Ancient History: to c 500 CE

In the third volume of his epic exploration of the use of the Evil Eye motif in ancient texts, John H. Elliott turns his attention to biblical writ...

Constantius is an important, but almost forgotten, figure. He came to the fore in or around 410 when he was appointed Magister Militum (Master of T...

The outcome of a brutal war, which took place 1,885 years ago, continues to reverberate in the Near East today. It is a tale largely unknown outsid...

The great city of Byzantion/Constantinople/Istanbul stands on a commanding cape overlooking a busy waterway. It has been the target of repeated att...

'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and dont shed a tear for any of them.' - T...

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 very top through ha...

This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival....

The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt and much of the eastern Mediterranean basin for nearly 300 years. As a Macedonian dynasty, they derived much of t...

By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization ...

Greece was the scene of some of the most evocative and decisive battles in the ancient world. This volume brings together the ancient evidence and ...

This is the second volume in an ambitious series giving the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from AD 284-641. Each ...

''Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures'' Robert Macfarlane Take a journey into our ancient pa...

An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon During the last two centuries, thousa...

Steven Mithen's unique history of water and society in the ancient world has never been told before and is particularly relevant today in the face ...

This biography of Hypatia the female philosopher and mathematician in Christian Egypt provides background on her work and her life as an elite woma...

This book is a companion volume to the authors Women in Ancient Rome, first published in 2013. It provides a much-needed analysis of how women beha...