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

In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual-that individual who speaks to…

Beaumont chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. This…

Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between…

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The story of the Civil Rights Movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the 1965…

Wacker gives an in-depth account of the practices of American pentecostal churches. He examines aspects of pentecostal…

In a grand history of naval warfare, Palmer observes five centuries of dramatic encounters under sail and steam,…

Miles Gloriosus or "Braggart Warrior" is one of the best-known and liveliest Roman comedies. It shows Plautus at his ablest…

Dieter Henrich's lectures on German idealism were the first contact a major German philosopher had made with an American…

Philostratus's biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings of a Pythagorean sage, provoked a debate between…

The main aim of Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BCE, was to reconcile Greeks to…

Ammianus (c. 325 c. 395 CE), a Greek from Antioch, served many years as an officer in the Roman army, then settled in Rome,…

In Secret History the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) attacks the sixth century CE…

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

Dithyrambic poets of the new school were active from the mid-fifth to mid-fourth century BCE. Anonymous poems include…

• Rok vydání 1989

Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about 315 CE, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…

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

Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society in the second, third, and fourth centuries. Brown interprets the…

Drawing upon the papers of Ting Jih-ch'ang, this work examines the implementation of post-Taiping T'ung-chih Restoration…

John W. O'Malley gives us the most comprehensive account ever written of the Society of Jesus in its founding years, one…

Pragmatism is the most famous single work of American philosophy. Its sequel, The Meaning of Truth, is its imperative and…

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this…

Of all the horrors of the last century, ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in…

In this fascinating study, Putney details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to…

The Apocalypse informed medieval expectations of the end of the world, responses to strange and exotic invaders, and the…

Vol. 2 unrevised ed., originally published 1927.…

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

In FastiOvid (43 BCE 17 CE) sets forth explanations of the festivals and sacred rites that were noted on the Roman calendar,…

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

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

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

Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

The instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished…

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In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of…

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of…

The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and…

The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus…

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

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half…

Giovanni Pontano (1426-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century…

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For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole…

\nVolume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate…

Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography,…

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

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

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

As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by…

The Greek Anthology (Gathering of Flowers) is the name given to a collection over many centuries of about 4500 short Greek…