Ancient author Diodorus Siculus reports that Alexander preferred Hephaestion above everyone else, even claiming that ...

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

So begins the Asterix comic series, which positions Julius Caesar as the power-lusting dictator of the mighty Roman Empire ...

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and ...

By the time the Greek writer Diodorus Siculus visited the valley's tombs (circa 60 B.C.) he wrote, "We found nothing there except the results of pillage and destruction." It's possible ...

The only written references come much later, from scholars such as Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius, Strabo, and Flavius Josephus, all writing at a time after Babylon had been abandoned.

Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC, described the Celts wearing 'shirts which have been dyed and embroidered in various colours'.

Legal language is harsh and convoluted for most people, a sentiment that law students who have to memorize laws would surely ...

The Soprintendenza del Mare, in collaboration with the Capo Murro Diving Center in Syracuse, led by Fabio Portella, has ...

Four centuries later, the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus writes that crocodiles were hunted with spears and nets. Until recently, however, when a team led by Mcknight made an unexpected ...

Illustration of a Gaul playing the carnyx. Unknown author The Roman historian Diodorus Siculus similarly describes the trumpets of a "peculiar barbarian kind" used by Western European tribes.

Centuries after the first golden coffins were taken to Europe, ancient Egyptian mummies still vividly capture people’s imaginations. Perhaps we’re awed by the grandeur of their rituals and tradition.