Ammianus, a Greek from Antioch, served many years as an officer in the Roman army, then settled in Rome, where he wrote a…

The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431-421, 415-413, and 413-404 BC) that Thucydides was still unifying into…

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Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about AD 314, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…

Historical works by Bede (672 or 673-735) include his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Lives of the Abbots of…

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BCE) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of Achilles…

The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian "the Apostate" (AD 331 or 332-363) include eight Orations; Misopogon…

Three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Juluis Caesar.…

In The Learned Banqueters (late-2nd century CE), Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote…

Copyright date: 1984. Originally published: 1916.…

The epic Dionysiaca by Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt (fifth century CE) concerns Dionysus earthly career from birth at Thebes…

Cyropaedia by Xenophon (c. 430 c. 354 BCE) is a historical romance on the education of the sixth century BCE Persian king…

Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples…

\nThe Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 Greek poems in the sparkling, diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a…

The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian "the Apostate" (331 or 332-363 CE) include eight Orations; Misopogon…

Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC AD 12 or 17), the Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the…

Volume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the "Father of Medicine" that illustrate the…

Pausanias, one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks,…

In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy treats the practical use…

Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library…

\nJustin’s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal…

The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of…

Aristophanes of Athens (c 446-386 BC) is considered one of the world's greatest comic dramatists. He wrote 40 plays, 11 of…

Apuleius (born ca. AD 125), one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was a prominent figure in Roman Africa best known…

The six plays by Terence (died 159 BCE), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and…

We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has…

An exhilarating exploration of the musical language forms and styles of the Romantic period, The Romantic Generation…

In this text the editors present both a scholarly understanding of the complexities of the Daoist tradition and a critical…

For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empiricist Tradition -…

Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find…

\nNostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation…

The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be…

Headlines from France suggest that the country's Jews and Muslims are inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different…

• Rok vydání 2018

Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past.…

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Leonardo Bruni was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was one of the best-selling authors of the…

\nThe Old English Pastoral Care, a ninth-century translation from Latin of Pope Gregory the Great\'s guide for aspiring…

A four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and monuments of Constantinople,…

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Medical Writings from Early Medieval England presents vernacular texts on health and healing-unique local remedies and…

• Rok vydání 2015

The poetry of Bullhe Shah, who drew upon Sufi mysticism, is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature.…

\nKalidasa’s The Lineage of the Raghus, or Raghuva?sa, belongs to the literary tradition of mahakavya, or court poem. It…

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is important and yet least read scientific work in the history of science. This…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. The eighth and final…

Largely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores…

Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his…

Mhaimbhat's God at Play, or Li?acaritra, is a remarkable biography of the medieval religious figure Chakradhar Svami,…

In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from…

John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement…