The Cambridge Ancient History

Cambridge University Press
Edition: 3, 9/18/1975
EAN 9780521086912, ISBN10: 0521086914

Hardcover, 1151 pages, 24 x 16.1 x 6.5 cm
Language: English

Volume II, Part II deals with the history of the region from about 1380 to 1000 B.C., and includes accounts of Akhenaten and the Amarna 'revolution' in Egypt, the expansion and final decline of the Mycenaean civilization in Greece, the exodus and wanderings of the Israelites, and the Asstrian and Hittite empires.

List of maps
List of text-figures
Preface
17. The struggle for the domination of Syria (1400–1300 B.C.) A. Goetze
18. Assyria and Babylon c. 1370–1300 B.C. C. J. Gadd, F.B.A
19. Egypt
the Amarna period and the end of the eighteenth dynasty Cyril Aldred
20. The Amarna latters from palestine W. F. Albright
21. Anatolia from Shuppiluliumash to the Egyptian war of Muwatallish A. Goetze, Margaret S. Drower and C. W. Blegen
22. The expansion of the Mycenaean civilization Carl W. Blegen and H. W. Catling
23. Egypt
from the inception of the nineteenth dynasty to the death of Ramesses III R. O. Faulkner
24. The Hittites and Syria (1300–1200 B.C.) A. Goetze
25. Assyrian military power 1300–1200 B.C. J. M. Munn-Rankin
26. Palestine in the time of the nineteenth dynasty O. Eissfeldt and H. J. Franken
27. The recession of Mycenaean civilization Frank H. Stubbings
28. The sea peoples R. D. Barnett
29. Elam c. 1600–1200 B.C. René Labat
30. Phrygia and the peoples of Anatolia in the Iron Age R. D. Barnett
31. Assyria and Babylonia c.1200–1000 B.C. D. J. Wiseman
32. Elam and Western Persia, c.1200–1000 B.C. René Labat
33. Syria, the Philistines, and Phoenicia W. F. Albright
34. The Hebrew Kingdom O. Eissfeldt
35. Egypt
from the death of Ramesses III to the end of the twenty-first dynasty J. Cerny
36. The end of mycenaean civilization and the Dark Age V. R. d'A Desborough and N. G. L. Hammond
37. The Western Mediterranean Glyn Daniel and J. D. Evans
38. Greek settlement in the Eastern Aegean and Asia minor J. M. Cook
39. The prehistory of the Greek language John Chadwick and G. S. Kirk
40. The religion and mythology of the Greeks W. K. C. Guthrie
Bibliographies
Chronological tables
Index to maps
General index.