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One of the great books in Western history and the very first work of non-fiction, in Tom Holland's compelling new translation
The Histories of ...
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory ...
Penguin Classics relaunch.
Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most ...
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like ...
Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work
What makes a ...
The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in ...
Thermopylae might be the most famous battlefield in history. Tens of thousands of people have lost their lives fighting over this ground over the millennia ...
On 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching ...