Ancient Syria : a three thousand year history

Bryce, Trevor 1940- (author.).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780199646678
ISBN: 0199646678
ISBN: 9781306637602
ISBN: 1306637600
ISBN: 0191002925
ISBN: 9780191002922
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 379 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. III Syria under Seleucid rule -- 9. The Rise of the Seleucid Empire -- 10. The Seleucid Empire in its Prime -- 11. The Maccabean Rebellion -- 12. The Decline and Fall of the Seleucids -- pt. IV Syria under Roman rule -- 13. The Coming of the Romans -- 14. Nabataean Excursus -- 15. The Syrian Emperors -- 16. The Crisis Years -- pt. 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. Zenobia, Queen of the East.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.