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Five to read: New Classical Titles
Whirlwind tour of the lost town, punctuated with cheerful myth-busting by the provocative Beard.
Travelling Heroes by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane)
Engaging guide to the lives of the Greeks in 800BC, the age of Homer.
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington (Yale)
Biography of formidable military commander, better known as Alexander the Great's father.
Attila the Hun by Christopher Kelly (Bodley Head)
Keenly argued account of the rapacious warlord's assault on the Roman Empire.
Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman (JR Books)
Caesar's life was lived on epic scale, as this detailed biography reveals.