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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... Sicilian Expedition. 169. Decline of Athens. 175. Battle of Ægos-Potami, and Fall of Athens. 179. Spartan Supremacy. The Thirty Tyrants. 181. The Corinthian War. 184. Peace of Antalcidas. 187. Theban Supremacy. 188. Theban Invasions of ...
... Sicily. The Social War. Exile and Seventh Consulship of Marius. Dictatorship of Sulla. Sertorius in Spain. War of the Gladiators. Extraordinary Power of Pompey. Conspiracy of Catiline. Triumvirate of Pompey, Cæsar, and Crassus ...
... Sicily was already dotted with Phœnician trading stations. These came under the control of Carthage; and though out-rivaled in prosperity by the free cities of the Greeks, especially Agrigen ́tum and Syr ́acuse, the western portion of ...
... Sicily and Corsica, and built Massil ́ia near the mouth of the Rhone. Near the close of our First Period, the two powers came into fierce collision, and the Grecian fleet was destroyed by that of Carthage, aided by her Etruscan allies ...
... Sicilian Greeks, from the disastrous defeat of Hamilcar at Him ́era, B. C. 480, to the peace of B. C. 304, we have no space for the details. The final period of Carthaginian history, comprising the Roman wars and the destruction 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 | |