In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and...

"The polis, the dominant political form around which ancient Greeks structured their lives and activities, is perhaps their most fundamental creation and enduring legacy. It was a highly successful form of social organization in which Greek culture...

This book provides a general introduction to the grammar and syntax of Hellenistic, or New Testament, Greek. Comprised of 24 chapters, it is suitable for a two-semester course. Each lesson is structured around equipping students to read passages drawn...

How the New Stone Age shaped our worldApproximately 12,000 years ago, early humans in western Asia and Europe who had been itinerant foragers, subsisting on what food they could find, slowly began settling in one place. They farmed and domesticated...

From prehistory to the present day, an unrivaled look deep into the contentious origins of the CeltsBlood of the Celts brings together genetic, archaeological, and linguistic evidence to address the often-debated question: who were the Celts? What...

The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient EgyptOne of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line...

The history and culture of the area that now forms parts of Iran, Iraq, and Syria are described in terms of artifacts found there dating from the Stone Age to 539 B.C. and the Persian invasion

Archaic Bookkeeping brings together the most currentscholarship on the earliest true writing system in humanhistory. Invented by the Babylonians at the end of thefourth millennium B.C., this script, called proto-cuneiform,survives in the form of clay...

Surveys the progress of Egyptian civilization by concentrating on the twin themes of the Nile and Egypt's natural resources and the influences of Egypt's god incarnate, the pharaoh.