Antiquity
The Making of a Nation
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Charles Foster Kent
Charles Foster Kent was one of the premier scholars in Jewish Studies at the turn of the century. He was particularly well-known for his co…
The Catiline Conspiracy
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Gaius
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". …
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh
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E. A. Wallis Budge
A short monograph devoted to the Babylonian flood myth and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version), dating from the 7th century …
A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aureli…
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John Bagnell Bury
The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the …
Laws
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Plato
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…
The World’s Famous Orations
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William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey, Various,William Jennings Bryan and Various, William Jennings Bryan
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations …
Hellenic History
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George Willis Botsford
"The purpose of this volume is to present in brief scope the evolution of Greek civilization a culture simple in its essential unity, a…
Egyptian Tales
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William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson
The History of Britain
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John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
Roman History
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William Wolfe Capes
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …
Theodoric the Goth
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Thomas Hodgkin
Theodoric the Great (~454-526) was king of the Ostrogoths during the time of the terminal decline of the Western Roman Empire. After wanderi…
The History of Rome
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Titus Livius
The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…
Xerxes
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Jacob Abbott
This history covers the years of Xerxes' years as ruler of the Persian empire and invasion of Greece. - Summary by Deon Gines
The World's Famous Orations
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Various,William Jennings Bryan and Various, William Jennings Bryan
This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Franci…
1001 Questions and Answers on General History
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Benjamin Hathaway
A book for students of history to test their knowledge and to direct their studies. As the title tells us, this is a book of 1001 questions,…
Ancient Achievements
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John Lord
The third book in the Beacon Lights of History series, Lord discusses achievements such as the formation of laws, the development of the fin…
Early Rome, from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction
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Wilhelm Ihne
In this short scholarly work the German historian, Wilhelm Ihne, elucidates what is known or can be deduced about Rome's early history, from…
The Roman Empire of the Second Century
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William Wolfe Capes
This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens as the murderers of Domitian raise to power the wise old senator, Nerva. Ignori…
The Jesus of History
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Terrot R. Glover
A collection of a series of lectures delivered while Glover was in India setting the life of Jesus into its historical context and seeing wh…