2 Volumes 1,050 Pages 325 Biographies 170 Ilustrations 19 Maps of the     Ancient World 42 Charts,     Tables, and Sidebars Key to Pronunciation Chronological List of Entries Cross-References Chrononological List Personages Index Geographical Index Category Index Subject Index The purchase of Great Lives from History: The Ancient World entitles a school or library to free online access to all the content in this set PLUS all the content in any of the other Great Lives titles a library owns. Free through 12/31/2011. For more information on Salem History, click here. Or call us: (800) 221-1592. Articles Ashurbanipal - Assyrian King Aśoka - Indian King Saint Augustine - Bishop Catullus - Roman Poet Confucius - Philosopher Dio Cassius - Historian Euripides - Greek Playwright Hypatia - Egyptian Scientist Nefertiti - Egyptian Queen Other Elements Publisher's Note Index Table of Contents You can view many of the holdings of this title in the U.S. and Canada by selecting a State or Province below. Choose from the pull-down menu below to show a Google map that displays the sets' locations. Jump to a State/Province: Alabama Alaska Alberta Arizona Arkansas British Columbia California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Manitoba Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Brunswick New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Newfoundland and Labrador North Carolina North Dakota Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Nunavut Ohio Oklahoma Ontario Oregon Pennsylvania Prince Edward Island Quebec Rhode Island Saskatchewan South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Yukon    Click here to view an    Acrobat version of this    title's Table of Contents    and a sample chapter. For more information about the other Great Lives from History sets, simply click here. Recommended for high schools. Reference for Students   Gale Group   These resources will be helpful for reports at the high school level and beyond. While some of the material in Lives can be found in the Encyclopedia of World Biography and other sources, these volumes include many more lesser-known individuals. School Library Journal   Recommended - both volumes. General readers; undergraduates. Choice

Editor: Christina A. Salowey, Hollins University ISBN: 978-1-58765-152-6 List Price: $175 April 2004 · 2 volumes · 1,050 pages · 8"x10" Includes Free Online Access Through 12/31/2011 Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. Worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement who flourished in the ancient world. Plus free online access to the full content of this great reference. THE PRINTED REFERENCE Two volumes, including 1,050 pages 325 Biographies plus sidebars and primary source quotes Hundreds of photos, illustrations and graphs Appendixes, indexes and resource listings THE ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION Fully supported Free access through 12/31/2011 Unlimited users at your library Full access from home or dorm-room Immediate access via online registration A simple, intuitive interface User profile areas for students and patrons Sophisticated search functions Complete content, including appendixes Fully illustrated Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. is the first in a multivolume series covering the lives of important personages from the ancient world through the twenty-first century. This series is a revision of the 10-volume Dictionary of World Biography series, which was a revision and reordering of Salem Press’s thirty-volume Great Lives from History series. The existing essays in this volume are enhanced by the addition of 65 new entries covering a wider geographical area and including more women, updated bibliographies, a new page design, and a section containing maps of various parts of the ancient world. The temporal and geographical scope of Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. is broad. Represented here are figures as ancient as the Egyptian king Zoser (fl. twenty-seventh century B.C.E.) and as late as the Jute chief Hengist (410-488 C.E.). The date of 476 C.E., the fall of Rome, was selected by the editors as the cutoff between the ancient world and the Middle Ages. Those lives falling on the cusp were moved into the period that best reflected their life’s work or major accomplishments. Coverage is worldwide, including Rome, Greece, China, Japan, India, northern Europe, Egypt and other parts of Africa, Asia Minor, and the Middle East. Each essay begins with ready-reference listings: other names the person might have used, the individual's birth and death dates and places, an identifier stating the person's nationality and life role, his or her areas of achievement, and a brief statement summarizing his or her contribution to society and later ages. The body of the article is divided into three parts. "Early Life," the first section, provides facts about the individual's upbringing and a pronunciation of the subject's name (if unusual) is included. The next section, "Life's Work," consists of a straightforward account of the period during which the individual's most significant achievements were made. The concluding section, "Significance," provides an overview of the individual's place in history. Each essay is supplemented by an annotated bibliography.

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