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Ancient Worlds
Richard Miles
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Description for Ancient Worlds
Paperback. The path of human progress is one of enlightenment and cruelty, achievement and bloodshed, creation and destruction. This title tells the epic story of civilization, and the cities that made us who we are. It reaches back into our distant past to bring alive its glorious and terrible people and places. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16pp colour. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 328.
Accompanying the major BBC TV series, Richard Miles's Ancient Worlds tells the epic story of civilization, and the cities that made us who we are.
The path of human progress is one of enlightenment and cruelty, achievement and bloodshed, creation and destruction. Here Richard Miles reaches back into our distant past to bring alive its most glorious and terrible people and places: from the first ever city in Mesopotamia to the death cults of Egypt, from the Phoenician seafarers who invented the alphabet to the brutal Assyrian empire, and on to the great city-states of Athens and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics/Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241951361
SKU
V9780241951361
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Ref
99-1
About Richard Miles
Richard Miles is the author of Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization. He teaches classics at the University of Sydney and was previously a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He has written widely on Punic, Roman and Vandal North ... Read more
Reviews for Ancient Worlds
Epic and compelling
Daily Mail
Engaging ... full of interesting things about the radical social experiment of the city-state, and the new ways of living it permitted
Independent
An epic, spanning five millennia and half the globe
Daily Telegraph
Ancient Worlds really does put flesh on the bones of history and Richard Miles brings ... Read more
Daily Mail
Engaging ... full of interesting things about the radical social experiment of the city-state, and the new ways of living it permitted
Independent
An epic, spanning five millennia and half the globe
Daily Telegraph
Ancient Worlds really does put flesh on the bones of history and Richard Miles brings ... Read more