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The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History

Plates to Volumes VII, Part 2 and VIII
2nd Edition
Christopher Smith, British School at Rome
May 2013
Available
Hardback
9780521252553
NZD$295.95
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Hardback

    The Cambridge Ancient History is the most authoritative history of the ancient world. This volume is the partner to the volume of plates illustrating the Hellenistic East and provides an authoritative selection of illustrations for the early history of Rome and the development of the city of Rome, as well as all the regions of Italy and the West, including North Africa, Spain, Sicily and Gaul. It covers a period in which Rome began to expand westwards and illustrates both Rome's own transformation and the impact on the West, including the consequences of the Punic Wars and the destruction to Carthage. All aspects of material culture are considered, with a particular focus on the development of coinage, as well as monumental building, the archaeology of naval and land warfare and the fascinating mixtures of languages and scripts represented in epigraphy. This will become a standard reference work for the period.

    • Accompanies the text Volumes 7 (Part 2) and 8 of the most authoritative history of the ancient world
    • Highly valuable resource for research and teaching
    • Authoritative selection of illustrations, accompanied by substantial captions and introductory essays, by a team of leading experts

    Product details

    May 2013
    Hardback
    9780521252553
    208 pages
    255 × 180 × 34 mm
    0.95kg
    353 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction Christopher Smith
    • 1. Early Rome Christopher Smith
    • 2. The city of Rome in the Early and Middle Republic Christopher Smith
    • 3. The transformation of central Italy Christopher Smith
    • 4. Umbria and Picenum Guy Bradley
    • 5. Samnium and the Samnites S. P. Oakley
    • 6. Southern Italy Alastair Small
    • 7. Sicily c.300 BC–133 BC R. J. A. Wilson
    • 8. Carthage and her neighbours R. J. A. Wilson
    • 9. Iberia S. J. Keay
    • 10. Gaul Greg Woolf
    • 11. Northern Italy Jonathan Williams.
      Contributors
    • Christopher Smith, Guy Bradley, S. P. Oakley, Alastair Small, R. J. A. Wilson, S. J. Keay, Greg Woolf, Jonathan Williams

    • Editor
    • Christopher Smith , British School at Rome

      Christopher Smith is Director of the British School at Rome and Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has written two volumes on early Rome, Early Rome and Latium: Economy and Society, c.1000 to 500 BC (1996) and The Roman Clan: The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and has edited seven volumes on subjects ranging from ancient Sicily to Roman religion.