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General Bibliography:

F. Braudel, The Mediterranean in the Ancient World, Penguin Books Ltd, 2002, New edition.

L. de Blois, R.J. van der Spek, An Introduction to the Ancient World, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008, 2nd Revised edition

C. Freeman, Egypt, Greece and Rome, Oxford University Press, 2004, 2nd Revised edition

J. Haywood, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations, Penguin Books Ltd, 2005, illustrated edition

E. Hornung, History of Ancient Egypt, Cornell University Press, 1999, Revised edition

S. Ikram, Ancient Egypt, Cambridge University Press, 2009

S. B. Pomeroy, S. M. Burstein, W. Donlan, and J. T. Roberts, Ancient Greece, Oxford University Press, 2007, 2nd Revised edition

D. Rathbone (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient World, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2009

W. Scheidel and S. von Reden (eds.), The Ancient Economy, Edinburgh University Press, 2002

M. Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2006, 2nd Revised edition

M. Van De Mieroop, A History of Ancient Egypt, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2010.

Introductory bibliographies:

General Introductions to the Study of History:

J. H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2000)

J. Black and D. D. MacRaild, Studying History, 2nd edn. (Basingstoke, New York 2000)

L. Jordanova, History in Practice (London 2000)

Translations of and Commentaries on Sources for the History of Late Period Egypt and Classical Greece:

M. H. Crawford and D. Whitehead, Archaic and Classical Greece; A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation (Cambridge 1983)

M. Dillon and L. Garland, Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates, 2nd edn. (London 2000)

C. W. Fornara, Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War, Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 1, 2nd edn. (Cambridge 1983)

Ph. Harding, From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsus, Translated Documents of Greece and Rome 2 (Cambridge 1998)

Herodotus, The Histories, transl. R. Waterfield (Oxford 1998)

J. B. Pritchard, The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, a foreword by D. E. Fleming (Princeton 2010)

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, transl. R. Warner (London 1972)

W. W. How and J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus in Two Volumes, Vol. I (Books I-IV) (Oxford, New York 1989)

A. B. Lloyd, Herodotus, Book II, Vols. I-III (Leiden 1975-88)

Maps and Atlases:

J. Baines and J. Malek, Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Oxford 1980)

N. G. L. Hammond, Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity (Park Ridge, N. J. 1981)

J. Haywood, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations (London 2005) Penguin Books Ltd

P. Levi, Atlas of the Greek World (Oxford 1984)

B. Manley The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt (London 1996)

R. Morkot, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (London 1996) R. J. A. Talbert, Atlas of Classical History (London, New York 1985)

R. J. A. Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton, Oxford 2000)

General Histories of Late Period Egypt and Classical Greece: J. Boardman, The Greeks Overseas, 4th edn. (London 1999)

N. Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, transl. I. Shaw (Oxford and Cambridge MA 1992) 334-88

S. Hornblower, The Greek World 479-323 BC, 3rd edn. (London, New York 2002)

P. J. Rhodes, A History of the Classical Greek World 478-323 BC, 2nd edn. (Malden, Oxford, Carlton 2010), Wiley-Blackwell

R. Sealey, A History of the Greek City States ca. 700 - 338 B.C. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1976)

The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edn., Vol. III, Part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C., eds. J. Boardman, et al. (Cambridge 1991) 429-30, 677-747

The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edn., Vol. IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean c. 525 to 479 B.C., eds. J. Boardman, N. G. L.Hammond, D. M. Lewis and M. Ostwald (Cambridge 1988) 254-86

The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edn., Vol. V: The Fifth Century B.C., eds.D. M. Lewis, J. Boardman, J. K. Davies and M. Ostwald (Cambridge 1992)

The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edn., Vol. VI: The Fourth Century B.C.,eds. D. M. Lewis, J. Boardman, S. Hornblower and M. Ostwald (Cambridge 1994)

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, ed. I. Shaw (Oxford 2000)

The Oxford History of the Classical World, eds. J. Boardman, J. Griffin and O.Murray (Oxford, New York 1986) relevant chapters

B. Trigger, B. J. Kemp, D. O'Connor and A. B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt; A Social History (Cambridge 1983) 249-52, 279-348

Other General Books on Ancient Egypt and Greece:

C. Aldred, The Egyptians, 3rd edn., revised and updated by A. Dodson (London 1998) Thames and Hudson

D. J. Brewer and E. Teeter, Egypt and the Egyptians, 2nd edn. (Cambridge 2007) Cambridge University Press

R. David, Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt, revised edn. (Oxford 2007) Oxford University Press

Egyptology Today, ed. R. H. Wilkinson (Cambridge 2008) CambridgeUniversity Press

T. Harrison (ed.), Greeks And Barbarians (Edinburgh 2002) Edinburgh University Press

B. J. Kemp, Ancient Egypt, Anatomy of a Civilization, 2nd edn (London, New York 2006) Routledge

I. Morris and B. B. Powell, The Greeks; History, Culture and Society (New York 2009) Pearson Prentice Hall

W. H. Stiebing Jr., Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture, 2nd edn. (New York 2009) Longman Pearson

K. Szpakowska, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Recreating Lahun (Malden, Oxford, Carlton 2008), Blackwell

T. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Family. Kinship and Social Structure. London/New York: Routledge, 2012.