Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations

• Author : Ralph W. Mathisen
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2020
• ISBN : 0190080949

"The most thought-provoking, contemporary, and engaging survey of the ancient world"--

• Author : Charles Freeman
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2004
• ISBN : 9780199263646

Covering more than four thousand years of ancient history, from the early Egyptians to the dawn of Byzantium, an illustrated introduction to the Mediterranean's three major civilizations examines their links and traces their influence up to the present day. UP.

• Author : Ralph W. Mathisen
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2014-06-30
• ISBN : 0199384452

Challenging the stereotypes and myths that typically characterize students' understanding of antiquity, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations: From Prehistory to 640 CE, Second Edition, focuses on continuity and connections, along with cultural diffusion and cultural diversity, to show how history is a cumulative process and that numerous similar themes recur in different times and places. The text also explores sensitive issues and debates including attitudes toward race, ethnicity, and tolerance; gender issues and roles; slavery; social mobility; religion; political evolution; the nature of

• Author : Ralph W. Mathisen
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2016-09-15
• ISBN : 0190280913

"This sourcebook would serve as a companion volume to R.W. Mathisen, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations: From Prehistory to 640 CE, 2nd edition ...; it will provide ancillary materials--121 primary sources, 15 maps, and 111 illustrations, all in 505 pages--that will expand upon the material in the textbook"--Provided by publisher.

• Author : Barbette Stanley Spaeth
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2013-11-25
• ISBN : 9780521113960

Provides an introduction to the major religions of the ancient Mediterranean and explores current research regarding the similarities and differences among them.

• Author : Robin W. Winks,Susan P. Mattern-Parkes,Susan P. Mattern
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2004
• ISBN : 0195155637

What is a city, and what forms did urbanization take in different times and places? How do peoples and nations define themselves and perceive foreigners? Questions like these serve as the framework for The Ancient Mediterranean World: From the Stone Age to A.D. 600. This book provides a concise overview of the history of the Mediterranean world, from Paleolithic times through the rise of Islam in the seventh century A.D. It traces the origins of the civilizations around the

• Author : Richard Miles
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2011-07-21
• ISBN : 9781101517031

The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." (The Economist ) Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that ancient Rome struggled so mightily to expunge. This monumental work charts the entirety of Carthage's history, from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as a Mediterranean empire whose epic land-and-sea clash with Rome made a legend of Hannibal and shaped

• Author : Fernand Braudel
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release Date : 2002-04-25
• ISBN : 9780141937229

This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate of scholarship at the time of writing, the scale and breadth of Braudel's learning and the points where orthodoxy has changed, sometimes vindicating Braudel, sometimes proving him wrong. Above all the book offers us the chance to situate Braudel's mediterranean, born of a

• Author : Zachary Anderson
• Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
• Release Date : 2015-07-15
• ISBN : 9781502605689

Discover the greatest early civilizations from Western Asia and the Mediterranean, including the Hittites, Minoans, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Israelites, Persians, and early Greeks.

• Author : Captivating History
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-06-09
• ISBN : 1647487935

• Author : Carolina López-Ruiz
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release Date : 2021-01-04
• ISBN : 9780674269958

The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks. Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer goods, and gods from Gibraltar to Tyre. This was not the Greek world—it was the Phoenician. Based in Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and other cities along the coast of

• Author : Captivating History
• Publisher : Captivating History
• Release Date : 2020-06-02
• ISBN : 1647487838

Five captivating manuscripts in one book: 1. Carthage 2. Minoans 3. The Phoenicians 4. The Mycenaeans 5. The Etruscans

• Author : Richard Q. Bell,Lawrence V. Harper
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2020-09-10
• ISBN : 9781000089653

It is usual to consider the effects parents have on children; this title, originally published in 1977, reverses the focus and reveals a subject every bit as important and interesting. The authors, both professional psychologists, present their findings under three major headings – "History", "Theories and Research Approaches" and "Concepts and Findings" – that discuss the social, psychological, and biological influences children exert on parents. Bell and Harper oppose the "intellectual apartheid" that prevents behavioural scientists from investigating "the continuity of interaction processes

• Author : Jeremy McInerney
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2014-08-25
• ISBN : 9781444337341

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component

• Author : Charles Freeman
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2014-03
• ISBN : 9780199651924

Covering more than four thousand years of ancient history, from the early Egyptians to the dawn of Byzantium, an illustrated introduction to the Mediterranean's three major civilizations examines their links and traces their influence up to the present day. UP.