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5) The robe
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
This is the inspiring story of the robe that Jesus wore on the cross and the Roman centurion, Marcellus Gallio, who wins the robe in a gambling match at the foot of the cross.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Second wife of the emperor Augustus, mother of his successor Tiberius, grandmother of Claudius and great grandmother of Caligula, the empress Livia lived close to the center of Roman political power for eight turbulent decades. Her life spanned the years of Rome?s transformation from Republic to Empire, and witnessed both its triumphs under the rule of Augustus and its lapse into instability under his dysfunctional successor. Livia was given the...
11) The last wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"If I return to my pack, the stranger will die... Silver Nilsdottir is at the bottom of her Pack's social order, with little chance for a decent mate and a better life... But if I stay...I am gambling that this shifter and I are strong enough for the fight... Until a wounded stranger stumbles into their territory, and Silver decides to risk everything. But Tiberius Leveraux is more than he seems, and in the fragile balance of Pack and Wild, he may...
Author
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Silius Italicus' Punica, the longest surviving epic in Latin literature, has seen a resurgence of interest among scholars in recent years. A celebration of Rome's triumph over Hannibal and Carthage during the second Punic war, Silius' poem presents a plethora of familiar names to its readers: Fabius Maximus, Claudius Marcellus, Scipio Africanus and, of course, Rome's 'ultimate enemy' - Hannibal. Where most recent scholarship on the Punica has focused...
14) Dragon blade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An and his group of trained warriors teams up with an elite legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region. To protect his country and his new friends, Huo An gathers the warriors of thirty-six ethnic nations together to fight Tiberius in an incredible epic battle.
15) Cyclops
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The emperor Tiberius attempts to capture the Cyclops in order to impress the people of Rome.
16) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
BEN-HUR is the epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title, separated from his family and the woman he loves (Nazanin Boniadi), Judah is forced into slavery. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption. Based on Lew Wallace?s timeless novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
17) Caligula
Language
English
Description
"Caligula may very well be the most controversial film in history ... the epic story of Rome's mad Emperor. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more. Not for the squeamish, not for the prudish"--Container.
Author
Series
Phoenix. Supplementary volume volume 48
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English