0415165083.Routledge.Ancient.History.Key.Themes.and.Approaches.Jan.2000.pdf

ANCIENT HISTORY: KEY

THEMES AND APPROACHES

Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on

ancient history. In over 500 extracts from a wide range of secondary sources,

it opens up the most important, stimulating and provocative arguments by

modern writers on the subject, and as such constitutes an invaluable reference

source. 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 unique 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.

ROUTLEDGE KEY GUIDES

Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches

Neville Morley

Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings

Oliver Leaman

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers

edited by Martha Bremser

Fifty Eastern Thinkers

Diané Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson

Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers

John Lechte

Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers

Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations

Martin Griffiths

Fifty Major Economists

Steven Pressman

Fifty Major Philosophers

Diané Collinson

Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies (second edition)

Tim O’Sullivan, John Hartley, Danny Saunders, Martin Montgomery and

John Fiske

Key Concepts in Cultural Theory

edited by Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick

Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy

Oliver Leaman

Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics

R.L.Trask

Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education

Christopher Winch and John Gingell

Key Concepts in Popular Music

Roy Shuker

Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin

ANCIENT HISTORY:

KEY THEMES AND

APPROACHES

Neville Morley

London and New York

First published 2000

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,

or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including

photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or

retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Morley, Neville.

Ancient history: key themes and approaches/Neville Morley.

p. cm.—(Routledge key guides)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 0-415-16508-3 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-415-16509-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. History, Ancient. 2. History, Ancient—Historiography. I. Title. II. Series.

D56.M659 2000

930–dc21 99–047074

ISBN 0-203-19827-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-19830-1 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-16509-1 (pbk)

ISBN 0-415-16508-3 (hbk)

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