The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History is a multi-volume work of ancient history from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press. The first series, consisting of 12 volumes, was planned in 1919 by Irish historian J. B. Bury and published between 1924 and 1939, co-edited by Frank Adcock and Stanley Arthur Cook. The second series was published between 1970 and 2005, consisting of 14 volumes in 19 books.

The Cambridge Ancient History is part of a larger series of works, along with The Cambridge Medieval History and The Cambridge Modern History, intended to cover the entire history of European civilisation. In the original edition, it was the last in this series to appear, the first volume of the Modern History having been published in 1902, and the first volume of the Medieval History in 1911. In the second series, however, the Ancient History began to be published before the Medieval History.

First series

 * 1) Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 B.C. (1923).
 * 2) The Egyptian and Hittite Empires to c. 1000 B.C. (1924).
 * 3) The Assyrian Empire. (1926).
 * 4) The Persian Empire and the West. (1926).
 * 5) Athens. 478–401 B.C. (1927).
 * 6) Macedon. 401–301 B.C. (1927).
 * 7) The Hellenistic Monarchies and the Rise of Rome. (1928).
 * 8) Rome and the Mediterranean. 218–133 B.C. (1930).
 * 9) The Roman Republic. 133–44 B.C. (1932).
 * 10) The Augustan Empire. 44 B.C.–A.C. 70. (1934).
 * 11) The Imperial Peace. A.D. 70–192. (1936).
 * 12) The Imperial Crisis and Recovery. A.D. 193–324. (1939).

Volumes published

 * I part I (1970): Prolegomena and Prehistory – edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, N.G.L. Hammond


 * I part II (1971): Early History of the Middle East – edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond


 * II part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1800-1380 – edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, L. Sollberger


 * II part II: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000
 * III part I: The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.
 * III part II: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C.
 * III part III: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C. – edited by John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond
 * IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean C. 525 to 479 B.C.
 * V: The Fifth Century B.C.
 * VI: The Fourth Century B.C.
 * VII part I: The Hellenistic World
 * VII part II: The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C.


 * VIII: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C.


 * IX: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C.


 * X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69


 * XI: The High Empire, A.D. 70-192
 * XII: The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193–337
 * XIII: The Late Empire, A.D. 337–425
 * XIV: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425–600