The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom,…

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Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story-the US,…

Presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the…

Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the…

Daniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based…

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

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (5468 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius…

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From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic 'stagflation,'…

Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator,…

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

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Aristophanes of Athens (ca. 446-386 BC), one of the world's great comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his…

This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to…

In PoeticsAristotle (384 322 BCE) treats Greek tragedy and epic. The subject of On the Sublime, attributed to an…

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

• Rok vydání 2003

Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess - as Hesiod's "Theogony" and "Works and Days"…

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (5468 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius…

• Rok vydání 2011

When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly,…

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March of the emperors. The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer…

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The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BC came from Sicily and southern Italy. They included…

Libanius, one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of…

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The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) 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…

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

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

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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, 1-10,…

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

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Theocritus (early third century BC) was the inventor of the bucolic genre, also known as pastoral. The present edition of…

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

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

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

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

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

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Based on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap.…

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

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

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Aelian's Historical Miscellany (Varia Historia) is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third…

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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…

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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…

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• Rok vydání 2010

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

\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…

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

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

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

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

\nAlthough Cicero’s oratory is well attested—of 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part—the sixteen…