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Title: Readings in Ancient History : Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine by Nels M. Bailkey, Richard Lim ISBN: 0-618-13383-6 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.16 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very engaging.
Comment: I very much like the way that different civilizations are represented as they developed simultaneously. This is a much more engaging approach to the study of history than the bland, textureless stuff being offered by many standard text books. Oh, and I'm a woman.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for Intro to Ancient Hist
Comment: I am only writing this as a response to the above review. I hope no one takes the gender remark seriously. The book is simply a collection of primary source readings from Ancient History (Greek and Roman readings comprising the bulk of this). How a book of primary sources can remain gender neutral is beyond me. The book is intended to serve as an introduction to the vast (and not so vast if you're actually doing research in ancient history) amounts of sources. Hence why it only has excerpts from the various readings. The idea is that if a person enjoys reading an excerpt from say Plutarch's Lives, then they will go out and buy it, rather than buying all the possible readings in ancient history individually. One subtle note about the book is that Bailkey's comments preceding each reading often relate them to readings from different eras. This can be very useful in an introductory history class.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dry
Comment: An extremely dry textbook filled with insults to the female gender. Not a good book, not even for basic research purposes. You're better off going out and buying the actual translations of the works it makes mention of.
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Title: The Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History (5th Edition) by D. Brendan Nagle ISBN: 013091259X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $56.00 |
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Title: Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman ISBN: 0198721943 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.50 |
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Title: The Ancient Near East: Ancient History Series, Volume I by William E. Dunstan ISBN: 0030352991 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 16 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $60.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to the Ancient World by R. J. Van Der Spek, Lukas De Blois, Lukas De Blois, R. J. Van Der Spek ISBN: 0415127742 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene) by Thomas R. Martin ISBN: 0300084935 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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