Mondi antichi

The premise of this book was too good to pass up, as a love of history , it is with a certain sad resignation that we have to accept that our view of history tends to be much centered in Western Europe and Greece , but we forget to connect those worlds with what was going on at the same time in Indi Leggi tutto

In an excellent (if immodest) introduction the author sets out his aims – to retell ancient history on a transversal basis, picking three different periods in history and contrasting and comparing thematically similar developments which occurred, almost simultaneously, across different cultures. The Leggi tutto

Modern man can travel a distance roughly 400 times more than that travelled by a person in the ancient world. This nullification of distance in terms of modes of travel and the ease of communication were brought about by great progress in science and technology witnessed in the last 300 years. The w Leggi tutto

DNF Интригуващата идея за интеркултурен античен прочит на ключови исторически събития, предизвикали ударни вълни както из класически изучаваното Средиземноморие, така и в бъдещата Поднебесна империя и из други по-слабо известни географски ширини, е много слабо и хаотично реализирана. Твърде много имен Leggi tutto

It's pretty weird to open up to the first chapter of a book subtitled 'A Global History of Antiquity'-- having read an introduction, which lambasts all other historians for failing to write proper, global history, and declares that the book you're about to read is truly revolutionary in its approach Leggi tutto

Un excelente libro, qué aboga por un enfoque global para el estudio de la historia antigua, algo que no es muy común en ese periodo de tiempo, pero que se debe incentivar, puesto que nos muestra un mundo clásico más unido, dejando de lado esas descripciones densas de grandes imperios. Esto último qu Leggi tutto

I like that it treats ancient history across the whole of Eurasian and North Africa and cris-crosses the narrative between the Mediterranean world, India, and China, and the far East. This is a near-global history of three major cultural areas in the ancient world which makes it fun. Of course, it

I made the mistake of reading some of the reviews as I began this book, and therefore set myself up for an underwhelming experience. After reading the book twice, I have to come to the conclusion that some of these reviews must be based on imagination. Firstly, neither the book jacket nor the Introd Leggi tutto

The book is divided in three periods (axial age/6th c. BC, Hannibal/3rd and 2nd c. BC, and Constantine/4th c. CE) and promises an emphatically 'global' approach to the antiquity, following, depending on the period, Athens and Rome, as well as Carthage and Persia, but also extending to Mauryan India