Great Cities of the Ancient World

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Great Cities of the Ancient World

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Author L. Sprague deCamp
Cover artist L. Sprague deCamp
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Ethnology, History and Geography
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 1972
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xv, 510 pp
ISBN NA

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.

[edit] References

  • Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 60-61.