02911cam a2200373 a 4500 14418938 OSt 20150817193327.0 060619r20062005nyuab b 001 0 eng 2006020247 0465024963 9780465024964 9780465024971 0465024971 (OCoLC)ocm70149306 DLC PUL e------ ff----- aw----- DE80 .L36 2006 Lane Fox, Robin, 1946- The classical world : An epic history from Homer to Hadrian . Robin Lane Fox. New York : Basic Books, c2006. xvi, 656 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. "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 ; Fourth-century Athenians -- HELLENISTIC 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. Civilization, Classical. Civilization, Greco-Roman. Mediterranean Region Civilization. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020247.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/2006020247-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/2006020247-d.html lcc BK 25558 25558 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUNBI PUNBI GEN 2014-10-18 Books For Africa 3500.00 0 DE80 .L36 2006 2014-4465 2014-10-18 00:00:00 1 2014-10-18 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-18 Books For Africa 3500.00 0 DE80 .L36 2006 2014-4466 2014-10-18 00:00:00 2 2014-10-18 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-18 Books For Africa 3500.00 0 DE80 .L36 2006 2014-4467 2014-10-18 00:00:00 3 2014-10-18 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-31 BOOKS FOR AFRICA 3500.00 0 DE80 .L36 2006 2014-6180 2014-10-31 00:00:00 C4 2014-10-31 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-31 BOOKS FOR AFRICA 3500.00 0 DE80 .L36 2006 2014-6181 2014-10-31 00:00:00 C5 2014-10-31 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-31 BOOKS FOR AFRICA 3500.00 0 DE80 .L36 2006 2014-6182 2014-10-31 00:00:00 C6 2014-10-31 BK