Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation af...(展开全部)

杰弗里•罗伯茨（Geoffrey Roberts），英国皇家历史学会会士，爱尔兰科克大学历史学院教授和院长，著有《斯大林的战争》（Stalin’s Wars）和《斯大林格勒的胜利》（Victory at Stalingrad）。 李晓江，北京大学哲学博士。爱书。教书、读书之余，亦以译书为乐。译有《斯大林的战争》《失败的帝国：从斯大林到戈尔巴乔夫》。

杰弗里•罗伯茨（Geoffrey Roberts），英国皇家历史学会会士，爱尔兰科克大学历史学院教授和院长，著有《斯大林的战争》（Stalin’s Wars）和《斯大林格勒的胜利》（Victory at Stalingrad）。 李晓江，北京大学哲学博士。爱书。教书、读书之余，亦以译书为乐。译有《斯大林的战争》《失败的帝国：从斯大林到戈尔巴乔夫》。

杰弗里•罗伯茨（Geoffrey Roberts），英国皇家历史学会会士，爱尔兰科克大学历史学院教授和院长，著有《斯大林的战争》（Stalin’s Wars）和《斯大林格勒的胜利》（Victory at Stalingrad）。 李晓江，北京大学哲学博士。爱书。教书、读书之余，亦以译书为乐。译有《斯大林的战争》《失败的帝国：从斯大林到戈尔巴乔夫》。

杰弗里•罗伯茨（Geoffrey Roberts），英国皇家历史学会会士，爱尔兰科克大学历史学院教授和院长，著有《斯大林的战争》（Stalin’s Wars）和《斯大林格勒的胜利》（Victory at Stalingrad）。 李晓江，北京大学哲学博士。爱书。教书、读书之余，亦以译书为乐。译有《斯大林的战争》《失败的帝国：从斯大林到戈尔巴乔夫》。

Matthew J. Payne is assistant professor of history at Emory University.

The Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, or Turksib, was one of the great construction projects of the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan. As the major icon to ending the economic "backwardness" of the USSR's minority republics, it stood apart from similar efforts as one of the most potent metaphors for the creation of a unified socialist nation. Built between December 1926 and Janu...(展开全部)

Matthew J. Payne is assistant professor of history at Emory University.

The Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, or Turksib, was one of the great construction projects of the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan. As the major icon to ending the economic "backwardness" of the USSR's minority republics, it stood apart from similar efforts as one of the most potent metaphors for the creation of a unified socialist nation. Built between December 1926 and Janu...(展开全部)

From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation’s founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders–Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilt...(展开全部)