A New York Times Notable Book and one of The Daily Beast's Best Books of the YearWinner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardSince the Enlightenment, the Parthenon—the greatest example of Athenian architecture—has been venerated as the definitive symbol of...

The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power“A monumental exploration. . . . It is the most important treatment of its subject since Wilhelm...

A top historian of Rome narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, CiceroIn its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by a crime wave. An epidemic of...

For nearly sixty years, Wheelock's Latin has remained the optimus liber of beginning Latin textbooks.When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; one reviewer...

A "masterly" (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world"Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to convey both Vallejo’s passionate narrative presence and...