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The Cambridge Ancient History: Plates to Volume 4

By John Boardman (Editor)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0521305802, 9780521305808
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
52 MB (55010709 bytes)
Pages
260\264
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-25 05:47:56

Description

This book of plates can be used either as a companion to Volume IV or as an independent, illustrated account of the period, and of the evidence of Greek civilization and culture as it encountered the Persian empire and struggled for its freedom. Detailed commentary accompanies a full pictoral survey of the art and archaeology of the Persian empire and its provinces, from Tthrace to India. The section on Greece concentrates on late Archaic Athens, immediately before the Persian wars, and considers cultural progress as evidence of various aspects of Greek life and society. The fortunes of the Western Greek colonial area and of the Etruscan and Italic peoples are similarly treated. The volume concludes with a study of the invention of coinage and its use throughout Greece and Persia.

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