Fifty years before its golden age, Athens was just another city-state in Sparta’s shadow. David Stuttard tells the story of the father and son who lifted Athens.... Læs mere
Rotary International spreads America’s good news. The organization spent the interwar years convincing Main Street and the world at large that America’s promise... Læs mere
Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death; history to 54 BC. Books 1–5 and 11–20 survive complete, the rest in fragments.
This book describes and illustrates the results of more than 15 years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author to... Læs mere
Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British... Læs mere
Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for... Læs mere
Works in this volume recount the circumstances of Socrates’ trial and execution in 399 BC. Euthyphro attempts to define holiness; Apology is Socrates’ defense speech; in... Læs mere
Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative religious and theological viewpoints as he moved... Læs mere
Plutarch (ca. AD 45–120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be... Læs mere
As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes... Læs mere