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Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine




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: Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 930
EAN: 9780618133833
Edition: 6
ISBN: 0618133836
Label: Wadsworth Publishing
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: November 30, 2001
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Studio: Wadsworth Publishing



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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
This primary source reader covers the entire span of ancient history, providing helpful editorial material and carefully selected sources to promote student learning. The selections in this text encourage critical thinking through an examination of parallel developments across ancient civilizations during the same historical periods.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Very engaging.
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 out of 5 stars - Great for Intro to Ancient Hist
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 ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Dry
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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