The 25,000 perfectly preserved papyri unearthed from the dry sands of Egypt in the past 100 years yield insights into the life of ancient Egypt that are unequalled for any other ancient civilization. Piecing together the stories and historical...

A Times of London Book of the YearLonglisted for the Runciman Award“The most compelling fusion yet of narrative history with the recent findings of environmental research and scientific data. It will change the way we understand key events and...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBest Books of 2023: New Yorker, The Economist, SmithsonianMost Anticipated Books of Fall: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Literary Hub, and Publishers Weekly"A vivid way to re-examine what we know, and don’t,...

A fascinating tour of cities that have been lost to history―from the Neolithic period to the late Roman Empire―that offers a fresh perspective on the roots of urban life.The ruins of ancient Athens, Luxor, and Rome are familiar cornerstones of world...

This volume offers an edition with translation and commentary of Daniel Heinsius's Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia of 1602.

From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers“Just the thing to remind us that human history,...

A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome“Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire:...

Das Corpus der Inschriften von Samos wird mit dem 2. Teil des Bandes IG XII 6 abgeschlossen. Er enthält die Weihinschriften (Nr. 537–614), Grabinschriften (Nr. 615–927), christlichen, byzantinischen und jüdischen Inschriften (Nr. 928–960), Varia (Nr...

Two classic illustrated anthologies, now combined in one convenient volumeJames Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peoples and cultures of this...

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The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable...

A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city.This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the...

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work...

Details the immense economic and social changes the ancient Greek world underwent in the three centuries before 500 B.C., developing from rural self-sufficient villages around the Aegean to a complex economic structure embracing much of the Mediterranean...