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16. Describe the conquest of Spain.

22 118, 119. The condition of Rome after the foreign wars.

120, 121. 18. The policy and death of Tiberius Gracchus.

122, 123. 19. Of Scipio Æmilianus. Of Caius Gracchus. .

124-127. 50. The Jugurthine Wars.

128-132. V 51. Tell the history of Marius. ·

130-138, 139–141. 52. Describe the Roman slave.code, and its effects in Sicily.

137. 53. The dictatorship of Sulla.

142-145. 54. The rebellion of Sertorius.

146, 117 55. The War of the Gladiators.

148-150. 56. Relate the history of Pompey.

151-153, 155, 166–170. 57. Describe the conspiracy of Catiline.

151. 58. Relate the history and designs of Cæsar.

156-177. 59. of the second triumvirate.

177-180. 60. Describe the three decisive battles of Pharsalia, Philippi, and Actium.

169, 179, 180. 01. The city and empire of Rome under Augustus.

181, 182, 185. 62. The Roman operations in Germany.

183, 181. 63. The reign of Tiberius.

186-188. 61. Caligula. .

189. 65. Claudius.

190. Nero.

191-194. 67. How many emperors during A. D. 69?

195, 196, 68. Describe the reigns of Vespasian and his two sous.

197-199. 69. The five good em perors.

200-206. 70. The reign of the pretorians.

207. 71. The history of Severus and his sons.

208, 209. 72.

The contrasted characters of the two grandsons of Julia
Mæsa.

210-212. 73. How many emperors in A. D. 238 ?

213, 214. 74. Describe the reigns of Philip and Decius.

215, 216. 75. The condition of Rome under Gallus.

217, 76. What foreign invaders under Valerian ?

217. 77. Describe the reign of the Thirty Tyrants.

217. 78. What able rulers delayed the fall of the empire?

218, 219. 79. Describe the reigns of Carus and his sons.

220. 80.

The new arrangement of the empire under Diocletian and
his colleagues.

221-227. 81. The revolt of Carausius.

223. 82.

The changes in the empire, from Diocletian's abdication to
the sole reign of Constantine.

227-230. 83.

The reorganization of the Roman world by Constantine. 230. 81. What change of religion marked this reign ? 85. What foreign nations obtained settlements within Roman boundaries?

232, 86. Tell the history of the sons of Constantine.

231, 87. Describe the character and career of Julian.

235, 236. 88. Who succeeded Jovian ?

237. 89. Describe the reign of Valentinian. Or Valens.

238, 239. 90. The reign of Gratian and his brother.

240, 241, 91. The character and reign of Theodosius the Great.

241, 212. 92. What was the comparative duration of the Eastern and Western empires?

213. 93. What barbarians invaded Italy during the reign of Honorius? . 243-246.

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94. Tell the history of Placidia. .

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The extent of the Western empire under Valentinian III. 247. 96. Describe the career of Alaric, and the battle of Chalons.

245, 319 97.

The successive captures of Rome by Goths and Vandals. 245, 249 98. How many sovereigns appointed by Count Ricimer?

250, 351, 99. How many by the court at Constantinople.

251. 100. Who was the last Roman emperor of the West ? 101. How many centuries had Rome existed from its foundation ?

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LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED.

The following works are recommended to the student who desires a

more

complete account of the nations of antiquity.

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Rawlinson's History of the Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern

World.
Wilkinson's Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians.
Heeren's Researches into the Politics, Commerce, etc., of the Ancient World.
Niebuhr's Lectures on Ancient History.
Layard's Nineveh.
Milman's History of the Jews.
Stanley's History of the Jewish Church.
Josephus's Jewish Antiquities.
Herodotus. (Rawlinson's translation, with illustrative essays, is incomparably

the best.)
Xenophon's Cyropædia, Anabasis, and Memorabilia.
Grote's History of Greece.
Curtius's History of Greece.
Dr. Wm. Smith's History of Greece, in a single volume.
Bulwer's Athens: its Rise and Fall.
St. John's The Hellenes: the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece.
Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World.
Niebuhr's History of Rome.
Arnold's History of Rome.
Mommsen's History of Rome.
Forsyth's Life of Cicero.
Selections from Cicero's Orations.
Cæsar's Commentaries.
Life of Cresar, by Napoleon III.
Merivale's History of the Romans under the Empire.
Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED.

