Forntidens historia: till ca 500 e.Kr.

I Konungarnas dal – faraonernas legendariska begravningsplats – fanns inte bara död. Där fanns också liv. Intill dalen låg byn Deir el-Medina, och där bodde alla stenhuggare, …

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A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been …

Roomalaisen valtiomiehen ja puhujan Marcus Tullius Ciceron jälkivaikutus on ollut valtava. Häntä on pidetty paitsi latinankielisen proosan tärkeänä kehittäjänä myös koko …

The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new …

Greek medicine is an important aspect of Greek culture. The Greeks were the first to put forward rational systems of medicine which resulted in a radically new conception of …

In The Trojan war as Military History, the author's starting point is the fact that the Iliad, notwithstanding the fantastical/mythological elements (the involvement of gods and …

This compact yet comprehensive history brings ancient Greek civilization alive, from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. "A highly readable account of ancient …

One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the …

The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from the 2nd century or earlier. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism, which is a religious, philosophical, …