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100 great lives of antiquity / edited by John Canning.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Methuen, 1985.Description: x, 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 041355970X
  • 9780413559708
Other title:
  • One hundred great lives of antiquity
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920/.02
LOC classification:
  • B D 55 O58 1985
Contents:
Rulers and Warriors : Egypt : The Pharaohs: What the Mummies Reveal. Thothmose III. Ramesses II. Shoshenk I. Ptolemy I (Soter). Ptolemy II (Philadelphus). Babylonia, Assyria and Syria : Tiglath-Pileser I. Tigiath-Pileser III. Sargon II. Sennacherib. Ashurbanipal. Nebuchadnezzar. Seleucus I. Antiochus III. Palestine : David. Solomon. Herod I. Persia : Cyrus the Great. Cambyses. Darius the Great. Xerxes. Greece : Cleisthenes. Themistocles. Pericles. Philip II of Macedon. Alexander the Great. Attalos I of Pergamon. Carthage : Hannibal. Rome : Scipio. Marius. Sulla. Cicero. Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar and Shakespeare. Augustus. Tiberius. Claudius. Nero. Vespasian. Trajan. Hadrian. Marcus Aurelius. Diocletian. Theodosius I (The Great). Writers and Sculptors : Homer. Aeschylus. Pindar. Sophocles. Pheidias. Herodotus. Euripides. Thucydides. Aristophanes. Praxiteles. Virgil. Horace. Livy. Ovid. Seneca. Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Younger. Plutarch. Josephus. Reformers : Hammurabi. Moses. Akhenaton. Solon. Asoka. Tiberius Gracchus. Constantine the Great. Women of Power and Influence : Queen Hatshepsut. Sappho. Olympias. Aspasia of Miletus. Artemisia of Halicarnassus. Cleopatra. Livia. Boudicca. Zenobia. Hypatia of Alexandria. Men of Science : Thales. Democritus. Hippocrates. Euclid. Herophilus. Aristarchus of Samos. Erasistratus. Archimedes. Eratosthenes. Pytheas. Hero of Alexandria. Ptolemy. Philosophers and Religious Leaders : Zoroaster. Lao Tzu. Confucius. Pythagoras. Buddha. Plato. Aristotle. Saint Paul. Mani. Saint Augustine of Hippo
Summary: 100 Great Lives of Antiquity is a collection of biographical essays profiling one hundred of the most influential individuals from the ancient world. Spanning the time period from roughly 2000 BCE to the fall of the Roman Empire, the book covers a wide range of cultures, civilizations, and professions.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) B D 55 O58 1985 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000193695

Includes index.

Rulers and Warriors : Egypt : The Pharaohs: What the Mummies Reveal. Thothmose III. Ramesses II. Shoshenk I. Ptolemy I (Soter). Ptolemy II (Philadelphus). Babylonia, Assyria and Syria : Tiglath-Pileser I. Tigiath-Pileser III. Sargon II. Sennacherib. Ashurbanipal. Nebuchadnezzar. Seleucus I. Antiochus III. Palestine : David. Solomon. Herod I. Persia : Cyrus the Great. Cambyses. Darius the Great. Xerxes. Greece : Cleisthenes. Themistocles. Pericles. Philip II of Macedon. Alexander the Great. Attalos I of Pergamon. Carthage : Hannibal. Rome : Scipio. Marius. Sulla. Cicero. Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar and Shakespeare. Augustus. Tiberius. Claudius. Nero. Vespasian. Trajan. Hadrian. Marcus Aurelius. Diocletian. Theodosius I (The Great). Writers and Sculptors : Homer. Aeschylus. Pindar. Sophocles. Pheidias. Herodotus. Euripides. Thucydides. Aristophanes. Praxiteles. Virgil. Horace. Livy. Ovid. Seneca. Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Younger. Plutarch. Josephus. Reformers : Hammurabi. Moses. Akhenaton. Solon. Asoka. Tiberius Gracchus. Constantine the Great. Women of Power and Influence : Queen Hatshepsut. Sappho. Olympias. Aspasia of Miletus. Artemisia of Halicarnassus. Cleopatra. Livia. Boudicca. Zenobia. Hypatia of Alexandria. Men of Science : Thales. Democritus. Hippocrates. Euclid. Herophilus. Aristarchus of Samos. Erasistratus. Archimedes. Eratosthenes. Pytheas. Hero of Alexandria. Ptolemy. Philosophers and Religious Leaders : Zoroaster. Lao Tzu. Confucius. Pythagoras. Buddha. Plato. Aristotle. Saint Paul. Mani. Saint Augustine of Hippo

100 Great Lives of Antiquity is a collection of biographical essays profiling one hundred of the most influential individuals from the ancient world. Spanning the time period from roughly 2000 BCE to the fall of the Roman Empire, the book covers a wide range of cultures, civilizations, and professions.

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