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In 1872, Jacob Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture,...

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From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to th...

Symposion is the Greek word for 'drinking together'-the social institution of reclining on couche...

This book tells the story of the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the fo...

How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of anci...

Oswyn Murray charts the shifting uses of the ancient past, showing how three centuries of scholar...