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

Heroes and heroines in antiquity inhabited a space somewhere between gods and humans. In this detailed, yet brilliantly…

Diogenes Laertius (probably early third century BCE) compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient…

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

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

After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born c. 484 BCE) 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…

Philostratus's biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings of a Pythagorean sage, provoked a debate between…

Provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. This title demonstrates how…

In the early twentieth century, mass media - popular newspapers, radio, film - exploded at the same time that millions of…

David Drake chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during WWII, drawing on diaries and reminiscences of people who…

Through the history of one city Michael Frisch provides a persuasive and graceful account of the shifting context of urban…

Katherine C. Mooney recaptures the sights, sensations, and illusions of America's first mass spectator sport. Her central…

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met…

In 1913, Russian marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously…

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

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

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

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

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

Greek papyri relating to private and public business in Egypt from before 300 BCE to the eighth century CE inform us about…

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

For decades, privacy took a back seat to the public's right to know. But as the Internet and changing journalism have made…

In this innovative study of the rise of the conservation ethic in northern New England, Richard Judd shows that the movement…

Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet…

The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed…

Scotland and England produced well-known intellectuals during the Enlightenment, but Ireland's contribution to this…

Rey draws on multidisciplinary sources to explore a universally shared experience. From antiquity to the 20th century, she…

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The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is…

Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front…

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

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…

In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy (c. 100 178 CE) treats…

\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…

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

With Deng Xiaoping's blessing, Mao's successors scoured the globe for fresh ideas to launch domestic prosperity and global…

Atlantic Crossings is the first major account of the vibrant international network that early American reformers,…

Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the…

After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was…

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Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas R mer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions about the deity of the great…

Lauren Faulkner Rossi plumbs the moral justifications of Catholic priests who served willingly and faithfully in the German…

Sisters in Arms is the first definitive history of Catholic nuns in the Western world. Unfolding century by century, this…

Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly 58,000 Americans die there, but--by some estimates--1.5…

Diogenes Laertius (probably early third century BCE) compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient…