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In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory ...
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece into a globe-spanning empire ...
Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work
What makes a ...
The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in ...
The second volume in John Grainger's history of the Seleukid Empire is devoted to the reign of Antiochus III. Too often remembered only as ...
One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new translation
The Histories of ...
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like ...
One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might ...
John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as historian and places ...
A fascinating historical account of Greece at a point of crisis
Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 ...
Penguin Classics relaunch.
Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most ...
Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad
In The Persian Expedition ...
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon ...