Classical Civilization I: An Outline of your forthcoming Reader

Classical Civilization I
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Part I

La Longue Durée


-Maps & Timelines-

1.
Pre-History & The Rise of Civilizations

“...one must think big, otherwise what is the point of history.”
Fernand Braudel

Braudel, Fernand The Mediterranean in the Ancient World [trans. Siân Reynolds] (London, 2001) 11-199

Starr, Chester G. A History of the Ancient World (Oxford, 1965) 75-143

2.
Cities & Colonizations

Starr, Chester G. A History of the Ancient World (Oxford, 1965) 185-227

Owens, E.J. The City in the Greek & Roman World (London, 1991) 1-29, 100-102

3.

A Case Study: Pompeii

Zanker, Paul Pompeii- public & private life (Cambridge, Mass., 1998) 1-133