The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duals in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared...

Thermopylae, Marathon: though fought 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, the names of these battles are more familiar to many than battles fought in the last half-century, but our concept of the men who fought in these battles may be more a product of...

Now available again, this book offers an illustrated portrait of a romance, partnership, and creative dialogue between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz that continues to resonate today. Few creative alliances flourished as productively as that...

One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition pro...

This magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (1734-1802) to his long-overdue position – with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough – as a master of 18th-century British portrait p...

"Greek Tragedies, Volume I" contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon",‌ translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus the King",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Antigone",‌ translat...

"Greek Tragedies, Volume II" contains Aeschylus's "The Libation Bearers", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Electra", translated by David Grene; Euripides's "Iphigenia among the Taurians", translated by Anne Carson; Euripides's "Electra"...

"Greek Tragedies, Volume III" contains Aeschylus's "The Eumenides", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Philoctetes", translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus at Colonus", translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides's "The Bacchae",...

Who's been sitting in the chairs, eating the porridge and is still sleeping in the bed? Three bears discover a little intruder in their home and, like Goldilocks, young readers will find this retelling just right!

The bestselling Sterling Classics series continues with Charles Dickens's Great Expectations – one of the most popular novels of all time. When Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, is approached by an escaped convict and forced to steal food and supplies, h...