Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• FOREWORD vi
• PREFACE vii
• CONTENTS xiii
• List of Color Plates xv
• List of Maps xvi
• 1 - Rediscovering the Ancient World 1
• 2 - Eygpt, the Gift of the Nile,3200-BC 14
• 3 - Egypt as an Imperial Power, 1500-1000 BC 33
• 4 - Daily Life in New Kingdom Egypt 46
• 5 - The Ancient Near East, 3500-500 BC 58
• 6 - The Early Greeks, 2000-700 BC 76
• 7 - The Greeks in a Wider World, 800-600 BC 96
• 8 - Hoplites and Tyrants: The Emergence of the City State 115
• 9 - Cultural Change in the Archaic Age 134
• 10 - The Persian Wars 150
• INTERLUDE ONE - Herodotus and Egypt 166
• 11 - Everyday Life in Classical Greece 169
• 12 - Religion and Culture in the Greek World 186
• 13 - Athens: Democracy and Empire 197
• 14 - From Aeschylus to Aristotle 218
• 15 - The Struggle for Power, 431-338 BC 240
• 16 - Alexander of Macedon and the Expansion of the Greek World 257
• 17 - The Hellenistic World 274
• INTERLUDE TWO - Celts and Parthians 294
• 18 - The Etruscans and Early Rome 299
• 19 - Rome becomes a Mediterranean Power 319
• 20 - From the Gracchi to Caesar, 133-55 BC 337
• INTERLUDE THREE - Voices from the Republic 358
• 21 - The Fall of the Roman Republic, 55-31 BC 362
• INTERLUDE FOUR - Women in the Roman Republic 377
• 22 - Augustus and the Founding of Empire 381
• 23 - Consolidating the Empire, AD 14-138 396
• 24 - Administering and Defending the Empire 422
• INTERLUDE FIVE - The Romans as Builders 440
• 25 - Social and Economic Life in the Empire 447
• 26 - Transformations: The Roman Empire, 138-313 463
• 27 - The Foundations of Christianity 483
• 28 - The Empire in the Fourth Century 499
• 29 - The Creation of a New Europe, 395-600 518
• 30 - The Emergence of the Byzantine Empire 536
• EPILOGUE: - Legacies 555
• SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 564
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF SOURCES 613
• INDEX 618

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