John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium tells the epic story in all its lurid, magnificent and compelling detail in three magnificent volumes: The Early Centuries, The Apogee and The Decline and Fall.
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Before Rome conquered the known world, the people of Carthage reigned supreme. Using archeological findings, ancient texts and legend, Serge Lancel creates a picture of a civilisation so beautiful and powerful that the Romans burnt it to the ground so it could never challenge them again.
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Licentious pagans or mystical druids? Rapacious vandals or noble warriors? Nora Chadwick sets out to discover the truth about The Celts.
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So impossible to vanquish with words that Mark Antony put him to death, Cicero was a master of rhetoric and declamation. His Orations live on, echoed by the most famous speakers of modern times, from Winston Churchill to Barack Obama. In a rare commission for Folio, Tom Phillips, RA, has illustrated this edition.
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G.E.R. Lloyd traces the birth of science from Thales to Galen. A new foreword by Lewis Wolpert, Emeritus Professor at University College London, pays tribute to the Ancient Greeks and to Lloyd’s exploration of their fundamental role.
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Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece has never been surpassed for scholarship or elegant prose, remaining an everlasting historical classic. The first four volumes.
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Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece has never been surpassed for scholarship or elegant prose, remaining an everlasting historical classic. Volumes 5-8.
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A.H. Layard’s discovery of the Assyrian citadel Nineveh was momentous. This edition displays his celebrated pictures of the site, done in situ. In his introduction, Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian and Assyrian at the University of London, applauds Layard’s adventurous spirit.
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There have been numerous books on the subject of paganism and early Christianity, but this is the first major work in English to set both side by side and explain how one gave way to the other. In his brilliant narrative, Robin Lane Fox confirms the enduring importance of the pagan religion in the ancient world.
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The Persian Expedition is one of the best surviving portraits both of the Persian Empire, antiquity’s first genuine superpower, and of the ancient Greek character in all its valour and complexity.
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From the splendour of its monuments to the drama of its history, the wonders of ancient Egypt continue to fire the imagination. Key to this glorious legacy is the dynasty of god-kings that ruled there for 3,000 years.
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The Phoenicians is an illuminating insight into a lost civilisation. They are one of the great enigmas of the ancient world, celebrated as learned scribes, who passed on the first written alphabet.
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The lawyer and magistrate Pliny the Younger (AD 61-112) left behind a correspondence that gives insight into an extraordinary life at the height of the Roman Empire.
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A hugely ambitious and influential work, the world's first encyclopedia gives a unique insight into the Roman world, from agriculture to medicine to how Roman women liked to spend their money.
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Plutarch’s fascinating account of the lives of the greatest Greeks and Romans was one of the first major works of biography as we know it. It had an incalculable effect on Western culture, shaping the way we see the ancient world and influencing writers from Shakespeare to Emerson.
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