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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…

A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book…

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

Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s…

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

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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander''s death (323 BC); history to…

Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos…

Demosthenes (384'-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who also became a champion of Athenian greatness…

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander''s death (323 BC); history to…

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu\'l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar\'s reign, including…

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

Dialogues, Volume 2 by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano contains both a perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full…

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four…

Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential…

\nEstablished to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native…

The Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training,…

Sophocles (497/6–406 BC), considered one of the world’s greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and…

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

Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the '"Father of Medicine'"…

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born ca. 60 BC, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…

The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

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

History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. Volume 7 includes accounts…

Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European…

\nMondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine\'s Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the…

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\nTravis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwini, whose Wonders and Rarities was for…

\nDiego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in…

\nNo Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras,…

\nVice President John Adams faces a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions…

Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics…

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

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

The only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books,…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander''s death; history to 54 BC.…

Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems…

History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

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

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander''s death (323 BC); history to…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander''s death (323 BC); history to…

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

In his history, Polybius (ca. 200'-118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the…

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