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The unthinkable has happened. The federal Department of Education has been eliminated, and Cuchu and Matias watch their country implement complete educational apartheid. As corporate-sanitized curricula replace real history and underground networks become students' only hope for truth, they journey back 2,000 years to witness Classical Flourishing—and discover that ancient peoples created urban sophistication that rivals anything in the modern world. But the Heritage Foundation 2.0 has achieved something terrifying: they're using supernatural power to alter collective memory itself.

Rom im ersten Jahrhundert vor Christus: Auf einem Landgut nahe der Stadt unterwerfen sich zwei Patriziersöhne einem unmenschlich harten Drill. Eines Tages nämlich sollen Gaius Julius Caesar und sein Freund Marcus Brutus unbesiegbare Soldaten und mächtige politische Anführer sein. Doch viel zu früh endet die Ausbildung der beiden Jungen: Aufständische Sklaven verwüsten ihr Zuhause und zwingen sie zur Flucht nach Rom. Doch auch dort finden Gaius und Marcus keinen Frieden, denn sie geraten in ein tödliches Netz aus Intrigen und offenen Machtkämpfen.

What motivates a man to betray a friend? And not just a friend but the Son of God? The Bible doesn't answer this question. In fact, it says very little about Judas Isacariot, leaving who he was and what motivated him to our own interpretation. The Autobiography of Judas Iscariot imagines how Judas himself would have told his story from his childhood under Roman occupation to his suicide on a tree outside Jerusalem as Jesus, the one he betrayed, died on another tree for the sins of all mankind.

From the award-winning author of Herc, an enrapturing feminist tale that brilliantly reimagines the story of Aphrodite and how she transformed herself from a lowly outsider to the darling goddess of love, for readers of Madeline Miller and Jennifer Saint. Aphrodite saw the gods on Mount Olympus...

Nur um Haaresbreite ist Athen 480 vor Christus einer Katastrophe entgangen – dank der todesmutigen Krieger aus Sparta, die den Pass bei den Thermophylen lange genug gehalten hatten, um die Stadt zu evakuieren.

With the empire collapsing about him, Heraclius, the Exarch’s son, becomes the first Roman Emperor in 300 years to lead an army into battle. But this is no ordinary army: it is the Last Army, cobbled together from the bits and pieces that remain of once-great legions. Arrayed against him are the most formidable enemies Rome has ever faced: the Avar horde, the Sassanian Persian Empire intent on Rome’s annihilation, and the relentless plague that exploded under his predecessor Justinian and halved the Roman population.

The war in Gaul is over. The rebels are defeated. Now the battle for Rome has begun.

Lavinia, dochter en metgezel van koning Latinus, heeft eindelijk de leeftijd bereikt om te trouwen. In de weken na haar verjaardag bezoeken meerdere kandidaten het paleis. Haar moeder geeft de voorkeur aan een bloedverwant: koning Turnus van Rutulia. Hij is knap, heldhaftig en heeft alles wat een jong meisje zou willen, maar Lavinia droomt van een andere man. Haar hart ligt bij de machtige Aeneas van Troje, een krijger over wie ze alleen heeft gehoord van een dichter die verschijnt in haar dromen en haar overtuigt van hun gezamenlijke toekomst.

Boudica's wrath leads her to revolt against Rome’s claim on her lands and lives. Rome’s consul—Suetonius Paulinus—must annihilate her and her uprising, however, can he? While reputations and loyalties are at stake, Rome’s newest tribune—Gnaeus Julius Agricola and Boudica’s youngest daughter—Rhianna, and her betrothed—Calgacus—are hurled into their opposing worlds intent upon destroying each other. Who will survive this furious revolt?

Rome, 107 BC. Quintus Sertorius just lost his father, and he may lose his home. When his rural village is stripped of its political status, he must leave his family to secure their food and protection from inside Rome's cutthroat government. As he transitions from countryman to politician, he's thrust into the middle of a bitter political war…. As Quintus struggles to gain the aid his village so desperately needs, he approaches Gaius Marius, the uncle of Julius Caesar himself.

