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Sixteenth-century bust of Julius Caesar.

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Classical History

Tales of tragedy, ambition and heroism from the Battle of Marathon and Hannibal’s passage of the Alps to Caesar’s fateful crossing of the Rubicon.

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Alcibiades

By Clay Lane

In the populist democracy of 5th-century BC Athens, heroes fell as quickly as they rose.

2

Androcles and the Lion

Based on an account by Aulus Cornelius Gellius

Gaius Caesar is disappointed with the quality of the entertainment on offer in Rome’s Circus Maximus.

3

An Appeal to Philip Sober

By Valerius Maximus

A woman convicted of a crime she did not commit took her case to a higher power.

4

The Battle of Marathon

By Clay Lane

Remembered as the inspiration of the famous Olympic road race, but much more important than that.

5

The Battle of Salamis

Based on Plutarch

As the Persian Empire’s grip tightened by land and sea, it fell to one man to unite Greece in a last desperate bid to break it.

6

The Battle of Thermopylae

Based on Herodotus

In 480 BC Leonidas, King of Sparta, frustrated the advance of Xerxes the Persian just long enough to change the course of the war — and history.

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