This book examines the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity. In doing so, it arti
"As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world." -- Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and Rubicon Twenty-five-hundred years ago,
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold series that te
The Book of the Ancient World is an account of our common heritage from the dawn of civilization to the coming of the Greeks. It is the story of how human being