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NSW, HSC, Third Edition
Third Edition
This new edition features a full colour design with a variety of Ancient Societies, Personalities and Historical Periods drawing on a range of archaeological and written evidence. Chapters from Antiquity 3 have also been revised and included in this combined volume to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the HSC Ancient History course, now conveniently in one book.
Written and presented in an absorbing and accessible manner, Antiquity 2 Third Edition will enhance students’ experience of ancient civilisations and enable them to develop the skills needed for successful study of HSC Ancient History.
Title overview (PDF)
Part 1: Core Study
Chapter 1: Cities of Vesuvius—Pompeii and Herculaneum
HSC core study
Geographical context
The nature of sources and evidence
Investigating, reconstructing and preserving the past
Cities of Vesuvius: Past and future
Part 2: Ancient Societies
Chapter 2: Egypt: Society in New Kingdom Egypt to the Death of Amenhotep III
Early New Kingdom society
Geographical environment
Social structure and political organisation
The economy
Religion
Death and burial
Cultural life
Everyday life
Chapter 3: Greece: Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC
A warrior society
Geographical environment
Social structure and political organisation
Government
Structure of Spartan society
The economy
Cultural life
Everyday life
Part 3: Personalities in their Times
Chapter 4: Egypt: Hatshepsut
The female pharaoh
Background and rise to prominence
Career
Evaluation
Hatshepsut’s place in history
Chapter 5: Egypt: Akhenaten
Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt
Background and rise to prominence
Career
Evaluation
Chapter 6: The Near East: Xerxes
Xerxes’ inheritance
Background and rise to prominence
Career
Evaluation
Xerxes and tradition
Chapter 7: Rome: Agrippina the Younger
Agrippina in the Augustan world
Roman social and political structures
Role of imperial women
Background and rise to prominence
Career
Evaluation
Part 4: Historical Periods
Chapter 8: Egypt: New Kingdom Egypt from Amenhotep III to the Death of Ramesses I
Egypt’s golden age
Internal developments
Foreign relations
Change and continuity in the New Kingdom
Chapter 9: Greece: The Greek World 500–440 BC
Greece and Persia
Persian Wars
Development of Athens and the Athenian empire
Democratic developments in Athens
Athens and Sparta
Impact of empire
Chapter 10: Rome: The Augustan Age 44 BC–AD 14
Republic to principate
Establishment of the principate
The Augustan principate
Augustus and the empire
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Toni Hurley has over 30 years’ experience teaching history and is presently a tutor in the UTS Bachelor of Teaching program. She lectures at HSC study days and teacher conferences and has led a number of student/teacher study tours to Egypt and Greece.
Phillipa Medcalf has taught history for over 30 years and is presently Education Officer in the Museum of Ancient Cultures at Macquarie University. She has lectured in HSC study days and teacher conferences and has also tutored in history teaching method at Sydney and Macquarie universities.
Christine Murray is a Senior Ancient History Teacher at Asquith Girls High School. She has taught HSC and junior history for over 30 years and regularly lectures for students and teachers at conferences and HSC study days.
Jan Rolph is Head Teacher of History at William Clarke College and has over 30 years’ experience teaching HSC and junior history. She has lectured for teachers and students at HSC study days and teacher conferences.
For schools using the first print run of Antiquity 2 Third Edition, please refer to the following corrected pages:
Antiquity 2 Chapter 7 (word doc 96KB)
Antiquity 2 page 77 (pdf 4.4MB)
Antiquity 2 pages 344–345 (pdf 5.5MB)
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