Proposes a fresh way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. This title describes how particular Greeks of the eighth century BC travelled east and west around the Mediterranean, and how their extraordinary journeys shaped their ideas of their gods and heroes.

Presents wisecracks and curious facts from ancient Greece and Rome. This book includes humorous quips by the emperor Augustus and wry observations by the philosopher Socrates.

Explores the story of how the ancient world was turned on its head from Democratic Athens to King Alexander the Great. This title gives us a fresh take on the similar challenges we face in the 21st century - a world in which many democracies - old and new - fight for survival, in which war-time and peace-time have become indistinguishable.

The ultimate smart, discerning travel read for anyone going on holiday to the Greek islands... With everything from the Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own. Packed with useful cribs - history timelines, a who's who, a ...

Surveys the great empires from 1600 bc to ad 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China. This book takes in the empires of New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria and Babylonia, Achaemenid through to Sassanid Persia, Athens and Alexander, Rome, India and Qin and Han China.

Presents discoveries in the different fields of Ice Age Research. This book reveals how the epoch was discovered, the profound climatic fluctuations it generated as ice sheets waxed and waned, and the myriad ways in which humans and animals coped with the changing world they lived in.

Tells the story of the 100-year quest to understand an ancient computer, the scientific artefact we have from antiquity. This title reveals a diverse cast of characters - ranging from Archimedes to Jacques Cousteau - and explores the roots of modern technology in Ancient Greece, the Islamic world and medieval Europe.

Presents an account of the origins of anti-Semitism (AD 70), whose history has had often cataclysmic reverberations. This book shows how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the Roman empire.

Argues that writers of Old Comedy belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies.

The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived.

How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome? This title offers a comprehensive exploration of Jewish social integration in the Roman world, one that poses challenging questions about the very nature of Mediterranean culture.

While classicists have long recognized that the Roman Republic changed and evolved over time, the author mounts a serious argument against the idea of republican continuity that has been fundamental to modern historical study.

Explores how the art of the civilization can be the key to understanding the rites, thoughts and daily life of the mysterious ancient Egyptians. This book decodes fifty works, from wall paintings from Nebamun's tomb to Tutankhamun's grave goods, with hieroglyphs and symbols of ancient practices, beliefs, magic and religion.

Offers a visual approach to exploring the cultures of the key civilizations of ancient times. This book focuses on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Rome and Greece, offering a detailed exposition of each in turn through thematic spreads depicting many aspects of their cultures.

In a series of 54 full-colour maps covering 3,000 years and spanning the whole of Europe, this book comprehensively charts the dramatic history of the Celts from their origins in the Bronze Age to their present-day diaspora. It deals with the Continental Celts, the Atlantic Celts and the modern Celts and their state of culture.

Considers how languages, peoples and cultures in the Near East interacted over the millennium between Alexander and Muhammad.

An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods.

This internationally renowned text provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from the earliest times through the earliest civilizations. Written in an accessible way, People of the Earth shows how today's diverse humanity developed biologically and culturally over millions of years against a background of constant climatic change.

The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. This work examines this phenomenal period and the connections between a disparate group of philosophers, mystics and theologians.

An investigation into the ways in which the population of Pontus et Bithynia, a Greek province in the northwestern part of Asia Minor (on the southern shore of the Black Sea), engaged culturally with the Roman Empire.