Quotes by : Peter Heather

With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates "tendency to look to the....

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.....

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest....

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.....

Reality confounds image.

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.