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Tables of Contents for Memory and the Mediterranean
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
Introduction
ix
Oswyn Murray
Preamble
xxi
Christopher Logue
Editors' Foreword to the French Edition
xxiii
Author's Preface
xxv
PART ONE
Seeing the Sea
3
14
The Long March to Civilization
17
30
The Lower Paleolithic: the first artefacts, the first people
18
9
Fire, art and magic
27
10
The Mediterranean strikes back: the first agrarian civilization
37
8
Conclusion
45
2
A Twofold Birth
47
48
Mesopotamia and Egypt: the beginnings
47
26
Boats on the rivers, ships on the sea
73
12
Can the spread of megaliths explain the early history of the Mediterranean?
85
10
Centuries of Unity: The Seas of the Levant 2500-1200 B.C.
95
64
Ever onward and upward?
96
12
Crete: a new player in the cosmopolitan civilization of the Mediterranean
108
26
Accidents, developments and disasters
134
25
All Change: The Twelfth to the Eighth Centuries B.C.
159
20
PART TWO
Colonization: The Discovery of the Mediterranean ``Far West'' in the Tenth to Sixth Centuries B.C.
179
48
The First in the field: probably the Phoenicians
180
19
The Etruscans: an unsolved mystery
199
13
Colonization by the Greeks
212
15
The Miracle of Greece
227
44
Greece: a land of city-states
228
16
Alexander's mistake
244
7
Greek science and thought (eighth to second centuries B.C.)
251
20
The Roman Takeover of the Greater Mediterranean
271
46
Roman imperialism
272
17
Rome beyond the Mediterranean
289
8
A Mediterranean civilization: Rome's real achievement
297
20
Appendix I: Table of Prehistoric Ages and Anthropoids
317
4
Appendix II: Maps
321
20
Notes
341
4
Bibliography
345
4
Translator's Note
349
2
Index
351