Readings in Ancient History

Readings in Ancient History

Author: William Davis

Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1410213153

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This book aims to set before students beginning the study of Ancient History a sufficient amount of source material to illustrate the important facts mentioned in every good textbook. Many tales have been included which condensed histories may well slight but which afford refreshing illustrations of the ancient life of the ancient viewpoint. It unfolds a panorama of ancient life - etched, drawn, painted, caricatured, by contemporaries. No great phase of that life is neglected. At the time of original publication in 1912, William Stearns Davis was Professor of Ancient History, University of Minnesota.


Readings in Late Antiquity

Readings in Late Antiquity

Author: Michael Maas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0415473365

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This volume seeks to make accessible to students a multiplicity of texts which illuminate the history, culture, medicine, philosophy, religion and peoples of late antiquity.


A Short History of the Printed Word

A Short History of the Printed Word

Author: Warren Chappell

Publisher: Point Roberts, WA ; Vancouver : Hartley & Marks Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780881791549

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This work makes plain the evolution, impact and development of the printed word as we know it. Covering the earliest forms of the letters of the alphabet, to graphic technology today, this revised edition should appeal to designers, students and typophiles.


Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Author: Patrick Lee Miller

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2015-03-15

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1624663540

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This concise anthology of primary sources designed for use in an ancient philosophy survey ranges from the Presocratics to Plato, Aristotle, the Hellenistic philosophers, and the Neoplatonists. The Second Edition features an amplified selection of Presocratic fragments in newly revised translations by Richard D. McKirahan. Also included is an expansion of the Hellenistic unit, featuring new selections from Lucretius and Sextus Empiricus as well as a new translation, by Peter J. Anderson, of most of Seneca’s De Providentia. The selections from Plotinus have also been expanded.


The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

Author: Susan Wise Bauer

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-03-17

Total Pages: 897

ISBN-13: 0393070891

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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”—literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts—to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.


Rome

Rome

Author: John W. Boyer

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780226069371

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The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.


Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome

Author: Christopher S. Mackay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780521809184

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