Ancient Syria A Three Thousand Year History First Edition by Trevor Bryce ISBN 0199646678 9780199646678

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ISBN 10: 0199646678

ISBN 13: 9780199646678

Author: Trevor Bryce 

Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of the region’s earliest written records in the third millennium BC, right through to the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century AD. Across the centuries, from the Bronze Age to Imperial Rome, we encounter a vast array of characters and civilizations, enlivening, enriching, and besmirching the annals of Syrian history: Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings; Egyptian pharaohs; Amorite robber-barons; the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar; Persia’s Cyrus the Great and Macedon’s Alexander the Great; the rulers of the Seleucid empire; and an assortment of Rome’s most distinguished and most infamous emperors. All swept across the plains of Syria at some point in her long history. All contributed, in one way or another, to Syria’s special, distinctive character, as they imposed themselves upon it, fought one another within it, or pillaged their way through it. But this is not just a history of invasion and oppression. Syria had great rulers of her own, native-born Syrian luminaries, sometimes appearing as local champions who sought to liberate their lands from foreign despots, sometimes as cunning, self-seeking manipulators of squabbles between their overlords. They culminate with Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, whose life provides a fitting grand finale to the first three millennia of this ancient civilization. And yet the long story of Syria does not end with the mysterious fate of Queen Zenobia. The conclusion looks forward to the Muslim conquest in the 7th century AD: in many ways the opening chapter in the equally complex and often troubled history of modern Syria.

Table of contents:

PART I. THE BRONZE AGES

1. The First Kingdoms
2. The International Intruders
3. The Amorite Warrior-Chiefs
4. The Empires Collide
5. The End of an Era

PART II. FROM THE IRON AGE TO THE MACEDONIAN CONQUEST
6. The Age of Iron
7. The Wolf upon the Fold: The Neo-Assyrian Invasions
8. From Nebuchadnezzar to Alexander

PART III. SYRIA UNDER SELEUCID RULE
9. The Rise of the Seleucid Empire
10. The Seleucid Empire in its Prime
11. The Maccabean Rebellion
12. The Decline and Fall of the Seleucids

PART IV. SYRIA UNDER ROMAN RULE
13. The Coming of the Romans
14. Nabataean Excursus
15. The Syrian Emperors
16. The Crisis Years

PART V. THE RISE AND FALL OF PALMYRA
17. From Desert Oasis to Royal Capital: The Story of Palmyra
18. Syria’s ‘King of Kings’: The Life and Death of Odenathus
19. Zenobia, Queen of the East

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