A major new history of Athens' remarkably long and influential life after the collapse of its empire To many the history of post-Classical Athens is one of decline. True, Athens hardly commanded the number of allies it had when hegemon of its fifth-century Delian League or even its fourth-century Naval Confederacy, and its navy was but a shadow of its former self. But Athens re...(展开全部)

Flora Kimmich has translated J.G. Droysen's classic study into English for the first time. Through her masterly rendering she brings this foundational work of modern historiography of the ancient world to a new audience. Based entirely on ancient sources, this is an exhaustive, beautifully narrated account of Alexander from the origins of the ancient Macedonian kingdom to Alexa...(展开全部)

Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange...(展开全部)

Beginning with the Roman army’s first foray beyond its borders and concluding with the death of Hadrian in 138 CE, this panoramic history of the early Roman Empire recounts the wars, leaders, and social transformations that lay the foundations of imperial success. Between 264 BCE, when the Roman army crossed into Sicily, and the death of Hadrian nearly three hundred years later...(展开全部)

安傑羅．查尼歐提斯Angelos Chaniotis 普林斯頓大學高等研究院歷史研究學院教授，也是牛津大學萬靈學院（All Souls）的前院士。他曾撰寫多部著作與文章，並擔任《希臘銘文補充調查報告》（Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum）的資深編輯，以及古典研究期刊《謨涅摩敘涅》（Mnemosyne）的編輯。 譯者簡介 黃楷君 政大阿拉伯語文學系、廣播電視學系畢業，曾任出版社編輯，現為文字工作者、譯者、內容力有限公司特約譯者。譯有《手寫時代》、《穆罕默德：宣揚謙卑、寬容與和平的先知》、《福爾摩沙．美麗之島》（合譯）、《時光出土：考古學的故事》、《原始富足：布希曼族的生存之道，以及他們能教給我們什麼？》等書，及合著《吹過島嶼的歌》。

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. His successors reorganized Persian lands to create a new empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean as far as present-day Afghanistan, while in Greece and Macedonia a fragile balance of power repeatedly dissolved into war. Then, from the late third century BCE to the end of ...(展开全部)

雅各布·阿伯特（Jacob Abbott，1803 —1879），美国畅销书作家，教育家，一生写作近两百本书，以简短的历史、传记和科普作品为主，著有《凯撒传》《成吉思汗传》《埃及艳后传》等世界名人传记和《罗拉欧洲旅行记》等青少年科普小说，深受读者欢迎。 毕婷 ，一九七九年生，陕西汉中人，西安外国语大学文学学士，西北师范大学英语教学论硕士，现任教于西北师范大学外国语学院。在省级期刊发表过数篇学术文章，参与两项省级重点科研项目，并数次参与涉外翻译工作。

The Triumph of Empire takes readers into the political heart of imperial Rome and recounts the extraordinary challenges overcome by a flourishing empire. Michael Kulikowski’s history begins with the reign of Hadrian, who visited the farthest reaches of his domain and created stable frontiers, and spans to the decades after Constantine the Great, who overhauled the government, i...(展开全部)

This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Mace...(展开全部)