CCI Introduction-Bibliography

This still incomplete bibliography will be regularly updated:

- Civilization -

An Introduction
to Ancient History & Literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY I

General

Braudel, F. On History [trans. Sarah Matthews] (London, 1980)
Burkert, W. Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis : eastern contexts of Greek culture
(Cambridge, Mass., 2004)

Greek Religion- Archaic & Classical [trans. John Raffan] (Harvard, 1985)
Childe, V. Gordon What happened in history (Harmondsworth, 1954)
Social evolution (London, 1957)
Finley, M. I. The Ancient Economy (London, 1973)
(ed.) Atlas of classical archaeology (London, 1977)
Fornara, C.W. The nature of history in ancient Greece & Rome (Berkeley, Calif., 1983)
Humphrey, John W. [edd.] Greek & Roman Technology: a sourcebook (London, 1988)
Momigliano, A. Alien Wisdom: the Limits of Hellenization (Cambridge, 1975)
The classical foundations of modern historiography (Berkeley, Calif., 1990)
Starr, C. A History of the Ancient World (New York, 1974)

Prehistory

Cauvin, J. The Birth of the Gods & the Origins of Agriculture [trans. Trevor Watkins] (Cambridge, 2000)
Cunliffe, B [ed.] The Oxford illustrated history of prehistoric Europe (Oxford,2001)
Delson, E. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of human evolution & prehistory (New York, 2000)
Megarry, T. Society in prehistory: the origins of human culture (London, 1995)
The Cambridge Ancient History vol. I pts I & 2 (London, 1970)
McKern, S. Living prehistory : an introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology (Menlo Park, Calif., 1974)

Near East
Mesopotamia- Hattusa- Persia

Van de Mieroop, M. A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC (Oxford, 2004)
Von Soden, W. The Ancient Orient [trans. Donald Schley] (Darmstadt, 1985)

Egypt

Bower, J. Ancient Egyptians (London, 2002)

David, R. Handbook to life in Ancient Egypt (New York, 2003)

Hart, G. Ancient Egypt (New York, 2004)

Johnson, P. The civilization of Ancient Egypt (London, 2000) [good for pictures]

Nicholson, P.T. & Shaw,I. [edd.] Ancient Egyptian materials & technology (Cambridge, 2000)

Shaw, I. (ed.) The Oxford history of Ancient Egypt (Oxford, 2000)

Bronze Age Greece: Crete & Mycenae

Evans, A. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos vol. 1-4 (London, 1921-35)
Finley, M.I. Early Greece : the Bronze and Archaic ages (London, 1970)
Fitton, J. Lesley Minoans (London, 2002)
The discovery of the Greek Bronze Age (Cambridge, Mass., 1996)
Cycladic Art (Cambridge, Mass., 1989)
Higgins, R. Minoan & Mycenaean Art (London, 1967)
Renfrew, C. The emergence of civilisation : the Cyclades and the Aegean in the third millennium B.C. (London, 1972)
Palmer, L.R. Mycenaeans and Minoans : Aegean prehistory in the light of the linear B tablets (London, 1961)
Van Effenterre, H. La Seconde Fin du Monde (Toulouse, 1974)

Mediterranean Movers:
Etruscans- Phoenicians- Celts

Haynes, S. Etruscan Civilization (London, 2000)

Markoe, G. E. Phoenicians (London, 2000)

POMPEII: CONTEXT AND SETTING

Where the Dewey number is not given look at 913.377

Amery, C. The lost world of Pompeii (Los Angeles, 2002) 937.7 AMER
Arthur, P. ‘Problems of the urbanisation of Pompeii’, Antiquaries Journal 66 (1986), 29-44. 913.4205 ANT
Coarelli, F. Pompeii (New York, 2002) 937.7 POMP
Connolly, P. Pompeii (London, 1979) 937. 7 CONN
Cooley, A. Pompeii (London, 2003) 937.7 COOL
Etienne, R. Pompeii: the day a city died (London, 1992).
Jongman, W .M. The economy and society of Pompeii (Amsterdam, 1988). 937. 7 Laurence, R Roman Pompeii: space and society (London, 1994), 937. 7
Ling, R. ‘The architecture of Pompeii’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 4 (1991), 248-55. 913.3705 JOU
Richardson, L Pompeii. An architectural History (Baltimore 1988) DA 722.7
Ridgway, D. The First Western Greeks (Cambridge, 1992).
Wallace-Hadrill, A. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (Princeton, 1994).
Wallace-Hadrill, A. ‘Public honour and private shame: the urban texture of Pompeii’, in Cornell, T. & Lomas K. (edd), Urban Society in Roman Italy (New York, 1995), 39-62
Ward-Perkins, J.B. Cities of ancient Greece and Italy: planning in classical antiquity
(New York, 1974).
Whittaker, C.R. ‘The consumer city revisited: the vicus and the city’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 3 (1990), 110-18.
Whittaker, CR, Do theories of the ancient city matter?’, in Cornell, T. & Lomas K. (edd), Urban Society in Roman Italy (New York, 1995), 9-26
Zanker, P*. Pompeii: public and private life; translated by D.L. Schneider. (Cambridge Mass., 1998)

Writing

Homerica

Buxton, R. Imaginary Greece- the contexts of mythology (Cambridge, 1994)
Finley, M. I. The World of Odysseus (New York, 2002) [very important: on short loan]
The ancient Greeks : an introduction to their life and thought (New York, 1963)
Latacz, J. Homer: his art & his world (Michigan, 1996) [short loan]

Luce, J.V. Homer and the Heroic Age (London, 1975)

Schein, S.L. (ed.) Reading the Odyssey- selected interpretive essays (New Jersey, 1996) [short loan]