The classical world
The classical world: an epic history from Homer to Hadrian Robin Lane Fox,
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2006.
ISBN: 0465024963
DDC: 938
LCC: DE80
Notes:
"Published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by Allen Lane, the Penguin
Group"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 605-629) and index.
Hadrian and the classical world -- THE ARCHAIC GREEK WORLD: Homeric
epic -- The Greeks' settlements -- Aristocrats -- The immortal gods
-- Tyrants and lawgivers -- Sparta -- The Eastern Greeks -- Towards
democracy -- The Persian wars -- The Western Greeks -- THE CLASSICAL
GREEK WORLD: Conquest & empire -- A changing Greek cultural world --
Pericles and Athens -- The Peloponnesian War -- Socrates -- Fighting
for freedom and justice -- Women & children -- Philip of Macedon --
The two philosophers -- 4th-century Athenians -- HELENISTIC WORLDS:
Alexander the Great -- Alexander's early successors -- Life in the
big cities -- Taxes & technologies -- The New World -- Rome reaches
out -- The peace of the Gods -- Liberation in the South -- Hannibal
and Rome -- Diplomacy and Dominance -- The Roman Republic -- Luxury
and license -- Turbulence at home and abroad -- Pompey's triumphs --
The world of Cicero -- The rise of Julius Caesar -- The spectre of
civil war -- The fatal dictator -- Liberation betrayed -- FROM
REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE: Anthony & Cleopatra -- The making of the emperor
-- Morals and society -- Spectator sports -- The Roman army -- The
new age -- AN IMPERIAL WORLD: The Julio-Claudians -- Ruling the
provinces -- Effects of empire -- Christianity and Roman rule --
Surviving four emperors -- The new dynasty -- The last days of
Pompeii -- A new man in action -- A pagan and Christians -- Regime
change, home and away -- Presenting the past -- Hadrian: a
retrospective.
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