CC I 2008 3rd Quarter Bibliography

- Civilization -

An Introduction
to Ancient History & Literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY

General

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

Coarelli
Cooley, A.
Ling

Writing

Literacy & Power in the Ancient World

Homer

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)
Heath, J. The Talking Greeks- speech, animals and the Other in Homer Aeschylus and Plato (Cambridge, 2005)
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]
Thalmann, W.G. The Odyssey:L an epic return (New York, 1992)