The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume III: The Assyrian Empire

Cloth hardcover, reprint with corrections, xxv + 821pp + 25 folded maps/tables, NOT ex-library. Clean, bright, untanned; unmarked text, no inscriptions, no stamps. Light wear only. -- Contents: Foundation of the Assyrian Empire [Relapse of Assyria 1100-900 BC: Aramaean Pressure; Restoration of Assyria; Expansion of Assyria Under Ashur-Nasir-Pal II; Work of Shalmaneser III; Struggle with Urartu] Supremacy of Assyria [Work of Tiglath-Pileser III: 745-727 BC; Consolidation of the Empire Under Sargon II; Campaigns in Urartu and Syria] Sennacherib & Esarhaddon [Babylonian Policy of Sennacherib; Sennacherib in Syria and Palestine; Internal Conditions; Esarhaddon's Policy of Expansion] Age of Ashurbanipal [Assyrian Religion & State & Society & Army & Learning & Law & Arts and Literature] Ashurbanipal and the Fall of Assyria [Wars of Ashurbanipal; War with Shamash-Shum-Ukin; Fall of Assyria] Hittites of Syria [Southern Hittite Peoples; Struggle with Assyria; Assyrian Conquest and Occupation & Retreat] Hittite Civilization [Hattic Art of Cappadocia; Society; Southern Hittite Art: Zenjirli; Carchemish; Other Sites] Kingdom of Van (Urartu) [Geography: The Inscriptions; Early History to c. 720 BC; Later History from c. 720 BC; Religion and Culture] Scythians & Northern Nomads [Nomads in Western History; Nomadism; Scythians of South Russia; Scythian Customs; Religion, Burial Customs] New Babylonian Empire [Rise Under Nabopolassar; Babylonian Supremacy Under Nebuchadrezzar; Decay and Fall of Babylonia Under Nabonidus] Influence of Babylonia [Literature: The Story of Gilgamesh; Descent of Ishtar & Other Epics; Didactic and Religious Literature; Astronomy and Astrology; Medicine, Grammar, Law; Decay of the Babylonian Civilization; Debt of Europe to Babylon] Eclipse of Egypt [XXIst & XXIInd & XXIIIrd Dynasty] Ethiopians & Assyrians in Egypt [Inscription of Piankhi; Egypt, Palestine, Assyria; Assyrians in Egypt; Egypt's Independence Under Psammetichus I] Restoration of Egypt [XXVIth Dynasty: The Greeks; Egypt and Asia; Saite Revival; Persian Threat & Invasion] Oriental Art of the Saïte Period [Archaism in Egyptian Art; Saïte Portraiture; Intercourse with the Mediterranean Lands; Art of Phoenicia and Syria & Assyria and Babylonia] Topography of Jerusalem [Nature of the Site; Valleys; Plateau and Its Water-Supply; Original Emplacement & Growth of the City] Israel & Neighbouring States [Early History to the Middle of the 9th Century BC; Elijah and the Rise of Jehu; Dynasty of Jehu; Assyria and the Fall of Ephraim] Fall and Rise of Judah [Judah Under the Assyrians; Josiah and the Decline of Judah; Exile; Restoration] Israel Before the Prophets [Relation to the Amarna Age: The Alphabet; Old Yahwism; Fundamental Ideas: Gods and Their Worshippers; Solidarity of the Group and Its God; Death and Sacrifice; Special Features of the Old Religion] Prophets of Israel [General Characteristics; Destruction & Reconstruction; Patriarchal History; Growth of the Law; Climax] Lydia and Ionia [Central Anatolian Powers: Phrygia and Sardes; Gyges & Independence of Lydia; Lydian Aggression; Lydia and the Tyrannis; Lydian Conquest of Ionia; Croesus and the East; Persian Conquest] Growth of the Dorian States [Argos in the Dark Age; Arcadia; End of the Dark Ace; King Pheidon; Elis and Olympia; Tyrants; Sparta: The Eunomia & Beginnings of the League] Early Athens [People of Attica; Union of Attica; City of Athens; Social Conditions; Earliest Constitution; Aristocracy; Athenian Progress in Culture] Northern & Central Greece [Thessaly; Boeotia; Locris and Phocis; Euboea; Delphi] Colonial Expansion of Greece [Survey of Distribution of Greek Colonies; Precursors of Greek Colonization & Fate of the Sea-Raiders; North Aegean Coast; Hellespont & Propontis; Euxine; Cyrenaica; The West] Growth of the Greek City-State [Earliest Order; Growth of the New Greek Cities; Character of the City-State; Aristocracy; Bibliographies; Chronological Notes; Index: General, Maps, Biblical Passages. …