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Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine | 
 enlarge | Authors: Nels M. Bailkey, Richard Lim
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $83.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 41792
Media: Paperback
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618133836
Dewey Decimal Number: 930
EAN: 9780618133833
ASIN: 0618133836
Publication Date: November 30, 2001
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Product Description
This primary source reader covers the entire span of ancient history, providing helpful editorial material and carefully selected sources to promote student learning. The selections in this text encourage critical thinking through an examination of parallel developments across ancient civilizations during the same historical periods.
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 Very engaging. December 20, 2003
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I very much like the way that different civilizations are represented as they developed simultaneously. This is a much more engaging approach to the study of history than the bland, textureless stuff being offered by many standard text books. Oh, and I'm a woman.
 Great for Intro to Ancient Hist January 21, 2003
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I am only writing this as a response to the above review. I hope no one takes the gender remark seriously. The book is simply a collection of primary source readings from Ancient History (Greek and Roman readings comprising the bulk of this). How a book of primary sources can remain gender neutral is beyond me. The book is intended to serve as an introduction to the vast (and not so vast if you're actually doing research in ancient history) amounts of sources. Hence why it only has excerpts from the various readings. The idea is that if a person enjoys reading an excerpt from say Plutarch's Lives, then they will go out and buy it, rather than buying all the possible readings in ancient history individually. One subtle note about the book is that Bailkey's comments preceding each reading often relate them to readings from different eras. This can be very useful in an introductory history class.
 Dry May 30, 2000
3 out of 35 found this review helpful
An extremely dry textbook filled with insults to the female gender. Not a good book, not even for basic research purposes. You're better off going out and buying the actual translations of the works it makes mention of.
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