ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |171 pages
Key Themes and Debates
chapter |1 pages
Administration
chapter |3 pages
Agriculture
chapter |2 pages
Alexander the Great
chapter |1 pages
Archaeology
chapter |1 pages
Architecture
chapter |2 pages
Art
chapter |3 pages
Augustus
chapter |2 pages
Barbarians
chapter |1 pages
Baths and Bathing
chapter |2 pages
Byzantium
chapter |4 pages
Christianity
chapter |1 pages
Citizenship
chapter |5 pages
City
chapter |3 pages
Class and Status
chapter |2 pages
Coinage and Money
chapter |1 pages
Colonization
chapter |3 pages
Crime and Punishment
chapter |2 pages
Crisis
chapter |2 pages
Death and Burial
chapter |5 pages
Decline and Fall
chapter |5 pages
Democracy, Athenian
chapter |2 pages
Demography
chapter |1 pages
Disease
chapter |2 pages
Drama
chapter |2 pages
Economy
chapter |2 pages
Education
chapter |3 pages
Emperor and Principate
chapter |2 pages
Environment
chapter |3 pages
Ethnicity
chapter |2 pages
Festivals
chapter |1 pages
Food and Drink
chapter |2 pages
Freedmen
chapter |1 pages
Frontiers
chapter |2 pages
Games
chapter |3 pages
Gender and Sexuality
chapter |3 pages
Hellenism
chapter |1 pages
Hellenistic Age
chapter |2 pages
History
chapter |2 pages
Homeric Society
chapter |3 pages
Household
chapter |1 pages
Housing
chapter |4 pages
Imperialism
chapter |2 pages
Industry
chapter |2 pages
Jews and Judaism
chapter |2 pages
Labour
chapter |1 pages
Late Antiquity
chapter |3 pages
Law
chapter |2 pages
Literacy and Orality
chapter |2 pages
Luxury
chapter |1 pages
Magic and Divination
chapter |1 pages
Metics
chapter |1 pages
Myth
chapter |1 pages
Nero
chapter |1 pages
Patronage
chapter |2 pages
Peasants
chapter |1 pages
Plebs
chapter |2 pages
Polis
chapter |1 pages
Politics
chapter |2 pages
Rationality
chapter |7 pages
Religion
chapter |5 pages
Republic, Roman
chapter |1 pages
Rhetoric
chapter |2 pages
Romanization
chapter |2 pages
Rome, Early
chapter |1 pages
Sacrifice
chapter |2 pages
Science and Philosophy
chapter |8 pages
Slaves and Slavery
chapter |1 pages
Socrates
chapter |3 pages
Sparta
chapter |1 pages
State
chapter |2 pages
Taxes
chapter |2 pages
Technology
chapter |6 pages
Trade and Exchange
chapter |3 pages
Transport and Communication
chapter |1 pages
Tyranny
chapter |1 pages
War
part |62 pages
Key Writers