Overview A MAGNIFICENT, FULL—COLOR SURVEY OF THE 40 MOST EXTRAORDINARY SIGHTS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD Includes the Parthenon, the Great Wall of China, the lost city of Petra, the Colosseum, the Hagi…
This collection of important classical texts in translation iliuminates the emergence of three centrel themes in the cultural history of western civilization: from the Near East, the growth of a se…
"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed…