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The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History

Volume 2: Part 2
3rd Edition
I. E. S. Edwards
C. J. Gadd
N. G. L. Hammond
E. Sollberger
September 1975
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2. The Middle East and the Aegean Region, c.1380–1000 BC
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    Volume II, Part II deals with the history of the region from about 1380 to 1000 B.C., and includes accounts of Akhenaten and the Amarna 'revolution' in Egypt, the expansion and final decline of the Mycenaean civilization in Greece, the exodus and wanderings of the Israelites, and the Asstrian and Hittite empires.

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    September 1975
    Hardback
    9780521086912
    1151 pages
    240 × 161 × 65 mm
    2.05kg
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    Table of Contents

    • List of maps
    • List of text-figures
    • Preface
    • 17. The struggle for the domination of Syria (1400–1300 B.C.) A. Goetze
    • 18. Assyria and Babylon c. 1370–1300 B.C. C. J. Gadd, F.B.A
    • 19. Egypt: the Amarna period and the end of the eighteenth dynasty Cyril Aldred
    • 20. The Amarna latters from palestine W. F. Albright
    • 21. Anatolia from Shuppiluliumash to the Egyptian war of Muwatallish A. Goetze, Margaret S. Drower and C. W. Blegen
    • 22. The expansion of the Mycenaean civilization Carl W. Blegen and H. W. Catling
    • 23. Egypt: from the inception of the nineteenth dynasty to the death of Ramesses III R. O. Faulkner
    • 24. The Hittites and Syria (1300–1200 B.C.) A. Goetze
    • 25. Assyrian military power 1300–1200 B.C. J. M. Munn-Rankin
    • 26. Palestine in the time of the nineteenth dynasty O. Eissfeldt and H. J. Franken
    • 27. The recession of Mycenaean civilization Frank H. Stubbings
    • 28. The sea peoples R. D. Barnett
    • 29. Elam c. 1600–1200 B.C. René Labat
    • 30. Phrygia and the peoples of Anatolia in the Iron Age R. D. Barnett
    • 31. Assyria and Babylonia c.1200–1000 B.C. D. J. Wiseman
    • 32. Elam and Western Persia, c.1200–1000 B.C. René Labat
    • 33. Syria, the Philistines, and Phoenicia W. F. Albright
    • 34. The Hebrew Kingdom O. Eissfeldt
    • 35. Egypt: from the death of Ramesses III to the end of the twenty-first dynasty J. Cerny
    • 36. The end of mycenaean civilization and the Dark Age V. R. d'A Desborough and N. G. L. Hammond
    • 37. The Western Mediterranean Glyn Daniel and J. D. Evans
    • 38. Greek settlement in the Eastern Aegean and Asia minor J. M. Cook
    • 39. The prehistory of the Greek language John Chadwick and G. S. Kirk
    • 40. The religion and mythology of the Greeks W. K. C. Guthrie
    • Bibliographies
    • Chronological tables
    • Index to maps
    • General index.
      Contributors
    • A. Goetze, C. J. Gadd, F.B.A, Cyril Aldred, W. F. Albright, Margaret S. Drower, C. W. Blegen, H. W. Catling, R. O. Faulkner, J. M. Munn-Rankin, O. Eissfeldt, H. J. Franken, Frank H. Stubbings, R. D. Barnett, René Labat, D. J. Wiseman, W. F. Albright, J. Cerny, V. R. d'A Desborough, N. G. L. Hammond, Glyn Daniel, J. D. Evans, J. M. Cook, John Chadwick, G. S. Kirk, W. K. C. Guthrie

    • Editors
    • I. E. S. Edwards
    • C. J. Gadd
    • N. G. L. Hammond
    • E. Sollberger