Klassieke Oudheid

At Marathon, the site of the key battle between Greek and Persian armies, independence and a radical new political form were at stake. Through an overview of the religion, culture, and alliances among city-states, this historical account adds depth and context to the battle that safeguarded the autonomy of Greek life, allowed for the development of a cultural foundation for Western civilization, and protected the young democratic government. Detailing the stories of brutal fighting, Philippides' final run proclaiming news of victory, and the powerful political changes that took shape immediately after, this vivid description provides the details of a pivotal moment in Western history.

Reizen in het voetspoor of in de geest van de Oudgriekse geschiedschrijver.

De Trojaanse oorlog gezien door de ogen van een 16-jarige Griekse koningszoon die zijn in de strijd vermiste vader zoekt.

Book I of the "Histories" provides a particularly good illustration of the discursiveness and diversity of Herodotus' materials and of the ingenuity with which he develops his narrative and welds it into an artistic whole. Here he deals first with the distant mythological and then in greater detail with more recent history of Greek relations with the Near East, in an attempt to explain the origin of the quarrels between east and west which formed the background to the Persian Wars. This edition contains an introduction, text and annotation on matters of language and content. There is also an explanatory index of historical and geographical names.

Gebaseerd op brieven van Cicero aan zijn vrouw Terentia en aan Atticus wordt de teloorgang van het huwelijk tussen Cicero en Terentia beschreven tegen de achtergrond van de toenemende politieke onrust in Rome in de eerst eeuw voor Christus.

In spring 1945, the Red Army entered Berlin. Not far from the Reichs Chancellery was the Berlin Zoo with an anti-aircraft tower. Inside were crates containing Heinrich Schliemann's famed collection of gold from the lost city of Troy, King Priam's riches - gold diadems with leaf and flower pendants, gold bottles, gold earrings and 9000 gold rings and buttons - one of the most complete and valuable finds ever made by an archaeologist. On June 3rd the crates were despatched to Moscow by military aircraft. And there they and their contents vanished.

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome's European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle, during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453 ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse, culminating in the Vandals' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada: the west's last chance for survival. Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians.

Opstellen over verschillende antieke culturen rond de Middellandse Zee (met nadruk op de Grieks-Romeinse cultuur), waarin diverse typen schurken en schelmen belicht worden.

Geschiedenis van de Romeinen en Bataven in Nederland.

De verbazingwekkende geschiedenis van het beeld van de Venus van Milo vanaf het moment dat het werd gevonden tot zijn plaatsing in het Louvre te Parijs.

Het levensverhaal van de Romeinse keizer Augustus.

with a commentary by R.G. Austin 

with a commentary by C.J. Fordyce, intr. by P.G. Walsh, ed. by J.D.Christie

erklart von Th. Ladewig, C. Schaper und P. Deuticke

Loeb Classical Library nr. 35

Loeb Classical Library nr. 250

Loeb Classical Library 134