Great Cities of the Ancient World
- Great Cities of the Ancient World
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name = Great Cities of the Ancient World
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image_caption = Dust-jacket for "Great Cities of the Ancient World"
author = L. Sprague deCamp
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cover_artist = L. Sprague deCamp
country = United States
language = English
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subject = Ethnology, History and Geography
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = 1972
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xv, 510 pp
isbn = NA
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"Great Cities of the Ancient World" is a 1972 history book by L. Sprague de Camp, published by Doubleday. A translation into German has also appeared.
The work is a study of the ethnology, history, geography, and everyday life in such famous ancient capital cities as Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople. The narrative is enlivened by personal observation, the author having personally traveled to each of the sites treated. New World sites are not treated.
References
*cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | coauthors=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | pages=60-61 | date=1983
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