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Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the subject, and as such constitutes an invaluable reference resource. The first section deals with different aspects of life in the ancient world, such as democracy, imperialism, slavery and sexuality, while the second section covers the ideas of key ancient historians and other writers on classical antiquity. Overall this book offers an invaluable introduction to the most important ideas, the

Title Ancient history : key themes and approaches / Neville Morley.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 2000
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
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Ancient History:key Themes Andapproaches
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Key Themes and Debates
Part 2: Key Writers
Name Index
Subject Index
Series Routledge key guides
Extent 1 online resource (254 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010700156205171
MARC RECORDS
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