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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... Death of Alexander the Great. 201. SECOND PERIOD. From the Death of Alexander to the Battle of Ipsus. 206. THIRD PERIOD. History of the Several Kingdoms into which Alexander's Empire was Divided. 209. Syrian Kingdom of the Seleucidæ ...
... death, Cyaxares renewed the war with Assyria. He was called off to resist a most formidable incursion of barbarians from the north of the Caucasus. These Scythians became masters of Western Asia, and their insolent dominion is said to ...
... death. The vanity of Crœsus could no longer abstain from a direct effort to extort a compliment. He asked if Solon did not consider him a happy man. The philosopher gravely replied that, such were the vicissitudes of life, no man, in ...
... death a long interval usually occurred, during which “every man did that which was right in his own eyes,” until a new invasion by Philis ́tines, Ammonites, or Zidonians called for a new leader. The chronology of this period is very ...
... death of Ishbosheth, when he became ruler of the whole nation. JERUSALEM. 86. He conquered Jerusalem from the Jeb ... death in battle, the other by the sentence of Solomon after his father's death. 90. Solomon, 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 | |