# The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History is a multi-volume work of ancient history from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press. The first series, consisting of 12 volumes, was planned in 1919 by Irish historian J. B. Bury and published between 1924 and 1939, co-edited by Frank Adcock and Stanley Arthur Cook. The second series was published between 1970 and 2005, consisting of 14 volumes in 19 books.
The Cambridge Ancient History is part of a larger series of works, along with The Cambridge Medieval History and The Cambridge Modern History, intended to cover the entire history of European civilisation. In the original edition, it was the last in this series to appear, the first volume of the Modern History having been published in 1902, and the first volume of the Medieval History in 1911. In the second series, however, the Ancient History began to be published before the Medieval History.

## First series

* Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 B.C. (1923).
* The Egyptian and Hittite Empires to c. 1000 B.C. (1924).
* The Assyrian Empire. (1926).
* The Persian Empire and the West. (1926).
* Athens. 478–401 B.C. (1927).
* Macedon. 401–301 B.C. (1927).
* The Hellenistic Monarchies and the Rise of Rome. (1928).
* Rome and the Mediterranean. 218–133 B.C. (1930).
* The Roman Republic. 133–44 B.C. (1932).
* The Augustan Empire. 44 B.C.–A.C. 70. (1934).
* The Imperial Peace. A.D. 70–192. (1936).
* The Imperial Crisis and Recovery. A.D. 193–324. (1939).

## Second series
### Volumes published

* I part I (1970): Prolegomena and Prehistory – edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, N.G.L. Hammond
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 1 | The geological ages | David Leslie Linton & F. Moseley |
| 2 | Physical conditions in Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Egypt before the period of agricultural and urban settlement | K. W. Butzer |
| 3 | Primitive Man in Egypt, Western Asia and Europe in Palaeolithic times, & in Mesolithic times | Dorothy A. E. Garrod & Grahame Clark |
| 4 | The evidence of Language | William F. Albright & Thomas Oden Lambdin |
| 5 | The earliest populations of man in Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa | D. R. Hughes & Donald Reginald Brothwell |
| 6 | Chronology: I. Egypt—to the end of the Twentieth Dynasty. II. Ancient Western Asia. III. The Aegean Bronze Age | William C. Hayes, Michael B. Rowton, Frank Henry Stubbings |
| 7 | (a) The earliest settlements in Western Asia from the ninth to the end of the fifth millennium B.C. (b) Anatolia before 4000 B.C. | James Mellaart |
| 8 | The development of cities from Al-'Ubaid to the end of Uruk 5 | Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan |
| 9 | (a) Predynastic Egypt (b) Palestine during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods (c) Cyprus during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods | Elise Jenny Baumgartel, Roland de Vaux, Hector William Catling |
| 10 | The Stone Age in the Aegean | S. S. Weinberg |
* I part II (1971): Early History of the Middle East – edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 11 | The Early Dynastic Period in Egypt | I. E. S. Edwards |
| 12 | The last Predynastic Period in Babylonia | Henri Frankfort & Leri Davies |
| 13 | The cities of Babylonia | C. J. Gadd |
| 14 | The Old Kingdom in Egypt and the beginning of the First Intermediate Period | W. Stevenson Smith |
| 15 | Palestine in the early Bronze Age | Roland de Vaux |
| 16 | The Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia | Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan |
| 17 | Syria before 2200 B.C. | Margaret Stefana Drower & Jean Bottéro |
| 18 | Anatolia c.4000–2300 B.C. | James Mellaart & Carl William Blegen |
| 19 | The dynasty of Agade and the Gutian invasion | C. J. Gadd |
| 20 | The Middle Kingdom in Egypt | William C. Hayes |
| 21 | Syria and Palestine c.2160–1780 B.C. | Georges Posener, Jean Bottéro, Kathleen Mary Kenyon |
| 22 | Babylonia c. 2120–1800 B.C. | C. J. Gadd |
