Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s “Iliad” provides the plot for the movie “Troy,” while ...
Greek historians like Herodotus are famous for writing down some of the first-ever Western historical records and waxing poetic about the skirmishes and wars waged throughout Ancient Greece. But just ...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. xxii. 713. Illus., maps, tables, figures, chron., notes, biblio., index. $49.95 / £42.00. ISBN:0691155380 A ...