This volume presents the first authoritative English translation and scholarly commentary on a little known but important ancient historical source: the 2nd/3rd

Around 200AD, Marcus Junianus Justinus produced an abridged or 'epitomized' version of the Philippic Histories of the Augustan historian Pompeius Trogus. In doi

Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection cast a wider

Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul living in the age of Augustus, wrote a forty-four book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman Mediterranea

Although there are many books written about the most famous Cleopatra, this is the only study in English devoted to her less well-known but equally illustrious