Aleksander Krawczuk

Aleksander Krawczuk (1922-2023) was a Polish historian and academic, Minister of Culture, and author of 40 immensely popular books on Greco-Roman antiquity. His books are written for the general reader, in a highly readable, conversational style, with an occasional flash of poetic beauty, but without ever dumbing things down. He is especially interested in how events of ages past reveal certain universal aspects of human nature and in parallels between the ancients and the moderns.

Aleksander Krawczuk (1922-2023) was a Polish historian and academic, Minister of Culture, and author of 40 immensely popular books on Greco-Roman antiquity. His books are written for the general reader, in a highly readable, conversational style, with an occasional flash of poetic beauty, but without ever dumbing things down. He is especially interested in how events of ages past reveal certain universal aspects of human nature and in parallels between the ancients and the moderns. See less