History - Ancient

Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 1 of 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This volume presents the first third of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s correspondence with his close friend Titus…

History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 2 (of 4)

W. S. Lindsay

The work is a sprawling historical survey of English merchant shipping and its commercial context from the…

A critical history of Greek philosophy

W. T. Stace

The work is a scholarly survey that presents Greek philosophy as a living, progressive discipline rather than…

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 02: Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, Minor Nations of Western Asia

This volume of The Historians’ History of the World is a scholarly compendium that treats Israel, India,…

Seekers after God

F. W. Farrar

The work is a scholarly biography of the Roman philosopher‑statesman Seneca, written by F. W. Farrar.

Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art

Henry Fairfield Osborn

The work is a scholarly survey of Europe’s Paleolithic record, written by Henry Fairfield Osborn, a noted…

Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 2 (of 3)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This volume is the second of Hegel’s three‑part “Lectures on the History of Philosophy,” in which the German…

Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

Lewis Spence

Lewis Spence’s Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt is a scholarly yet popular‑style survey that treats…

Memorials of Old Dorset

The volume is a scholarly survey of Dorset’s antiquities and history, assembled after the untimely death of…

C. Iuli Caesaris De Bello Gallico, I-IV

Julius Caesar

Cicero Caesar Iulius in hoc volumine, C. Iuli Caesaris De Bello Gallico I‑IV, exordium suum ponit in media…

History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6)

Heinrich Graetz

Tiberius the Tyrant

John Charles Tarver

John Charles Tarver’s work is a scholarly survey of the early imperial period, concentrating on the reign of…

A History of Germany from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Bayard Taylor

Taylor Bayard Taylor’s History of Germany is a sweeping scholarly chronicle that traces the Germanic peoples…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

Edward Gibbon

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

The Modes of Ancient Greek Music

D. B. Monro

The work is a scholarly essay by D. B. Monro that expands a previously published article on Greek music for…

The Formation of Christendom, Volume II

T. W. Allies

The work is a scholarly continuation of Thomas William Allies’ ambitious survey of Christianity’s rise,…

A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume 1 (of 2)

A. H. Smith

This volume is a scholarly catalogue of the marble sculpture held by the Department of Greek and Roman…

Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition

Charles Bucke

The work is a scholarly survey of vanished Greek metropolises, presented as a series of detailed field…

Ancient and modern engineering and the Isthmian canal

William H. Burr

The work is a scholarly compilation of six lectures delivered by William H.

Celtic Scotland: A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture

W. F. Skene

William Forbes Skene’s second volume of Celtic Scotland is a scholarly survey of the early Celtic Church and…

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Zhitui Yan

The Defeat of Varus and the German Frontier Policy of Augustus

Oldfather, W. A. (William Abbott); Canter, H. V.

The work is a scholarly monograph that revisits the long‑standing historiography of the Varus disaster and…

The archæology of Rome, Part 8: The aqueducts

John Henry Parker

The work is a scholarly survey of Rome’s water‑supply system, focusing on the aqueducts as essential to any…

History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It With a Chronological Table of Local Events

John Ackerson Erredge

History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It is a nineteenth‑century antiquarian…