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At the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, Sparta reigned supreme in Greece. Having vanquished their rival Athens and quickly dismantled the wealthy ...
A striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact ...
Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy.
The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends ...
Since 500 BC the mainland Greeks had been threatened by the Achaemenid Persian Empire. They had suffered major invasions but subsequent attempts to take the ...
Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens in 404 BC ...
In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the ...
'A wonderful book.' - Peter Frankopan
'A masterpiece' - Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
'Remarkable' - Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules-For Now
The way we think ...
The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the ...
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)
'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... There's ...
Alexander the Great is the subject of two major Hollywood films in autumn 2004.
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of ...
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 ...