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Among Stories, Poems, and Dramas illustrative of Ancient History, the follow

ing are recommended - the first three especially to the youngest readers.

Kingsley's “Heroes."
Hawthorne's “Wonder-book" and “ Tanglewood Tales.”
Mrs. Child's “ Philothea."
Becker's “Charicles” and “Gallus."
Macaulay's “ Lays of Ancient Rome.”
Ware's “Zenobia,” “Julian," and “Probus."
Mrs. Charles's “Victory of the Vanquished.”
Kingsley's “Hypatia.”
Shakespeare's “Coriolanus," "Julius Cæsar," and “ Antony and Cle wpatra."

Among collections of Engravings, the following should especially be sought.

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Description of Egypt," made by the Commission of savans who accompanied

the French army in 1798. Commonly called “Napoleon's Egypt." 9 vols.

Text, and 14 folio vols. Plates.
Fergusson's “Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored.”
Fergusson's “Illustrated Handbook of Architecture.”
Botta's Monuments of Nineveh."
Layard's “ Monuments of Nineveh.”
Penrose's * Athenian Architecture.".
Stuart's Antiquities of Athens,”
Canina's - Edifices of Ancient Rome.'

INDEX.

A
Æqui, 263-265, 277.

Alexan'der of Phe'ræ, 193, 194.
Es'chines, 197.

Severus, 340, 341.
Aahmes, Nefru-ari, 35.
Æschylus, 141.

Alexan'dra,239.
Aa'ron, 40.
Aetius, 338, 339.

Alexandri'a in Egypt, 53, 2014,
Abed'nego, 22.

Æto'lia, Eto'lians, 106, 226, 227, 216, 217, 336, 312, 316.
Abi'jam, 42.

293.

Alexandria on the Jaxartes,
Abousir', 52.

Africa, 48-70, 332, 333, 341, 342, 2011.
Abraham, 31.

346, 348, 353, 357, 358.

Allec'tus, 316.
Absalom, 38.
Agamem'non, 109.

Allia, 270.
Aby'dus in Egypt, 53, 57.
Age'nor, 110.

Alps, 245, 283, 302, 316.
in Mysia, 88, 89, 177. Agesila'us, 184-187, 190-195. Alti'num, 359.
Academia, 150, 180.
Algis, 165, 166, 169, 173.

Alyat'tes, 23.
Acan't hus, 188.
Ag'ni, 81.

Am'alekites, 37.
Ac'arna'nia, 106, 161.
Agric'ola, 331.

Ama'sis, 25, 60, 133.
Ac'cad, 17.

Agrigen'tım, 67, 133, 284. Amazi'ah, 42.
Acer'bas, 66.
Agrip'pa, 241, 325,

Ambra'cia, 161.
Achæmenes, 73.

Agʻrippi'na, wife of Germani. ' Ambro'sins, 355.
brother of Xerxes, 88.
cus, 328, 330,

Ameneph'thes, 57.
son of Xerxes, 93.

Agʻrippi'na, wife of Claudius, Amenophe’um, 56.
Achæ'us, 211.

331.

Ammenemes III., 51.
Acha'ia, Acha'ians, 106, 115, 131, Ahab, 32, 40, 42.

Am'monites, 35-37.
161, 227, 229.
Ahasuerus, 83.

Am'on, 43.
Achelo'us, 106.
A’baz, 43.

Amo'sis, 55, 62.
Acropolis, 131, 140, 158.
Ahazi'ah, 42.

