Earliest Times To Present Day

The definitive and comprehensive edition of Robert Graves's classic retelling of the Greek myths. The Greek Myths is a classic among classics, a treasure trove of extraordinary tales and a masterful work of literature in its own right.

In Secret Societies, Nick Harding highlights the similarities that cults have - they all work to a similar pattern and that basic human psychology plays a far more important role in their continued existence and their enduring appeal than any hidden wisdom, knowledge or world-shattering secret.

The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon.

For centuries, half the ancient world remained invisible -- until Sarah Pomeroy's pioneering history, which at last revealed the women of antiquity to modern eyes.

The classical historian J. B. Bury (1861-1927) was the author of a history of Greece which was a standard textbook for over a century.

Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day

This is Part 1 of a four part series by Johann Kohl published in 1844 which pictures Ireland after the the Catholic Emancipation and just prior to the Great Famine.

In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman.

Middle East, Ancient World, BCE to c 500 CE, Middle Eastern history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE,

Frankopan, the bestselling author of Silk Roads, paints a strikingly original picture of this infamous confrontation between Christianity and Islam.