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A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies
The first great English-language travel ...
A vivid and richly anecdotal portrait of Spartan society.
Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source ...
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive ...
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers
Edward Gibbon's ...
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Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against ...
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Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most ...
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent ...
The fourth volume of Livy's history of the Roman Empire
In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the ...
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero ...
