Antiquity 2: Interpreting the Past

Part 1: Core StudyChapter 1: Cities of VesuviusPompeii and Herculaneum HSC core study Geographical context The nature of sources and evidence Investigating, reconstructing and preserving the past Cities of Vesuvius: Past and future Part 2: Ancient SocietiesChapter 2: Egypt: Society in New Kingdom Egypt to the Death of Amenhotep III Early New Kingdom society Geographical environment Social structure and political organisation The economy Religion Death and burial Cultural life Everyday life Chapter 3: Greece: Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC A warrior society Geographical environment Social structure and political organisation Government Structure of Spartan society The economy Cultural life Everyday life Part 3: Personalities in their TimesChapter 4: Egypt: Hatshepsut The female pharaoh Background and rise to prominence Career Evaluation Hatshepsut’s place in history Chapter 5: Egypt: Akhenaten Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt Background and rise to prominence Career Evaluation Chapter 6: The Near East: Xerxes Xerxes’ inheritance Background and rise to prominence Career Evaluation Xerxes and tradition Chapter 7: Rome: Agrippina the Younger Agrippina in the Augustan world Roman social and political structures Role of imperial women Background and rise to prominence Career Evaluation Part 4: Historical PeriodsChapter 8: Egypt: New Kingdom Egypt from Amenhotep III to the Death of Ramesses I Egypt’s golden age Internal developments Foreign relations Change and continuity in the New Kingdom Chapter 9: Greece: The Greek World 500440 BC Greece and Persia Persian Wars Development of Athens and the Athenian empire Democratic developments in Athens Athens and Sparta Impact of empire Chapter 10: Rome: The Augustan Age 44 BCAD 14 Republic to principate Establishment of the principate The Augustan principate Augustus and the empire Bibliography Glossary Index