Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire

Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world-from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.



In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as th...