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The writing of Spartan history for long involved gliding - sometimes seamlessly - between the evidence of very different ancient sources. Now, a short series... Læs mere
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One of classical Greece's most worldly and lucid writers, Xenophon across his many works gave a restless criticism of power: democratic,oligarchic and autocratic
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Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great.
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Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander.
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Sparta, notoriously, was for Greeks the greatest Hellenic military, or moral, power for most of the fifth, as well as the early fourth, century.
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The long revolutionary age, which culminated in the autocracy of Octavian-Augustus, is one of Roman history's most richly documented periods – and most misrepresented.
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The Seleukids, the easternmost of the Greek-speaking dynasties which succeeded Alexander the Great, were long portrayed by historians as inherently weak and doomed to decline after the death of their remarkable first king, Seleukos (281 BC).
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The present book collects for the first time in a single volume the American historian Elizabeth Carney's most influential articles.
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Aristocracy in Antiquity explores and challenges the common assumption that hereditary 'aristocrats' who derive much of their status, privilege and power from their ancestors are identifiable at most times and places in the ancient world.
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This volume builds bridges between usually separate social groups, between different methodologies and even between disciplines
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