Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“charles rollin”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “charles rollin”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians and Babylonians

    by Charles Rollin ...
    The study of profane history would little deserve to have a serious attention, and a considerable length of time bestowed upon it, if it were confined to the bare knowledge of ancient transactions, and an uninteresting inquiry when each of them happened. It little concerns us to know, that there were once such men as Alexander, Caesar, Aristides, or Cato, and that they lived in this or that period ... Read more

    $3.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Ancient Carthage

    by Charles Rollin ...
    Carthage formed after the Model of Tyre, of which that City was a Colony. The Carthaginians were indebted to the Tyrians, not only for their origin, but for their manners, language, customs, laws, religion, and their great application to commerce, as will appear from every part of the sequel. They spoke the same language with the Tyrians, and these the same with the Canaanites and Israelites, that ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ancient History of the Egyptians Carthaginians, Assyrians

    by Charles Rollin ...
    The study of profane history would little deserve to have a serious attention, and a considerable length of time bestowed upon it, if it were confined to the bare knowledge of ancient transactions, and an uninteresting inquiry when each of them happened. It little concerns us to know, that there were once such men as Alexander, Caesar, Aristides, or Cato, and that they lived in this or that period ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Carthage

    by Charles Rollin ...
    Carthage formed after the Model of Tyre, of which that City was a Colony. The Carthaginians were indebted to the Tyrians, not only for their origin, but for their manners, language, customs, laws, religion, and their great application to commerce, as will appear from every part of the sequel. They spoke the same language with the Tyrians, and these the same with the Canaanites and Israelites, that ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Carthage

    by Charles Rollin ...
    Sicily would naturally be the place in which Carthage would first seek to establish a foreign dominion. At its nearest point it was not more than fifty miles distant; its soil was fertile, its climate temperate; it was rich in several valuable articles of commerce. We have seen that, in the treaty which was made with Rome about the end of the sixth century B.C., the Carthaginians claimed part of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Complete Works of Appian (Delphi Classics)

    by Appian of Alexandria, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 63 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    A second century Greek official of Alexandria, Appian wrote twenty-four books of ‘Roman History’, eleven of which have survived complete. Exploring conquests from Rome’s earliest beginnings to the times of Trajan, Appian’s great work continues to be regarded as a valuable source of information on historical events that would otherwise have been lost long ago. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Complete Sallust

    The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

    by Sallust ...
    Series series Texts From Ancient Rome
    Gaius Sallustius Crispus, or "Sallust" (86BC - 35BC) was a Roman historian and politician, from a well-known plebian family. Sallust was a lifelong opponent of the old Roman Aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar.Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have The Catiline Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War (about Rome ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The History of Rome (Books XXVII-XXXVI)

    by Titus Livius Livy ...
    An epic endeavor by a man genuinely enamored of his native Rome, Livy's "The History of Rome" was originally written in 142 books spanning the entire history of the Roman people up to Livy's day in the time of Augustus in the first century BC. While this Roman historian's monumental undertaking took most of his life, only 35 books still survive today. Livy begins with Aeneas' landing on Italy and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Histories of Tacitus

    by Cornelius Tacitus ...
    Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman Senator during the first century A.D., is considered to be one of the greatest historians from antiquity. His "Histories" is a classic chronicle of the turbulent transition that occurred following the suicide of Roman Emperor Nero and the Flavian dynasty. During the course of a single year, 69 A.D., Rome was catapulted into a period of chaos and civil war. Cornelius ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Stories from Roman History

    by Lena Dalkeith ...
    Long and long ago, it is said, Nimitur, King of Alba, was robbed of his crown, and thrust from his kingdom by his younger brother, Amulius. Now Nimitur had one daughter. Amulius, when he had made himself king, forced this maiden to become a "Vestal",—that is to say, a high priestess, and, as a Vestal, she had to make a vow never to marry. This Amulius did in order to reign in safety, for he was ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Histories (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Roman Civil War, Imperial Succession, and the Rise of the Flavian Dynasty After Nero

    by Tacitus, Cora Tallowmere ...
    Translated by Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb ...
    Tacitus's The Histories is a penetrating account of Rome's convulsions after Nero's fall, beginning with the Year of the Four Emperors and extending, in its surviving books, through the rise of the Flavian dynasty and the Jewish revolt. Written in Tacitus's famously compressed, ironic, and morally charged prose, the work combines senatorial historiography with tragic political analysis. Its ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Punic Wars

    by R. Bosworth Smith ...
    Hardly had Pyrrhus turned his back for the last time on Italy when the first note of war between the Romans and the Carthaginians, who had so recently formed an alliance against him, was sounded. It came, as was to be expected, from that fair island which, by its position, seemed to belong half to Europe, half to Africa, and from that point in it which lay actually within sight of Rhegium, the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus