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Contents
CONTENTS | 2 |
The transformation of Italy 300133 B c The evidence | 13 |
The Carthaginians in Spain | 17 |
Carthaginian Spain page | 18 |
The Second Punic War | 44 |
Italy and Sicily in the Second Punic War | 48 |
Campania | 52 |
Spain in the Second Punic War | 58 |
The Greeks of Bactria and India | 388 |
The Greek lands of central and southern Asia | 390 |
Bactria and Northwestern India | 392 |
Roman tradition and the Greek world | 422 |
Italy and Sicily | 478 |
The inscription on the sarcophagus of L Cornelius Scipio Barbatus page | 483 |
Potters marks from Cales third century B C | 486 |
Potters marks on reliefware from Cales | 487 |
s North Africa | 64 |
Rome and Greece to 205 B C | 81 |
The Adriatic | 82 |
Roman expansion in the west | 107 |
Northern Italy | 108 |
Spain in the second century B C I 20 | 120 |
North Africa at the time of the Third Punic War | 144 |
Carthage | 158 |
Roman government and politics 200134 B C | 163 |
Rome and Italy in the second century B C | 197 |
Rome against Philip and Antiochus | 244 |
Greece and Asia Minor | 246 |
Rome the fall of Macedon and the sack of Corinth | 290 |
Macedonia and Greece | 292 |
The Seleucids and their rivals | 324 |
Asia Minor and Syria | 326 |
Profiles of GrecoItalic amphoras | 488 |
s Plan of the forum of Paestum | 489 |
Plan of the sanctuary at Pietrabbondante | 490 |
Profiles of Dressel I amphoras | 497 |
Typical profiles of thinwalled pottery of the Republican period | 500 |
Three Hellenistic dynasties | 517 |
Chronological table | 523 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 543 |
| 549 | |
с Rome and Carthage | 558 |
E The Seleucids and their neighbours | 562 |
| 569 | |
| 577 | |
Miscellaneous | 590 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cambridge Ancient History |
| Author | A. E. Astin |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0521234484, 9780521234481 |
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