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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... Conquest of the Peloponnesus to the Persian Wars. 116. Sparta. 118. Athens. 124. Grecian Colonies. 130. THIRD PERIOD. From the Beginning of the Persian Wars to the Macedonian Supremacy. 134. Invasions by Mardonius and Datis. 134. The ...
... conquest by the Romans. V. History of Rome from its foundation to the fall of the Western Empire, A. D. 476. 9. In the study of events, the two circumstances of time and place constantly demand our attention. Accordingly, CHRONOLOGY and ...
... Conquest of Babylon, about 1250 B.C. II. From Conquest of Babylon to Accession of Tiglath-pileser II, 745 B. C. III. From Accession of Tiglath-pileser to Fall of Nineveh, 625 B. C. One king of the FIRST PERIOD, Shalmaneser I, is known ...
... conquest by Sargon,[8] in 710. They had some importance, however, in the earliest times after the Deluge, for Berosus tells us that a Median dynasty governed Babylon during that period. The country was doubtless divided among petty ...
... conquest, began to be visited by dreams, in one of which the series of great empires which were yet to arise in the east was distinctly foreshadowed. Of all the wise men of the court, Daniel alone was enabled to interpret the vision ...
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 | |