Carthage began as a Phoenician trading outpost and grew into a Mediterranean empire that challenged Rome itself. This chapter follows Phoenician expansion, navigation, and colonization, before tracing ...

Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita is among the most intriguing female figures in Byzantine history for a number of good reasons.

Discover how the classical education system evolved from elementary instruction in Latin and Greek to the advanced study of rhetoric, law, philosophy, and medicine. With vivid insights into classrooms ...