NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STARFrom Anthony Everitt, the bes...

Born and bred in what is now northern Spain to a family of olive-oil magnates, Hadrian was lucky ...

A gripping account of the ascent of Rome from agrarian backwater to capital of the world's grea...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the hist...

“A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (L...

He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus tr...

SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of f...

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greate...

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most infl...

The story of Athens is truly intriguing: how did a tiny community of 200,000 citizens manage to g...