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This book gives an account of the Roman relationship with Persia and how it was shaped by the actions of Alexander the Great long before ...
One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war ...
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the ...
In the 50s BC, Julius Caesar conducted a brutal war against the tribes of ancient Gaul. On the pretext of curbing an imminent barbarian threat ...
In the late 4th century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople ...
Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone two, but Thucydides's celebrated History of the Peloponnesian ...
Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the preeminent land power of the ...
In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and ...
Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years ...
Their contemporaries were fascinated by the Spartans and we still are. They are portrayed as the stereotypical macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless and impervious ...
One way or another the Romans spent quite a lot of time in bed, in between conquering and civilising the known world. The men were ...
From the moment its last king was expelled (traditionally in 753) the Roman republic had to fight for its very survival. Centuries of almost continuous ...
To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning-point in world history is a vast understatement. These vicious battles pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers ...
Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax ...