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Alexander the Great is remembered as a brilliant conqueror, but his father's achievements as a leader were greater still
Alexander the Great is probably ...
The year is AD100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable, from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. But the might ...
How did the Romans go from a small tribe living on the banks of the Tiber to an imperial power that at its height encompassed ...
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like ...
An authoritative account of Roman imperial, military and political power, and of classical Rome's far-reaching influence on Western culture, architecture and art. Nearly 1000 ...
This revised edition features a new introduction by Robin Seager, putting the lives in the context of Plutarch's biography and literary career, discussing and ...
This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, a warrior for Genghis Khan and one of the greatest generals in military history. Subotai commanded ...
One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might ...
A fascinating study of Athenian political machinery, containing invaluable insights into Athenian democracy
Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both ...
Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and ...
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Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most ...
Abridged and with an Introduction by Antony Lentin and Brian Norman. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788 ...
The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and ...
Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated ...
A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time- Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian ...
