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Most of what we 'know' about Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) comes from the pages of much later historians, writing 300 years or more after ...
How has Greece shaped the world we live in today, and what can we learn from its history?
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'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ...
Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'
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In 2022 it will ...
From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient ...
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Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award
"A magisterial contribution to this hitherto obscure but clearly important restructuring of time ...
Why was it that 2400 years ago the people who had recently conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from looting the tombs ...
Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles ...
At around 4.00pm 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world ...
The Greeks is the story of a culture that has contributed more than any other to the way we live today in the West. The ...
A new narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.
A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story ...
In the annals of ancient history the lights of Alexander the Great and Gaius Julius Caesar shine brighter than any other, inspiring generations of dynasts ...
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR The backbone of classical Greek armies was the phalanx of heavily armoured spearmen, or hoplites. These were the soldiers that defied the might ...
Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire) were near their peak. In ...
Their contemporaries were fascinated by the Spartans and we still are. They are portrayed as the stereotypical macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless and impervious ...