| 23 | Persia c.2400–1800 B.C. | Walther Hinz |
| 24 | Anatolia c.2300–1750 B.C. | James Mellaart, Carl William Blegen, Hildegard Lewy |
| 25 | Assyria c.2600–1816 B.C. | Hildegard Lewy |
| 26 | Greece, Crete, and the Aegean islands in the early Bronze Age | John Langdon Caskey & Hector William Catling |
| 27 | Immigrants from the north | R. A. Crossland |
* II part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1800-1380 – edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, L. Sollberger
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 1 | Northern Mesopotamia and Syria | J. R. Kupper |
| 2 | Egypt: from the death of Ammenemes III to Seqenenre II | William C. Hayes |
| 3 | Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age | Kathleen M. Keyton |
| 4 | Greece and the Aegean Islands in the Middle Bronze Age | John Langdon Caskey |
| 5 | The maturity of Minoan civilization | F. Matz |
| 6 | Cyprus in the Middle Bronze Age | H. W. Catling |
| 7 | Hammurabi and the end of his dynasty | C. J. Gadd |
| 8 | Anatolia c. 1750–1600 BC | Oliver R. Gurney |
| 9 | Persia c. 1800–1550 BC | O. Walther Hinz |
| 10 | Egypt: from the expulsion of the Hyksos to Amenophis I | T. G. H. James |
| 11 | Egypt: internal affairs from Tuthmosis I to the death of Amenophis III | William C. Hayes |
| 12 | Syria c. 1550–1400 BC | Margaret S. Drower |
| 13 | Palestine in the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty | Kathleen Mary Keyton |
| 14 | The Zenith of Minoan civilization | F. Matz |
| 15 | The linear scripts | S. Dow and J. Chadwick |
| 16 | The rise of Mycenaean civilization | Frank H. Stubbings |
| 17 | Anatolia C. 1660–1380 BC | Oliver R. Gurney |
| 18 | Troy VI | Carl William Blegen |
| 19 | The archaeological evidence of the second millennium BC on the Persian Plateau | Robert H. Dyson |
* II part II: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000
* III part I: The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.
* III part II: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C.
* III part III: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C. – edited by John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond
* IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean C. 525 to 479 B.C.
* V: The Fifth Century B.C.
* VI: The Fourth Century B.C.
* VII part I: The Hellenistic World
* VII part II: The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C.
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 1 | The sources for early Roman history | R M Ogilvie and A Drummond |
| 2 | Archaic Rome between Latium and Etruria | M Torelli |
| 3 | The origins of Rome | A Momigliano |
| 4 | Rome in the fifth century I: the social and economic framework | A Drummond |
| 5 | Rome in the fifth century II: the citizen community | A Drummond |
| 6 | Rome and Latium to 390 BC | T J Cornell |
| 7 | The recovery of Rome | T J Cornell |
| 8 | The conquest of Italy | T J Cornell |
| 9 | Rome and Italy in the early third century | E S Staveley |
| 10 | Pyrrhus | P R Franke |
| 11 | Carthage and Rome | H H Scullard |
| 12 | Religion in republican Rome | J A North |
* VIII: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C.
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 1 | Sources | A E Astin |
| 2 | The Carthaginians in Spain | H H Scullard |
| 3 | The Second Punic war | John Briscoe |
| 4 | Rome and Greece to 205 BC | R M Errington |
| 5 | Roman expansion in the west | W V Harris |
| 6 | Roman government and politics, 200–134 BC | A E Astin |
| 7 | Rome and Italy in the second century BC | E Gabba |
| 8 | Rome against Philip and Antiochus | R M Errington |
| 9 | Rome, the fall of Macedon, and the sack of Corinth | P S Derow |
| 10 | The Seleucids and their rivals | C Habicht |
| 11 | The Greeks of Bactria and India | A K Narain |
| 12 | Roman tradition and the Greek world | Elizabeth Rawson |
| 13 | The transformation of Italy, 300–133 BC. The evidence of archaeology | Jean-Paul Morel |
* IX: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C.
