This is the worst book I have ever reviewed. It reads as if it has been cut and pasted from a website by a semi-literate schoolgirl (in my proof copy, King talks of Greek cities ‘still under the [Persian] yolk’) struggling with her GCSE coursework. Doubtless a great deal of labour has gone into it, but to little purpose when the author’s ignorance on many topics is encyclopedic, her ability to clarify and marshal arguments based on evidence that demands careful handling almost non-existent, and her English style execrable (her favourite conjunction is ‘and so’).

Dec 2005

Life in them Old Bones?

With a Bit More Democracy We Might Hang Mr Howard

Fight Club

Hiding Your Arts

In the Beginning

After Democritus

An Ancient Stew

Latin Lover

Peter Jones Welcomes Five Books on the Olympics

An Urban Adventure

The Life and Appetites of a Precocious Emperor

Infamy, Infamy

Subject or Object

Codes of Honour

What Did They Do For Us?

Polesis

On the Edge

A Cock for Asclepius

And Then There Was One

He Drank His Enemies Under the Table

The Scourge of God

Tackling the Propagandists

International Man of History

Julius Through The Ages

The Sands of Egypt

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