Charles Freeman: Egypt, Greece, and Rome

Cover: 9780199651924 | Egypt, Greece, and Rome | Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean

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Egypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world, having sold more than 80,000 copies in its first two editions. It is written for the general reader and the student coming to the subject for the first time and provides a reliable and highly accessible point of entry to the period.

Beginning with the early Middle Eastern civilizations of Sumer, and continuing right through to the Islamic invasions and the birth of modern Europe after the collapse of the Roman empire, the book ranges beyond political history to cover art and architecture, philosophy, literature, society, and economy. A wide range of maps, illustrations, and photographs complements the text.

This third edition has been extensively revised to appeal to the general reader with several chapters completely rewritten and a great deal of new material added, including a new selection of images.

Über den Autor

Charles Freeman is a freelance academic historian who worked on his first archaeological dig, a first century AD Roman villa, in Italy as far back as 1966. Following many years of wandering in the Mediterranean, he has been leading study tours of Italy, Greece and Turkey for the past ten years. In 2005, Charles was appointed as Historical Consultant to the prestigious Blue Guides and has written introductions and sections of several of the most recent editions. He is also author of Sites of Antiquity: Fifty Sites that Explain the Classical World (2009), a full illustrated survey that might be seen as a companion to Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication

Foreword to the Third edition

Author's Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Plates

List of Maps

List of Figures

1: Approaching the Ancient World

2: The Birth of Civilization: The Ancient Near East, 5000- 1200 BC

3: Pyramids and Power, the Creation of an Egyptian State, 3500-1985 BC

4: Stability and Expansion, Egypt in the Middle and New Kingdoms, 1985- 1000 BC

Interlude 1: The Amarna Letters

5: Living in New Kingdom Egypt

6: The Ancient Near East, 1200- 500 BC

7: 'The Sea between the Lands', the Mediterranean as the Cradle of the Classical World

8: Civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean, 2000 -1100 BC

9: The Birth of a New Greece 1100 - 700 BC

10: 'Travelling Heroes', The Greeks in a Wider World, 800-600 BC

Interlude 2: Sappho and Lyric Poetry

11: Hoplites and Tyrants: The Emergence of the City State

12: Craftsmanship and Creativity in Archaic Greece

13: The Persian Wars

14: The Greek Way of Life

15: Experiencing the Supernatural: the Spiritual World of the Greeks

Interlude 3: 'After this all becomes possible.' Creating Classical Art, 500 - 460 BC

16: Democracy and Empire, Athens in the Fifth Century

17: Rethinking the World: From Aeschylus to Aristotle

Interlude 4: Rhetoric

18: The Struggle for Power, 431- 338 BC

19: Alexander the Great and the Transformation of the Greek World

20: Tensions and Creativity: The Hellenistic World, 323 -30 BC

Interlude 5: Celts and Parthians

21: The Etruscans and Early Rome

22: Rome Becomes a Mediterranean Power

23: Rome, A Republic Under Stress

Interlude 6: Voices from the Republic

24: The Failure of Republican Politics

Interlude 7: Women in the Roman Republic

25: Augustus and the Founding of Empire

26: Consolidating the Roman Empire, AD 14-161

Interlude 8: The Sebasteion at Aphrodisias

27: Running and Defending an Empire

28: Social and Economic Life in the Empire

Interlude 9: The Romans as Builders

29: The Flourishing of Greek Culture

30: An Empire in Crisis, AD 161-313

31: The Early Christian Communities, AD 33-313

32: Constantine and His Successors

33: The Christian Emperor

34: The Collapse of the Classical West, 395-600

35: The Emergence of the Byzantine Empire

36: Legacies

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Date Chart

List of Events

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199651924
ISBN-10:	0199651922
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Freeman, Charles
Auflage:	3rd edition
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	232 x 159 x 45 mm
Von/Mit:	Charles Freeman
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.05.2014
Gewicht:	1,253 kg