Delphi: Centre of the Ancient Greek World
I have agreed to write a full history of the oracle and sanctuary of Delphi for Princeton University Press. The book, due for publication in 2013, and commissioned by Classics Editor Rob Tempio, will make the latest scholarship on the long life of this crucial centre of the ancient Greek world accessible to all. FROM DEMOCRATS TO KINGS:the brutal dawn of a new world from the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great (Icon 2009) 
404 BC: Athens is exhausted at the end of a bloody war with Sparta and the mastership of Greece is left open for the taking. By 323BC, less than 100 years later, Athens, the rest of Greece, and a large part of the known world, has come under the control of a master of self-publicity and a model for despots for millennia to come:'megas alexandros', Alexander the Great. This book tells the dramatic story of how, over the space of merely a generation, the ancient world was turned completely on its head, in a brutal power struggle whose outcome would define the world for centuries. "A gloriously entertaining and provocative account of a period of Greek history that is no less important for having so often been overlooked." Tom Holland Buy it here on Amazon (hardback) and here on Amazon (paperback). For more information on this book, click here For all enquiries regarding book rights please contact my literary agent: Conville and Walsh (0)20 7287 3030 |
