The Spartans
by Paul Cartledge | 
Thermopylae
by Paul Cartledge | 
The Underground Railroad
by William Still | 
The Roman Revolution
by Ronald Syme | 
The War That Killed Achilles
by Caroline Alexander | 
The Classical World
by Robin Lane Fox | 
Black Athena
by Martin Bernal | 
The Fall of the Athenian Empire
by Donald Kagan | 
From the Gracchi to Nero
by H. H. Scullard | 
Tacitus on Germany
by Tacitus | 
Ancient Greece
by Sarah B. Pomeroy | 
The History of the Franks
by Gregory of Tours | 
An Account of Egypt
by Herodotus | 
Alexander the Great
by Paul Cartledge | 
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
by Ignatius Donnelly |
Chronicles of the Crusades
by Jean de Joinville |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon |
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus
by Cassius Dio | 
The Roman Way
by Edith Hamilton |
The Romans
by Mary T. Boatwright |
This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek culture. Cartledge highlights the role of such renowned cities as Athens (birthplace of democracy) and Sparta, but he also examines Argos, Thebes, Syracuse in Sicily, and Alexandria in Egypt, as well as lesser known locales such as Miletus (home of the West's first intellectual, Thales) and Massalia (Marseilles today), where the Greeks introduced the wine grape to the French. The author uses these cities to illuminate major themes, from economics, religion, and social relations, to gender and sexuality, slavery and freedom, and politics.