'Skull Cleaver' of Orkney. He has a gift that makes him lethal in battle. Yet he has cast it all off to be a bard. When three men attack him, Einar's poetry provides little protection. Luckily, the skilled archer and Norse-Irish princess Affreca saves him. She'd assumed Einar had left to raise an army, challenge Thorfinn and seize the Jarldom of Orkney. Now she's determined to set him back onto his rightful path.

AD 916. In the Orkney Isles, a young woman flees her home to save the life of her unborn child. Eighteen years later, a witch foretells that evil from her past is reaching out again to threaten her son. Outlawed from his home in Iceland, Einar Unnsson is thrown on the mercy of his Uncle, the infamous Jarl Thorfinn 'Skull Cleaver' of Orkney. He joins forces with a Norse-Irish princess and a company of wolfskin-clad warriors to become a player in a deadly game for control of the Irish sea.

AD 936. The great warrior, Einar Unnsson, wants revenge. His mother's assassin has stolen her severed head and Einar is hungry for his blood. Only one thing holds him back. He is a newly sworn in Wolf Coat, and must accompany them on their latest quest. The Wolf Coats are a band of fearsome bloodthirsty warriors, who roam the seas, killing any enemies who get in their way. Now they're determined to destroy their mortal enemy, King Eirik, who has captured the throne of Norway. Yet, for Einar, the urge to return to Iceland is growing every day.

Consecrated at birth as a royal goddess, Cleopatra learns early on from her father's experience that to rule means to fight. Politically astute, her deep love for Egypt means she'll do everything in her power to retain its autonomy from the all-devouring Romans. Julius Caesar is a legendary warrior whose might helped secure the Egyptian throne for Cleopatra's father. Years later, when he encounters the now Queen of Egypt, it is more than a meeting of rulers - it is a meeting of souls.

When Jezebel learns she can't be a king like her father simply because she’s a girl, she vows never to become someone’s decorative wife, nameless and lost to history. At fifteen she’s married off, despite her protests, to Prince Ahab of Israel. There, she does what she must to gain power and remake the dry and distant kingdom in the image of her beloved, prosperous seaside homeland of Tyre, beginning by building temples to the gods she grew up worshipping. As her initiatives usher in an era of prosperity for Israel, her new subjects love her, and her name rings through the land.

Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. Countless readers and listeners have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering? Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, On Wine-Dark Seas speaks of the human drama of a man gone twenty years from home and family, a man who saw Troy on the night of its destruction, a man who lives the special quest which is his destiny.

Ein riesiges Imperium. Ein blutiger Machtkampf. Und eine Frau, die über alle triumphiert. 192 n. C.: Das Römische Reich leidet unter der Herrschaft von Kaiser Commodus, der als grausam und wahnsinnig gilt. Als er einer tödlichen Intrige zum Opfer fällt, kämpfen die mächtigsten Männer Roms um die Herrschaft. Unterdessen schmiedet Julia Domna, Gattin des Statthalters Septimius Severus, eigene ehrgeizige Pläne: Sie will eine neue Dynastie begründen. Kaum jemand ahnt, dass die bildschöne Julia die Mechanismen der Macht besser durchschaut als all ihre Rivalen.

Andromache is cast as the doting wife of Prince Hector, yet her Amazon warrior name means “battler of men.” The only one with the cunning to outwit the invading Greeks, she must gather a band of outcasts and become the military commander she was born to be before the life she and Hector have built is reduced to ashes. Rhea is a war refugee and a horse whisperer who finally earns a place and sense of belonging in Hector’s stables. To save her new home, she must become an unlikely spy and face down a forbidden love that will test all her loyalties.

Caesar is the praetorian governor of Further Spain when war breaks out against a rebel with a familiar name: Quintus Sertorius. The late Roman rebel left a half-Iberian son behind, and now he's determined to win freedom for his people. But there's one problem: Gaius Julius Caesar is in his way.

“Nell’anno XV° dell’Imperatore Tiberio, Dio discese in Cafarnao e insegnò agli ebrei” Così iniziava il Vangelo di uno dei primi eretici della storia. Nato cinquant’anni dopo la Crocifissione di Cristo. Qualche secolo più tardi, da Tatev partì la rivolta. Da lì prese vita la setta che si dotò del Simbolo del Male.

