History - Ancient

Pagan and Christian Rome

Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

The work is a scholarly survey of Roman religious practice, focusing on the material remains of pagan and…

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides, an Athenian chronicler, sets out to record the conflict that erupted between the Peloponnesian…

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)

Plutarch

Plutarch’s Lives III is a collection of biographical sketches that juxtaposes Greek and Roman figures,…

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

The Legacy of Greece is a scholarly collection of essays that treats the whole of Greek civilization as a…

Roman Public Life

A. H. J. Greenidge

Roman Public Life is a scholarly handbook that sets out to chart the evolution of Rome’s constitutional…

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The volume presents the complete surviving correspondence of Marcus Tullius Cicero, arranged strictly in…

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

James Augustus St. John’s three‑volume work on ancient Greece is a scholarly survey of the everyday life,…

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2, is a pre‑Linnaean geographic and ethnographic survey that begins with…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3

Edward Gibbon

The third volume of Edward Gibbon’s monumental History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire continues…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a monumental work of historical…

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

Plutarch

Plutarch’s Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans is a collection of paired biographies that pits the great…

Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima

A. Hilliard Atteridge

The work is a historical survey of naval warfare, concentrating on the great sea battles that shaped the…

Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

Apicius

Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome presents a scholarly edition of the surviving culinary material…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

Elbert Hubbard

The work is a biographical survey of great speakers, and it begins with a sweeping meditation on labor,…

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1, is a scholarly translation of the Roman encyclopaedist’s monumental…

The Age of Justinian and Theodora: A History of the Sixth Century A.D., Volume 1 (of 2)

William Gordon Holmes

The work is a scholarly survey of the sixth‑century Byzantine world, focusing on the reign of Emperor…

A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885

Cherágh Ali

This work is a scholarly apologetic treatise by Cherágh Ali, published in 1885, that sets out to demonstrate…

The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards

William Ridgeway

The work is a scholarly treatise that seeks to reconstruct the beginnings of metallic money and the systems…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03

The volume opens with a dramatic, polemical portrait of Paul the Apostle, casting his missionary zeal as a…

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient Greek social practices, specifically the customs surrounding…

The Story of the Greeks

H. A. Guerber

The Story of the Greeks is an elementary history textbook aimed at young pupils, and it begins by explaining…

Cités et ruines américaines: Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Ce volume est une étude exhaustive des cités et ruines majeures du Yucatán – Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal,…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a monumental, twelve‑volume…

The Life of Cicero, Volume II.

Anthony Trollope

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical study of Marcus Tullius Cicero, written by Anthony Trollope.