Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches

by Neville Morley

Overview

Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the subject, and as such constitutes an invaluable reference resource. The first section deals with different aspects of life in the ancient world, such as democracy, imperialism, slavery and sexuality, while the second section covers the ideas of key ancient historians and other writers on classical antiquity. Overall this book offers an invaluable introduction to the most important ideas, theories and controversies in ancient history, and a thought-provoking survey of the range of views and approaches to the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415165099
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/09/1999
Series:	Routledge Key Guides
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Neville Morley

Table of Contents

Part 1 Key Themes and Debates; Chapter 1 Administration; Chapter 2 Agriculture; Chapter 3 Alexander the Great; Chapter 4 Archaeology; Chapter 5 Architecture; Chapter 6 Art; Chapter 7 Augustus; Chapter 8 Barbarians; Chapter 9 Baths and Bathing; Chapter 10 Byzantium; Chapter 11 Christianity; Chapter 12 Citizenship; Chapter 13 City; Chapter 14 Class and Status; Chapter 15 Coinage and Money; Chapter 16 Colonization; Chapter 17 Crime and Punishment; Chapter 18 Crisis; Chapter 19 Death and Burial; Chapter 20 Decline and Fall; Chapter 21 Democracy, Athenian; Chapter 22 Demography; Chapter 23 Disease; Chapter 24 Drama; Chapter 25 Economy; Chapter 26 Education; Chapter 27 Emperor and Principate; Chapter 28 Environment; Chapter 29 Ethnicity; Chapter 30 Festivals; Chapter 31 Food and Drink; Chapter 32 Freedmen; Chapter 33 Frontiers; Chapter 34 Games; Chapter 35 Gender and Sexuality; Chapter 36 Hellenism; Chapter 37 Hellenistic Age; Chapter 38 History; Chapter 39 Homeric Society; Chapter 40 Household; Chapter 41 Housing; Chapter 42 Imperialism; Chapter 43 Industry; Chapter 44 Jews and Judaism; Chapter 45 Labour; Chapter 46 Late Antiquity; Chapter 47 Law; Chapter 48 Literacy and Orality; Chapter 49 Luxury; Chapter 50 Magic and Divination; Chapter 51 Metics; Chapter 52 Myth; Chapter 53 Nero; Chapter 54 Patronage; Chapter 55 Peasants; Chapter 56 Plebs; Chapter 57 Polis; Chapter 58 Politics; Chapter 59 Rationality; Chapter 60 Religion; Chapter 61 Republic, Roman; Chapter 62 Rhetoric; Chapter 63 Romanization; Chapter 64 Rome, Early; Chapter 65 Sacrifice; Chapter 66 Science and Philosophy; Chapter 67 Slaves and Slavery; Chapter 68 Socrates; Chapter 69 SPart a; Chapter 70 State; Chapter 71 Taxes; Chapter 72 Technology; Chapter 73 Trade and Exchange; Chapter 74 Transport and Communication; Chapter 75 Tyranny; Chapter 76 War; Part 2 Key Writers; Chapter 77 Brown, Peter (1935–); Chapter 78 Burckhardt, Jacob (1818–97); Chapter 79 Cameron, Averil (1940–); Chapter 80 Finley, M.I. (1912–86); Chapter 81 Foucault, Michel (1926–84); Chapter 82 Frank, Tenney (1876–1939); Chapter 83 Gibbon, Edward (1737–94); Chapter 84 Grote, George (1794–1871); Chapter 85 Hopkins, Keith (1934–); Chapter 86 Jones, A.H.M. (1904–70); Chapter 87 Macmullen, Ramsay (1928–); Chapter 88 Marx, Karl (1818–83); Chapter 89 Meyer, Eduard (1855–1930); Chapter 90 Momigliano, Arnaldo (1908–87); Chapter 91 Mommsen, Theodor (1817–1903); Chapter 92 Niebuhr, B.G. (1776–1831); Chapter 93 Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900); Chapter 94 Robert, louis (1904–85); Chapter 95 Rostovtzeff, M.I. (1870–1952); Chapter 96 Syme, Ronald (1903–89); Chapter 97 Vernant, Jean-Pierre (1914–); Chapter 98 Veyne, Paul (1930–); Chapter 99 Vidal-Naquet, Pierre (1930–); Chapter 100 Weber, Max (1864–1920);