The Past, Fully Present.Welcome to Unseen Histories, a place where you can find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians. Our aim, as our name suggests, is to present history in an original, provoking and beautiful way. All our written pieces are accompanied by high quality visual material.
Charles Freeman's sweeping new book, The Children of Athena, shows how the influence of the Greeks stretched long into the Age of Rome, through figures like Galen, Ptolemy and Plutarch