Autor James Romm

A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again “This colorful biography of Demetrius . . . explores his rich inner life and reveals an ancient world of violence and intrigue.”―New…

The tragic story of ancient Greece's last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination   In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of Macedon had seized a town in central Greece, a base from which…