Nine new studies here explore, and reconstruct, determinant episodes of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman history. The authors argue that hindsight - especially in m

Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection cast a wider

Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event.

Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnograp

Explores narrative techniques in ancient biography and how they fictionalize narrative.