The Ancient World (2 of 7)

Cambridge University Press, 1982. - 530 p. The emergence of the Greek world from the Dark Ages to the height of its Geometric civilization was described in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume III Part 1. Volume III Part 3 explores the new prosperity and growth of the young city-states in the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. This was the great period of expansion and colonization which saw the establishment of Greek city-states from the Wester...

Cambridge University Press, 1982. - 1028 p. Volume III of The Cambridge Ancient History was first published in 1925 in one volume. The new edition has expanded to such an extent, owing to the immense amount of new information now available, that it has had to be divided into three parts. Volume III Part 1 opens with a survey of the Balkans north of Greece in the Prehistoric period. This is the first time such a survey has been published of this...

Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 1185 p. Volume 11 of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History covers the history of the Roman empire from AD 70 to 192-Vespasian to the Antonines. The volume begins with the political and military history of the period. Developments in the structure of the empire are then examined, including the organization and personnel of the central government and province-based institutions and practices. A ser...

Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 1123 p. With Volume 14 The Cambridge Ancient History concludes its story. This latest volume embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarship which have in recent decades transformed our view of Late Antiquity. In particular, traditional political and social history has been enormously enhanced by integrating the rich evidence of Christian writing, and the constantly expanding results of archaeological re...

DK CHILDREN, 2009. - 96 c. - ISBN: 0756645123 Have you ever wondered what ancient civilizations looked like? Or where they were in comparison to where we live today? This unique atlas will take you on an incredible journey around the world and through time to explore the worlds of Egyptian pharaohs, Japanese dynasties, Peruvian peoples, and more. Experience a Mayan basketball game, climb the ziggurat steps at Chich?n Itz?; and find out what happ...

Cambridge University Press, 1971. - 780 p. Volumes I and II of The Cambridge Ancient History have had to be entirely rewritten as a result of the very considerable additions to knowledge which have accrued in the past forty-five years. For the same reason it has also been necessary to increase the size of the volumes and to divide each of them into two separately published parts. The individual chapters have already appeared as fascicles, but wi...

USA: Oxford University Press, 2010 - 344p. In her latest book, Ross Shepard Kraemer shows how her mind has changed or remained the same since the publication of her ground-breaking study, Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World (OUP 1992). Unreliable Witnesses scrutinizes more closely how ancient constructions of gender undergird accounts of women's religious practices in the Greco...

Detroit etc.: UXL, 2000. 26 p. На англ. языке. Кумулятивный (предметно-именной) указатель к книгам "Ancient civilizations almanac" и "Ancient civilizations biographies"

Rourke Publication, 2005. - 48 pages. An introduction to the ancient Persians, their lifestyles, kings, customs, and changes for the future. A lot of the books aimed at this age group tend to throw facts at the reader. This book is engaging and strangely hard to put down. In only 48 pages, the author manages to bring many elements of this ancient culture to life. An unexpected treat.

Cambridge University Press, 1984. - 618 p. Published in 1928, Volume VII of the Cambridge Ancient History orginally covered both the history of the Hellenistic world from the battle of Ipsus in 301 BC down to the Peace of Naupactus and the battle of Raphia in 217 BC and the history of Rome from its foundation down to the same date. In the new edition the Greek and Roman sections have been assigned to two separate volumes. Of these, VII part I op...