Die unter großer Mühsal eroberte Provinz Britannien ist ein Stachel im Fleisch des römischen Imperiums. Einheimische Rebellengruppen hören nicht auf, erbitterten Widerstand zu leisten, und schmieden Allianzen gegen ihren gemeinsamen Feind. Zugleich bereichern sich auf römischer Seite gierige Verwalter auf Kosten der darbenden Bevölkerung. In dieser aufgeheizten Stimmung entsendet das Imperium zwei seiner erfahrensten Krieger: Erneut stehen Präfekt Cato und Centurio Macro den Rebellen Seite an Seite gegenüber.

Porta nel nome le sue umili origini, Servio Tullio, nello sguardo il destino di grandezza che gli dei hanno decretato per lui. Figlio della serva Ocresia, già moglie di Tullio, signore di Corniculum conquistata dai romani, nasce e cresce sotto il segno del fuoco: quello che ha devastato la sua città, quello del prodigio che ne ha svelato la sorte eccezionale, quello che gli arde nel petto e ne accende l’ambizione. Allevato alla corte di Tarquinio Prisco, sotto i saggi insegnamenti dell’augure Azio Nevio, impara presto che non è la discendenza a determinare il valore di un uomo.

Jarl Dragon Heart has taken to the seas. With his wolf warriors, he raids further afield than ever before as he seeks his destiny. He has to fight new enemies as well as treacherous former allies. The Norns weave their webs and the Vikings discover the Middle Sea and Africa before they find themselves at the court of Nikephoros 1, the Emperor of Byzantium. A vast moving novel filled with battles both at sea and on land as the Viking Wolf unleashes his pack on the world.

Seinen packenden Roman um den Kampf der Ostgoten gegen Rom nach dem Tode Theoderichs des Großen im 6. Jahrhundert schrieb Dahn 1876 und schuf damit ein Werk, das bis heute nichts von seiner Dramatik und seinem Unterhaltungswert eingebüßt hat. Es war eine schwüle Sommernacht des Jahres 526 nach Christus. Schwer lagerte dichtes Gewölk über der dunklen Fläche der Adria, deren Küsten und Gewässer zusammenflossen in unterscheidungslosem Dunkel: nur ferne Blitze warfen hier und da ein zuckendes Licht über das schweigende Ravenna.

Seinen packenden Roman um den Kampf der Ostgoten gegen Rom nach dem Tode Theoderichs des Großen im 6. Jahrhundert schrieb Dahn 1876 und schuf damit ein Werk, das bis heute nichts von seiner Dramatik und seinem Unterhaltungswert eingebüßt hat. Im Lager angelangt, fand König Witichis alles in höchster Verwirrung; gewaltsam riss ihn die drängende Not des Augenblicks aus seinem Gram und gab ihm vollauf zu tun. Er traf das Heer in voller Auflösung und in zahlreiche Parteiungen zerspalten. Deutlich erkannte er, dass der Fall der ganzen gotischen Sache die Folge gewesen wäre, hätte er die Krone niedergelegt oder das Heer verlassen.

Wie ein Donnerschlag aus heiterem Himmel traf Athalarichs plötzliches Ende die gotische Partei, die an diesem nämlichen Tage ihre Hoffnungen so hoch gespannt hatte. Alle Maßregeln, die der König in ihrem Sinne angeordnet, waren gelähmt, die Goten plötzlich wieder ohne Vertretung in dem Staat, an dessen Spitze jetzt die Regentin ganz allein gestellt war.

Das Schiff lief an und die Zöllner kamen mit ihren Tafeln in der Hand an Bord. Auf dem Kai bildeten römische Soldaten ein Eisengitter um den ungeheuren Pöbelauflauf, der den ganzen Platz zwischen der Stadt und dem Hafen ausfüllte. Es war ein Haufen in Lumpen gekleideter oder nackter Männer und Weiber - von denen mehrere an den schlaffen Brüsten Säuglinge hielten - mit abgezehrten Mienen, brennenden, eingesunkenen Augen und knöchernen Armen, die sie drohend erhoben, während von allen Seiten her die Rufe erschollen: „Brot, Brot!”