Khosrow II is represented in the linked non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, religion, belief and institutional authority, and court politics and dynastic power. These works […]
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Lal Singh was a minister and commander of the Sikh Empire during the First Anglo-Sikh War. As vizier he helped direct the Lahore government, but British […]
Livy was a Roman historian of the Augustan age. His monumental history traced Rome from legendary foundation to his own period, presenting episodes of war, civic […]
Lucian of Samosata was a Syrian-born Greek writer and satirist of the Roman imperial period. His dialogues and fantastic narratives parody philosophy, religion, literature and travel […]
Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus was a Roman consul and general who defeated the Macedonian king Perseus. His victory at Pydna in 168 BC ended the Third […]
Lucretius was a Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher of the first century BC. His De rerum natura explains an atomic universe without divine intervention and argues […]
Mary Margaret Kaye was born in Simla in 1908 into a family with long connections to British administration and the Indian Army. She spent her early […]
Mago Barca was the youngest brother of Hannibal and Hasdrubal and an important Carthaginian commander during the Second Punic War. He fought at Cannae, carried news […]
Majorian came to power with Ricimer’s support but pursued an unusually active programme of military recovery and administrative reform. He campaigned in Gaul and Hispania and […]