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Classical architecture includes structures inspired by the Greeks and Romans. This book showcases remarkable ancient buildings-from temples and churches to houses and palaces-and the architects who built them! A table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, design activity, and sidebars are included in this title.

Presents the text of Shakespeare's tragedy of power and love, and includes an overview of the playwright's life, world, and theater; a selection of dramatic criticism; a stage and screen history; and a list of recommended readings.

"Can modern DNA analysis uncover clues about the ancestry and migration of Romans? What . . . information can forensic science teach us about the fate of the citizens of Pompeii? How can X-rays help us analyze ancient art to learn about ancient Roman life? Examines how forensic science has allowed scientists, archaeologists, and historians to solve mysteries and answer questions about ancient Rome"--Amazon.

Details the life of Roman general Julius Caesar from his childhood to his death.

Chronicles the life and career of Augustus Caesar who was the first emperor of Rome.

Examines seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France.

From the founding of its republic in 509 B.C.E. to the demise of its empire in 476 C.E., Rome dominated the countries of the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East, and Europe as far north as Britain. Roman scientists, engineers, mathematicians, architects, and others left a rich legacy of roads, aqueducts, bridges, mills, treatises, and more over its thousand-year history and for the centuries to come. This intriguing volume explains the dramatic story of Rome's conquests and triumphs, and how they went hand in hand with advancements in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM.

In the waning days of the Roman republic, Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is elected to the lowly office of aedile, where he is required to investigate the collapse of a tenement building, and finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens his life.

Gordianus the Finder is charged by Pompey the Great to discover what really happened on the Appian Way on January, 52 B.C. after Publius Clodius is found murdered and Titus Milo stands accused.