The Ancient World

Ideas in Profile

Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics)

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23 September 2015

History; Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Series: Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics

This introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome to the Jews and Syrians who refused to be Romanised.

Jerry Toner shows what can be learnt from new approaches to ancient history, from analysing the bones of the dead in Pompeii or assessing the impact of environmental change, and considers how we can discover what it was like to live back then. He looks at every period, not just classical Athens and Republican Rome, but the Hellenistic kingdoms that followed Alexander and the Christian-dominated later Roman Empire.

Greece and Rome, he argues, must be fitted into the global history of their day: what did Persians think of Greeks and how does the Roman empire stack up to China's? With vivid examples and animation from award-winning Cognitive at every stage, this is the ideal introduction to the ancient world for general readers and students.

By: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics)
Imprint: Profile
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 120g
ISBN: 9781781254202
ISBN 10: 1781254206
Series: Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 23 September 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jerry Toner is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge, the scholar behind Marcus Sidonius Falx's How to Manage your Slaves and author of Emperors and Crooks (Profile 2016).

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The Ancient World

Ideas in Profile

Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics)

$27.99

Paperback

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