Rulers of the Ancient World

This set gathers five separate biographies of Mediterranean figures of the classical centuries: Alexander of Macedon, Julius Caesar, Nero, Hannibal, and Cleopatra. Each volume follows one life through campaign, court, and political struggle, drawing on ancient narrative sources and on modern reconstruction of institutions, armies, and cities. The subjects range from Hellenistic kingship and the late Roman Republic to the Punic wars and the last Ptolemaic court. There is no single argument binding the five books. The collection is a group of political lives, not a continuous history of the ancient world.

A collected issue of the second impression of the series of biographies of classical rulers. Dark green five-volume gilt titled slipcase.