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'A wonderful book.' - Peter Frankopan
'A masterpiece' - Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
'Remarkable' - Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules-For Now
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A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark
'A stunning retrospect and ...
In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the ...
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war
Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs ...
Includes an introduction, maps, and selections from Herodotus' The Histories, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's The Hellenica, Aristotle's The Constitution of ...
The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to sit upon a pedestal. But ...
From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great ...
Upon his return from India, Alexander the Great travelled to the Persian royal city of Pasargadae to pay homage at the tomb of King Cyrus ...
The dramatic conclusion to this trilogy explains the reversal of fortunes and final defeat of Xerxes' Persian invasion of Greece; not as unlikely as usually ...
This is the epic story of the Great Persian War of 481-479 BC, the major land and sea Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes. Starting ...
This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organisation and equipment of the Macedonian army built by Philip II and later employed to ...
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?
The story of Greece is our story ...
'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'
PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazine
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