Low 5. The author provides a wonderful, comprehensive, yet digestible, history of the classical worlds of Greece and Rome. No exact date exists to map the rise of the ‘polis’, or city state, which dominated the classical stage but Lane Fox believes this development took place between 950-700BC. T...
It's taken me months to get through this -- it's a very dense book, with all the controversies worked out on the page in front of you and nothing pat. So having come to the finish I do feel rather like I've been to the ends of the earth with Alexander myself, but it's so very absolutely worth it...
If anyone says that this desire is morally right, he is mad, for he is approving the death of the laws and liberty and is thinking that their hideous and detestable oppression is glorious. Cicero, De Officiis 3.83 (late October 44 BC) Utterly deplorable! According to Gaius Matius, our problems ar...
