Encompasses not only Greece and Rome but also "the civilizations, cultures, traditions, monuments and artifacts, significant wars and battles, and important personages of the rest of the world: Europe (outside Greece and Rome), Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania." The time span is from prehistory to approximately 700 C.E.
General Note
Includes index in volume 3.
Volume 1 overviews Abd al-Malik-Corinthian War. Volume 2 Coriolanus, Gnaeus Marcius - Pharsalus, Battle of, Volume 3 Phidias - Zurvanism, Indexes.