"Start here. There are MANY translations of the Iliad, but 50 years on this is still an excellent rendition. See also Hammond and Fagels if it really tickles your fancy! THE book to read before you die"
"The 'father' of history. His 'equiries' cover the formation of the Persian Empire and of course the Persian Wars - Go Sparta!. Did he really go to Egypt? Do we care? Check out the Gold Digging Ants!"
"Athenian General Thucydides' picks up almost where Herodotos left us but their styles could not be any more different. Athens and Sparta turn on each other to devastating effect."
"Corunna of the Ancients: 10,000 mercenaries escape the Persians after their failier to help Price Cyrus overthrow his brother for the Persian throne."
"Worth every penny. Lives and actions of Lycurgus, Agesilaus, Agis and Cleomenes and super 'Spartan Sayings' as well as a discourse on Sparta attributed to Xenophon"
"The first of the real Tragedy writers used recent events as the subject matter for Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes and the Persians"
