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The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule and that of the Empire are presented in a narrative... Læs mere
The extraordinary life and writings of Theodore Laskaris, an imaginative philosopher-emperor ruling... Læs mere
A pocket biography of one of history's most ruthless leaders
Georgy Ivanov’s brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian émigré life moving erotically in war’s shadow “at the speed of darkness.”
Cicero: A Political Biography
The book introduces sources on late Ottoman Istanbul's diverse population by drawing on the voices of its permanent... Læs mere
This volume examines the life and career of L. Munatius Plancus, and through him, explores the tumultuous final years of the Roman Republic.
This book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial and poorly understood Byzantine emperor Heraclius (AD 610–641), a contemporary of the Prophet... Læs mere
This book studies the problem of Christianisation in southern France during the early sixth century AD, and of the transformation of the pagan Roman empire, from the perspective of the career and writings of Bishop Caesarius of Arles (470–542).
Tarn's Alexander the Great, first published in 1948, has become a classic and its importance for subsequent Alexander studies can hardly be exaggerated.... Læs mere
Plutarch and Arrian are the ancient writers who tell us most about Alexander the Great. This 1993 book is an attempt to analyse and evaluate in detail the sources of information they themselves drew on, a necessary first step to appreciating the value of their own accounts.
Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. This study reveals a Havel, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned.