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Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Her previous books include Venus and Aphrodite: History of a Goddess (shortlisted for the Runciman Award), Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Runciman Award), The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens And The Search For The Good Life (a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Writers Guild award) and Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore, and. All her books have been translated into multiple languages. She has made many documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, ABC and the Discovery and History channels. Bettany has been a Professor at the New College of Humanities and Research Fellow at King's College London. She has been honoured with numerous awards including the Medlicott Medal for services to history, Europe's Cultural Heritage Prize and an OBE for services to History.

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Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve - GUARDIANA scholarly narrative, but Hughes isn't averse to heating it up with the salacious stories that dot the city's past - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHRichly entertaining and impeccably researched - OBSERVERWith a broadcaster's delight, Bettany Hughes ... reconstructs Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul as living, breathing landscapes - SUNDAY TIMES

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