Collectible 1936 "History of Ancient Civilization: Ancient Near East & Greece"

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Seller: ancientgifts ✉️ (5,439) 100%, Location: Lummi Island, Washington, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 122820339414 Collectible 1936 "History of Ancient Civilization: Ancient Near East & Greece" . (PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: 1) History and ancient history; 2) The Dawn of Human Civilization [i) The Old Stone Age; ii) The New Stone Age]. 4) The Civilization of Egypt to 1580 B.C.: Pyramid and Feudal Ages [i) The Land; ii) Prehistoric and Predynastic Egypt (to about 3400 B.C.); iii) The Old Kingdom; iv) The Middle Kingdom or Feudal Age (about 2475-1778 B.C.); v) The Hyksos Period].

History of Ancient Civilization: Volume I The Ancient Near East and Greece by Albert A. Trever.

DESCRIPTION: Hardback: 585 pages. Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company; (1936). Volume I of the “History of Ancient Civilization. Volume I is subtitled; “The Ancient Near East and Greece”. Nicely bound, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company. Contents include:

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: 1) History and ancient history; 2) The Dawn of Human Civilization [i) The Old Stone Age; ii) The New Stone Age]. PART TWO: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: 3) The Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley to About 1500 B.C. [i) The Land; ii) The People of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley; iii) The Sources for Sumer and Akaka; iv) Political History of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley; v) Sumerian and Akkadian Government, Society, Economy; vi) Sumerian Art and Building; vii) Sumerian Science and Education; viii) Sumerian Religion; ix) Sumerian Literature; x) The Contributions of Sumer; xi) The Age of Hammurabi (about 1947-1905 B.C.)].

4) The Civilization of Egypt to 1580 B.C.: Pyramid and Feudal Ages [i) The Land; ii) Prehistoric and Predynastic Egypt (to about 3400 B.C.); iii) The Old Kingdom; iv) The Middle Kingdom or Feudal Age (about 2475-1778 B.C.); v) The Hyksos Period]. 5) Egyptian and Hittite Empires (1580 to about 1200 B.C.) [i) The Hittites; ii) The Egyptian empire (about 1580-1350 B.C.)]. 6) Civilization of Syria and Palestine in the Era of Small States [i) The Phoenicians; ii) The Arameans; iii) Hebrews, Canaanites, Philistines].

7) The Assyrian Empire and Civilization [i) The Land; ii) The Assyrian Monuments; iii) Early Assyria; iv) The Assyrian Empire; v) Assyrian Civilization; vi) Assyrian Administration and Economy; vii) Assyrian Religion; viii) Assyrian Art and Architecture; ix) Assyrian Literature and Libraries]. 8) Politics and Civilization in the Near East in the Sixth Century B.C. [i) Media; ii) Lydia; iii) Egypt; iv) New Babylonia and the End of the Hebrew Kingdom; v) Persia]. 9) Civilization of the Bronze Age of the Aegean Basin (3000-1200 B.C.) [i) The Excavations; ii) Aegean Periods and the Characteristics of Each; iii) Aegean Influence on Greek Culture; iv) The Externals of Aegean Civilization; v) Minoan Society and Politics; vi) Minoan economy; vii) Minoan Games; viii) Minoan Writing; ix) Minoan Religion; x) Minoan Art; xi) The Spirit of the Aegean Civilization].

PART THREE: HELLENIC ORIGINS: 10) Hellas and the Hellenes [i) Greece and the Orient; ii) The Land of Hellas; iii) The Migrations and the Formation of the Hellenic Race]. 11) The Genius of the Hellenic Race: The Homeric Epics and the Homeric Age [i) The Homeric Epics; ii) Civilization in the Homeric Age; iii) The Homeric Epics as Literature]. PART FOUR: THE FORMATIVE AGE OF GREECE: 12) Hellenic Colonial Expansion and Resulting Economic and Political Evolution [i) Hellenic Colonization; ii) Economic and Social Effects of Hellenic Colonization; iii) Hesiod and the Changing Times; iv) Cultural Effects of Hellenic Colonization; v) The Greek City-State: Origins and Political Evolution through Economic Advance; vi) Greek Political Evolution].

