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Dedication; Foreword to the Third editionOswyn Murray: ; Author’s Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Maps; List of Figures; 1 Approaching the Ancient World; 2 The Birth of Civilization: The Ancient Near East, 5000- 1200 BC; 3 Pyramids and Power, the Creation of an Egyptian State, 3500-1985 BC; 4 Stability and Expansion, Egypt in the Middle and New Kingdoms, 1985- 1000 BC; Interlude 1: The Amarna Letters; 5 Living in New Kingdom Egypt; 6 The Ancient Near East, 1200- 500 BC; 7 ’The Sea between the Lands’, the Mediterranean as the Cradle of the Classical World; 8 Civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean, 2000 -1100 BC; 9 The Birth of a New Greece 1100 - 700 BC; 10 ’Travelling Heroes’, The Greeks in a Wider World, 800-600 BC; Interlude 2: Sappho and Lyric Poetry; 11 Hoplites and Tyrants: The Emergence of the City State; 12 Craftsmanship and Creativity in Archaic Greece; 13 The Persian Wars; 14 The Greek Way of Life; 15 Experiencing the Supernatural: the Spiritual World of the Greeks; Interlude 3: ’After this all becomes possible.’ Creating Classical Art, 500 - 460 BC; 16 Democracy and Empire, Athens in the Fifth Century; 17 Rethinking the World: From Aeschylus to Aristotle; Interlude 4: Rhetoric; 18 The Struggle for Power, 431- 338 BC; 19 Alexander the Great and the Transformation of the Greek World; 20 Tensions and Creativity: The Hellenistic World, 323 -30 BC; Interlude 5: Celts and Parthians; 21 The Etruscans and Early Rome; 22 Rome Becomes a Mediterranean Power; 23 Rome, A Republic Under Stress; Interlude 6: Voices from the Republic; 24 The Failure of Republican Politics; Interlude 7: Women in the Roman Republic; 25 Augustus and the Founding of Empire; 26 Consolidating the Roman Empire, AD 14-161; Interlude 8: The Sebasteion at Aphrodisias; 27 Running and Defending an Empire; 28 Social and Economic Life in the Empire; Interlude 9: The Romans as Builders; 29 The Flourishing of Greek Culture; 30 An Empire in Crisis, AD 161-313; 31 The Early Christian Communities, AD 33-313; 32 Constantine and His Successors; 33 The Christian Emperor; 34 The Collapse of the Classical West, 395-600; 35 The Emergence of the Byzantine Empire; 36 Legacies; What to Read Next; Date Chart; List of Events; Index

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