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THE LANDMARK HERODOTUSThe HistoriesIntroduction by Rosalind ThomasTranslated from the Greek by Andrea L. Purvis

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From the editor of the widely praised TheLandmark Thucydides comes a new edition ofThe Histories, the greatest classical world historyever written, which includes a new translation.

The Histories has at its center an account of thewar between the Persian empire and Greece, butit encompasses within that story rich veins ofethnography, geology, and geography. The Landmark Herodotus—ten years in the making—gives us a new, authoritative, and accessible translation by Andrea L. Purvis that clarifies thetext. Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps, this edition also includes an introductionby Rosalind Thomas and twenty-one appendices written by leading scholars.

The Athenian Government in HerodotusPeter Krentz

The Spartan State in Peace and WarPaul Cartledge

The Account of Egypt:Herodotus Right and Wrong

Alan B. Lloyd

Herodotean GeographyJames Romm

Herodotus and the Black Sea RegionEverett L.Wheeler

Rivers and Peoples of ScythiaEverett L.Wheeler

The Continuity of Steppe CultureEverett L.Wheeler

The Ionian RevoltGeorge L. Cawkwell

Classical Greek Religious FestivalsGregory Crane

Ancient Greek Units of Currency,Weight, and Distance

Thomas R. Martin

Dialect and Ethnic Groups in HerodotusW. F.Wyatt

Aristocratic Families in HerodotusCarolyn Higbie

Herodotus on Persia and the Persian EmpireChristopher Tuplin

Hoplite Warfare in HerodotusJ.W. I. Lee

The Persian Army in HerodotusJ.W. I. Lee

Oracles, Religion, and Politics in HerodotusDonald Lateiner

Herodotus and the PoetsAndrew Ford

The Size of Xerxes’ Expeditionary ForceMichael A. Flower

Trireme Warfare in HerodotusNicolle Hirschfeld

Tyranny in HerodotusCarolyn Dewald

On Women and Marriage in HerodotusCarolyn Dewald

Tom Holland

PERSIAN FIREThe First World Empire and the Battle for the WestNEW IN PAPERBACK

In Persian Fire, Tom Holland’s examination of how the citizens of Athens and Sparta took on the Great King ofPersia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Westerncivilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as anyepisode in history. Holland’s brilliant study of these criti-cal Persian Wars skillfully analyzes a conflict of criticalimportance to both ancient and modern history.

“A first-rate work of accessible scholarship. . . . I know nothing that brings this ancient history to life better than thisbook.” —Mark Golden, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

“Holland has a rare eye for detail, drama, and the telling anecdote. . . . A book as spirited and engaging as Persian Fire deserves to last.” —The Telegraph (London)

“Excellent. . . .There is an evenhandedness in Holland’s treatment of both Greek and Persian cultural riches that is rare in popular accounts of these wars.” —The Sunday Times

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Paul Cartledge

THERMOPYLAEThe Battle That Changed the WorldNEW IN PAPERBACK

In this brilliant examination of one of civilization’s great-est stands, Paul Cartledge illuminates how this unforget-table confrontation changed the way that generationswould come to think about courage, combat, and death,and how its repercussions have bearing on us even today.

“Impeccable. . . . Enthralling. . . . Vividly reconstructs theSpartans’ finest hour.” —The Independent

“Our leading historian of Sparta, Cartledge is second to none inthe ability to subject myth to the cold light of scholarship. He

offers a lucid overview of the Greco-Persian relations at the start of the war, an elegant description ofSparta in a nutshell, and a prudent introduction to the work of Herodotus.There is also a witty anderudite tour of Thermopylae allusions through the ages.” —The New Criterion

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Paul Cartledge

ALEXANDER THE GREAT“Paul Cartledge’s Alexander the Great, the fruit of twenty-five years of Cambridge lectures on Alexander and the problems surrounding him, fills this need [for a reasoned scrutiny of theevidence] as well as anyone could hope. . . . He has an easy,vivid style, a cool mastery of the facts and theories, and a commonsensical imperviousness to flimflam of any sort.He is also prone to startling modern comparisons that musthave gone down wonderfully with an undergraduate audience.”—Peter Green, The New Republic

“May be the most accessible introduction in print. . . .An amazingly solid, balanced, and evocative view of the man.” —The Washington Post Book World

“Cartledge is one academic whose narrative can catch the reader up in the journey and shed somenew light on a mortal who achieved a form of immortality.” —Military History Quarterly


Paul Cartledge

THE SPARTANSThe World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient GreecePaul Cartledge traces the rise and fall of Spartan societyand explores the tremendous influence the Spartans hadon their world and even ours. Based firmly on originalsources, The Spartans is the definitive book about one ofthe most fascinating cultures of ancient Greece.

