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Tom Holland

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. 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; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.

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English popular historian and writer (born 1968)

Born 05 January 1968

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English popular historian and writer (born 1968)

Born 05 January 1968

Subjects

History Fiction Vampires genre:history Fiction, horror Fiction, general Islamic empire, history Byron, george gordon byron, baron, 1788-1824, fiction Christianity Histoire Nonfiction Social conditions Church history Fiction, occult & supernatural Great britain, kings and rulers Greece, history, persian wars, 500-449 b.c. Iran, history, to 640 Islam Poets Rome, history, empire, 30 b.c.-476 a.d. Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C. Vampires, fiction World history genre:non-fiction series:History of Rome

Places

Rome Greece Mercia (England) Mercia (Kingdom) Egypt Persia Rome (Empire) Syria Achaemenid Empire Alexandria Asia Minor Britain Carthage Constantinople Cyprus Gaul Iran Iraq Islamic Empire London (England) Macedon Near East New York (N.Y.) North Africa Pontus

People

George Gordon Byron Byron Baron (1788-1824) Aethelflaed Alfred King of England (849-899) Alfred the Great Alfred the Great, king of England Ethelfled (-918) Ethelfled (d. 918) Æthelflæd Athelstan King of England (895-939) Athelstan King of England (895-940) Augustus Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Brutus Cassius Cato the Younger Cicero Cleopatra Clodia (94-53 B.C) Crassus Gaius Valerius Catullus Howard Carter (1874-1939) Julius Caesar Mark Antony Pompey Spartacus

Time

Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066 Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 Republic, 265-30 B.C. 510-30 B.C. Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. 19th century 30 B.C.-476 A.D. 49 B.C. 510 B.C.-30 B.C. Antiquity Civil War, 49 B.C.-45 B.C. Civil War, 49-45 B.C Civil War, 49-45 B.C. Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Late Antiquity Persian Wars, 500-499 B.C. Republic, 265 B.C.-30 B.C. Roman Republic 500-27 BC To 640

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