| Chapter | Title | Author | Pages |
| 1 | The crisis of the Republic: sources and source-problems | Andrew Lintott | 1–15 |
| 2 | The Roman empire and its problems in the second century | Andrew Lintott | 16–39 |
| 3 | Political history, 146–95 BC | Andrew Lintott | 40–103 |
| 4 | Rome and Italy: the Social war | E Gabba | 104–28 |
| 5 | Mithridates | John G F Hind | 129–64 |
| 6 | Sulla | Robin Seager | 165–207 |
| 7 | The rise of Pompey | Robin Seager | 208–28 |
| 8a | Lucullus, Pompey, and the East | A N Sherwin-White | 229–73 |
| 8b | The Jews under Hasmonean rule | Tessa Rajak | 274–309 |
| 8c | Egypt, 146–31 BC | Dorothy J Thompson | 310–26 |
| 9 | The senate and the populares, 69–60 BC | T P Wiseman | 327–67 |
| 10 | Caesar, Pompey, and Rome, 59–50 BC | T P Wiseman | 368–423 |
| 11 | Caesar: civil war and dictatorship | Elizabeth Rawson | 424–67 |
| 12 | The aftermath of the Ides | Elizabeth Rawson | 468–90 |
| 13 | The constitution and public criminal law | Duncan Cloud | 491–530 |
| 14 | The development of Roman private law | J A Crook | 531–63 |
| 15 | The administration of the empire | John Richardson | 564–98 |
| 16 | Economy and society, 133–43 BC | C Nicolet | 599–643 |
| 17 | The city of Rome and the plebs urbana in the late republic | Nicholas Purcell | 644–88 |
| 18 | The intellectual developments of the Ciceronian age | Miriam Griffin | 689–728 |
| 19 | Religion | Mary Beard | 729–768 |
| | Epilogue | J A Crook | 769–76 |
* X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 1 | The triumviral period | Christopher Pelling |
| 2 | Political history, 30 BC to AD 14 | J A Crook |
| 3 | Augustus: power, authority, achievement | J A Crook |
| 4 | The expansion of the empire under Augustus | Erich S Gruen |
| 5 | Tiberius to Nero | T E J Widemann |
| 6 | From Nero to Vespasian | T E J Widemann |
| 7 | The imperial court | Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
| 8 | The imperial finances | D W Rathbone |
| 9 | The senate and senatorial and equestrian posts | Richard J A Talbert |
| 10 | Provincial administration and taxation | Alan K Bowman |
| 11 | The army and the navy | Lawrence Keppie |
| 12 | The administration of justice | H Galsterer |
| 13a | Italy and Rome from Sulla to Augustus | M H Crawford |
| 13b | Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica | R J A Wilson |
| 13c | Spain | G Alföldy |
| 13d | Gaul | C Goudineau |
| 13e | Britain 43 BC to AD 69 | John Wacher |
| 13f | Germany | C Rüger |
| 13g | Raetia | J Wolff |
| 13h | The Danubian and Balkan provinces | J J Wilkes |
| 13i | Roman Africa: Ausutus to Vespasian | C R Whittaker |
| 13j | Cyrene | Joyce Reynolds and J A Lloyd |
| 14a | Greece (including Crete and Cyprus) and Asia minor from 43 BC to AD 69 | B M Levick |
| 14b | Egypt | Alan K Bowman |
| 14c | Syria | David Kennedy |
| 14d | Judaea | Martin Goodman |
| 15 | Rome and its development under Augustus and his successors | Nicholas Purcell |
| 16 | The place of religion: Rome in the early empire | S R F Price |
| 17 | The origins and spread of Christianity | G W Clarke |
| 18 | Social status and social legislation | Susan Treggiari |
| 19 | Literature and society | Gavin Townend |
| 20 | Roman art, 43 BC to AD 69 | Mario Torelli |
| 21 | Early classical private law | Bruce W Frier |
* XI: The High Empire, A.D. 70-192
* XII: The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193–337
* XIII: The Late Empire, A.D. 337–425
* XIV: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425–600