Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture)
by Anthony Kaldellis
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal misman...
Morceaux Choisis, À l'Usage de la Troisième Et de la Quatrième (Classic Reprint)
by B Baelde
Figurines Et Reliefs En Terre Cuite de la Mesopotamie Antique (Bibliotheque Archeologique Et Historique, #85)
by Marie-Therese Barrelet
East and West Through Fifteen Centuries, Vol. 1 of 4
by George Frederick Young
Adversaria 2 Volume Paperback Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)
by Peter Paul Dobree
As one of the most talented disciples of the illustrious comparative philologist Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree (1782-1825) is commemorated in this two-volume edition of Adversaria, consisting of his prolific notes on Greek and Latin literature, history, and philology. Dobree left an enduring impression upon English classical scholarship, despite his premature death shortly after accepting the regius professorship of Greek at Cambridge. Edited by his successor at Cambridge, James Scholefield,...
The First Empires (Human Story)
by Catherine Chadefaud and Jean-Michel Coblence
Describes the earliest civilizations of Egypt, Asia, and the area between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.
Athar-E Iran (Athar-E Iran, #1.2)
by Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner
Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best-trained, -organized and most-feared warriors of the ancient world. The small state of Sparta, known to the Ancient Greeks as Lakedaimon, developed a unique warrior society that used serfs and non-citizens to do all of the manual work, leaving the free-born men of Sparta free to concentrate all of th...
Til-Barsib (Bibliotheque Archeologique Et Historique, #23)
by Maurice Dunand and F Thureau-Dangin
Essai sur l'administration des Provinces Romaines sous la Republique
by Emile Person