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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... siege of Jerusalem. He reigned but four years, and was succeeded by his son, La ́borosoar ́chod. The young king was murdered, after B.C.555-538. only nine months' reign, by Nabona ́dius, who became the last king of Babylon. The usurper ...
... siege, Tyre was subdued and all Phœnicia conquered. From visions interpreted by Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar learned the future rise and fall of Asiatic empires. He constructed the Hanging Gardens, the walls of Babylon, and many other public ...
... siege of thirteen years. When at length she was compelled to submit, the conqueror found no plunder to reward the extreme severity of his labors, for the inhabitants had secretly removed their treasures to an island half a mile distant ...
... siege to the revolted city. In the second year it was taken and destroyed; the king and the whole nation, with the treasures of the temple and palace, were conveyed to Babylon, and the history of the Jews ceased for seventy years. KINGS ...
... siege was short, and at its termination all Egypt submitted to Cambyses, who assumed the full dignity of the Pharaohs as “Lord of the Upper and Lower Countries.” The neighboring Libyans and the two Greek cities, Cyre ́ne and Barca, also ...
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 | |