| Description |
228 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Desperately foreign -- The rediscovery of Crete -- Lost : the Trojan war -- Silver tongue -- Thucydides the moralist -- Socrates and Athens -- Plato and practical politics -- Diogenes the cynic -- Etruscheria -- The Etruscans and early Rome : new discoveries and ancient controversies -- The silent women of Rome -- The Emperor Diocletian -- Manpower and the fall of Rome -- Aulus Kapreilius Timotheus, slave trader -- Christian beginnings : three views of historiography -- The year one. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-220) and index. |
| Subject |
History, Ancient.
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| ISBN |
0670002526 (pbk.) |
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