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.

This volume includes discussions of the relationship between war, piracy and slavery, early abolitionist movements as well as the supply and domestic aspects of slavery in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome.

This updated edition of a text first published in 1985 explores the economic history of classical antiquity. It highlights the depth of the transformation from the ancient consumer economy based on slave and serf labour to the modern capitalist, investment, production and profit economy.

Who was Homer? When were the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" composed? What were Odysseus', Achilles, and Hector's beliefs about government, religion, and class? In this introduction to the "Iliad" and "Odyssey", the author uses both the texts and the latest research material to reconstruct the Homeric age.

This is a collection of the author's essays illuminating discussions of some major issues: the nature of the Spartan state; the development of Greek law; mythological thinking in the Greek historians; and utopian ideas old and new.

This collection of essays ranges over many aspects of Greek civil life.

The business of politics - conducting government through the dynamics of argument, conflict and decision-making - offers us one of the most revealing areas of insight into any society. This book investigates the nature of government in ancient Greece and republican Rome.

This book examines various aspects of Roman property.