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Marx in the Agora
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests
by G.E.M. de Ste. Croix
December 2, 1982 issue
The Bitter History of Slave History
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
by M.I. Finley
Greek and Roman Slavery
by Thomas Wiedemann
October 22, 1981 issue
Alexander’s Mules
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
by Donald W. Engels
December 20, 1979 issue
Imposing Gibbon
Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
edited by G.W. Bowersock, edited by John Clive, edited by Stephen R. Graubard
October 13, 1977 issue
In Defense of Empire
Empire Without End
by Lidia Storoni Mazzolani, translated by Joan McConnell and Mario Pei, foreword by Mario Pei
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire From the First Century A.D. to the Third
by Edward N. Luttwak, foreword by J.F. Gilliam
June 23, 1977 issue
The Lives of Ancient Women
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
by Sarah B. Pomeroy
Females of the Species: Semonides on Women
by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Sex and Power in History
by Amaury de Riencourt
October 30, 1975 issue
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