Overview :Over recent decades, the debate about how individuals are portrayed in prose-texts of Greek and Roman historiography and biography has evolv... Read More
Overview :In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text o... Read More
Overview :Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major event... Read More
Overview :Alexander the Great changed the world that he knew--but how he did it, and how much of his story is truth and how much is invented, is hard ... Read More
Overview :In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expe... Read More
Overview :Up-to-date edition of the former of the two dramatic books of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian Expedition that ended ... Read More
Overview :Although monkeys had been used to mimic man and his foibles in the margins of medieval illuminated manuscripts, a taste for depictions of el... Read More
Overview :Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization.... Read More