Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics This introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome to the Jews and Syrians who refused to be Romanised. Jerry Toner shows what can be learnt from new approaches to ancient history, from analysing the bones of the dead in Pompeii or assessing the impact of environmental change, and considers how we can discover what it was like to live back then. He looks at every period, not just classical Athens and Republican Rome, but the Hellenistic kingdoms that followed Alexander and the Christian-dominated later Roman Empire. Greece and Rome, he argues, must be fitted into the global history of their day: what did Persians think of Greeks and how does the Roman empire stack up to China's? With vivid examples and animation from award-winning Cognitive at every stage, this is the ideal introduction to the ancient world for general readers and students.
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A sparkling introduction to the Ancient World that brings its peoples and cultures vividly to life.
A sparkling introduction to the Ancient World that brings its peoples and cultures vividly to life.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781781254202
Publisert
2015-08-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
120 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter

Biographical note

Jerry Toner is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge, the scholar behind Marcus Sidonius Falx's How to Manage your Slaves and author of Emperors and Crooks (Profile 2016).