A01=Francis Joannes
Author_Francis Joannes
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Classics & Ancient History
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Product details
- ISBN 9780748617555
- Weight: 598g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around 300 bc and defeated by Pompey for Rome in 64 bc. The book focuses on political history, on the sources and shifts of power and the individuals who wielded it. It also introduces the student to the principal aspects of the religious, social and economic history of the region.The narrative is succinct, backed up by summary tables and maps, and enlivened by lengthy quotations from contemporary documents. The latter are frequently used to illustrate specific case studies. The book ends with a chronology and glossary, as well as an adapted further reading list.
Francis Joannès is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Paris VIII.