Welcome to January 263 B.C. Attacking a pair of long spears with his short dagger was going to hurt and add to Alerio's collection of combat scars. And only leave him injured, if Fortuna smiled on him. If not? That's why he prayed to the other Goddess. This should have been the easiest, most luxurious duty a heavy infantryman could ever imagine. It didn't turn out that way and, at the moment, he regretted throwing the spear. These are the adventures of Alerio Sisera, Corporal of the Republic's Legions, Weapons Instructor, experienced Raider, Combat Rower, and protege of a Roman Senator.

173 n. Chr. An den Ufern der zugefrorenen Donau versammeln sich die Clans der Sarmaten. Der Winter in der kargen Ebene war hart, und um zu überleben müssen sie den gefrorenen Fluss überqueren. Doch auf der anderen Seite des Eises liegt das Römische Reich, und vor ihnen steht eine ganze Legion. Die Sarmaten sind mit einer starken Kavallerie angerückt, darunter der junge Krieger Kai. Nach Jahren des Krieges ist das stolze sarmatische Volk der einzige Stamm, der den Römern noch die Stirn bietet. Doch diesmal haben sie keine Chance.

“It’s a literary gift to see gender expansiveness depicted in an ancient myth with such grace and ease.” —Electric Literature Fans of Circe and Black Sun, “prepare to be astonished” (R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries) with this bold and subversive feminist and queer retelling of...

Exiled from Norway, Harald Sigurdsson, brother to murdered King Olaf, must battle mercilessly for survival in the lands of the Kievan Rus. His brother’s legacy gifts him a warband of hardened warriors and entry to the court of Prince Yaroslav the Wise. By his wits, sword and skill in battle, Harald must learn not just to survive but to triumph. He fights for glory, for fame, and to regain his family’s battle-stolen throne. But his greatest challenge may not come from battlefield foes but from those who stand by his side.

Discover the runaway #1 international bestseller that has captured readers the world over―and reminds us all why we remember the name Julius Caesar. “Posteguillo shows just how thrilling a historical novel can be.”―El País Every legend has a beginning . . . Rome, 77 B.C. The corrupt...

Reroots Mary Magdalene and Jesus in the lush ecology and complex spiritual culture of Second Temple Period Judea and Galilee under Roman rule Rewilds the Gospels with the forgotten voices of defiant and oppressed women, the nature-based storytelling of oral communities, and the embodied...

Londres, 1903: José Altamirano, colombiano de nacimiento, acaba de llegar de un país caribeño de cuyo nombre ya quisiera olvidarse. Arrastra consigo varias culpas y una historia de la cual se arrepiente; ha sido testigo de las cosas más terribles que le pueden pasar a una persona y también a un país. Pero nunca habría imaginado el encuentro que el destino tenía programado para él. Nunca habría imaginado lo que le ocurriría después de conocer al famoso novelista Joseph Conrad.

Freydis Eiriksdatter, one of the most remarkable women of the Viking age, leads a harsh life amongst the towering cliffs and great glaciers of Greenland. She has the warrior spirit of her father, Eirik the Red, and as Christianity conquers Greenland, she continues to worship the old Norse gods. Like her brother, Leif Eiriksson, she’s cursed with an adventurer’s soul. Her biggest desire is to become a legendary explorer. Driven by ambition, curiosity—a restless hunger for more—she sets out on a hazardous voyage to Vinland.

The year 360 AD: A Roman legion is trapped and surrounded in the blistering Persian desert...and a great saga begins.

In the golden age of the Phoenicians, only the western reaches of the Great Sea remain uncharted. Kaly, a restless teenager from the ancient port of Tyre, escapes the clutches of her fiendish grandmother, high priestess of the Goddess. She flees west with her father, a famed helmsman and explorer. Together, they discover the fabled Pine Tree Island, where they build a new home with a motley crew of fellow adventurers.