Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Books V-VI of Julius Caesars The Gallic War narrate Caesars campaigns in Britain, Gaul, and Germany in 55 and 54 BCE. His political rival Pompey wa...

A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wh...

The Edinburgh Companion, newly available in paperback, is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its appro...

The disastrous reign of the Emperor Commodus, which saw a great expansion of the power of the emperor, eventually resulted in his asassination, but...

The Battle of the Frigidus River, fought on 5 and 6 September 394 in what is now Slovenia, was a crucial clash between the Eastern Roman emperor, T...

Despite defeating his opponent Pompeius Magnus at Pharsalus, and the latters subsequent murder, Caesar still faced a determined opposition in the C...

In 55 BC, on a stretch of beach near Deal in East Kent, the Romans first invasion was in great danger of being pushed back into the sea by a host o...

The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest running and most contested of these, and the source of deepl...

Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, wi...

Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, wi...

Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever writt...

Themistius and Valens offers the first complete English translation and analysis of Themistius speeches for or on behalf of the emperor Valens (r. ...

Cutting-edge research by twenty-four international scholars on female power, agency, health, and literacy in ancient EgyptThere has been considerab...

The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Si...

In 66 BC, young, almost unknown but ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed si...

Were prehistoric people like us? How did they live, what did they think and how did they see their world?3000 BC was a moment of great significance...

This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. According t...

The 21 studies in this volume, which deal with issues of social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the ways whe...