Ancient History category: 8298 books
The Romans
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The Romans: An Introduction, 3rd edition engages students in the study of ancient Rome by exploring specific historical events and examining the evidence. This focus enables students not only to learn history and culture but also to understand how we recreate this picture of Roman life. The thematic...
by Daniel C. Snell
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent...
by Anna Mancini
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure...
Ancient Greece A History
A comprehensive study of one of the most important periods in human history from the fall of Troy to the rise of Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Ancient Greece A History examines Greek art, literature and philosophy, with a focus on tragedy, art, philosophy, sculpture and the glorious architecture of classical Greece. In this history, the author wished to show the inner life of Ancient Greece, and captures the spirit of the country and its...
The Ancient History of the Near East
From the Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The ancient history of Greece holds a great deal of interest to many, particularly to those whose culture and religion grew from early Greek civilisation. Originally published in 1913, Hall provides a thorough history of the origins of Ancient Greek civilisation as well as commenting on Egypt, Syria,...
Warfare in Ancient Greece
Arms and Armour from the Heroes of Homer to Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
In this first comprehensive study of Ancient Greek warfare for over 35 years, Tim Everson discusses clearly and thoroughly the background, weapons and tactics of the ancient Greeks. He describes the weapons, armour, helmets, chariots and other military equipment used in from c. 1550 to 150 BC and...
by Joel W. Palka
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Ancient Mesoamerica drew world interest in the 19th century when photographs, drawings, and descriptions of discoveries of ruined cities in exotic locations in Mexico and Central America were published. These accounts from early explorers, archaeologists, and travelers made the cultures and archaeological...
Ruins of Ancient Cities
(Volume - I)
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES, WITH GENERAL AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS OF THEIR RISE, FALL, AND PRESENT CONDITION.
- BY CHARLES BUCKE
This Volume contain these cities;
Abydos, Abydus, Ægesta, Æina, Agrigentum, Alba Longa, Alcantara, Alexandria, Amisus, Antioch, Argos, Ariammene, Arsinoe,...
by Ian Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
Exploring Ancient Egypt, the fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt. Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of site types (pyramids, rock tombs, temples, and...
In Search of Ancient Ireland
The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English crown for the first time. So much...
by James Harrison, Steve Matthews, Dr Robert Cromarty
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This textbook supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 2, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies:
Period Study: The Julio-Claudian Emperors, 31 BC–AD 68 by Robert Cromarty...
Ancient Greece
Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
In this revised edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland have expanded the chronological range of Ancient Greece to include the Greek world of the fourth century. The sourcebook now ranges from the first lines of Greek literature to the death of Alexander the Great, covering all of the main historical...
The Open Sea
The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world
In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing...
Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts
Sailing in Troubled Waters
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory until today, the Mediterranean has been setting, witness and protagonist of mythical adventures, of encounters with the Other, of battles and the rise...