The Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History (5th Edition)

The Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History (5th Edition) by d-brendan-nagle. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780130912596.

This comprehensive, multiperspective, and integrated chronicle of the history of the ancient Mediterranean (from Sumer to the fall of Rome) explores the distinctive forms society took in the ancient world--especially the unusual relationship between society and the state (unlike anything we encounter today) that characterized the social order of antiquity. By closely integrating social and cultural histories with the political, institutional, and military climates in which they unfolded, it provides fascinating insights into all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean. Features a wealth of boxed features, many displaying original documents. Explores the histories of Western Asia (Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Israel, Phoenicia, Philisitia), Egypt, the Mediterranean World (Greece, Rome, Carthage, Phoenicia), and Europe in terms of such aspects as the family, gender relations, class structures, public vs. private realms, slavery, popular culture, religion, art, architecture, leisure styles, philosophy, science, and education--and their complex intertwinings with ideology and political events. For those interested in Ancient History/Western Civilization, Greek or Roman History.