Great Ages of Man is a 19-book series with 20 primary works first released in 1965 with contributions by John R. Hale, Cecil Maurice Bowra, Moses Hadas, Edith Simon, Time-Life Books, Lionel Casson, Anne Jackson Fremantle, Philip Sherrard, Basil Davidson, Peter Gay, Samuel C. Burchell, Desmond Stewart, Samuel Noah Kramer, Joel Colton, Robert Wallace, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Lucille Schulberg, Gerald Simons, and Edward H. Schafer.