The Cambridge Ancient History

Plates to Volume 4
2. Revised Auflage 1988
ISBN: 978-0-521-30580-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: The Cambridge Ancient History Plates

This volume complements the publication of the second edition of the text volume of The Cambridge Ancient History Volume IV, but can also be used as an independent, illustrated account of the period (c. 525 to 479 BC), and of the evidence for the life and arts of Greeks and Persians in the years when they first crossed swords with one another, and the freedom of Greece was at stake. It presents a full pictorial survey, with detailed commentary, of the art and archaeology of the Persian empire and its provinces, from Thrace to India. The section on Greece concentrates on Athens of the late Archaic period, immediately before the Persian Wars, with consideration of progress in the arts and of the archaeological evidence for various aspects of Greek life and society. The fortunes of the Western Greek, colonial area and of the Etruscan and Italic peoples are similarly treated, and the volume ends with a study of the invention of coinage and its use in Greece and the Persian empire. This book should be consulted by ancient historians, archaeologists and art historians and also by the general reader interested in the ancient world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boardman, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of maps; Acknowledgements for photographs; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The Persian empire P. R. S. Moorey; 2. The Greek world John Boardman; 3. The west R. J. A. Wilson and David Ridgway; 4. Coinage M. Jessop Price.