Greece

Was the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 inevitable?

In a BBC interview on 1 July 1952, self-taught linguist Michael Ventris announced that he had deciphered the Linear B script of Minoan Crete.

Two very different volumes, Sparta and the Commemoration of War and The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae, grapple with the myth of Sparta.

Did the Greeks really trick their way into Troy inside a gigantic wooden horse?

Four historians evaluate perceptions of Rome’s eastern successor beyond the piety, icons, bureaucracy and gold of Byzantium.

Early Christianity brought new opportunities for Roman and Byzantine women – it also brought new reasons to vilify them.

In ancient Greece the ‘least dangerous’ branch of government – the courts – wielded serious political power.

Well-researched and attractively written, Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy by Robin Waterfield grapples with a life that left few records.

Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox is a masterly survey of the Iliad, its majesty, its pathos and its unparalleled progression from wrath to pity.

Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece.