Title: The ancient world /
Authors: Caldwell, Wallace Everett,
Date: 1937
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, inc.,
Physical description: xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 590 pages : illustrations (including maps, plans), plates. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: Preliterary history -- The early Orient -- Egypt under the old and middle kingdoms -- The Orient during the second millennium b.c. -- The conflict of empires (1500-500 b.c.) -- The rise of the Hellenes -- Economic and political evolution -- The city-states -- The cultural renaissance -- The Persian wars -- The greatness and fall of Athens (479-404 b.c.) -- Athens in the days of her glory -- Athenian culture -- The fourth century (404-338 b.c.) -- The Hellenistic Age -- Hellenistic civilization -- The rise of Rome -- The early republic -- The Roman Revolution (133-31 b.c.) -- Roman life during the revolution -- The Age of Augustus (31 b.c.-14 a.d.) -- The great age of the Roman Empire (14-180 a.d.) -- The institutions of the early empire -- The last century of the Roman Empire (180-305 a.d.).
Notes: Maps on lining papers. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Civilization, Ancient.; History, Ancient.