"In this work of extraordinary learning.. readers will find themselves guided on a fascinating journey througt a story that has never before been presnted in such an accessible and thouht-provoking fashion." Thomas R. Martin Jeremiah O'Connor Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross
Byzantium; the successor of Greece and Rome this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years.Without Byzantium the works of Homer and Herodotus Pla ...