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  • Delphi Complete Works of Athenaeus (Illustrated)

    by Athenaeus ...
    Series Book 83 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    A rhetorician of the late second century, Athenaeus wrote ‘The Deipnosophistae’ (‘Dinner-Table Philosophers’), a fifteen-book encyclopaedia of information on the ancient world, preserving otherwise lost treasures from many important writers. The text is structured as a dialogue in the vein of Plato, offering an amusing account of a Greek symposium. ‘The Deipnosophistae’ details the many different ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Callinicum 531 A.D.: Belisarius, Persia, and the Battle on the Euphrates

    Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire, #6

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 6 - Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire
    At Callinicum, Belisarius lost the battlefield—but Persia failed to turn victory into strategic success.In 531 A.D., only a year after the celebrated Roman victory at Dara, the war between Emperor Justinian's Eastern Roman Empire and Sasanian Persia entered a dangerous new phase. Rather than attack the fortified frontier of Roman Mesopotamia, a Persian army under Azarethes, supported by the ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Athenaeus. Illustrated

    The Deipnosophistae

    by Athenaeus ...
    Translated by C. D. Yonge ...
    Athenaeus (Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius.Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives.The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis. It ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Aegospotami 405 B.C.: Lysander and Sparta’s Decisive Victory That Ended the Peloponnesian War

    Epic Battles of Ancient History, #14

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 14 - Epic Battles of Ancient History
    At Aegospotami, one surprise ended a generation of war.In 405 B.C., after nearly three decades of struggle, Athens still possessed the fleet that had sustained its empire and prolonged the Peloponnesian War. Sparta, under the command of Lysander, needed one decisive victory to break Athenian power forever. On the shores of the Hellespont, discipline, patience, and timing would decide the fate of ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Thermopylae 480 B.C.: Leonidas, the Spartan Stand, and the Strategy of the Narrow Pass

    Epic Battles of Ancient History, #7

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 7 - Epic Battles of Ancient History
    At Thermopylae, time—not terrain—was the decisive weapon.In 480 B.C., the Persian Empire advanced into Greece with overwhelming force. Xerxes commanded an army drawn from across Asia, supported by a massive fleet and sustained by imperial logistics. Northern Greece had already collapsed. The road to the heart of the Greek world lay open.Only one position stood in its path.A narrow pass.This book ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Nineveh 627 A.D.: The Victory That Broke Persia and Saved the Eastern Roman Empire

    Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire, #4

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 4 - Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire
    At Nineveh, the fate of the Sasanian Empire—and the survival of the Eastern Roman Empire—was decided.In 627 A.D., Emperor Heraclius led one of the most daring campaigns of Late Antiquity deep into the heart of the Sasanian Empire. Refusing to remain on the defensive after years of devastating Persian invasions, he carried the war across Armenia into northern Mesopotamia, forcing the Persians to ... Read more

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  • The Siege of Constantinople 717–718 A.D.: Faith, Fire, and the Defense That Changed History

    Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire, #3

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 3 - Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire
    At Constantinople, the future of the Byzantine Empire—and perhaps of Europe itself—was decided.In 717 A.D., the Umayyad Caliphate launched the greatest expedition in its history to capture Constantinople. After decades of relentless expansion, the Arabs stood before the strongest fortress of the medieval world, determined to destroy the Byzantine Empire and open southeastern Europe to further ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Coronea 394 B.C.: Agesilaus, Thebes, and the Deadliest Clash of the Corinthian War

    Epic Battles of Ancient History, #26

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 26 - Epic Battles of Ancient History
    The Battle of Coronea marked the moment Sparta preserved its supremacy against the greatest challenge of the Corinthian War.In 394 B.C., only weeks after the Battle of Nemea, King Agesilaus II returned from his victorious campaign in Asia Minor to confront the growing anti-Spartan coalition in Boeotia. Determined to prevent his enemies from uniting their full strength, he marched south through ... Read more

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  • The Siege of Syracuse 414–413 B.C.: Athens, Sparta, and the Catastrophe of the Sicilian Expedition

    Epic Battles of Ancient History, #29

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 29 - Epic Battles of Ancient History
    The Siege of Syracuse was the campaign that destroyed one of the greatest military expeditions ever launched by Athens.In 415 B.C., at the height of the Peloponnesian War, Athens dispatched an immense armada to Sicily. What began as an ambitious attempt to expand Athenian power soon became a two-year struggle for Syracuse, the most powerful Greek city in Sicily. By 413 B.C., the expedition had ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Dara 530 A.D.: The Clash That Halted Persia and Secured Rome’s Eastern Frontier

    Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire, #1

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 1 - Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire
    At Dara, the Eastern Roman Empire proved that discipline, preparation, and operational control could halt the offensive power of Sassanian Persia.In 530 A.D., near the fortified frontier city of Dara, the Byzantine general Belisarius confronted a larger Persian army determined to break Roman resistance in Mesopotamia. Using fortified positions, coordinated cavalry maneuver, concealed reserves, and ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Chaeronea 338 B.C.: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Battle That Ended Greek Independence

    Epic Battles of Ancient History, #1

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 1 - Epic Battles of Ancient History
    At Chaeronea, the Greek world crossed a point of no return.In 338 B.C., on the plains of Boeotia, the armies of Athens, Thebes, and their allies confronted the rising power of Macedon. The Battle of Chaeronea was not simply a clash between opposing forces, but a confrontation between two fundamentally different ways of making war. It was shaped by preparation, command structure, and the ability to ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Yarmuk 636 A.D.: The Battle That Ended Byzantine Syria and Opened the Levant to Islam

    Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire, #2

    by Antonios athenaeus ...
    Series Book 2 - Epic Battles of Eastern Roman Empire
    At Yarmuk, the fate of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Levant was decided.In 636 A.D., two worlds collided on the windswept plains near the Yarmuk River. The Eastern Roman Empire, exhausted but victorious after decades of war against Sasanian Persia, sought to reclaim full control of Syria and halt the rapid expansion of the Rashidun Caliphate. Facing them stood the armies of Islam under Khalid ... Read more

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