“The history and atmosphere of Sparta are well conveyed by Cartledge.” —Jasper Griffin, The New York Review of Books

“Paul Cartledge’s interpretation of Spartan history of the lasttwenty-five years established itself as the closest thing we haveto an orthodoxy.” —Dr. Hans van Wees, Greece & Rome

“The value of this book is as an introduction to, and overview of, a fascinating society in ancientGreece. It is well written and interesting and there is no question about its scholarship.”—The Journal of Military History


Thomas Cahill

SAILING THE WINE-DARK SEAWhy the Greeks MatterIn Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores thelegacy of the ancient Greeks. From the origins of Greekculture in the migrations of armed Indo-European tribesinto Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, to the forma-tion of the city-states, to the birth of Western literature,poetry, drama, philosophy, art, and architecture, Cahillmakes the distant past relevant to the present.

“The best introduction to classical Greek culture yet written. . . .Learned, stylish and inspiring. . . .Well-informed, insightfuland on the whole written in a sparkling style.”—The Los Angeles Times

“Astonishing. . . . If anybody can get us reading about Homer, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle,Thucydides,Xenophon and more, Cahill will.” —Chicago Tribune

“Fascinating. . . . Commendable. . . . Cahill has an impressive knowledge of the Greek world. . . .His admirable skill at summing up movements of enormous complexity surface throughout thebook.” —The Seattle Times


Michael Schmidt

THE FIRST POETSLives of the Ancient Greek PoetsIn The First Poets, Michael Schmidt combines verifiablefacts of the lives of the early and classical Greek poets andnarratives provided by later writers, to create vivid, ani-mated, wonderfully compelling portraits of these ances-tors of our culture.

“Exhilarating. . . . It’s hard to be temperate about MichaelSchmidt’s loving, informed and deeply engaging survey. . . . Itwould be difficult to imagine a better introduction to its subject.”—The Washington Post

“[D]ense, spirited, deeply thoughtful. . . . An exciting work ofscholarship by a masterly poet.” —Kirkus Reviews


Sappho

IF NOT, WINTERFragments of SapphoTranslated by Anne Carson

In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet andclassicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments,in Greek and in English, inviting a thrill of discovery andconjecture that can be described only as electric.By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with thecontemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless andoriginal poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric powerspans millennia.

“Carson is in many ways [Sappho’s] ideal translator. . . . Hercommand of language is honed to a perfect edge and herapproach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in versethat lets Sappho shine forth.” —The Los Angeles Times


Sophocles

THE THEBAN PLAYSTranslated by David Grene

The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles’ three greatestplays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of itsachievement. While they are separate, self-contained dramas, allthree of The Theban Plays, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, andAntigone, draw from the same rich well of myth and showcaseSophocles’ enduring power.

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SEVEN FAMOUS GREEK PLAYSEdited with an introduction and notes by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O’Neill, Jr.

This essential anthology of the most important and frequentlyassigned Greek plays includes: Prometheus Bound and Agamemnon byAeschylus; Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles; Alcestis andMedea by Euripides; and The Frogs by Aristophanes.


Aeschylus

THE ORESTEIAAgamemnon, Choephoroe, EumenidesTranslated by George Thomson

Still powerful after 2,500 years, the three plays of The Oresteia por-tray the bloody chain of family murder and vengeance that followsthe return of the victorious King Agamemnon from the Trojan War.

The plays are presented here in the classic translation by GeorgeThomson, renowned for its accuracy and readability as well as forpreserving the rhythms and multi-layered richness of the originalGreek.

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Bettany Hughes

HELEN OF TROYThe Story Behind the Most Beautiful Womanin the WorldFocusing on the “real” Helen (the possibility of a flesh andblood Helen), acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes recon-structs the context of life in the Bronze Age Greece forthis elusive pre-historic princess. Hughes brilliantlyunpacks the facts and myths surrounding one of the mostenigmatic and notorious figures of all time.

