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Thomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfall   Phocion (402-318 BCE) won Athens's highest public office by direct democratic election an unmatched forty-five times and was officially honored...

A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution   "Herod the Great is typical of Yale's Jewish Lives series: short, clear, deeply knowledgeable, deeply illuminating...

Much has been written about the events of 69AD, the famous 'Year of Four Emperors', but this book offers a new perspective on the Roman Empire as the shift of power between Senate and Emperor turned deadly. The disastrous reign of the Emperor Commodus, which saw a great expansion...

The first volume of Michael Horton's magisterial intellectual history of "spiritual but not religious" as a phenomenon in Western culture    Discussions of the rapidly increasing number of people identifying as "spiritual but not religious" tend to focus on the past...

Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, this volume explores a variety of linguistic materials and stylistic artifices exploited by the Greek comic poets, from...

Narrates the deployments, moves and countermoves on the day (6 Apr 46 BC) that led to another victory for Caesar. Despite defeating his opponent Pompeius Magnus at Pharsalus, and the latter's subsequent murder, Caesar still faced a determined opposition in the Civil War that had...

Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century...