This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes special discussions of diction in the Odyssey and the tradition of epic diction in general.

John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations—and which in turn have shaped our own.  The cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations...

Gladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire. Empire. The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single...

Spanning a million years of human prehistory, this luminous volume begins with the earliest stages of man's existence, the food-gathering period and the beginnings of food-raising, and ends with the consolidation of the Persian Empire around 500 B.C.

One of the most important periods of Greek history lies between the Persian king Xerxes' defeat at Greek hands in 479 B.C.E. and the destruction of the power of Athens in 404 B.C.E. A major problem in this era is how and when Athens managed to transform...

The Construction Of Decumanus Vi N And The Economy Of The Early Colony Of Carthage / Colin Wells [and Others] -- Water Supply In Ancient Carthage / Andrew Wilson -- A Roman Bath-house At Bir El Jebbana : Preliminary Report On The Excavations (1994-1997)...

It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display. But there is far more to the boy-king's story...

First published in 1972, this collection presents fifty-nine essays by the great scholar Arthur Darby Nock.

This book covers one of the defining periods of European history. The series of wars between the Classical Greeks and the Persian Empire produced the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, as well as an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the...

In Athenian Society, Jennifer Gibbon explains the complex society of Athens in the 5th century BC through a number of important themes. She begins by looking at life int he city and life in the country, then moves on to such individual areas as citizens,...

Gives the history of Rome as a whole from its rise to its fall, while concentrating on the four figures of Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Hadrian, and St. Augustine. With helpful maps and charts, evocative and relevant photographs and a useful bibliography The...

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM“Until now, the social history of Byzantium has remained a neglected field. Professor John Haldon has put together a team of leading international Byzantinists, each of whom addresses his or her own specialized area. The book...

A classic study of chance and contingency in historical writing.