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After surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and ...
In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey ...
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor ...
To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning point in world history is a vast understatement. This bloody and protracted conflict pitted two ...
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)
'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... There's ...
Darius III ruled over the Persian Empire and was the most powerful king of his time, yet he remains obscure. In the first book devoted ...
