Ancient History: to c 500 CE

'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History R...

The Celts believed that the supernatural pervaded their lives and surroundings. Magic and the observance of rituals dominated their lives, and cons...

The renowned Gallic poet Pacatus Drepanius journeyed to Rome in the summer of AD 389 to deliver a speech to the Emperor Theodosius; both men stood ...

This is the story of how some Roman aristocrats grew so competitive in their political rivalries that they destroyed their Republic, in the late se...

The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overloo...

This book represents the fruit of many years of study by a well respected author in the field. It is well written so as to be very readable for the...

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal,...

A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesnt q...

From classicist James Romm comes a strikingfascinating (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander ...

A fascinating and detailed exploration of one of the most famous warships of the Ancient world - the trireme - and its tactical employment by the o...

The dramatic conclusion to this trilogy explains the reversal of fortunes and final defeat of Xerxes'' Persian invasion of Greece; not as unlikely ...