Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Yet they also knew that the Republic's greatness carried its own risks. In 49 B.C. Rubicon book. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. God and His Children: Learning about prayer through Christians in discussion (Volume 1), Missing Lenses: Recovering Scripture's Radical Focus on Our Common Life in Christ, The 5-Minute Exercise Plan: 30 Micro Workouts for Maximum Results, Hope for the Nations: Paul’s Letter to the Romans, Romans: The Divine Marriage, Volume 1 Chapters 1-8: A Biblical Theological Commentary, Second Edition Revised, Romans: The Divine Marriage, Volume 2 Chapters 9-16: A Biblical Theological Commentary, Second Edition Revised, Tom Wright and the Search for Truth, Revised and Expanded: A Theological Evaluation, Romans The Divine Marriage Volume 2 Chapters 9-16: A Biblical Theological Commentary, Second Edition Revised, Romans The Divine Marriage Volume 1 Chapters 1-8: A Biblical Theological Commentary, Second Edition Revised. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; We use cookies to enhance your visit to us. Why Does He Still Matter? To abuse it would be to court divine anger. Thus, an obscure rabbi in first-century Israel started the world’s largest religion, impacting billions and forming the basis of Western civilization.

Refresh and try again. Which book would you like to read for our September 1 - October 1 History group read? Please take a moment to review it. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, Campaigns Manager, Octopus Publishing Group, The History of the Ancient World From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, Rubicon The Last Years of the Roman Republic, GETTING ACQUAINTED -THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, ARCHIVE - MILLENNIUM: THE END OF THE WORLD AND THE FORGING OF CHRISTENDOM - BR - 05/09/11 - 06/05/11.

“I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.”, “It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world.