The Cambridge Ancient History / Edition 3

by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, E. Sollberger

Overview

Volume II, Part II deals with the history of the region from about 1380 to 1000 B.C., and includes accounts of Akhenaten and the Amarna 'revolution' in Egypt, the expansion and final decline of the Mycenaean civilization in Greece, the exodus and wanderings of the Israelites, and the Asstrian and Hittite empires.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521086912
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/18/1975
Series:	The Cambridge Ancient History , #2
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	1151
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.45(h) x 2.56(d)

Table of Contents

List of maps; List of text-figures; Preface; 17. The struggle for the domination of Syria (1400-1300 B.C.) A. Goetze; 18. Assyria and Babylon c. 1370-1300 B.C. C. J. Gadd, F.B.A; 19. Egypt: the Amarna period and the end of the eighteenth dynasty Cyril Aldred; 20. The Amarna latters from palestine W. F. Albright; 21. Anatolia from Shuppiluliumash to the Egyptian war of Muwatallish A. Goetze, Margaret S. Drower and C. W. Blegen; 22. The expansion of the Mycenaean civilization Carl W. Blegen and H. W. Catling; 23. Egypt: from the inception of the nineteenth dynasty to the death of Ramesses III R. O. Faulkner; 24. The Hittites and Syria (1300-1200 B.C.) A. Goetze; 25. Assyrian military power 1300-1200 B.C. J. M. Munn-Rankin; 26. Palestine in the time of the nineteenth dynasty O. Eissfeldt and H. J. Franken; 27. The recession of Mycenaean civilization Frank H. Stubbings; 28. The sea peoples R. D. Barnett; 29. Elam c. 1600-1200 B.C. René Labat; 30. Phrygia and the peoples of Anatolia in the Iron Age R. D. Barnett; 31. Assyria and Babylonia c.1200-1000 B.C. D. J. Wiseman; 32. Elam and Western Persia, c.1200-1000 B.C. René Labat; 33. Syria, the Philistines, and Phoenicia W. F. Albright; 34. The Hebrew Kingdom O. Eissfeldt; 35. Egypt: from the death of Ramesses III to the end of the twenty-first dynasty J. Cerny; 36. The end of mycenaean civilization and the Dark Age V. R. d'A Desborough and N. G. L. Hammond; 37. The Western Mediterranean Glyn Daniel and J. D. Evans; 38. Greek settlement in the Eastern Aegean and Asia minor J. M. Cook; 39. The prehistory of the Greek language John Chadwick and G. S. Kirk; 40. The religion and mythology of the Greeks W. K. C. Guthrie; Bibliographies; Chronological tables; Index to maps; General index.