From: History Today | Date: July 1, 1994| Author: Parkins, Helen; Shipley, Graham | COPYRIGHT 1994 History Today Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For a decade or more the Fontana History of the Ancient World has provided one of the best introductions to Greek and Roman history. Following several corrected reprints, the series has been re-issued and extended into the later Roman period. Its aim, as stated by the editor, Oswyn Murray, is to give an up-to-date account of each period in the light of recent research, while placing in the foreground the ancient evidence.

Murray, in the preface to his own Early Greece (8...