検索キーワード： 古代

In der hart umkämpften Provinz Britannien entscheidet sich das Schicksal des römischen Imperiums: Die unerschrockene Rebellenführerin Boudica weiß immer mehr Stammeskrieger hinter sich und macht sich auf, Londinium zu erobern. Präfekt Cato wird mit der Mission betraut, die Hauptstadt um jeden Preis zu verteidigen. Während er die Legionen um sich schart, muss er ausgerechnet auf seinen besten Mann Macro verzichten. Er gilt seit der blutigen Schlacht um Camulodunum als vermisst.

Đời xưa, chuột vốn là một giống linh thiêng ở trên Trời. Trời giao cho nó giữ chìa khóa kho lúa của Trời. Nhưng chuột không phải là một loài đáng tin cẩn, nhận được giữ chìa khóa, cứ tự do đến mở kho rủ nhau vào ăn rả rích hết bao nhiêu là lúa. Sau Trời biết, lấy làm giận lắm, mới không cho ở trên ấy nữa, mà đuổi xuống dưới hạ giới để sai giữ chìa khóa lẫm thóc của nhân gian. Nhưng chứng nào tật ấy, chuột lại rủ nhau vào lẫm thóc của người rả rích ăn no nê. Đến nỗi người phải có câu than rằng: "Chuột kia xưa ở nơi nào ? Bây giờ ăn lúa nhà tao thế này ?"

Hannibal Barca moved through the countryside burning, looting, and attracting recruits and supplies from disgruntled city residents and tribesmen. Cornelius Scipio remained with the forward Legions, taking any position available. It spoke well of his loyalty, but his actions hid a deeper secret. Cornelius feared the Scipio men would be accused of being cowards. Jace Kasia had no family but had a goal to be recognized as a Cretan archer. On the banks of Lake Trasimene, he earned the position of File Leader.

أكبر معارك العصور القديمة، حصار طروادة الذي ظل حربًا مشتعلة لسنوات عديدة بسبب اختطاف الملكة الإغريقية هيلانة على يد الطرواديين. نستمع إلى القصة من الجانب الآخر، من بين جنود الإغريق وقادتهم، على لسان ملكة أخرى واقعة في الأسر تدعى بريزيس.

México-Tenochtitlan ha caído en manos de los españoles y una nueva ciudad comienza a erigirse sobre la antigua urbe mexica. Francisco Cuetzpalómitl, o "Huesos de Lagartija", superviviente de la guerra de conquista, encarga un códice muy especial a un pintor de códices. La obra demostrará a los españoles quiénes son los verdaderos dueños de las tierras que la derrotada nobleza mexica pretende apropiarse. Las cosas se complican cuando el códice es robado. Ello obliga a Francisco y a su hijo, Santiago, a emprender una desesperada y peligrosa búsqueda.

The deadly conspiracy against the children of Ealdorman Coenwulf is to be resolved. Those involved have been unmasked and arrested. But will justice prevail? While the court convenes to determine the conspirator’s fate, King Wiglaf’s position is precarious. His wife, Queen Cynethryth, has been implicated in the plot and while Wiglaf must remain impartial, enemies of the Mercia still conspire to prevent the full truth from ever being known.

Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family live in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community. Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world.

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.

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 resquebrajar los limes y los emperadores se sucedían vertiginosamente unos a otros. En el año 248, Roma se prepara para celebrar el gran esplendor milenario de su fundación, tras haber conseguido establecer la paz con los persas de Oriente merced a la hábil gestión de los embajadores imperiales

Welcome to 259 B.C. By law, all debts must be paid by the Ides of March. For men like them, sharp steel was the only acceptable currency. Unless something changed, one would emerge a winner and the other the guest of honor at a funeral. Blood payment might not have been the official objective. But it would not matter to an enraged Alerio Sisera as he clutched a gladius and held a temple voucher aloft.

His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest–assisted by a brooding yet brilliant donkey–to find his lost sister in the ruins of Troy. Some war stories transcend time and circumstance, and so it is with the resourceful and heartbroken Hani, who must employ every bit of intelligence, every scrap of ingenuity, and ultimately every ounce of his spirit and humor to withstand the forces of civilization’s collapse.

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 Plasencia, que significa lugar placentero para vivir).

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.

¿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 defensores de la historia «oficial». ¿Sabías que para evitar la ejecución de Agnodice, la primera mujer de la historia en practicar la ginecología, tuvo lugar una de las primeras huelgas de sexo en la Antigua Grecia?

¿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 defensores de la historia «oficial».

Amara's journey has taken her far; from a slave in Pompeii's wolf den to a high-powered courtesan in Rome...though her story is not over yet. While Amara plays for power in Rome's imperial palace, those dearest to her remain in Pompeii. But it is AD 79, and mighty Mount Vesuvius is about to make itself known.

It is a time of old gods, of new beliefs and new restrictions on living. Sherewode stretches nearly from coast to coast, from the Humber in the North, to Buckingham in the South; from Willenhall in the West to Crowland, East of Ermine Street, with tendrils running all the way to Kernow, Scotland, and Wales. Everywhere Saxons and the old Ænglish are being crushed under the cruel bootheel of the Normans. Thousands of years of history is being stolen, plundered, sold off. Justice and belief are under attack, being rewritten by the Normans.

India, 3400 BCE. A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don't give a damn. Raavan. Fathered by one of the most illustrious sages of the time. Blessed by the Gods with talents beyond all. Cursed by fate to be tested to the extremes. A formidable teenage pirate, he is filled with equal parts courage, cruelty and fearsome resolve. A resolve to be a giant among men, to conquer, plunder, and seize the greatness that he thinks is his right.