13) Social and Political Development of Early Sparta and the Peloponnesian States [i) The Spartan Conquest of Messenia; ii) The Spartan Social System; iii) The Spartan Constitution; iv) Sparta and the Peloponnesus]. 14) Economic Advance and Political Evolution of Athens (800-500 B.C.) [i) Early Athens; ii) The Economic Reforms of Solon; iii) Solon’s Constitution; iv) The Athenian Tyranny; v) Cleisthenes and the Triumph of Democracy]. 15) The New Hellenic Culture of the Formative Period: Poetry and Art [i) The New Hellenic Poetry; ii) The New Hellenic Art and Architecture]. 16) Religion and Philosophy in the Formative Period of Greece [i) Hellenic Religion; ii) Hellenic Ethical Progress; iii) Hellenic Philosophy and Science].

PART FIVE: THE CRISIS OF GREECE AND ITS AFTERMATH (499-461 B.C.): 17) The Conflicts of Hellas with Persia and with Carthage (499-479 B.C.) [i) The Ionian Revolt (499-493 B.C.); ii) The Persian Campaigns Against Greece (493-479 B.C.); iii) The Crisis in West Greece]. 18) The Rise of the Athenian Empire [i) The Confederacy of Delos; ii) Themistocles and Athens; iii) Aristides; iv) Cimon; v) Athenian Constitutional Changes; vi) West Greece (479-461 B.C.)]. 19) Hellenic Society and Culture (479-461 B.C.) [i) The Choral Lyric; ii) Greek Philosophy; iii) Art Outside of Athens; iv) Athens and the Spirit of the Age; v) Athenian Art; vi) The Greek Tragic Drama (479-461 B.C.)].

PART SIX: THE PERICLEAN AGE (461-431 B.C.): 20) Athenian Imperialism at its Height (461-445 B.C.) [i) Periclean Imperialism Against Corinth; ii) Cimon and Imperialism Against Persia; iii) The Failure of Aggressive Athenian Imperialism; iv) The Development of the Athenian Maritime Empire; v) Periclean Colonization; vi) The Economic Basis of Athenian Imperialism; vii) Opposition to Periclean Policy]. 21) Democracy and Economy in the Periclean Age [i) The Economic Basis of Periclean Democracy; ii) The Character of Periclean Democracy; iii) Athenian Economy in the Periclean Age; iv) The Greek Attitude Toward Labor]. 22) Culture and Social Ideals in Periclean Athens [i) Public Works, Art, Architecture; ii) Sophocles and the Drama; iii) Pericles; iv) Hellenic Science of the Periclean Age; v) Hellenic Philosophy of the Periclean Age; vi) Protagoras and Political and Social Theory; vii) Greek Historians of the Periclean Age; viii) Athenian Social Life and Ideals in the Periclean Age.

PART SEVEN: THE GREEK WORLD WAR AND THE PASSING OF THE OLD HELLENIC SOCIETY: 23) The Peloponnesian War (434-404 B.C.) [i) The Causes of the War; ii) Athenian and Spartan Resources; iii) The Peloponnesian War to the Peace of Nicias; iv) Athenian Politics and the Broken Treaty; v) The Sicilian Expedition; vi) The Last Phase of the War]. 24) The New Hellenic Culture (431-404 B.C.) [i) The Sophists and the Spirit of the Age; ii) Socrates; iii) Euripides, Innovator and Rationalist; iv) Thucydides and the New History; v) Aristophanes and the Old Comedy; vi) Sculpture and Architecture (431-404 B.C.)].

PART EIGHT: HELLENIC POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY B.C.: 25) Hellenic Interstate Relations (404-362 B.C.) [i) The Supremacy of Sparta (404-371 B.C.); ii) The Supremacy of Thebes (371-362 B.C.); iii) The Hellenic West in the Fourth Century B.C.]. 26) The Macedonian Unification of Hellas [i) Macedonia Before Phillip; ii) Philip’s Preparation and Early Aggressions; iii) The Difficulties of Athens; iv) The Sacred War (356-346 B.C.); v) Demosthenes and the New Statesmanship; vi) The Fall of Olynthus; vii) The Peace of Philocrates (346 B.C.) and the “False Embassy”; viii) Isocrates; ix) Philip’s Delay and Demosthenes’ Aggression (346-340 B.C.); x) Open War with Macedon (340-338 B.C.); xi) Demosthenes’ Theban Policy; xii) The Second Sacred War (340-338 B.C.); xiii) The Congress of Corinth and the Hellenic League Against Persia; xiv) The Death of Philip; xv) Demosthenes and his Policy].

