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Hollister, Warren C.

Roots of the Western tradiiton: a short history of the ancient world / Warren C. Hollister - xx, 263 pages: illustrations,maps

Includes index

Introduction
PART 1: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
1. From Stone Age to Civilization
2. Mesopotamia
3. Egypt
4. The Diffusion of Near Eastern Civilization
PART 2: GREECE
5. Crete, Mycenae, and the Dark Age
6. The Rise of Classical Greece
7. The Zenith and Transformation of Classical Greece
8. Literature and Philosophy in Greece
9. The Culture of the Golden Age
10. The Hellenistic Age
PART 3: ROME
11. The Rise of Rome
12. The Principate
13. The Spiritual Metamorphosis
14. The Dominate
15. The Waning of the Western Empire

ISBN: 007235089X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History, Ancient
Ancient civilizations

Dewey Class. No.: 930