Bøger i Emblems of Antiquity serien

In Font of Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills recounts a vital chapter in the history of the Church--the baptism of Augustine by Ambrose--while unveiling a rarely visited but critical landmark in the history of Western intellectual history.

Medusa's Gaze provides the first dedicated account of the origins and extraordinary survival of an exquisite agate bowl from ancient Alexandria to the modern day as it passed through the hands of some of history's most influentional, and colorful, characters.

Leading historian G.W. Bowersock provides a narrative account of a fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history - the holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs in the sixth century AD.

With compelling and eye-opening detective work, After Thermopylae provides a long-overdue history of the Battle of Plataea and a rich portrait of the Greek ethos during one of the most critical periods in ancient history.