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

Greek mathematics from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE is represented by the work of, e.g., Pythagoras;…

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BC) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

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

The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431-421, 415-413, and 413-404 BC) 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…

The Rhetorica ad Herrenium was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106-43 BC), and reflects, as does Cicero's De Inventione,…

• Rok vydání 1989

Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about AD 314, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…

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

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

Copyright date: 1984. Originally published: 1916.…

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

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

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

\nThe Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 Greek poems in the sparkling, diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a…

The letters of Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61-ca. 112), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of the…

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

In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy treats the practical use…

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

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

Aelius Aristides (117-after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the…

Lucian (c. 120 190 CE), apprentice sculptor then travelling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand…

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

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

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

Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is…

We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has…

Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find…

Aelius Aristides (117-after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the…

\nNostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation…

• Rok vydání 2018

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

Headlines from France suggest that the country's Jews and Muslims are inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different…

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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…

\nThe Old English Pastoral Care, a ninth-century translation from Latin of Pope Gregory the Great\'s guide for aspiring…

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…

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

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, 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…

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

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

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

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