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Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and speeches in Cassius Dio -- Fictitious speeches, envy, and the habituation to authority : writing the collapse of the Roman Republic / Christopher Burden-Strevens -- Speeches in Dio Cassius / Andriy Fomin -- Dio, Caesar and the Vesontio mutineers (38.34-47) : a rhetoric of lies / Adam Kemezis -- Parrhêsia in Cassius Dio / Christopher Mallan -- Historiography and panegyric : the deconstruction of imperial representation in Cassius Dio's Roman history / Verena Schulz -- Cassius Dio : Pepaideumenos and politician on kingship / Brandon Jones -- Alexander the Great in Cassius Dio / Jesper Carlsen.…”

Table of Contents: “…. ; The Great Divide ; The Century of the Minor Powers ; Persia and Athens ; The Fourth Century to the Death of Alexander ; The Hellenistic World -- Classical Antiquity: Rome : The Roman Republic ; The Augustan Empire ; The Later Roman Empire ; Late Roman Society and Culture -- The Arabs : The Arabs and the Rise of Islam ; The Disruption and Decline of the Arab Empire ; Islamic Civilization ; The Jews in the Arab World -- Asia and Africa : Sub-Saharan Africa ; The Chinese Empire: The Great Era ; The Chinese Empire: Foreign Rulers and National Restoration ; Early Japan ; India ; Southeast Asia -- Medieval Europe : The Early Middle Ages ; The High Middle Ages ; The Late Middle Ages ; The Jews in Medieval Europe -- Byzantium : Early Byzantium ; Later Byzantium ; The Slavs and Early Russia -- The Renaissance and Reformation in Europe : The State System of the Italian Renaissance ; Humanism and Society ; Renaissance Art ; The Reformation: Doctrine ; The Reformation: Society ; The Counter Reformation -- Building the Early Modern State : The Golden Age of Spain ; The Rise of the Dutch Republic ; The Collapse of France ; Elizabethans and Puritans ; The Thirty Years' War ; The Rise of Modern Political Thought -- Toward One World : The Commercial Powers ; The Ottoman Empire ; European Voyages of Exploration ; India: 1500-1750 ; Japan and China ; Aztec and Inca Civilizations ; Spain and Portugal in America ; The Settlement of North America -- The Enlightenment : The Scientific Revolution ; Society and Politics ; Science versus Theology -- Europe: The Great Powers : Forming National States ; The Age of Louis XIV ; Europe in the Eighteenth Century -- Revolution in the Western World : The American Revolution ; The French Revolution -- Reaction and Rebellion : The Napoleonic Era ; The United States: 1789-1823 ; Liberation Movements in Europe ; Liberation Movements in Latin America ; The Near East -- The Industrial Revolution : The Industrial Revolution in England ; The Spread of Industrialization ; A World Economy -- New Forces, New Ideas : Romanticism and After ; From Liberalism to Democracy ; The Rise of Socialism ; The Antislavery Impulse in America ; Unification Movements -- Toward Disintegration: Imperialism in Africa ; American Imperialism ; China Under the Impact of the West ; India Under British Rule ; Darwin and Freud ; The Great Powers to the Verge of War -- The Great World War: 1914-1915 : World War I ; The Russian Revolution and the Stalin Era ; The United States: Prosperity and Depression ; Modern China ; Modernizing Japan ; Nationalism in India ; Europe Between the Wars ; World War II -- The Brooding Present : Europe Since World War II ; The Cold War ; Latin America in Ferment ; The Middle East Since 1940 ; Africa Since 1945 ; The New Asia ; The United States Since World War II ; The State of Culture Today.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Rome gives the world a calendar -- twice -- The Roman Republic and our own -- Julius Caesar and the imperial purple -- Catullus revolutionizes love poetry -- Master builders of the ancient world -- "Satire is wholly ours" -- Ovid's treasure hoard of myth and fable -- The Roman legacy of law -- St. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The last age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C. / edited by J.A. Crook, Andrew Lintott, Elizabeth Rawson -- v. 10. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Macedon and Hellenistic sport and spectacle -- Greeks and Persians -- Philip II: proclaiming Greekness through games -- Alexander the Great: conquests and spectacular games -- Hellenistic sport and spectacle -- The Hellenistic legacy -- 13. The Roman Republic: festivals, celebrations, and games -- Estruscan sport and spectacle: ethnicity, Greek gifts, Roman roots? …”

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Lost History of Global Intelligence; 1 In the Beginning: Spies of the Bible and Ancient Egypt from Moses to the Last Supper; 2 Intelligence Operations in Ancient Greece: Myth and Reality from Odysseus to Alexander the Great; 3 Intelligence and Divination in the Roman Republic; 4 The Art of War and the Arthashastra: How China and India Took an Early Lead over Greece and Rome; 5 The Roman Empire and the Untermenschen; 6 Muhammad and the Rise of Islamic Intelligence…”
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Table of Contents: “…Democracy in Deficit c. 323-86 BCE -- Chapter 15: Roman Republic: a sort of Democracy? [I: Polybius's Roman Constitution -- II: the 'Millar Thesis'] -- Chapter 16: Democracy Denied: the Roman and Early Byzantine Empire -- Chapter 17: Democracy Eclipsed: Late Antiquity, European Middle Ages & the Renaissance -- ACT V -- Chapter 18: Democracy Revived I: England in the 17th Century -- Chapter 19: Democracy Revived II: France in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries -- Chapter 20: Democracy Revived III: the United States in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries -- Chapter 21: Democracy Reinvented II: Tocqueville's America -- Chapter 22: Democracy Reinvented II: 19th-century Britain -- Epilogue Democracy Now: Retrospect & Prospects -- Notes -- References and Further Reading -- Index.…”

Table of Contents: “…Mothers and sons in Plutarch's Roman Parallel Lives : Auctoritas and maternal influence during the Roman Republic / Borja Méndez Santiago -- 16. Seruae, mothers and the mother-child bond in Roman Italy : the analysis of the epigraphic evidence / Carla Rubiera Cancelas -- 17. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Denarius Coinage of the Roman Republic / Bernhard E. Woytek -- 18. The Julio-Claudians / Rienhold Wolters -- 19. …”