Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC. Special attention is paid to violent sports of boxing, wrestling and pancration. We meet the great athletes of the past and discove...(展开全部)

大卫·波特，密歇根大学历史教授，主要研究领域为古希腊与罗马时代，著述众多，并多次在电视节目上为观众讲述相关古代历史。近年来的著作主要关注古希腊罗马时期与现代共通的娱乐、体育项目等，试图用较新的视角来审视古代历史。著有：《古罗马：一段新的历史》《君士坦丁大帝》《胜者王冠：从荷马到拜占庭时代的竞技史》《罗马诸王》等。

Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC. Special attention is paid to violent sports of boxing, wrestling and pancration. We meet the great athletes of the past and discove...(展开全部)

Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC. Special attention is paid to violent sports of boxing, wrestling and pancration. We meet the great athletes of the past and discove...(展开全部)

The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major ...(展开全部)

罗纳德·赫顿（Ronald Hutton） 英国布里斯托大学历史学教授、英国皇家历史学会会员、英国文化遗产信托基金专员，研究领域涉及基督宗教、民间传说和民俗文化。其著作主题广泛，包括14至17世纪英国史、英国古代和现代异教，以及西伯利亚萨满教等。

The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John Romer This exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with handfuls of semi-itinerant fishermen settled, spread and created a rich, vivid...(展开全部)

英国埃及学家、历史学家、考古学家约翰·罗默根据自己半个多世纪的学术研究和实地考察经历，基于曾被弃之一旁的证据，以及近二十年来的全新考古发现成果，撰写了一套三卷本古埃及史作品，重新构建了我们对世界上已知最早文明之一的理解。

In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant here traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world. Four years before his death, Will Durant began work on an abbreviated version of his highly...(展开全部)

The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fiftee...(展开全部)