THE name of Kiepert is in itself a sufficient guarantee of the thoroughness and accuracy of a book on geography. That writer, in his “Lehrbuch der Alten Geographie”—from which the present work is ...

Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a word we take from the Old French viron, circuit). The Romans applied Greek ...

Mr. Nicolson is an English author who writes about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. His latest book is “How to Be: Life Lessons From the Early Greeks.” A few years ago, my wife, Sarah ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is Alexander the Great. In 336 BCE, at the age of 20, he began a campaign leading the Greek and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Many of the artefacts and stories that have been preserved from ancient Greece relate to warfare, which ...