Most Read This Week In Ancient

The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Is ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Ancient"

The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Of Love and Treason
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
Protector (Athenian #2)
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
Before the King: Joanna's Story (Women of the Way, #2)
Sparrow
Empire (The Golden Age #2)
Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
The Daughter of Rome
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
The Lion (The Golden Age #1)
As Sure as the Sea
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
The Life of Herod the Great
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict
The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome
The Wall (City of Victory #3)
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire
Between the Wild Branches (The Covenant House, #2)
Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
Dionysos: The New God (Olympians, #12)
New Rome: The Empire in the East
The City (City of Victory #2)
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Crassus: The First Tycoon
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
The Greeks: A Global History
A Comedy of Terrors (Flavia Albia #9)
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
Rome: Strategy of Empire
Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty
The Fort (City of Victory #1)
Rebel Daughter
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
Dominus (Roma, #3)
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

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