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Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Gavin Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a ...
The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on ...
At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen with borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to ...
Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War ...
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets ...
"Drusus the Elder, illuminated at last in this the first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome's empire and for which ...
The Romans' destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life. What we know of him comes ...
The story of the greatest empire the world has ever known from its earliest origins to its disintegration in AD 476. The story of Ancient ...
From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity ...
Combining the latest scholarship with a highly readable style, Kathryn Tempest looks at Cicero the politician and orator, and the private man. On the back ...
Until very recently, the academic view of the Fall of the Roman Empire has downplayed the violence and destruction, in an attempt to provide a ...
The vivid, magisterial and long-awaited biography of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor and embodiment of the philosopher's king
Marcus Aurelius is the one great ...
Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men armed only with kitchen knives. It grew into a full scale rebellion ...
