Century Rome

A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss. Jews vs. Rome is a gripping account of one of the most momentous eras in human history: the two hundred years of ancient...

The chains of Rome can bind a man, but they cannot bind the truth. In the late summer of 59 AD, the Apostle Paul boards an Alexandrian grain ship bound for the heart of the Roman Empire. He is a prisoner, marching toward the executioner’s block or a divine acquittal. But the journey to Caesar is not just a battle against the unforgiving Mediterranean Sea—it is the crucible in which the future of the Christian faith will be forged. Surviving the terrifying wrath of the Euroclydon shipwreck and the deadly viper of Malta, Paul and his companions finally arrive in Rome. Placed under house ...

The stones of Jerusalem are falling, but the true war for the soul of the early church has just begun. It is the Year of the Four Emperors. The Roman Empire is tearing itself apart, and the legions of Titus and Vespasian have surrounded Jerusalem. From the safety of the Decapolis, the exiled elder Simeon watches as the holy city and the great Temple are reduced to ash. The physical destruction of the Old Covenant is absolute, but the vacuum left behind is terrifying. With the earthly priesthood gone, a new, insidious threat rises not from pagan magistrates, but from within the brotherhood ...

The Roman Empire did not die from the sword of a barbarian. It died from the greed of its own emperors. At its height, the Pax Romana was a golden age of peace and prosperity, held together by a vast network of roads and a single, trusted currency: the silver denarius. But in "The Coin That Killed Rome," readers will discover the hidden economic cancer that slowly rotted the empire from the inside out. This gripping work of economic history traces the fatal decision made by Emperor Nero to debase the currency—mixing base metals into the silver to create "free money." What began as a small...

In the spring of 193, the Praetorian Guard murdered an emperor, walked back to their camp, and sold the Roman Empire at auction from the top of the wall. The winning bidder got sixty-six days to live. And that was only the beginning. Over the following ninety years, Rome burned through roughly twenty-six emperors — most of them murdered by their own soldiers. The silver coinage collapsed into a bronze slug with a wash that rubbed off in a season. Plague emptied the cities twice. Goths burned Athens. The Persians captured a Roman emperor alive and carved the scene in stone. And then the ...

Jerusalem is full of pilgrims. Rome rules with iron. And fifty days after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, something impossible is about to tear through the city. The Pentecost Pilgrims is a sweeping historical novel set during the explosive days surrounding Pentecost in Jerusalem between 33-36 AD. Through the eyes of pilgrims, scholars, tradesmen, widows, zealots, and seekers from across the ancient world, the story plunges readers into the fear, tension, and spiritual hunger of first-century Judea. Lucius Vettius, a weary Roman leatherworker searching for truth. Caius Septimius, a ...

The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking listeners from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism", revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights.

Ancient wonder. A seductive rival. A discovery to die for. Darwin Lacroix drops everything—including his fiancée, Eyrún—to pursue a new lead on the lost Library of Alexandria. The trail begins in Rome, but it belongs to Tessa Santarossa—a brilliant Italian operator who plays by her own rules and never shows her full hand. What starts as a promising discovery turns into a dangerous race across a two-thousand-year-old path. Armed militants want the truth buried, and Tessa’s agenda is as elusive as the prize itself. Eyrún sees the threat immediately—and when the hunt turns violent...

A Paris icon in flames. A conspiracy in the Church. Can this determined explorer survive the search for a hidden history? Renowned archaeologist Darwin Lacroix remains obsessed, proving his theory that Roman’s used lava tubes. But he’s interrupted by the Pope, who personally requests Darwin’s help to retrieve a codex stolen from the Pontiff’s private vault. Discovering that the cryptic text points to the long-sought Knights Templar treasure, he realizes a mysterious cave may also solve his own puzzle. As he digs up a trail of ancient connections, he’s shocked to learn the true ...

For over six hundred years, the sands of the Near East were the stage for one of the most enduring rivalries in human history. The Limits of Empire: Six Centuries of Conflict Between Rome and Iran provides a long, detailed, and politically neutral account of the epic geopolitical tug-of-war between the Mediterranean superpower and the great dynastic empires of Persia. This work of ancient history moves beyond Eurocentric bias to deliver a balanced perspective, treating both the Roman world and the Iranian realms of the Parthians and Sasanians as equal superpowers competing for dominance ...

