FROM ARISTOTLE TO ZOROASTER : AN A TO Z COMPANION TO THE CLASSICAL WORLD

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	FROM ARISTOTLE TO ZOROASTER : AN A TO Z COMPANION TO THE CLASSICAL WORLD
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The classical world, in British historian Cotterell's view, encompasses not only ancient Greece and Rome, but also Egypt, Persia, India, and China. This encyclopedic compendium is long on thematic entries--for instance, précis of the condition of women in ancient Old World civilizations or the evolution of monumental architecture--but somewhat short on single-subject biographical pieces of the sort covered by, say, the Oxford Classical Dictionary. The thematic entries do make the book exceptionally useful for cross-cultural research, however, and Cotterell draws on the best recent scholarship, especially in anthropology and archaeology. --Gregory MacNamee