History of the Ancient World
From the first cities of Sumer and Egypt to Philo’s Alexandria in 1 CE: the peoples, empires and ideas of the ancient world, told by Sophia with Philo, Marcos and Demetria, in volumes of lessons and gamebooks with grammar at every level.
← Back to Lessons and GamebooksEvery volume follows the same rules: it labels what scholars agree on, what they debate and what nobody knows, and asks the same questions of every people’s texts. The story stops in 1 CE, Philo’s own time. Later volumes will travel further, to India, China, Africa and the Americas, and a second series will continue the story after 1 CE. For the writers who first told this history, see the Ancient Historians.
The volumes
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Volume I · History of the Ancient Near East
Sumer, Egypt, Elam, the Hittites, Mitanni, Phoenicia, Assyria, Kush, Israel and Judah, Babylon and Persia: three thousand years between the Nile and the Tigris.
See all parts →Volume II · Ancient Greece
Minoans and Mycenaeans, the city-states and their colonies, Sparta and Athens, the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, the philosophers, and Macedon.
See all parts →Volume III · The Hellenistic World
Alexander’s heirs: the Ptolemies of Alexandria, the science of the Museum, the Seleucids, the Maccabees, and Philo’s own city.
See all parts →Volume IV · Rome and the Western Mediterranean
Etruscans, Carthage, the rise of Rome, the Punic Wars, the fall of the Republic, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Augustus.
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