A Manual of Ancient History (Illustrations)Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., 2000 - 275 pages Several causes have lately augmented both the means and the motives for a more thorough study of History. Modern criticism, no longer accepting primitive traditions, venal eulogiums, partisan pamphlets, and highly wrought romances as equal and trustworthy evidence, merely because of their age, is teaching us to sift the testimony of ancient authors, to ascertain the sources and relative value of their information, and to discern those special aims which may determine the light in which their works should be viewed. The geographical surveys of recent travelers have thrown a flood of new light upon ancient events; and, above all, the inscriptions discovered and deciphered within half a century, have set before us the great actors of old times, speaking in their own persons from the walls of palaces and tombs. |
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... Cyrus to the Fall of Darius. Career of Cyrus. 73. Reign of Cambyses. 76. Organization of the Empire by Darius I. 79. Invasions of Europe under Darius. 83. The Behistûn Inscription. 87. Invasion of Greece by Xerxes. 88. Reign of ...
... , from the accession of Cyrus the Great to the death of Darius Codomannus, B. C. 558-330. III. History of the States and Colonies of Greece, from A MANUAL OF Ancient History.: INTRODUCTION. SOURCES AND DIVISIONS OF HISTORY.
... Cyrus to the Caspian Sea. Colchis lay east of the Euxine, upon one of the great highways of ancient traffic. It was celebrated, in very early times, for its trade in linen. Media was a mountainous region, extending from the Araxes to ...
... Cyrus, Book II. Known Kings of Media. Phraortes died B. C. 633. Cyaxares reigned ” 633-593. Astyages ” ” 593-558. NOTE.—It is impossible to reconcile the chronology of the reign of Cyaxares with all the ancient accounts. If the Scythian ...
... Cyrus he resolved to risk one battle; but in this he was defeated, and compelled to take refuge in Bor ́sippa. His son Belshazzar, being left in Babylon, indulged in a false assurance of safety. Cyrus, by diverting the course of the ...
Table des matières
BOOK III Grecian States and Colonies from their Earliest Period to the Accession of Alexander the Great | |
BOOK IV History of the Macedonian Empire and the Kingdoms formed from it until their Conquest by the Romans | |
BOOK V History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire A D 476 | |
LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED | |
FOOTNOTES | |
INDEX | |