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

In his epic The Civil War, Lucan (39 65 CE) carries us from Caesar s fateful crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of…

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

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

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

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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…

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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Greek papyri relating to private and public business in Egypt from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD 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…

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

Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics…

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

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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…

\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…

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

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Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles…

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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…

John Geometres’s Life of the Virgin Mary, a work of outstanding theological sophistication animated by deeply felt devotion…

\nLaw and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India\'s long history as a case study,…

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

Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the 5th century, became a lawyer. In 527 CE he was made legal adviser and…

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

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

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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…

• 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.…

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

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

• Rok vydání 2021

Fifty years before its golden age, Athens was just another city-state in Sparta’s shadow. David Stuttard tells the story of…

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

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Produkt Blood-Dimmed Tide - Kauffman, Associate Professor of History Jesse zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement…

• Rok vydání 2020

The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb…

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing…

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…

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

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…

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In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half…

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