Introduction to the Ancient World

Name: Introduction to the Ancient World
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ISBN: 9780415458276

ISBN-10: 0415458277

ISBN-13: 9780415458276

Edition: 2nd 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Lukas De Blois, R. J. Van der Spek, Susan Mellor

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Integrating the results of scholarly work from the past decade, the authors of An Introduction to the Ancient World: Second Edition , De Blois and Van der Spek, have fully-updated and revised all sixteen chapters of this best-selling introductory textbook. It is unique in covering the history and culture of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome within the framework of a short narrative history of events and offers an easily readable, integrated overview for students of history, classics, archaeology and philosophy, whether at college, at undergraduate level or among the wider reading public. Focusing mainly on the social, political and cultural processes which have influenced later western…

Book details

List price: $53.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Introduction



The Ancient Near East



The Origins of the Civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia



The Third Millennium BC



The Second Millennium



The First Millennium



Religion



Economy and Society



Government



The Greek World



The Early Iron Age



The Archaic Period (c.750-c.500 BC)



The Classical Period(c.500-c.330 BC)



The Hellenistic World (c.330-c.30BC)



Rome



Early Roman History (753265 BC)



Further Expansion and New Social Tensions (264133 BC)



The Century of the Civil Wars (13330 BC)



The Early Imperial Age (27 BCAD 193)



The Crisis of the Third Century AD and Late Antiquity Epilogue



Appendices



Greek and Roman names



Greek and Roman money



The Roman emperors


Bibliography


Index