Describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. Frequently giving rise to colorful digressions, this book blends fact and legend to offer a compelling Greek view of the world of the fifth century BC.

Presents a contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta. This title compiles a factual record of this disastrous conflict.

The Greeks influence contemporary man through their drama, philosophy and art, their political cognizance and knowledge of science. This work offers the formation of the people as a nation, the nature of the country, the impact of Homer, and the rise and decline of the city-state. It looks at the Greek mind, myths and religion, life and character.

Illustrates the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.

Did the Trojan War really happen? Archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Excavations and translated Hittite texts reveal that Troy was a large, wealthy city allied with the Hittite Empire. The Trojan War may have been the consequence of expanding Greek maritime commerce. This book tells the story of the most famous battle in history.

The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient Greece.

Three hundred elite Spartan warriors who, led by their king, Leonidas, faced the vast, inrushing Persian army at the 'hot gates' of Thermopylae and fought to the death for an ideal dearer to them than life itself - the ideal of freedom. This book offers a re-examination of this moment in history.

Paul Cartledge argues that the Spartans are our ancestors, every bit as much as the Athenians. But while Athens promoted democracy, individualism, culture and society, their great rivals Sparta embodied militarism, totalitarianism, segregation and brutal repression.

Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India.

Tells the story of Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death.

The exploits of the famous army of Greek mercenaries in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq were described by one of their leaders, the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon. This title presents the story of the march of the Ten Thousand, across mountains and plateaux to the sight of 'The sea! The sea!', and back to the fringes of the Greek world.

'...a thoroughly reliable and a highly attractive volume. Meiggs is to be congratulated on his success in combining preservation and adaptation so successfully.' - Hermathena '...a major overhaul by Russell Meiggs in the light of modern research...The future of Bury's History as a major reference work seems assured.

An epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must test his bravery and cunning to the full.

A revised and extended edition of Richard Clogg's introduction to the history of modern Greece.

The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. Edith Hamilton is also the author of The Roman Way .

How the Athenians and Sparta Fought the Peloponnesian War. An intimate and thorough account of one of the most far-reaching conflicts of the Ancient World with peculiar resonance to our times.

Salamis tells the story of one month in 480 B.C., when the ancient world trembled at the the outcome of the largest land / sea invasion ever attempted. And nothing would be the same ever again.

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