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Antiquity
- Author
- Norman F. Cantor
- Narrator
- David Stifel
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 16 March 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative. He explains leading themes in religion and philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health. With his signature authority and insight, Cantor highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today.
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- Author
- Norman F. Cantor
- Narrator
- David Stifel
- Duration
- 10 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9781705297742
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Ancient history, Social and cultural history
Synopsis
Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world—from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative. He explains leading themes in religion and philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health. With his signature authority and insight, Cantor highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today.
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