“Hughes splendidly reclaims Helen from centuries of helpless vic-timhood. . . . This book puts Helen of Troy at the centre of aworld in which, as Bettany Hughes convincingly explains, theprimordial power was female.” —The Observer

“Never before has the world of Homer’s epic, the thirteenth century BC, been brought so vividly to life.Hughes brilliantly evokes the sights and sounds of the Bronze Age, the heady smells of women’s per-fumes and oils, the rustle of linen over their thighs and breasts, the whisper of their prayers and litur-gies. . . . A fascinating, compelling argument. . . . A gripping read.” —Dr. Jenny Wallace, Director of

Studies in English, Peterhouse College, Cambridge University, in The Times Higher Education Supplement

“The most exciting thing about this book is its hot fascination with the past, its almost ecstatic pur-suit of a sensuous history. . . .A passionately sensed and recorded homage to Helen.” —Page DuBois,

professor of Greek History and Cultural Studies, University of California, San Diego, in The San Diego

Union-Tribune


Sarah B. Pomeroy

GODDESSES, WHORES, WIVES, AND SLAVESWomen in Classical Antiquity“The first general treatment of women in the ancient world toreflect the critical insights of modern feminism.Though muchdebated, its position as the basic textbook on women’s historyin Greece and Rome has hardly been challenged.”—Mary Beard, The Times Literary Supplement

“Pomeroy’s pioneering study on the status and activities ofwomen in antiquity was, and has remained, a milestone inclassical historiography.” —Peter Green, University of Texas at

Austin

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Roberto Calasso

THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONYTranslated by Tim Parks

With vast erudition and irresistible verve, Calasso retellsthe Greek mythical stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseusand Ariadne, of the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy,tracing them back along the branches of a single, myth-bearing tree and rediscovering the origins of desire andstrife, virginity and rape, tragedy and mystery.

“Extraordinary . . . learned but also daring . . . brilliant, daz-zling to read, a labyrinth lit by a fire.The whole of Greekmythology is simultaneously present from Homer to the veryend of pagan antiquity.” —The New York Review of Books

“A powerful, idiosyncratic undeniably important vision . . . thereillumination of traditional material through the inspired power of narration.” —The New Yorker

“A perfect work like no other. . . . [Calasso] has re-created in a blaze of light, the morning of ourworld.” —Gore Vidal


Gustav Schwab

GODS AND HEROES OF ANCIENT GREECETranslated by Olga Marx and Ernst MorwitzIntroduction by Werner Jaeger

From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen ofTroy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and hismother, this masterful retelling of classic tales from Greekmythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of atimeless cultural legacy. These stories are set forth simplybut movingly, in language that retains the power anddrama of the original works by Aeschylus, Sophocles,Euripides, and Homer.

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I. F. Stone

THE TRIAL OF SOCRATESIn unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famousfree speech case of all time, noted author I. F. Stoneranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek histo-ry to present an engaging and rewarding introduction toclassical antiquity and its relevance to society today.

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Martin Goodman

ROME AND JERUSALEMThe Clash of Ancient CivilizationsNEW

A magisterial history of the titanic struggle in 70 C.E.between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to thedestruction of Jerusalem.

What brought about this conflict between the Romansand the subjects they had previously treated with toler-ance? Martin Goodman examines this conflict, its causes,and its consequences with unprecedented authority andthoroughness. He delineates the incompatibility betweenthe cultural, political, and religious beliefs and practicesof the two peoples. He explains how Rome’s interestswere served by a policy of brutality against the Jews. He makes clear how the originalChristians first distanced themselves from their origins, and then became increasingly hos-tile toward Jews as Christian influence spread within the empire.The book thus also offersan exceptional account of the origins of anti-Semitism, the history of which reverberatesstill.

