02831cam a2200349 a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000150008802000180010302000180012102000150013903500230015404000740017704300300025105000200028108200120030110000280031324500840034126000370042530000400046250000920050250400640059450514430065865000290210165000310213065100400216185600830220185601060228485600910239014418938OSt20151125122454.0060619r20062005nyuab    b    001 0 eng    a  2006020247  a0465024963  a9780465024964  a9780465024971  a0465024971  a(OCoLC)ocm70149306  aDLCcDLCdBAKERdGK8dC#PdYDXCPdZJIdBTCTAdBURdSMPdCQUdIOGdDLC  ae------aff-----aaw-----00aDE80b.L36 200600a9382221 aLane Fox, Robin,d1946-14aThe classical world :ban epic history from Homer to Hadrian /cRobin Lane Fox.  aNew York :bBasic Books,cc2006.  axvi, 656 p. :bill., maps ;c25 cm.  a"Published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by Allen Lane, the Penguin Group"--T.p. verso.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 605-629) and index.0 aHadrian 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. 0aCivilization, Classical. 0aCivilization, Greco-Roman. 0aMediterranean RegionxCivilization.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020247.html423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/2006020247-b.html423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/2006020247-d.html