Barry Strauss: 13 books
Ten Caesars
Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)****—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives...
Masters of Command
Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In Masters of Command, Barry Strauss compares the way the three greatest generals of the ancient world—Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar—waged war and draws lessons from their experiences that apply on and off the battlefield.
Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar—each was a master of war. Each had...
The Trojan War
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent archeological...
L'arte del comando
Alessandro, Annibale, Cesare
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Barry Strauss mette a confronto i capi militari più importanti e più grandi dell'antichità. Il migliore fu Annibale, il generale cartaginese, un condottiero formidabile, superiore persino ad Alessandro e a Cesare. Di lui si può dire che fu l'eroe delle cause perdute e delle battaglie perfette....
The Death of Caesar
The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In this story of the most famous assassination in history, “the last bloody day of the [Roman] Republic has never been painted so brilliantly” (The Wall Street Journal).
Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC—the Ides of March according to the Roman...
The Battle of Salamis
The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia...
La guerra di Troia
guerra di Troia
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Nel 1200 a.C. una città d’oro si ergeva all’ingresso dello stretto dei Dardanelli, tra l’ambra dei campi di grano, in bella vista su una pericolosa linea di sangue che divideva due imperi rivali. Troia ‘la ventosa’ sorgeva proprio lì, sull’unico punto di passaggio tra il mar Egeo e il...
Athens after the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals)
Class, Faction and Policy 403-386 B.C.
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a subject that – at least in the case of Athens – has received far less attention. Along with the problems of reconstructing the economy and replenishing the population, the problem of renegotiating political...
La morte di Cesare
L'assassinio più famoso della storia
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Strauss racconta la complessità della politica della tarda Repubblica romana con un ritmo narrativo serrato. In più è un abile ritrattista: tutti i protagonisti sono personalità vivissime e ben delineate, nessuna meglio di Cesare stesso. «Time»
Le fonti antiche tendono a ignorare i legionari...
by Barry Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration for novelists, filmmakers, and revolutionaries for 2,000 years. Starting with only seventy-four men, a gladiator named Spartacus...
Fathers and Sons in Athens
Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
As history's first democracy, classical Athens invited political discourse. The Athenians, however could not completely separate the politicals from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict, from patricide to murdering one's son, was a major public as well as a private theme. In a fascinating...
by Barry Strauss
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 30, 2017
La guerra di Spartaco ha tutta la suspense di un thriller e nessuna licenza poetica. Il racconto di cosa significa essere un gladiatore, delle tattiche per essere vincenti e dell'agonia della disfatta è adrenalinico. La morte di Spartaco – non su una croce, come nel film di Stanley Kubrick, ma...
War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War
A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
A comparison of the cultural and political/institutional dimensions of war's impact on Greece during the Peloponnesian War, and the United States and the two Koreas, North and South, during the Korean War. It demonstrates the many underlying similarities between the two wars.