Robin Waterfield Libri

Retells the adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man.

In an absorbing account of a critical chapter in Rome's mastery of the Mediterranean, Robin Waterfield reveals the peculiar nature of Rome's eastern policy. For over seventy years, the Romans avoided annexation so that they could commit their military and financial resources to the fight against Carthage and elsewhere. Though ultimately a failure, this policy of indirect rule, punctuated by periodic brutal military interventions and intense diplomacy, worked well for several decades, until the Senate finally settled on more direct forms of control. Waterfield's fast-paced narrative focuses mainly on military and diplomatic maneuvers, but throughout he interweaves other topics and themes, such as the influence of Greek culture on Rome, the Roman aristocratic ethos, and the clash between the two best fighting machines the ancient world ever produced: the Macedonian phalanx and Roman legion.

Apart from the thrilling military action, the story of the Roman conquest of Greece is central to the story of Rome itself and the empire it created. As Robin Waterfield shows, the Romans developed a highly sophisticated method of dominance by remote control over the Greeks of the eastern Mediterranean - the cheap option of using authority and diplomacy to keep order rather than standing armies. And it is a story that raises a number of fascinating questions aboutRome, her empire, and her civilization. For instance, to what extent was the Roman conquest a planned and deliberate policy? What was it about Roman culture that gave it such a will for conquest? Andwhat was the effect on Roman intellectual and artistic culture, on their very identity, of their entanglement with an older Greek civilization, which the Romans themselves recognized as supreme?

This easy to read biography offers a fascinating look at the life of Alexander and the world he lived in. A series of illustrated biographies for young readers featuring significant historical figures, including artists, scientists, and world leaders.

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness. And then into the party bursts the drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and notorious Athenian of the time, who insists on praising Socrates himself rather than love, and gives us a brilliant sketch of this enigmatic character. The power, humour, and pathos of Plato's creation engages the reader on every page. This new translation is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction.

Alla fine dell'estate, Gordie e i suoi tre migliori amici, spinti dalla voglia di avventura, vanno alla ricerca del cadavere di un loro coetaneo scomparso. Motivati dal desiderio - ognuno per una ragione diversa - di riscattarsi e diventare degli eroi, si mettono in cammino lungo i binari della ferrovia. Dovranno superare momenti di fatica, paura e mille ostacoli, fra cui anche quello di doversi scontrare con i bulli, e scopriranno che i mostri non si nascondono dentro gli armadi, ma nel cuore delle persone. Questo racconto è già comparso in traduzione italiana con il titolo "Il corpo (Stand by me)" nella raccolta "Stagioni diverse".

The remarkable story of the Ancient Olympic Games, narrated in invigorating style by a leading classical scholar and translator.

Notes on the Roman philosopher's life and the relations between Stoicism and Christianity preface a modern translation of the journal

Paul Sheldon, un celebre scrittore, viene sequestrato in una casa isolata del Colorado da una sua fanatica ammiratrice. Affetta da gravi turbe psichiche, la donna non gli perdona di avere "eliminato" Misery, il suo personaggio preferito, e gli impone, tra terribili sevizie, di "resuscitarla" in un nuovo romanzo. Paul non ha scelta, pur rendendosi conto che in certi casi la salvezza può essere peggio della morte... Un capolavoro dell'horror, un incubo raccapricciante che solo Stephen King poteva concepire.

The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble man was put to death in a fit of folly by the ancient Athenian democracy.