Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.The Date of Cylon: A Study in Early Athenian History is a history of the first recorded event of Athens,, the Cylonian Affair.

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.The Age of the Renaissance is a classic history of the Renaissance in Western Europe, written by noted historian Hans Prutz.

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.The Napoleonic Empire is a thorough history of Napoleon's conquests.

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon is a classic history of the French Revolution and the early days of Napoleon.

The Life of Napoleon by J. Holland Rose is a masterful and comprehensive biography that chronicles the extraordinary rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history’s most influential and enigmatic figures. From his humble beginnings on the island of Corsica to his rise as Emperor of France, Rose explores the man who transformed Europe through his military genius, political reforms, and unparalleled ambition.Rose vividly recounts Napoleon’s greatest triumphs, including ...

THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under the rule of absolute monarchs. It opens with Henry IV., it closes with Peter the Great. It reaches its climax in Louis XIV. and the Great Elector. It is therefore the century in which the principal European States took the form, and acquired the position in Europe, which they have held more or les...

About the year of our Lord 997, Adelbert, Bishop of Prague, with two companions, set out on a missionary tour to the shores of the Baltic. The savage inhabitants killed him. Still Christianity gradually gained ground. As the ages rolled on, idolatry disappeared, and nominal Christianity took its place. The people were poor, ignorant, widely dispersed, and but partially civilized. During weary centuries, as generations came and went, nothing in that region occurred of interest to the world ...

An apology seems to be called for from anyone who gives to the world a new Life of Napoleon I. My excuse must be that for many years I have sought to revise the traditional story of his career in the light of facts gleaned from the British Archives and of the many valuable materials that have recently been published by continental historians. To explain my manner of dealing with these sources would require an elaborate critical Introduction; but, as the limits of my space absolutely preclu...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic - an inspiring guide to the lives of Stoicism's greatest practitionersA New York Times Noteworthy Pick'In story after page-turning story, Lives of the Stoics brings ancient philosophers to life.' - David Epstein, bestselling aut...

AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a Roman official, by name Syagrius, exercised a kind of protection over them. Syagrius was the son of Aegidius, the former magister militum, and he held the command by hereditary right. After the fal...

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Aristotle in just one hour.The philosophy of Aristotle dominated Western thought for over a thousand years. He had a mind that mastered all disciplines from mathematics to politics and had a continuing impact on every sphere of knowledge he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. He divided human knowledge into separate categories, and enabled our understanding of the world to dev...

"The fortunes and misfortunes of a Charlemagne and Henry IV., of a Barbarossa, a Henry VI. and an Emperor Frederick II... The rise and fall of the mediæval German Empire is in itself a subject boundlessly interesting, boundlessly important. ...See how Europe has come to be what it is, and how near it came to being something quite different! If Italy had remained under the sway of Germany, if Frederick Barbarossa or his successors had done away with the papal power, as they...