About the Author

Sir Fergus Millar is Emeritus Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy, which awarded him the Kenyon Medal of Classics in 2005. Millar numbers among the most influential historians of ancient Greece and Rome.

Reviews

"A masterpiece of historical writing--not merely a standard work to be read as a matter of compulsion by (at the least) all ancient historians, but rather an immediate classic whose effects will long be felt and which in the present generation cannot be superseded.' K. R. Bradley, Gnomon