Subject: The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the M…
The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterran…
The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterran…
Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history
Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history.
Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history.
Explore la fascinante vida de los antiguos griegos hace 2,000 anos: desde sus hogares hasta sus dioses y mitos, y desde sus extraordinarios cientificos hasta sus primeros juegos olimpicos.
by Recorded Books, Inc, Shutt, Timothy Baker
fromModern scholar
In this course, Kenyon College professor Dr. Timothy B. Shutt addresses three wars fought in antiquity, each of which had--even two thousand years and more later--a decisive effect in shaping our communal sense of who we are, wherever Western values hold.
"Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. P…
by Waterfield, Robin, (Robin Anthony Herschel), MacGing, Brian C., Polybius
by Waterfield, Robin, McGing, B. C., Polybius
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
"Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. P…
by Waterfield, Robin, McGing, B. C., Polybius
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Polybius' account of Rome's rise to world power and her method of rule is a major source for the history of the years 220-146 BC. This new translation includes Books 1-5 in their entirety and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12 on the Roman constitution and historiography. It …