ROME IS BURNING. THE APOSTLES ARE HUNTED. THE TRUE WAR FOR THE CHURCH HAS JUST BEGUN. In the sweltering summer of 64 AD, the Great Fire of Rome reduces the capital of the world to ash. Desperate to escape the fury of the mob, Emperor Nero and his brutal Praetorian Prefect, Tigellinus, search for a scapegoat. They find the perfect victims in the hidden, underground sect of the Nazarenes. But the persecution is not just a tyrant’s madness. It is a calculated spiritual coup orchestrated by Simon Magus. Decades after being publicly cursed by the Apostle Peter in Samaria, the dark sorcerer has...

The age of the apostles is ending. The age of the Book has begun. It is the late first century, and the living witnesses who walked with Christ are vanishing from the earth. In Antioch, a dedicated group of scribes, led by John the son of Caius, works frantically to preserve the scattered writings of the apostles. But the greatest threat to the survival of the true faith is no longer just the fire and sword of the Roman Empire—it is a subtle, creeping rot from within. In the heart of the capital, two distinct churches are emerging. Bishop Clement is building a magnificent, visible ...

A FADING MEMORY. A DEADLY HERESY. A DESPERATE QUEST FOR THE WRITTEN WORD. Rome, 36 AD. Five years after the fires of Pentecost, the early Christian house churches are in crisis. The oral traditions and memories of the apostles' teachings are beginning to blur, leaving the vulnerable flock exposed to a brilliant and deadly new threat. Dositheus, a smooth-talking disciple of Simon Magus, has infiltrated the Roman believers. Preaching a "spiritual" Christ who only appeared to be human—a Savior who never bled and never suffered—he offers a cowardly but seductive escape for Christians ...

Rome, the 1890s. A young French priest arrives in the Eternal City carrying a single suitcase — and a manuscript that could end his career. Abbé Pierre Froment has written a book daring to imagine a Catholic Church reconciled with modern science, democracy, and the poor. Summoned to Rome to defend it before it can be condemned, he throws himself into a city he has only ever loved from afar: golden ruins and marble palaces, scheming cardinals and starving peasants, where every staircase seems to lead toward — or away from — the Pope. He finds shelter with the Boccaneras, a princely ...

This book is about one of the most celebrated artists of the seventeenth century: Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Today, Bernini is considered one of the greatest sculptors of the Baroque period. Even during his own lifetime, many of his contemporaries believed he was one of the most important artists who had ever lived. However, admiration for Bernini and his work has not always been this strong. Bernini himself predicted that his reputation would suffer after his death — and he was right. When the Baroque style fell out of fashion, his art was often dismissed as vulgar or exaggerated. For many ...

“MENZIES [IS] PROPOUNDING ONE OF THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY.” —New York Times Magazine New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atlantis” was not only real but also...

A thousand years of ambition, betrayal, and empire—told by a soldier who watched the Republic die and an emperor rise. Around AD 30, a Roman senator and retired cavalry commander named Gaius Velleius Paterculus set out to write the entire sweep of human history in the time it took to read a single long letter. Dedicated to his friend, a newly appointed consul, his Compendium of Roman History was written with breathless speed—a soldier racing through a millennium of memory. The Roman Centuries retells Velleius’s unique, eyewitness account in vivid, modern narrative prose. Stretching ...

How do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization? Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. Professor and historian Glenn S. Sunshine...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Shattering and Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects delivers a sensational tie-in to the newest World of Warcraft game expansion. The ashes of the Cataclysm have settled across Azeroth’s disparate kingdoms. As the broken world recovers from the disaster...

THE CLASH OF HEAVEN AND EARTH HAS IGNITED. AND THE ANCIENT WORLD WILL BURN. In the sweltering summer of the first century, the Apostle Paul marches into the dark, pagan stronghold of Ephesus. He does not hide in the shadows. Renting the public Hall of Tyrannus, he launches a relentless, daily assault on the minds and spirits of Asia. As raw, divine power manifests through healings and the public burning of occult scrolls, the very foundations of the city’s economy begin to crack. Watching his wealth evaporate, Demetrius the silversmith rallies the trade guilds, transforming their economic...