Sixteen favorite Greek myths including adventures of Jason, Theseus, Odysseus, the tales of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun, and King Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold.

The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general.

Eight essays covering as wide a range as the interests of the writer himself, from poetry and woman to money and the qualities of magic.

A collection of the poems of Robert Graves, spanning more than fifty years of his work.

The story of the Emperor Claudius, an historian, can finally be told when his famous lost autobiography is located. Claudius is lame and a stammerer who seems unlikely to carry on the family tradition of power in ancient Rome. Immersing himself in scholarly pursuits, Claudius observes and lives through the plots hatched by his grandmother, Livia, political conspiracies, murders, and corruption, and he survives a number of emperors. He becomes emperor...