Sources for Ancient Mediterranean civilizations : texts, maps and images / Ralph W. Mathisen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathisen, Ralph W., 1947- author.

Contributor:

Mathisen, Ralph W., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Antiquities.

Civilization.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization--Sources.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities--Sources.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476--Sources.

Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517--Sources.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxi, 578 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"This sourcebook would serve as a companion volume to R.W. Mathisen, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations : From Prehistory to 640 CE, 2nd edition ... ; it will provide ancillary materials--121 primary sources, 15 maps, and 111 illustrations, all in 505 pages--that will expand upon the material in the textbook"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Civilization before civilization (2,000,000-3000 BCE)

Mesopotamia and the Bronze Age (6000-1200 BCE)

Egypt and the Bronze Age (5000-1200 BCE)

Coastal civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean (2500-800 BCE)

Iron Age empires : Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia (850-500 BCE)

Greece in the Dark and archaic ages (1100-500 BCE)

Sparta, Athens, and the classical age (500-387 BCE)

Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic age (387-31 BCE)

Civilization beyond the Near East, Greece, and Rome (2300-31 BCE)

The rise of Rome and the Roman Republic (753-120 BCE)

Crisis, recovery, and the creation of the Principate (150-21 BCE)

The Roman peace (27 BCE-192 CE)

Crisis, recovery, and the creation of the late Roman Empire (192-337)

The Christian empire and the late Roman world (337-476)

The end of antiquity (476-640).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Mathisen, Ralph W., 1947- Ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

ISBN:

9780190280918

0190280913

OCLC:

948748591

Publisher Number:

99969657371