Kings, Queens and Concubines: True Stories of Love, Lust and Passion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kings, Queens and Concubines: True Stories of Love, Lust and Passion write by Maria Arnodt Wilson. This book was released on 2023-01-31. Kings, Queens and Concubines: True Stories of Love, Lust and Passion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everyone is interested in knowing about the lifestyle of ancient kings. Especially with their harem. Harem is an Arabic word meaning enclosure, inner palace, forbidden or sacred place. A harem is a sacred place reserved for women to which no man other than a king or prince is allowed to enter. The harem housed the wives, concubines, minor sons, unmarried daughters, female relatives and concubines of the king, sultan or emperor. Besides, there were hundreds, thousands of young women in the harem to entertain the king or the princes. The more aristocratic, powerful and wealthy the king, the more women he had in his harem. It is Lord Acton who says: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." Is it that power yields desire, the desire to tame, the desire to win? In history it is true not only for kings but queens also. The kings had concubines and harems of thousand prized girls. So also, the queens did not fall behind in building harems or having their desire fulfilled with hundreds of men. Egyptian beauty queen Cleopatra, Queen Enzinga of Angola, Queen Catherine of Russia, Princess Diana are very effective counterparts of their fellow kings. However they are also revered in history. They seem to be very effectively able to manage their public and private lives. Cleopatra had her desire fulfilled with several Roman generals. It is said that she had satisfied more than a hundred romans in a single night. Queen Enzinga had her own Arabian nights, killing the male after the mating. Queen Catherine is said to be dead in her attempt to have a relationship with a horse. The lusty life of princess Diana is an example to itself in the modern world. This book tries to have a glance into the secret private lives of kings, queens and concubines.
The King's Ruby
The King's Ruby - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The King's Ruby write by Audrie Rain. This book was released on 2019-10-19. The King's Ruby available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ruby is given her name by the King once she has submitted her body to him and he begins to know her intimately. Running for her life from those that would kill her, she happens upon the greatest opportunity ever presented to her, knowledge that the King is creating a harem, and noble women of all the realm are welcomed to present themselves to be chosen. Ruby would do anything to escape a life of imprisonment and become the second concubine in the King's harem... anything.When the King's first gem, Diamond, claims her, she realizes where the power and decision to bring a second woman into the King's chambers truly originates. Diamond did what any woman would have given anything to do, seduce the King and make him fall madly in love with her. He gave Diamond the world, then he gave her Ruby, and Ruby would risk everything for this new life, but the bandits that captured her know where she is.The concubines live in a secret collection of chambers hidden behind the library. Their lavish life allows them to bath in waterfalls, dry their voluptuous bodies by fireplaces, and enact their wildest fantasies at the royal master's discretion. Submitting to the King's dominate lust and desire is their only duty in life.
Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? write by Lester L. Grabbe. This book was released on 2017-02-23. Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Ancient Israel Lester L. Grabbe sets out to summarize what we know through a survey of sources and how we know it by a discussion of methodology and by evaluating the evidence. The most basic question about the history of ancient Israel, how do we know what we know, leads to the fundamental questions of Grabbe's work: what are the sources for the history of Israel and how do we evaluate them? How do we make them 'speak' to us through the fog of centuries? Grabbe focuses on original sources, including inscriptions, papyri, and archaeology. He examines the problems involved in historical methodology and deals with the major issues surrounding the use of the biblical text when writing a history of this period. Ancient Israel provides an enlightening overview and critique of current scholarly debate. It can therefore serve as a 'handbook' or reference-point for those wanting a catalogue of original sources, scholarship, and secondary studies. Grabbe's clarity of style makes this book eminently accessible not only to students of biblical studies and ancient history but also to the interested lay reader. For this new edition the entire text has been reworked to take account of new archaeological discoveries and theories. There is a major expansion to include a comprehensive coverage of David and Solomon and more detailed information on specific kings of Israel throughout. Grabbe has also added material on the historicity of the Exodus, and provided a thorough update of the material on the later bronze age.
Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World
Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World write by Anise K. Strong. This book was released on 2016-07-12. Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From streetwalkers in the Roman Forum to imperial concubines, Roman prostitutes defined what it meant to be a 'bad girl'.
Xerxes
Xerxes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Xerxes write by Richard Stoneman. This book was released on 2015-08-15. Xerxes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes’ expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective. This illuminating volume does not whitewash Xerxes’ failings but sets against them such triumphs as the architectural splendor of Persepolis and a consideration of Xerxes’ religious commitments. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a man who ruled a vast and multicultural empire which the Greek communities of the West saw as the antithesis of their own values.
