Record details

• ISBN: 0465024963
• ISBN: 9780465024964
• Physical Description: xvi, 656 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by Allen Lane, the Penguin Group"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-629) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Hadrian and the classical world -- THE ARCHAIC GREEK WORLD: Homeric epic -- The Greeks' settlements -- Aristocrats -- The immortal gods -- Tyrants and lawgivers -- Sparta -- The Eastern Greeks -- Towards democracy -- The Persian wars -- The Western Greeks -- THE CLASSICAL GREEK WORLD: Conquest & empire -- A changing Greek cultural world -- Pericles and Athens -- The Peloponnesian War -- Socrates -- Fighting for freedom and justice -- Women & children -- Philip of Macedon -- The two philosophers -- 4th-century Athenians -- HELENISTIC WORLDS: Alexander the Great -- Alexander's early successors -- Life in the big cities -- Taxes & technologies -- The New World -- Rome reaches out -- The peace of the Gods -- Liberation in the South -- Hannibal and Rome -- Diplomacy and Dominance -- The Roman Republic -- Luxury and license -- Turbulence at home and abroad -- Pompey's triumphs -- The world of Cicero -- The rise of Julius Caesar -- The spectre of civil war -- The fatal dictator -- Liberation betrayed -- FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE: Anthony & Cleopatra -- The making of the emperor -- Morals and society -- Spectator sports -- The Roman army -- The new age -- AN IMPERIAL WORLD: The Julio-Claudians -- Ruling the provinces -- Effects of empire -- Christianity and Roman rule -- Surviving four emperors -- The new dynasty -- The last days of Pompeii -- A new man in action -- A pagan and Christians -- Regime change, home and away -- Presenting the past -- Hadrian: a retrospective.

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Subject:

Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Mediterranean Region > Civilization.