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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...