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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... Phœnician merchants, for its most peculiar product, silk. The extreme reserve of the Chinese in their dealings with foreigners, may already be observed in the account given by Herodotus of their trade with the neighboring Scythians. The ...
... Phœnician towns. He built a great palace at Ca ́lah, which he made his capital. His son, Shalmane ́ser II, continued his father's conquests, and made war in Lower Syria against Benha ́dad, Haza ́el, and A ́hab. 30. B. C. 810-781. I ́va ...
... Phœnician cities, and extorted tribute from most of the kings in Syria. He gained a great battle at El ́tekeh, in Palestine, against the kings of Egypt and Ethiopia, and captured all the “fenced cities of Judah.” (2 Kings xviii: 13.) In ...
... Phœnician vessels wove a web of peaceful intercourse between the nations of Asia, Africa, and Europe. 61. Sidon was probably the most ancient, and until B. C. 1050, the most flourishing, of all the Phœnician communities. About that year ...
... Phœnician ships. The seat of their worship was at Berytus. 70. The Phœnicians were less idolatrous than the Egyptians, Greeks, or Romans; for their temples contained either no visible image of their deities, or only a rude symbol like ...
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 | |