The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 2, Part 1: The Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1800-1380 B.C.

Volumes I and II of The Cambridge Ancient History have had to be entirely rewritten as a result of the very considerable additions to knowledge which have accrued in the past forty-five years. For the same reason it has also been necessary to increase the size of the volumes and to divide each of them into two separately published parts. The individual chapters have already appeared as fascicles, but without maps, indexes and chronological tables which, for practical reasons, have been reserved for these volumes. Some additions and corrections have also been made in order to bring the text, as far as possible, up to date. Together the new volumes provide a history of Egypt and the Ancient Orient (including Greece and the Aegean region) down to 1000 BC in a form suitable for both specialist and student. Volume II, Part I, deals with the history of the region from about 1800 to 1380 BC. This was the era of Hammurabi in Western Asia, the Hyksos and warrior-kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt, and the Minoan and early Mycenaean civilizations in Crete and mainland Greece. Rose Wilson And The Ravagers Of N.o.w.h.e.r.e. Has Set Their Sights On The Legionnaires And Intend To Rid The World And Future Of Them. Also, The Legionnaires Must Face Metamerican And His Army Of Metamarines Which Are Bent On Eliminating The Legionnaires In The Present So They May Never Protect Earth In The Future. V. 1, Pt. 1. Prolegomena And Prehistory / Edited By I.e.s. Edwards, C.j. Gadd, N.g.l. Hammond -- V. 1, Pt. 2. Early History Of The Middle East / Edited By I.e.s. Edwards, C.j. Gadd, N.g L. Hammond -- V. 2. History Of The Middle East And The Aegean Region / Edited By I.e.s. Edwards ... [et Al.] 2 V. -- V. 3, Pt. 1. The Prehistory Of The Balkans, And The Middle East And The Aegean World, Tenth To Eighth Centuries B.c. / Edited By John Boardman ... [et Al.]. 2nd Ed. -- V. 3, Pt. 2. The Assyrian And Babylonian Empires And Other States Of The Near East, From The Eighth To Sixth Centuries B.c. / Edited John Boardman ... [et. Al.] 2nd Ed. -- V. 3, Pt. 3. The Expansion Of The Greek World,eighth To Sixth Centuries B.c. / Edited By John Boardman, N.g.l. Hammond. 2nd Ed. -- V. 4. Persia, Greece, And The Western Mediterranean, C. 525 To 479 B.c. / Edited By John Boardman ... [et Al.] 2nd Ed. 2 V. -- V. 5. The Fifth Century B.c. / Edited By D.m. Lewis ... [et Al.] 2nd Ed. -- V. 6. The Fourth Century B.c. / Edited By D.m. Lewis ... [et Al.] 2nd Ed. -- V. 7, Pt. 1. The Hellenistic World / Edited By F.w. Walbank ... [et Al.]. 2nd Ed. -- V. 7, Pt. 2. The Rise Of Rome / Edited By F.w. Walbank ... [et Al.]. 2nd Ed. -- V. 8. Rome And The Mediterranean To 133 B.c. / Edited By A.e. Astin ... [et Al.]. 2nd Ed. -- V. 9. The Last Age Of The Roman Republic, 146-43 B.c. / Edited By J.a. Crook, Andrew Lintott, Elizabeth Rawson. 2nd Ed. -- V. 10. The Augustan Empire, 43 B.c.-a.d. 69 / Edited By Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott. 2nd Ed. -- V. 11. The High Empire, A.d. 70-192 / Edited By Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, Dominic Rathbone. 2nd Ed. -- V. 12. The Crisis Of Empire, A.d. 193-337 / Edited By Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, Averil Cameron. 2nd Ed. -- V. 13. The Late Empire, A.d. 337-425 / Edited By Averil Cameron, Peter Garnsey -- V. 14. Late Antiquity : Empire And Successors, A.d. 425-600 / Edited By Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-perkins, Michael Whitby. Some Vols. Are 2nd Ed. Individual Chapters Have Already Appeared As Fascicles, 1961-1968 And Were Called Rev. Ed. ; Bound Versions Of V. 1-2 Issued 1970-1975 Were Called 3rd Ed. ; V. 3- Issued In Bound Versions Only And Called 2nd Ed.; Plates To V. 1, 4 Issued In 1977-1988 Called New Ed. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. Existing plates to the volumes are available separately. *Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and tables. *Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from prehistoric times to AD 600 by an international cast of editors and contributors This first part of volume II of the series deals with the history of the Near East in the first half of the second millennium BC. This was the era of Hammurabi in Western Asia, the Hyksos and warrior-kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt, and the Minoan and early Mycenaean civilizations in Crete and mainland Greece. The first edition of this series, published a half century ago, has been greatly expanded, so much so that now two separate books are required. SCARCELY thirty years ago the figure of Hammurabi, the unifier of Babylonia, still stood out in striking isolation.