The History of the Ancient World

From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

Bauer, Susan Wise 저자(글)

W. W. Norton & Company · 2007년 03월 01일

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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.

Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”―literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts―to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.

13 illustrations, 80 maps

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저자(글) Bauer, Susan Wise

Susan was born in 1968, grew up in Virginia, and was educated at home by pioneering parents, back when home education was still unheard of. She worked as a professional musician, wore a costume at Colonial Williamsburg, toured with a travelling drama group, galloped racehorses at a Virginia racetrack, taught horseback riding, worked in radio and newspaper ad sales, learned enough Korean to teach a Korean four-year-old Sunday school, and served as librarian and reading tutor for the Rita Welsh Adult Literacy Center in Williamsburg, Virginia.

In her less haphazard adult life, she earned an M.A., M.Div., and Ph.D. She has taught at the College of William & Mary in Virginia for the last sixteen years. Susan is married and the mother of four.

Susan's most recent book for Norton, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory (2015), guides us back to the original texts that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.!

Her previous book, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (2003), is a guide to reading the classic works of fiction, poetry, history, autobiography, and drama. Norton also published The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (with co-author Jessie Wise); originally published in 1999, this bestselling guide to education in the classical tradition was revised and updated in 2004 and again in 2009.

For Peace Hill Press, Susan has written a four-volume world history series for children, The Story of the World, for Peace Hill Press. Volume 1, Ancient Times, was published in 2002 (revised edition 2006); Volume 2, The Middle Ages, in 2003 (revised edition 2007); and Volume 3, Early Modern Times, in 2004. The final volume, The Modern Age, was published in 2006. She has also written a best-selling elementary writing program, Writing With Ease.

Susan is also the author of The Art of the Public Grovel (Princeton University Press) and many articles and reviews. Visit her blog at http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog.

목차

• The Edge of Historyp. 1
  The Origin of Kingshipp. 3
  The Earliest Storyp. 10
  The Rise of Aristocracyp. 17
  The Creation of Empirep. 22
  The Age of Ironp. 30
  The Philosopher Kingp. 36
  Firstsp. 41
  The First Written Recordsp. 43
  The First War Chroniclesp. 51
  The First Civil Warp. 61
  The First Epic Herop. 71
  The First Victory over Deathp. 78
  The First Reformerp. 88
  The First Military Dictatorp. 95
  The First Planned Citiesp. 104
  The First Collapse of Empirep. 110
  The First Barbarian Invasionsp. 118
  The First Monotheistp. 127
  The First Environmental Disasterp. 139
  Strugglep. 145
  The Battle for Reunificationp. 147
  The Mesopotamia Mixing Bowlp. 155
  The Overthrow of the Xiap. 164
  Hammurabi's Empirep. 170
  The Hyksos Seize Egyptp. 178
  King Minos of Cretep. 183
  The Harappan Disintegrationp. 192
  The Rise of the Hittitesp. 196
  Ahmose Expels the Hyksosp. 202
  Usurpation and Revengep. 206
  The Three-Way Contestp. 213
  The Shifting Capitals of the Shangp. 219
  The Mycenaeans of Greecep. 224
  Struggle of the Godsp. 229
  Wars and Marriagesp. 238
  The Greatest Battle in Very Ancient Timesp. 246
  The Battle for Troyp. 253
  The First Historical King of Chinap. 259
  The Rig Vedap. 264
  The Wheel Turns Againp. 267
  The End of the New Kingdomp. 275
  The Dark Age of Greecep. 281
  The Dark Age of Mesopotamiap. 285
  The Fall of the Shangp. 291
  Empiresp. 297
  The Mandate of Heavenp. 299
  The Bharata Warp. 306
  The Son of Davidp. 314
  From Western to Eastern Zhoup. 328
  The Assyrian Renaissancep. 335
  New Peoplesp. 344
  Trading Posts and Coloniesp. 354
  Old Enemiesp. 363
  Kings of Assyria and Babylonp. 371
  Spectacular Defeatp. 382
  The Decline of the Kingp. 391
  The Assyrians in Egyptp. 399
  Medes and Persiansp. 410
  Conquest and Tyrannyp. 418
  The Beginnings and End of Empirep. 431
  A Brief Empirep. 443
  Cyrus the Greatp. 455
  The Republic of Romep. 469
  Kingdoms and Reformersp. 482
  The Power of Duty and the Art of Warp. 491
  The Spreading Persian Empirep. 500
  The Persian Warsp. 514
  Identityp. 537
  The Peloponnesian Warsp. 539
  The First Sack of Romep. 555
  The Rise of the Ch'inp. 563
  The Macedonian Conquerorsp. 570
  Rome Tightens Its Graspp. 584
  Alexander and the Wars of the Successorsp. 591
  The Mauryan Epiphanyp. 609
  First Emperor, Second Dynastyp. 613
  The Wars of the Sonsp. 622
  Roman Liberators and Seleucid Conquerorsp. 638
  Between East and Westp. 649
  Breaking the Systemp. 659
  The Problems of Prosperityp. 668
  New Menp. 680
  Empirep. 697
  Eclipse and Restorationp. 712
  The Problem of Successionp. 717
  The Edges of the Roman Worldp. 735
  Children on the Thronep. 746
  The Mistake of Inherited Powerp. 751
  Savior of the Empirep. 764
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출판사 서평

"Bauer guides readers on a fast-paced yet thorough tour…a wonderful starting point for the study of the ancient world."
― Publishers Weekly

"[A]n attractive introduction to a subject vast in time and geography.…Bauer's survey will spark the imagination."
― Booklist

기본정보

ISBN	9780393059748 ( 039305974X )
발행(출시)일자	2007년 03월 01일
쪽수	896쪽
크기	165 * 241 * 40 mm / 1220 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어