\nIn 1739 Bordeaux\'s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the…

\nDuring Guatemala’s decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

\nThe Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and…

• Rok vydání 1972

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his…

\nWhy is Israel\'s relatively small and low-budget military also the world\'s most innovative, technologically and…

Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar's campaigns during the civil war…

Reprint. Originally published: 1932-1951.…

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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…

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

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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…

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…

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

\nThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria.…

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Polybius's theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years…

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

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

Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature.…

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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…

Eight works or parts of works were ascribed to Manetho, a third century BCE Egyptian, all on history and religion and all…

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

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

• Rok vydání 2010

The historian Polybius (ca 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served…

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

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

• Rok vydání 1995

A show stopper a classic work: the edition translated by A.T. Murray that is cited in BCL3 (this revision is by by George E.…

Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in…

The main part of Polybius' history covers the years 264--146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage,…

• Rok vydání 2004

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers (first and second centuries AD) give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and…

The Anabasis by Xenophon (c. 430 c. 354 BCE) is an eyewitness account of Greek mercenaries' challenging 'March Up-Country'…

Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms. Seven of his…

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

Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek…

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

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

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

Enriched by anecdotes, gossip, and details of character and personal appearance, Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius (born ca.…

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

Callirhoe, subtitled "Love Story in Syracuse," is a fast-paced historical romance of the first century AD and the oldest…

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

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

For this six-volume edition of The Histories, W. R. Paton's 1922 translation has been thoroughly revised, the Buttner-Wobst…

Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC), esteemed lyric poet, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers…

Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature.…

After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history…

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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…

Sallust's two extant monographs take as their theme the moral and political decline of Rome, one on the conspiracy of…

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