Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"—Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.
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"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property ma
Los griegos de la Antigüedad constituye un ordenado friso por el que discurren los aspectos más significativos de la vida en la Grecia clásica. Desde el período arcaico hasta el esplendor del período helenístico, el libro traza un panorama de imáge
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