Ancient Shorts: An Ancient World Romance Collection, five short and steamy romance stories set in Imperial Rome, Parthian Ctesiphon, and Byzantine Constantinople
Ancient Shorts: An Ancient World Romance Collection, five short and steamy romance stories set in Imperial Rome, Parthian Ctesiphon, and Byzantine Constantinople

Author: Regina Kammer

Publisher: Viridium Press

Published: 2019-10-04

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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A famous myth rewritten. A servant and a soldier in Imperial Rome. A princess and a eunuch in Parthian Ctesiphon. A noble woman and a Viking raider in Byzantine Constantinople. A reunion. A discovery. A connection. Ancient Shorts: An Ancient World Romance Collection features all five of Regina Kammer’s Ancient World romance short stories, tales of discovering love in times long ago including Imperial Rome, Parthian Ctesiphon, and Byzantine Constantinople. This collection includes the following previously published Ancient World romance short stories, appearing in chronological order: Hot as Hades Mythological After living in Hell for four months, Persephone returns home to the mortal realm. But can home truly be home without the man she loves? The Promise of Memory 100 CE A Roman slave finds freedom in her fantasies of a knight in Trajan’s imperial guard — a warrior who evokes memories of a long lost love. An Unexpected Discovery 130-138 CE A Parthian princess searching for the lost throne of her kingdom engages the services of a palace eunuch and discovers a treasure far more precious. The Eunuch 138 CE In Ancient Parthia, a palace servant gives his body in service to a princess. But who is really in control? Nota Bene: “An Unexpected Discovery” and “The Eunuch” are published together for the first time. Protecting Her 860 CE A Byzantine noblewoman seeking refuge in a monastery loses her heart to an invader when Constantinople is sacked by the Viking Rus. Keywords: mythology retelling, Greco-Roman myths in romance, Roman Empire, Ancient world, Russian Vikings, steamy romance short stories, historical romance short stories

Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Author: B. P. Reardon

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 982

ISBN-13: 0520305590

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Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.

Ancient Tales, Modern Legends
Ancient Tales, Modern Legends

Author: Ted William Gross

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2012-01-13

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781469901718

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Ancient Tales, Modern Legends, a short story collection by Ted William Gross presents the reader with engaging and thought-provoking stories spanning the ages. Covering subjects of love, loss, pain, desire, need, frustration and hope these stories are meant to entertain as well leave an indelible impression upon the reader. Ted Gross cleverly combines ancient lore in his "Tiny Slivers From A Silver Horn" weaving Unicorns, the story of Adam & Eve and the modern world into a tale of lost wisdom and gained hope. "Love In A Cafe" moves the reader within the soft aura of love until the surprise ending. "Elijah's Coins" leaves us wondering about the great "what if" of life and just how blessed or cursed it would make us to change the future. "Reverieing" is a glimpse of the slow descent of one individual into his own personal hell. "Addiction, Obsession, Love", "Tenuous Webs" & "And So They Danced" look upon love and loss from different perspectives. "A Tapestry Of War" is a real war story and the consequences of war upon the psyche of the soldier. "The Sunflower" portrays how hate can insidiously seep into the heart of man while "The Heretic" will leave you wondering who the real heretic actually is. "Kapparot" will let you delve into the mystical world of Hassidic philosophy while looking upon man's relation to God. "Jacob's Ladder" will introduce you to a world of angels and their mission of silence. The Following Short Stories Are Contained Within Ancient Tales, Modern Legends Love In A Café Elijah's Coins Reverieing The Sunflower Tenuous Webs The Heretic Kapparot A Tapestry Of War And So They Danced Jacob's Ladder Addiction, Obsession, Love Tiny Slivers From A Silver Horn This is not a book to dismiss easily. Enjoy it. Grow with it. You will in turn, be haunted by it and the stories will remain with you long after you have closed the pages.

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

Author: Susan Wise Bauer

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-03-17

Total Pages: 897

ISBN-13: 0393070891

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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”—literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts—to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.

Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World

Author: Christopher A. Faraone

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2008-03-14

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0299213137

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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected with almost every aspect of daily life. They sat in brothels and walked the streets; they paid taxes and set up dedications in religious sanctuaries; they appeared as characters—sometimes admirable, sometimes despicable—on the comic stage and in the law courts; they lived lavishly, consorting with famous poets and politicians; and they participated in otherwise all-male banquets and drinking parties, where they aroused jealousy among their anxious lovers. The chapters in this volume examine a wide variety of genres and sources, from legal and religious tracts to the genres of lyric poetry, love elegy, and comic drama to the graffiti scrawled on the walls of ancient Pompeii. These essays reflect the variety and vitality of the debates engendered by the last three decades of research by confronting the ambiguous terms for prostitution in ancient languages, the difficulty of distinguishing the prostitute from the woman who is merely promiscuous or adulterous, the question of whether sacred or temple prostitution actually existed in the ancient Near East and Greece, and the political and social implications of literary representations of prostitutes and courtesans.

Birds in the Ancient World
Birds in the Ancient World

Author: Jeremy Mynott

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0198713657

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Birds played an important role in the ancient world: as indicators of time, weather, and seasons; as a resource for hunting, medicine, and farming; as pets and entertainment; as omens and messengers of the gods. Jeremy Mynott explores the similarities and surprising differences between ancient perceptions of the natural world and our own.

Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Julia Annas

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2000-10-12

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0191578304

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The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces readers to some ancient debates to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes and styles. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Ancient, Ancient
Ancient, Ancient

Author: Kiini Ibura Salaam

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781933500966

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Ancient, Ancient is a collection of short fiction by Kiini Ibura Salaam. Acclaimed author and critic Nalo Hopkinson writes, Salaam treats words like the seductive weapons they are. She wields them to weave fierce, gorgeous stories that stroke your sensibilities, challenge your preconceptions, and leave you breathless with their beauty. Indeed, Ms. Salaams stories are so permeated with sensuality that in her introduction to Ancient, Ancient, Nisi Shawl, author of the award-winning Filter House, writes, Sexuality-cum-sensuality is the experiential link between mind and matter, the vivid and eternal refutation of the alleged dichotomy between them. And it is the throbbing, glistening heart of Kiinis body of work. Salaams unusual settings and lonely characters will call to readers who hunger for sex, identity, or just a place to belong.Publishers Weekly, March 5, 2012

Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel

Author: Tim Whitmarsh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1139500589

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The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory.

Imperial Warriors: Two Scorching Tales of the Roman Empire
Imperial Warriors: Two Scorching Tales of the Roman Empire

Author: Regina Kammer

Publisher: Viridium Press

Published: 2016-06-04

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13:

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Ancient Warriors... Muscles flexing under sun-burnished skin as thick arms wield swords, battle axes, or bow and arrow. Brawny, fierce, and intensely loyal to their cause, king, or god. Alpha heroes romanticized through the lens of history. ...of the Roman Empire Legions marching under the banner of Rome for centuries, conquering the Mediterranean and beyond, from Britannia in the West to Anatolia in the East. Imperial Warriors: Two Scorching Tales of the Roman Empire offers two sizzling tales of romance between warriors and the women who are inexorably drawn to them. Each story is set during a different time and place in the Roman Empire: Trajanic Rome and Byzantine Constantinople. The Promise of Memory A servant in Rome's imperial palace finds freedom in fantasies of a knight in the imperial guard--a warrior who evokes memories of a long lost love. Protecting Her A Byzantine noblewoman seeking refuge in a monastery loses her heart to an invader when Constantinople is sacked by the Viking Rus. "The Promise of Memory" and "Protecting Her" by best-selling historical romance author Regina Kammer, have been published separately before but are now available together for the first time. This mini-anthology includes bonus content from Regina Kammer: an excerpt from the Roman Imperial epic Hadrian and Sabina: A Love Story, an excerpt from the Parthian historical romance short story “An Unexpected Discovery”, plus an introductory essay. FIC027140 FICTION / Romance / Historical / Ancient World FIC027180 FICTION / Romance / Historical / Viking FIC027080 FICTION / Romance / Collections & Anthologies FIC027260 FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure FIC027220 FICTION / Romance / Military FIC027150 FICTION / Romance / Historical / Medieval LCO017000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval LCO019000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors FIC029000 FICTION / Short Stories (single author)