Category - History

Sallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and politic...

The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in ...

Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war h...

Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial...

As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences...

'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living wit...

The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one o...

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dial...

Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise...

"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodo...

"I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of th...