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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ISBN
9781782831419
Publisert
2018
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Profile Books
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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