A readable and absorbing account of the great Emperor Justinian detailing the social structure of sixth-century Byzantium and Justinian's wars which restored Italy, Africa and part of Spain to the Empire.[...]

This is the first complete English translation of Geminos' "Introduction to the Phenomena" - one of the most important and interesting astronomical works of its type to have survived from Greek antiquity. Gracefully and charmingly written, Geminos' first-century BC textbook for beginning students of[...]