Ampbipolis, 165, 196, 201,
Actium, 105, 325.
Ahriman', 82.

Amulius, 219.
Adherbal, 299, 300.

Ahu'ro Maz'dao, (Ormazd), 81, Am'un, 58, 60, 63, 64, 77, 204.
Adiabe'ne, 339.

82.

Am'unoph III., 56.
Adiman'tus, 140.
Aix, 298, 302.

Amy'clæ, 118, 121.
Adolphus, 357.
Alani, 336.

Amyn’tas, 188, 193.
Adoni'jah, 38.
Al'aric, 356, 357.

I., 2012
Ege'an, 10, 105, 107, 109, 147, 148, Alba Longa, 250.

Amyrt'us, 93.
175, 179, 348.
Albi'nus, 338.

Amy'tis, 93.
Egid'ius, 360.
| Alcæ'us, 131.

Anacreon, 131.
Egi'na, 91, 107, 137, 138, 155. | Alcibi'ades, 165-172, 175–178, 269. Anactoria, ?61.
E'gos-Pot'ami, 179.
Alci'das, 165.

Ana'pus, 172.
E'lia Capitoli'na, 336.
Alemæon'ids, 129, 136.

Anatolia, 14, 29.
Æmilia'nus, emperor, 342. Aleman'ni, 342, 346, 348, 351-353. Anaxag'oras, 152.
Æmilius, 258.
Ale'ría, 284.

A'nio, 249.
L. Paulus, 289.

Alexander Balas, 213, 214, 220. An'nius, 308.
L. Paulus, son of the

of Epirus, 276.

Antal'cidas, 97, 167, 193.
preceding, 228.

Jannæus, 239.

Anthemius, 360.
Ene'as, 249.

1. of Macedon, 142. Antig'onus, 207, 208.
Ænia'nia, 106.

the Great, 16, 99-102, 202- Doson, 225, 220.
Æo'lia, Æo'lians, 108, 115, 131.

206, 217.

Gonatas, 224, 225.

1

Antig'onus, King of the Jews, A'res, 111, 138.

Asia Minor, 14, 20, 29, 74, 203,
239.
Argilius, 148.

208, 212, 218, 233, 306, 342, 343.
An'tioch, 210, 336, 340, 330. Ar'golis, 106.

As'kalon, 41, 60.
Anti'ochus I., Soter, 210, 224, Argos, 97, 108, 118, 121, 123, 138, Aspami'tres, 92.
230,
161, 169, 192.

Assarana'dius, 20.
II., Theo8, 211.

Ariara'thes IV., V., VI., 231. As'shur-ba'ni-pal, 20, 21, 39.
III., the Great, 211-213, | Ariobarza'nes I., 231.

As'shur-da'nin-il II., 19.
237, 293.
Ariovis'tus, 313.

As'shur-emid-ilin, 21.
IV., Epiph'anes, 213, 238. Aristagʻoras, Sh.

As'shur-likh-khus, 19.
V., Eu'pator, 213.
Aristar'chus, 217.

Asshur-nazir-pal I., 19, 40.
VI., 214.
Aristi'des, 86, 136.

Assyr'ia, 15, 21, 23-25, 41, 59, 336.
VII., Side'tes, 214.

Aristobu'lus, son of Hyrcanus, Astar'te, Ashtaroth, 32, 44.
VIII., Grypus, 214, 215. 239, 313,

Asty'ages, 24, 73-75.
IX., Cyzicenus, 214. Aristobu'lus, brother-in-law of Athali'ah, 42.
X., Eusebes, 215.
Herod, 240.

Athena, 111, 112, 128, 136.
XI., 213.

Aristode'mus, the Heraclid, 114, Athens, Athenians, 84-86, 91-98,
XII., 215.
115.

108, 122, 129–197, 222, 336, 342.
XIII., Asiaticus, 215. Aristode'mus, of Messenia, 122. Athos, 85, 89.
Hierax, 211, 230.

of Sparta, 144.

