Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• TROY
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Chronology
• 1 Troy of the Homeric Poems
• 2 The Archaeological Troy
• 3 The Early Bronze Age: Troy I
• 4 The Early Bronze Age: Troy II
• 5 The Early Bronze Age: Troy III
• 6 The Middle and Late Bronze Age: Troy VI
• 7 Troy Villa
• 8 Troy VIIb
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• KNOSSOS
• A note on Chronology
• A Note on the Plans
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The First Inhabitants
• 2 The Origins of the Minoan Age
• 3 The Beginnings of Public Architecture
• 4 The Foundation of the Palace
• 5 The Source3s of Palace Civilisation
• 6 Consolidation
• 7 A New Palace?
• 8 The West and South Approaches
• 9 The Heart of the Palace
• 10 The Northern Area
• 11 The Residential Quarter
• 12 A Remodelled Palace
• 13 The Mycenaean Era
• 14 The Bureaucratic Palace
• Epilogue
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• BABYLON
• Preface
• Preface to the Revised Edition (1986)
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 From Sargon to Hammurapi
• 3 The Old Babylonian Period
• 4 Kassites and Chaldaeans
• 5 Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians and Greeks
• 6 The Legacy of Babylon
• Appendix: Mesopotamian Chronology
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• PETRA
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Prelude
• 1 They Came from Arabia
• 2 Into a Habitation of Dragons
• 3 Friends, Foes and Neighbours
• 4 Days of Glory, Days of Dust
• 5 The Miracle of Petra
• 6 The Delicate Magic of Life
• 7 Language, Script and Graffiti
• 8 Babatha
• 9 Afterglow of Empire
• Epilogue
• Glossary
• Chronology
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• POMPEII
• Introduction
• Author's Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The History of Pompeii and Herculaneum
• 2 Vesuvius
• 3 The Towns and Their Meeting Places
• 4 Temples, Gods and Goddesses, and Philosophers
• 5 Private Houses in Town and Country
• 6 Paintings, Mosaics and Furniture
• 7 Farms and Trades
• 8 Public Life and Sexual Life
• Epilogue
• Select Bibliography
• Index