Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the
substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated …

The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history
since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has …

The Greek World After Alexander 323–30 BC examines social changes in the old and new
cities of the Greek world and in the new post-Alexandrian kingdoms. An appraisal of the …

Writing acknowledgements is of course a pleasure; it is a pleasure to thank people; it is also
a pleasure to talk to people through thanking them. But it is also painful; for it requires …

Wealth and power are themes that preoccupy much of Greek literature from Homer on, and
this book unravels the significance of these subjects in one of the most famous pieces of …

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the onset of tumultuous political, economic, and
social reforms throughout Eastern Europe. In Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviet Union …

Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the
early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an …

Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity. In recent decades
fresh textual interpretations, numerous new archaeological discoveries and a much broader …

When Rome defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra and annexed Egypt, the rule of the
longest-lived of the Hellenistic dynasties and one of the most illustrious in Egyptian history …

Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian
subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These …