Ath'ribis, 63.
Antipater, Regent of Macedo. Aristogi'ton, 129.

Atlan'tic, 31, 69, 315.
nia, 207, 222.
Aristom'enes, 122, 151.

Atlas, 48.
Antipater, King of Macedonia, 'Aristoni'cus, 231.

Attali'a, 231.
223, 224.
Aristoph'anes, 217.

Attalus, 357.
Antipater, the Idumean, 239. Aristot'le, 202.

I., 227, 230.
Antiph'ilus, 217.
Arius, Arians, 349, 354.

II., Philadelphus, 231.
Antoni'nus, M. Aurelius, 336, Armenia, Armenians, 14, 19,

III., Philometor, 231.
337.

20, 232, 234, 235, 332, 336, 342, At'tica, 86, 91, 92, 106, 121-133.
T. Aurelius, 336, 337. 345, 350,

Attila, 35, 359.
Anto'nius, 312.

Armin'ius, Herman, 327, 328. Aty'adæ, 29.
Marcus, 221, 317, 323, 32). Arsa'ces II., 211.

Augus'tulus, Romulus Augus.
Lucius, 324.

III., 212.

tus, 361.
A pame'a, 210.

VI., 236.

Augus'tus, 326-323, 332.
Apel'les, 217.
Arsac'idæ, 236.

Augustus, title, 326, 340, 316, 317.
Ip'ennines, 245-247, 288.
Ar'ses, 98, 99.

Aurelian, 343.
Aphrodi'te, 111, 170.

Arsin'oe, Crocododilopolis, 63. Aure'olus, 313.
A'pis, 63, 77.

port on the Red Sea, 218. Auso'nians, 277.
Apollo, 91, , 114, 134.

sister of Ptolemy II., Autro'nius, 312.
Apollo'nia, 188, 226.

218.

Avi'tus, 360.
Apollo'nius, 217.

sister of Ptolemy IV., Azari'ah, 42.
Apries, 43, 60.

219.
Apu'lia, Apulians, 247, 278, 304. Arre'tium, 279, 288.

B
Aquæ Sextiæ (Aix) 297.

Arsi'tes, 99.
Aquile'ia, 350, 351, 359, 359. Artaba'nus, 92.

Ba'al, 32, 40, 42.
Ara'bia, Arabians, 15, 19, 20, 42, 'Artabaza'nes, 88.

Ba'asha, 40, 42.
51, 56.
Artaba'zus, 98, 196.

Ba'bel, 17.
Ar'adus, 30.

Artapher'nes, satrap, 85. Babylon, Babylo'nia, Babylo.
Arama'ti, 81.

nephew of Darius, 85, 134. nians, 10, 15-29, 31, 32, 35, 43,
Ararat, 14, 29.

Artaxerx'es I., Longim'anus, 43, 56, 74, 77, 88, 93, 204, 205,
Arbela, 100, 101, 204.

82, 92-94.

209, 213.
Arbogas'tes, 354.

II., Mnemon, 96-98, 187, Bac'tra Balkh), 13.
Arca'dia, Arcadians, 106, 121–

193.

Bac'tria, 13, 204, 211, 235.
123, 192-194.

III., Ochus, 98.

Bago'as, 98.
Arca'dius, 35).

founder of the Sassani. ' Baltic, 69.
Ar'chela'us I. of Macedon, 201.

dæ, 310.

Bar'ca, 50, 76.
of Cappadocia, 231. Artax'ias, 235.

Bar'des, 78, 87.
son of Herod, 211.
Artemis, 11, 134, 173, 202.

Barsi'ne, 205.
Archias, 189.
A'sa, 40, 42, 58.

Bas'ilis'cus, 360.
Archida'mus, 151, 161-163. As'culum, 281.

Bata'vians, 334.
Archimedes, 289.
Asia, 13-17, 48, 298.

Behistun', 87.

Livres