| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 886 pages) |
| Series |
The Cambridge ancient history |
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Cambridge ancient history.
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| Contents |
The Persian Empire -- The early history of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid empire to the death of Cambyses / T. Cuyler Young, Jr. -- The consolidation of the empire and its limits of growth under Darius and Xerxes / T. Cuyler Young, Jr. -- Babylonia from Cyrus to Xerxes / Amélie Kuhrt -- Syria-Palestine under Achaemenid rule / I. Eph'al -- Central Asia and Eastern Iran / Henri-Paul Francfort -- The Indus Lands / A.D.H. Bivar -- Anatolia / M. Mellink -- Persia in Europe, apart from Greece / A. Fol and N.G.L. Hammond -- Egypt 525-404 B.C. / J.D. Ray -- The Greek States -- The tyranny of the Pisistratidae / D.M. Lewis -- The reform of the Athenian state / Cleisthenes / Martin Ostwald -- Greece before the Persian invasion / L.H. Jeffery -- Religion and the state / J.K. Davies -- The development of ideas, 750 to 500 B.C. / G.S. Kirk -- Material culture / John Boardman -- Coinage / Colin Kraay -- Trade / C. Roebuck -- The Ionian Revolt / Oswyn Murray -- The expedition of Datis and Artaphernes / N.G.L. Hammond -- The expedition of Xerxes / N.G.L. Hammond -- The liberation of Greece / J.P. Barron -- The West -- Italy from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age / David Ridgway -- The Etruscans / David Ridgway -- The Iron Age: the peoples of Italy / Edward Togo Salmon -- The languages of Italy / J.H.W. Penney -- Carthaginians and Greeks / David Asheri |
| Summary |
This volume of 'The Cambridge Ancient History' embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarships which have in recent decades transformed our view of late antiquity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
History, Ancient.
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History, Ancient.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boardman, John, 1927-
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| ISBN |
9781139054317 |
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1139054317 |
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9780511466816 |
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0511466811 |
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9781139054317 |
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