27) Internal Conditions in Fourth-Century Hellas (404-337 B.C.) [i) The Aftermath of the Peloponnesian War; ii) Hellenic Economic Conditions in the Fourth Century B.C.; iii) Hellenic Social Conditions; iv) Hellenic Government and Internal Political Conditions; v) Was the Athenian Democracy Decadent?]. 28. Hellenic Culture in the Fourth Century B.C. [i) Hellenic Art of the Fourth Century B.C.; ii) Hellenic Comedy, Biography, and Essay of the Fourth Century B.C.; iii) Hellenic Historians of the Fourth Century B.C.; iv) Hellenic Rhetoric and Oratory of the Fourth Century B.C.; v) Hellenic Philosophy in the Fourth Century B.C.].

PART NINE: MACEDONIAN IMPERIALISM AND THE HELLENISTIC AGE (337-146 B.C.): 29) Alexander and the Expansion of Hellenism (336-323 B.C.) [i) The Man; ii) Rebellion in Greece; iii) Alexander’s Preparations Against Persia; iv) Granicus; v) Alexander’s Next Campaigns; vi) Issus; vii) Alexander at Tyre and on the Syrian Coast; viii) Alexander in Egypt; ix) Gaugamela; x) Alexander at Babylon and Persepolis; xi) Alexander’s Pursuit of Darius; xii) Bactria and Sogdiana; xiii) Alexander in India; xiv) The Return of Alexander; xv) The Affair of Harpalus; xvi) The Last Year of Alexander; xvii) Estimate of Alexander; xvii) Estimate of Alexander; xviii) The Meaning of Alexander’s Conquests; xix) The Transformation of Hellenism].

30) The Hellenistic Age (323-146 B.C.) [i) Historical Importance of the Hellenistic Age; ii) Hellenistic Politics; iii) The Hellenistic World (about 275 B.C.); iv) Hellenistic Economic Life and Organization]. 31) Hellenistic Culture: Literature and Art [i) Hellenistic Literature; ii) Hellenistic Historians; iii) Hellenistic Art]. 32) Hellenistic Culture: Science, Philosophy, Religion [i) Hellenistic Science; ii) Hellenistic Philosophy; iii) Hellenistic Religion.

PART TEN: EPILOGUE: 33) The Hellenic Heritage to Western Civilization [i) The Influence of the Greek Language; ii) The Influence of Greek Language; iii) The Influence of Greek Art; iv) The Influence of Greek Philosophy and Religion; v) The Influence of Greek Science; vi) The Influence of Greek Political and Social Theory and Institutions; vii) The Influence of Greek Economic Ideas; viii) The Influence of Greek Education; ix) The Influence of the Greek Spirit.

CONDITION: Some shelf-wear and fading to the cover, yellowing pages, somebody tore library pocket off the first page, otherwise clean pages, in good condition.

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PLEASE SEE PUBLISHER, PROFESSIONAL, AND READER REVIEWS BELOW.

PUBLISHER REVIEW:

REVIEW: Albert A. Trever, professor of Greek and of ancient and European history from 1905-1940. He graduated from Lawrence, earned a Ph.D., and returned to his alma mater as professor of Greek and later of history.

PROFESSIONAL REVIEW:

REVIEW: Trever Hall is at Lawrence University is named after this fine scholar. He understood the importance of numismatics, and it will come as no surprise that Ottilia Buerger [1938] was his student. Ottilia bequeathed to Lawrence her collection of ancient coins, one of the world's finest. My Latin students read Eutropius' summary of Roman history and put a face on history by studying the portraits on the Buerger coins. This venerated volume is still considered an important source of ancient history.

READER REVIEW:

REVIEW: I got this book at an old used book store and though the pages were browned and written in 1936, it still was quite a good read. I was expecting a heavily biased run through of "primitive civilization" history, but the author has quite a lot of respect for ancient cultures they way they were. A good book to have on your shelf, particularly as a Greek history reference.

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  • Format: Hardback
  • Title: History of Ancient Civilization
  • Volume I: The Ancient Near East and Greece

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