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100 1 _aLane Fox, Robin,
_d1946-
245 1 4 _aThe classical world :
_ban epic history from Homer to Hadrian /
_cRobin Lane Fox.
260 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_cc2006.
300 _axvi, 656 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
500 _a"Published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by Allen Lane, the Penguin Group"--T.p. verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 605-629) and index.
505 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.
650 0 _aCivilization, Classical.
650 0 _aCivilization, Greco-Roman.
651 0 _aMediterranean Region
_xCivilization.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
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