I will speak to you of war, battles, love, hatred, heroism, self-denial and betrayal, of a dead man who will save a living man." Of a weapon, a gift from the gods, a shield, of a narrow pass and a plain where the fate of the world will be judged. "This is the prophecy revealed to the seer Megistias from ...
Cosmo Rodewald, who died in 2002, was Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Manchester University. This collection of essays is offered by former colleagues, pupils and admirers of Cosmo, as a 'garland to his memory'. Their writings range across the Greek and Roman worlds: Xenophon the Rhetor ...
