Great Women of Imperial Rome

Great Women of Imperial Rome
Author: Jasper Burns
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2006-11-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1134131852

A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.

Library Journal

Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 912
Release: 1966
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.

The Silver Branch

The Silver Branch
Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1429934670

Rosemary Sutcliff’s Carnegie Medal-winning Roman Britain Trilogy continues more than a century after the events of The Eagle of the Ninth (The Eagle) in The Silver Branch as two cousins join the Roman side in the fight against a tyrannical British emperor. Violence and unrest are sweeping through Roman Britain. Justin and Flavius find themselves caught up in the middle of it all when they discover a plot to overthrow the Emperor. In fear for their lives, they gather together a tattered band of men and lead them into the thick of battle, to defend the honor of Rome. But will they be in time to save the Emperor...