“This is an important book, on a difficult subject: the reason why the Romans, who had so much in common with the Jews, sought to destroy the Jews and Judaism completely. Only one man couldhave written it. Martin Goodman is professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford and has the unique distinction of having edited both the Journal of Roman Studies and the Journal of JewishStudies.This polarity of expertise enables him to describe in a penetrating way the terrifyingJewish revolts against Rome of AD 66–70 and 132–35, as well as provide a fresh and convincinganalysis of their origins and consequences. . . . Goodman has written a splendid book”—Paul Johnson, The Tablet

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Thomas Cahill

DESIRE OF THE EVERLASTING HILLSThe World Before and After JesusCahill shows us Jesus from his birth to his executionthrough the eyes of those who knew him and in the con-text of his time—a time when the Jews were strugglingto maintain their beliefs under overlords who imposedtheir worldview on their subjects. Here is Jesus the lov-ing friend, itinerate preacher, and quiet revolutionary,whose words and actions inspired his followers to jour-ney throughout the Roman world and speak the truth heinstilled—in the face of the greatest defeat: Jesus’ cruci-fixion as a common criminal. Daring, provocative, andstunningly original, Cahill’s interpretation will bothdelight and surprise.

“A deft march through time and through theology in the making. . . . [Cahill’s] own gift-giving is hisability to climb inside the scholarship and enliven it.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Cahill constructs his stories as occasions for celebration. . . . He seeks to encourage a sense ofappreciation for the gifts offered the present from the past. . . . Each of his books offers moments ofgenuine insight into the workings of culture, literature, and the human heart.”—Luke Timothy Johnson, Commonweal


Virgil

THE AENEIDTranslated by Robert Fitzgerald

“Fitzgerald’s is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it isunthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for along time to come.” —The New York Review of Books

“A rendering that is both marvelously readable and scrupulouslyfaithful. . . . Fitzgerald has managed, by a sensitive use of faint-ly archaic vocabulary and a keen ear for sound and rhythm, tosuggest the solemnity and the movement of Virgil’s poetry as noprevious translator has done (including Dryden). . . .This is asustained achievement of beauty and power.” —The Boston Globe


Tom Holland

RUBICONThe Last Years of the Roman RepublicTom Holland’s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar’s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloodytransformation into an empire. Combining verve and freshnesswith scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing his-tory of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a greatcivilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, deca-dence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition.

“A terrific read and a remarkable piece of scholarship. As an introductionto Roman history it is unlikely to be bettered.” —Daily Mail

“Richly resonant. . . . Ancient history lives in this vivid chronicle.” —Booklist

“A fascinating picture of Roman city life. . . . In every aspect of this story, Holland expertly makesthe Romans, so alien and yet so familiar, relevant to us.” —The Los Angeles Times

“This gripping narrative resurrects some of the half-forgotten personalities and events that shaped whowe are. . . . It enables the reader to relive the slow, bloodstained collapse of a system, not only as afascinating drama in its own right but as a morality tale.” —Anthony Everitt, author of Cicero


Edward Gibbon

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THEROMAN EMPIRE“It was Rome, on the 15th of October 1764,as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol,while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the ideaof writing the decline and fall of the city firststarted to my mind,” recorded EdwardGibbon with characteristic exactitude. His

single flash of inspiration produced what is arguably the greatest historical work in any language, and surely the most magnificent narrative history ever written in English.

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John Julius Norwich

THE MIDDLE SEAA History of the MediterraneanNEW IN PAPERBACK

Norwich traverses 5,000 years of history, tracing the growth of culture,trade, political alliances and enmities, and religious movements from thePhoenician civilization to present-day Mediterranean nations.


Fernand Braudel

MEMORY AND THE MEDITERRANEANTranslated by Siân Reynolds

A grand sweep of history, Memory and the Mediterranean chronicles theMediterranean’s immeasurably rich past during the foundational periodfrom prehistory to classical antiquity, illuminating nothing less than thebedrock of our civilization and the very origins of Western culture.

“A major event. . . . Arresting and exciting. . . . Braudel tackles the ancient world in an unexpectedand impressive display of his range.” —Literary Review


John Julius Norwich

A SHORT HISTORY OF BYZANTIUMIn this magisterial adaptation of his epic three-volume history ofByzantium, John Julius Norwich chronicles the world’s longest-livedChristian empire. Norwich follows the course of eleven centuries ofByzantine statecraft and warfare, politics and theology, manners and art.


Charles Freeman

THE CLOSING OF THE WESTERN MINDThe Rise of Faith and the Fall of ReasonA radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine’s adoption ofChristianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent devel-opment both of Christianity and of Western civilization.

“A triumph. . . . Freeman is to be congratulated on a broad-brush approach thatthrows the main issue into sharp focus. . . . [He] has added a new level of

understanding.” —The Times Higher Education Supplement


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