Andrew Erskine - A Companion To Ancient History

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD

This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises approximately twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

This paperback edition first published 2013

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Edition history: (hardback, 2009)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to ancient history / edited by Andrew Erskine.

p. cm. (Blackwell companions to the ancient world)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-3150-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 978-1-1184-5136-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. History, Ancient. I. Erskine, Andrew.

D57.C66 2009

930dc22

2008046753

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: A Capriccio View of Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini (16921765). Christies Images/Corbis

Cover design by Workhaus

In Memory of
Peter Derow
and
George Forrest

Figures

Celtic calendar from Coligny, France

Writing tablet from Vindolanda

Bronze coin of Tyre in Phoenicia

Silver tetradrachm of Artaxerxes III

Graph: life expectancy

Graph: Roman males with living relatives

Sepphoris mosaic

Fortifications at Alinda in Karia

Plan of the urban center of Aizanoi

The temple of Zeus at Aizanoi

Plan of imperial Rome

The Colosseum

The peoples of Italy

A bronze coin issued by the Numidian king Syphax

A chieftain stele from the Kabylie

Ludovisi Gaul group

Debris from the Roman destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (AD 70)

Axonometric reconstruction of a single-entrance courtyard house: a pastas house from Olynthos

Generalized plan of a Pompeian atrium house

House from Ostia: plan

Sarcophagus with the death of Meleager