Brief Lives of the Ancient World

Rulers, Rebels, Robbers

A fascinating window into the history of the ancient world, told through thirty-five fascinating figures

A fascinating window into the history of the ancient world, told through thirty-five fascinating figures

The western ancient world stretched from the Pillars of Hercules between Spain and North Africa in the west to Mesopotamia in the east, and from southern Egypt in the south to Scotland in the north. In between all the places and across several thousand years came a succession of grand civilizations and culturesincluding the Sumerians, ancient Egypt, Carthage, classical Greece, the Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman Empire.

In this engaging account, Guy de la Bdoyredraws on decades of research to provide a history of the ancient world through a personal selection of key figures.The story of any one of these lives is unique, from Egypts reforming pharaoh Horemheb or the public p