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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 1968

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  • Cover of: Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

    First published in 2019 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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  • Cover of: Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

    First published in 2023 — 4 editions
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    First published in 2015 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Wolf-Girl, the Greeks, and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars

    First published in 2023 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    First published in 2011 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron
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    First published in 1996 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1998 — 3 editions
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    First published in 2000 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Persian fire: the first world empire and the battle for the West
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    First published in 2005 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Milenio: El fin del mundo y el origen de la cristiandad

    First published in 2010 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Missing Lenses: Recovering Scripture's Radical Focus on Our Common Life in Christ

    First published in 2018 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Twisted Tales: Domestic Disturbances

    First published in 2020 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Fuego persa: El primer imperio mundial y la batalla por Occidente

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English popular historian and writer (born 1968)

Born 1968

Subjects

History, Fiction, Vampires, Fiction, horror, Fiction, general, Islamic empire, history, Byron, george gordon byron, baron, 1788-1824, fiction, Christianity, Social conditions, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Greece, history, persian wars, 500-449 b.c., Histoire, Iran, history, to 640, Islam, Poets, Rome, history, empire, 30 b.c.-476 a.d., Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C., Vampires, fiction, Archaeologists, Bible, theology, n. t., Church history, Emperors, rome, English Poets, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical

Places

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

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, 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, Sulla, Tom Holland

Time

Republic, 265-30 B.C., 510-30 B.C., Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066, Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066, 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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15 hours ago Edited by willstchallis removed 1936 birth year as that is the Californian visual artist and did not match Wikipedia or Wikidata link
15 hours ago Edited by willstchallis Added new photo
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
May 25, 2012 Edited by Valerie Kerr merge authors