Lyon Christopher S M (13 results)

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Slow and Secret Poison: The Fall of the Roman Republic 146-31 BC. Book.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Roman Republic did not die in a single stroke. It was poisoned.For nearly a century, a succession of ambitious men of Rome each administered a fresh dose to an institution already corrupted by faction, graft, and the slow surrender of civic virtue to personal glory. By the time Octavian's fleet shattered Antony's at Actium in 31 BC, the cure had killed the patient. Rome had a single, omnipotent master.A Slow and Secret Poison traces the long, violent unmaking of the Roman Republic-from the rhetorical thunder of the Gracchi brothers to the burning ships at Actium and the last of the pharaohs dying in her Alexandrian tomb. Drawing exclusively on the ancient sources-Plutarch, Appian, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Sallust, and Caesar himself-Christopher S. M. Lyon restores the late Republic to its own voices, its own quarrels, and its own blood.Here are Marius and Sulla, Pompey and Crassus, Caesar and Antony-not as marble busts but as ambitious, ruthless men dosing an ailing state with a venom that took a hundred years to kill. The poison was not in any single act, but in the slow erosion of restraint, the steady normalization of violence, and the seductive bargain by which a desperate populace traded a republic for a master.A vivid, sweeping account of the most consequential and evocative collapse in Western history-and the first volume of Legends and Legacies, a seven-volume history of Europe from the fall of the Republic to the fall of Constantinople.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand. Lyon, Eoin G. (illustrator).

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Roman Republic did not die in a single stroke. It was poisoned.For nearly a century, a succession of ambitious men of Rome each administered a fresh dose to an institution already corrupted by faction, graft, and the slow surrender of civic virtue to personal glory. By the time Octavian's fleet shattered Antony's at Actium in 31 BC, the cure had killed the patient. Rome had a single, omnipotent master.A Slow and Secret Poison traces the long, violent unmaking of the Roman Republic-from the rhetorical thunder of the Gracchi brothers to the burning ships at Actium and the last of the pharaohs dying in her Alexandrian tomb. Drawing exclusively on the ancient sources-Plutarch, Appian, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Sallust, and Caesar himself-Christopher S. M. Lyon restores the late Republic to its own voices, its own quarrels, and its own blood.Here are Marius and Sulla, Pompey and Crassus, Caesar and Antony-not as marble busts but as ambitious, ruthless men dosing an ailing state with a venom that took a hundred years to kill. The poison was not in any single act, but in the slow erosion of restraint, the steady normalization of violence, and the seductive bargain by which a desperate populace traded a republic for a master.A vivid, sweeping account of the most consequential and evocative collapse in Western history-and the first volume of Legends and Legacies, a seven-volume history of Europe from the fall of the Republic to the fall of Constantinople. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. Print on Demand. Lyon, Eoin G. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Roman Republic did not die in a single stroke. It was poisoned.For nearly a century, a succession of ambitious men of Rome each administered a fresh dose to an institution already corrupted by faction, graft, and the slow surrender of civic virtue to personal glory. By the time Octavian's fleet shattered Antony's at Actium in 31 BC, the cure had killed the patient. Rome had a single, omnipotent master.A Slow and Secret Poison traces the long, violent unmaking of the Roman Republic-from the rhetorical thunder of the Gracchi brothers to the burning ships at Actium and the last of the pharaohs dying in her Alexandrian tomb. Drawing exclusively on the ancient sources-Plutarch, Appian, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Sallust, and Caesar himself-Christopher S. M. Lyon restores the late Republic to its own voices, its own quarrels, and its own blood.Here are Marius and Sulla, Pompey and Crassus, Caesar and Antony-not as marble busts but as ambitious, ruthless men dosing an ailing state with a venom that took a hundred years to kill. The poison was not in any single act, but in the slow erosion of restraint, the steady normalization of violence, and the seductive bargain by which a desperate populace traded a republic for a master.A vivid, sweeping account of the most consequential and evocative collapse in Western history-and the first volume of Legends and Legacies, a seven-volume history of Europe from the fall of the Republic to the fall of Constantinople. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The first volume in an epoch-spanning saga, "A Crown of Radiant Night" comprises an introduction to the fantastic and mesmerizing universe of the Lyon brothers' epic tale. Five thousand years after an asteroid's cataclysmal reshaping of the world known as Thais, two brothers named Caderyn and Belisar journey with their family from their sleepy farming village in the north to a gathering of the local clans. The fallout from this Calling will reshape their lives and set in motion forces long dormant. In the same land, Paedrin, son of a local warlord, finds himself suddenly orphaned and cast adrift in the world. Finding his way north through the trackless mountain wastes with a faceless evil in pursuit, Paedrin and his fellow travelers must find their way to a place that no-one has seen in a thousand years, a fortress known as Mar-Cathrak. Far to the east, across the terror of the Middle Deep, a gladiator named Kuresh fights for his life on the bloody sands of the death pits in the metropolis of Rija. A world-changing destiny waits for him as well, but for good or ill is in his own hands. Strange forces are stirring in Thais, both in Norika and its sister continent of Sutam. Treachery, love, war, and faith spiral through the world on collision courses with each other and the dark heart of the world. Where will this journey end? What is it's true beginning? Only time - and the intrepid dual authors - will tell us. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …