peter -forrest-derow fellow and tutor in ancient history, forrest-derow fellow and tutor in ancient history, wadham college, oxford- thonemann

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1

A collection of the writings of Sallust, renowned in the latter half of the first century BC for his prose. The volume contains the text of two of his

'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.' In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York pre

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age cov

A volume which examines twelfth and thirteenth century officers and the practices used to regulate them in England, placing them not only within a Bri

Law in Common draws on a large body of unpublished archival material from local archives and libraries across the country, to show how ordinary people

In Demons, Virginia Berridge explores the factors that have affected social attitudes to tobacco, alcohol, and a variety of drugs, through history. Ge

Accompanying the new translation of Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams in the Oxford World's Classics series, this volume aims to provide the n

Lucian's Alexander Or The False Prophet is a satiric biography of the religious entrepreneur and career fraudster Alexander of Abonouteichos. It recou

This book is the first full-length study to be dedicated to the political economy of the Attalid kingdom of Pergamon, focusing in particular on its fi

This volume offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow during the course of his career. With a det

Written by experts, this innovative textbook offers students a relevant, contextual account of EU law. Under the experienced editorship of Catherine B

Explores the place and importance of literature in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its cr

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratol

Outlines what is known of ancient Sparta, describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens, makes an att

This work discusses the achievement and the problems of Greek historiography in a series of contributions by a group of scholars. It traces the story

This is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian o

The collected papers of the late Elizabeth Rawson, a specialist in the history, society and culture of the later Roman Republic and Augustan period. T

Examining the problematic relation between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman, this work first reconstructs his ca

This study of Anglo-French relations in the century before the Hundred Years War, examines the legacy of continental rule bequeathed by the Angevin ki