An atlas is a book that contains maps, and this book only contains 12 of them. Instead it contains numerous black and white photographs and drawings that are reproduced with reasonable clarity, but since they are not on glossy print paper they were not as clear as they could have been. (I do not know if the hard bound book uses print paper for the illustrations.) In addition there is a lot of text reviewing the classical world. I would NOT recommend this book to anyone actually looking for a true atlas, as this book is not one. It does, however, provide a very short overview of the classical world and is reasonably clearly written.
What is in the book –
The book is divided into chapters, each only on the order of a dozen pages or so. These chapters cover the following:
· The Geographical Setting (the general geography and climate of the region of Greece, Italy, the Mediterranean and the Near East)
· Minoan and Mycenean Civilization
· The Rise of City-States
· Early Greek Civilizations
· Greece and Persia
· The Age of Pericles
· Athens and Sparta
· The Hellenistic World
· Early Italy
· Early Rome
· Rome and the Mediterranean World
· Early Roman Life and Culture
· The Fall of the Republic
· The Life and Days of Cicero
· The Augustan Age
· The Early Empire
· Life under the Empire
· The Later Empire
· Epilogue
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