Early antiquity

Title Statements

Full title :Early antiquity / I.M. Diakonoff, volume editor ; Philip L. Kohl, project editor ; translated by Alexander Kirjanov.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1991.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:1991.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 461 pages) : : maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226144672, 0226144674, 1306964288, 9781306964289
oclc:ocn733997021
LC Classification:D57
Dewey Decimal:930

General outline of the first period of the history of the ancient world and the problem of the ways of development ; The city states of Sumer ; Early despotisms in Mesopotamia / I.M. Diakonoff -- The old Babylonian period of Mesopotamian history / N.V. Kozyreva -- Sumerian culture / V.K. Afanasieva -- The predynastic period and the early and the old kingdoms in Egypt ; The Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Hyksos invasion ; The New Kingdom of Egypt / I.V. Vinodradov -- The culture of ancient Egypt / I.A. Lapis -- The first states in India and the pre-urban cultures of Central Asia and Iran / G.F. Il'yin and I.M. Diakonoff -- Asshur, Mitanni, and Arrapkhe / N.B. Jankowska -- Mesopotamia in the sixteenth to eleventh centuries B.C. / V.A. Jakobson -- The Hittite kingdom / G.G. Giorgadze.

Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine in the third and second millennia B.C. / I.M. Diakonoff -- The world of Crete and Mycenae ; Greece of the eleventh to ninth centuries B.C. in the Homeric epics / Yu V. Andreyev -- Phoenician and Greek colonization / Yu. B. Tsirkin -- India, Central Asia, and Iran in the first half of the first millennium B.C. / G.F. Il'yin and I.M. Diakonoff -- The first states in China…