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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... Italian League. War with Pyrrhus, King of Epirus. Colonies and Roads. THIRD PERIOD. Foreign Wars. First Punic War. War with the Gauls. Second Punic War, and Invasion of Italy by Hannibal. Battles of the Trebia, Lake Thrasymene, Cannæ ...
... the Macedonians. V. Italy, with the Eleven Regions of Augustus. VI. The Roman Empire. ” ” ” ” ” facing 17. 321.323. 324. 325. 326. 356. 97. 113. 209. 257. 305. INTRODUCTION. SOURCES AND DIVISIONS OF HISTORY. 1. The former inhabitants.
... Italy. By successive migrations they overspread all Europe. 6. Our First Book treats of the Hamitic and Semitic empires. With the rise of the Medo-Persian monarchy, the Aryan race came upon the scene, and it has ever since occupied the ...
... Italy. It is said that the Carthaginians mingled these various nations in their armies in such a manner that difference of language might prevent their plotting together. 195. The navy of Carthage was of great importance in protecting ...
... Italians, made a treaty of alliance with the new Republic which was to prove their most unrelenting foe. 197. The government of Carthage, under the forms of a republic, was really an aristocracy of wealth. The two chief officers were ...
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 | |