Regarded by some as one of the best works ever written on the life of Constantine, this work remains one of A. H. M. Jones' most enduring titles. Jones manages not only to inform but to entertain us.

The book presents a narrative account of Roman political, military, and religious history from 284 to 602.

This celebrated account of the decline of the ancient world describes the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the emergence of the new medieval European order.

Jones begins by describing the movement whereby Greek politcal institutions swept over the Near Eastern lands conquered by Alexander.

Here, assembled for the first time, is a representative collection of contemporary documents, dating from 43 B.C. to A.D. 37--inscriptions, coins, papyri and a few official pieces incorporated in literary texts--many of which have been ...