Charles FreemanCharles Freeman is a freelance academic historian with wide interests in the history of European culture and thought. In 2005 Charles was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Blue Guides as historical consultant and he has written the historical itroductions to several volumes of the new editions including Rome, Florence, Venice, and Mainland Greece. He is also the author of The Blue Guide Sites of Antiquity: Fifty Sites that Explain the Classical World, which has been widely praised. Read More Read Less