Ancient Syria : a three thousand year history /
Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and di...
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Call Number: DS96.2 .B79 2014
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| 100 | 1 | |a Bryce, Trevor, |d 1940- |e author | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Ancient Syria : |b a three thousand year history / |c Trevor Bryce. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a xiv, 379 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a •The Tale to be Told •Part I. The Bronze Ages •1. The First Kingdoms •2. The International Intruders •3. The Amorite Warrior-Chiefs •4. The Empires Collide •5. The End of an Era •Part II. From the Iron Age to the Macedonian Conquest •6. The Age of Iron •7. The Wolf upon the Fold: the Neo-Assyrian Invasions •8. From Nebuchadnezzar to Alexander •Part III. Syria under Seleucid Rule •9. The Rise of the Seleucid Empire •10. The Seleucid Empire in its Prime •11. The Jewish Question: the Maccabean Reellion •12. The Decline and Fall of the Seleucids •Part IV. Syria under Roman Rule •13. The Coming of the Romans •14. Nabataean Excursus •15. The Syrian Emperors •16. The Crisis Years •Part V. The Rise and Fall of Palmyra •17. From Desert Oasis to Royal Capital: the Story of Palmyra •18. Syria's 'King of Kings': the Life and Death of Odenathus •19. The Queen of the East: Zenobia •The Last Farewell •Appendix 1. King-Lists •Appendix 2. Literary Sources •Notes •Bibliography •Index | |
| 520 | |a Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of the region's earliest written records in the third millennium BC, right through the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century AD. | ||
| 555 | |a shimaa | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Syria |x Antiquities. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Syria |x History |y 333 B.C.-634 A.D. | |
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