“An Amazing Ancient World” is a collection of historical portraits of famous figures from the Ancient East and Antiquity. Before the reader will appear powerful pharaohs and forgotten queens of Ancient Egypt, valiant commanders of Ancient Greece and ruthless emperors of Eternal Rome—founders and conquerors of huge empires, ruler-philosophers and rebellious slaves.
How did the Egyptian queen Hatshepsut become the first woman-pharaoh? Why was Solon already in antiquity included among the “Seven Greatest Sages”? For what did the Persian king Xerxes order to have the sea lashed?
Which of Alexander the Great’s commanders inherited the throne of Egypt? How did Octavian Augustus get the nickname “Divine”? The incredible fates of the heroes from medieval manuscripts and historical chronicles, retold by historian-medievalist Natalia Basovskaya.