MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02835cam a2200349 a 4500
001 2006020247
003 DLC
005 20091223085801.0
008 060619r20062005nyuab b 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm70149306
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050 00 $aDE80$b.L36 2006
082 00 $a938$222
100 1 $aLane Fox, Robin,$d1946-
245 14 $aThe classical world :$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.
651 0 $aMediterranean Region$xCivilization.
650 0 $aCivilization, Classical.
650 0 $aCivilization, Greco-Roman.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020247.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/2006020247-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/2006020247-d.html