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

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…

Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. This work (which dates to…

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…

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

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

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

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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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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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Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted against Cicero and Milo as tribune in 52,…

History of the Wars by the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) consists largely of sixth…

The major works of Josephus (c. 37-after 97 CE) are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BCE to his own time, and Jewish…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman…

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…

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

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

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

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its…

\nWhen a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock.…

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\nOne of the first, most widely-read and respected histories of Korea, Ki-baik Lee\'s Han\'guksa Sillon has been translated…

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

This work is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th century history. In it, he…

The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their…

\nThe legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated…

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

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

This volume presents translations from the Greek of two crucial primary sources published together for the first…

In the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted an Old English version of Saint Augustine's Soliloquia, which explores…

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube and…

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…

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

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence…