A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume I Ancient

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference. The relevant original and secondary sources are also listed in a comprehensive bibliography. Providing a clear reference guide for students, to who was who and when they ruled in the dynasties and other ruler-lists for the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern worlds - primarily European and Middle Eastern but including available information on Africa and Asia and the pre-Columbian Americas. The trilogy accesses and interprets the original data plus any modern controversies and disputes over names and dating, reflecting on the shifts and widening of focus in student and academic studies. Each volume contains league tables of rulers' 'records', and an extensive bibliographical guide to the relevant personnel and dynasties, plus any controversies, so readers can consult these for extra details and know exactly where to go for which information. All relevant information is collected and provided as a one-stop-shop for students wishing to check the known information about a world Sovereign. The Ancient volume begins with the Pharaohs in Egypt and moves through Greece, Classical and Early Medieval Armenia, Crimea, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Judah, Persia, India and ends with the Roman World in the east and west. A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume I Ancient provides students and scholars with the perfect reference guide to support their studies and to fact check dates, people, and places.

Timothy Venning is an independent scholar and researcher and formerly worked on the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography. His previous books include A Chronology of the Crusades (2015), A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe (2017), A Chronology of Medieval British History, 1066-1307 (2020), and A Chronology of Medieval British History, 1307-1485 (2020).

Egypt - Pharoahs P. 1. Old Kingdom; Middl Kingdom; New Kingdom. Hittites P. 43. Akkad Babylonia p. 47. Lydia. P. 69. Assyria Later Babylon: C6th BC. Greece - Dual Kingship of Sparta Early Athens Early Thebes Early Argos Early Mycenae Early Pylos and Ithaca Early Iolcos and Thessaly Legendary Troy Greek 'Tyrannies': Sicyon, Athens, Samos and Ionia Sicily: : Rulers of Gela, Syracuse. Kings (and queens) of Macedon and rulers of its empire: Temenids, House of Antipater, and Antigonids Epirus Seleucid Kingdom Ptolemaic Kingdom Pergamum ; Pontus ; Cappadocia ; Bithynia ; Galatia ; Commagene . Thrace Classical and Early Mediaeval Armenia Bosporan Kingdom (Crimea) Abgarid Dynasty of Edessa (NE Syria) Nabatea (Jordan) Southern Arabia: Saba and Himyar. Israel and Judah to 586 BC Maccabean Dynasty of Israel Dynasty of Herod Achaemenid Persia Parthian Kingdom (to AD 224/6) (Indo-Parthian sub-kingdom.) Sassanian Persia (to AD 637/651) Hellenistic Greek Bactria and India Indian Sovereigns: Mauryas and Guptas Sri Lanka: Anuradhapura. China: Early Dynasties to c. 220 BC: legendary emperors; Shang; Zhou, Chu, xi/Ch'i; early Qin; Yen/Yan; Lu; Song; Yu/ Yuyue. Emperors: Qin; Han. Period of division c. AD 220 to 580 The Three Kingdoms: Wei, Wu, Shu Han. Jin; early Song; Southern Qi; Southern Liang; Western Laing; Southern Zhen; Early Yen; Early and Later Qin; Northern, Eastern and Western Wei; Northern Zhou; Northern Qi. Earlier and Later Liang; Western, Later and Southern Yen Sui. Korea: Silla and Goguryeo. Japan. THE ROMAN WORLD Legendary Kings of Rome Roman Emperors (and empresses) to AD 395 Western Roman Emperors (and empresses) (to AD 476) Eastern Roman Emperors (and empresses) (to AD 491) NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE AND POST-ROMAN WORLD. Britain: Pre-Roman tribal states Ireland: High Kings to the C6th AD Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse to AD 507 Vandal Kingdom of Africa Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy Popes to the early 7th AD