Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Other Books by This Author
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction by Oswyn Murray
Preamble by Christopher Logue
Editors’ Foreword to The French Edition
Author’s Preface
Part 1
Chapter 1 - Seeing the Sea
Chapter 2 - The Long March to Civilization
The Lower Paleolithic: the first artefacts, the first people
Fire, art and magic
The Mediterranean strikes back: the first agrarian civilization
Conclusion
Chapter 3 - A Twofold Birth
Mesopotamia and Egypt: the beginnings
Boats on the rivers, ships on the sea
Can the spread of megaliths explain the early history of the Mediterranean?
Chapter 4 - Centuries of Unity: The Seas of the Levant 2500–1200 B.C.
Ever onward and upward?
Crete: a new player in the cosmopolitan civilization of the Mediterranean
Accidents, developments and disasters
Chapter 5 - All Change: The Twelfth to the Eighth Centuries B.C.
Part 2
Chapter 6 - Colonization: The Discovery of the Mediterranean “Far West” in the Tenth to Sixth Centuries B.C.
The first in the field: probably the Phoenicians
The Etruscans: an unsolved mystery
Colonization by the Greeks
Chapter 7 - The Miracle of Greece
Greece: a land of city-states
Alexander’s mistake
Greek science and thought (eighth to second centuries B.C.)
Chapter 8 - The Roman Takeover of the Greater Mediterranean
Roman imperialism
Rome beyond the Mediterranean
A Mediterranean civilization: Rome’s real achievement
Appendix I: Table of Prehistoric Ages and Anthropoids
Appendix II: Maps
Notes
Bibliography
Translator’s Note
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →