Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization
A Literature, Ancient History, History book. Quite a canvas for 340 pages so unsurprisingly a bit uneven.The coverage of early Mesopotamian civilisations is...
Accompanying the major BBC TV series, Richard Miles's Ancient Worlds tells the epic story of civilization, and the cities that made us who we are.The path of human progress is one of enlightenment and cruelty, achievement and bloodshed, creation and destruction. Here Richard Miles reaches back into our distant past to bring alive its most glorious and terrible people and places: from the first ever city in Mesopotamia to the death cults of Egypt, from the Phoenician seafarers who invented the alphabet to the brutal Assyrian empire, and on to the great city-states of Athens and Rome.By choosing to live together with strangers in vast urban settings, Miles shows, humans harnessed the very best and the worst of ourselves, setting civilization in motion and forging the modern world.'Epic and compelling' Daily Mail'An epic, spanning five millennia and half the globe' Daily Telegraph'Engaging ... full of interesting things about the radical social experiment of the city-state, and the new ways of living it permitted' Independent'Ancient Worlds really does put flesh on the bones of history and Richard Miles...
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Quite a canvas for 340 pages so unsurprisingly a bit uneven.The coverage of early Mesopotamian civilisations is quite descriptive and a little patchy. Nevertheless, it sets out the question of why civilisations began to spontaneously form and what their common properties might be.The Bronze age civilisations are covered more fully and... An enjoyable and very readable introduction to the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.I have read individual books in the past about all these civilisations, and came to this wanting more information about Mesopotamia.This book presents a persuasive argument about how civilisations have built on previous attempts... It totally threw me off when it said that Achilles was the son of Aphrodite (anyone versed in Greek Mythology would know that to be 100% wrong), when making a point (and a nasty point at that) about Alexander the Great. If it cannot get that particular thing right, I am wondering what else the author didn't get right that I don't know...
