By the best selling John Jullius Norwich, a history of the sexual practices and morality of the Ancient World, to tie in with a major 3-part TV series.

John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, where he remained for twelve years, serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. In 1964 he resigned from the service in order to write.

The myths of time; the rules of the game; breaking the rules; the fall of empires.