

Edited by Robert Strassler, a businessman turned scholar, the series supplements each of its translations with extensive prolegomena that assist the reader in understanding each historian’s context and significance.

Ever since the publication of its inaugural volume, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (1996), Pantheon’s Landmark Ancient Series has set the gold standard for modern editions of ancient Greek and Roman historical works.
