Ancient Syria
Subtitle: a three thousand year history
By: Trevor Bryce
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780199646678
Subjects: Antiquities; History
Description: Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of the region's earliest written records in the third millennium BC, right through the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century AD.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-367) and index.
Table of contents: title: The tale to be told. The Bronze Ages. The first kingdoms ; The international intruders ; The Amorite warrior-chiefs ; The empires collide ; The end of an era.; title: From the Iron Age to the Macedonian Conquest. The age of iron ; The wolf upon the fold : the neo-Assyrian invasions ; From Nebuchadnezzar to Alexander.; title: Syria Under Seleucid Rule. The rise of the Seleucid empire ; The Seleucid empire in its prime ; The Maccabean rebellion ; The decline and fall of the Seleucids.; title: Syria under Roman Rule. The coming of the Romans ; Nabataean excursus ; The Syrian emperors ; The crisis years.; title: The Rise and Fall of Palmyra. From desert oasis to royal capital : the story of Palmyra ; Syria's 'King of Kings' : the life and death of Odenathus ; Zenobia, queen of the east; title: The last farewell; title: Chronology of major events and periods; title: King-lists; title: Literary sources.