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The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Theodor Mommsen

The Expositor's Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther

The Expositor's Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther

Walter F. Adeney

The Sea-Kings of Crete

The Sea-Kings of Crete

James Baikie

The Sea‑Kings of Crete is a scholarly survey that blends mythic narrative with the latest archaeological…

Cover of Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History
 Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,'

Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,'

James George Frazer

The work is a series of concise sketches drawn from James George Frazer’s commentary on Pausanias’s…

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The Bronze Age and the Celtic World

Harold Peake

Harold Peake’s The Bronze Age and the Celtic World is a scholarly study first presented as a six‑lecture…

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A century of excavation in the land of the Pharaohs

James Baikie

The work is a scholarly survey of a century and a quarter of archaeological activity in Egypt, written by…

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Hellenistic sculpture

Guy Dickins

Guy Dickins’s Hellenistic Sculpture is a scholarly survey that began as a series of unfinished chapters,…

Cover of A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fâ-hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fâ-hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

Faxian

This work is a scholarly edition of the 5th‑century Chinese pilgrim’s own account of his journeys through…

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Expositor's Bible: The Book of Jeremiah, Chapters XXI.-LII.

W. H. Bennett

The Expositor’s Bible on Jeremiah, authored by William Henry Bennett, is a scholarly supplement that picks up…

The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers

The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers

Pindar

The Extant Odes of Pindar presents the surviving triumphal poems of the 5th‑century BCE Theban lyricist,…

The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls

The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls

Plutarch

The work is a juvenile‑styled selection from Plutarch’s “Lives,” trimmed for a younger audience and paired…

The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West

The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West

Anderson, Robert E. (Robert Edward), M.A., F.A.S.

The work is a scholarly survey of how ancient and medieval peoples imagined a western continent that lay…

Cover of The Religious Thought of the Greeks, from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity

The Religious Thought of the Greeks, from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity

Clifford Herschel Moore

Clifford Herschel Moore’s work is a scholarly survey that traces the evolution of Greek religious ideas from…

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竹書紀年

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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5: Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5: Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

George Rawlinson

The work is a scholarly survey of the Persian portion of the great fifth monarchy, the empire that stretched…

Germania and Agricola

Germania and Agricola

Cornelius Tacitus

Germania and Agricola presents the two surviving historical treatises of the Roman senator‑historian Tacitus,…

Volcanoes: Past and Present

Volcanoes: Past and Present

Edward Hull

The book is a comprehensive scientific survey of volcanoes, written by Edward Hull, a geologist whose aim is…

Ancient Art and Ritual

Ancient Art and Ritual

Jane Ellen Harrison

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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 04: Greece to the Roman Conquest

Cover of The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks

The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks

Frank Pierrepont Graves

Cover of The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; Part 2

The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; Part 2

Pedro de Cieza de León

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6)

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6)

Max Duncker

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 Being a Translation of the Periplus Maris Erythræi, by an Anonymous Writer, and of Arrian's Account of the Voyage of Nearkhos, from the Mouth of the Indus to the Head of the Persian Gulf

The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythræan Sea Being a Translation of the Periplus Maris Erythræi, by an Anonymous Writer, and of Arrian's Account of the Voyage of Nearkhos, from the Mouth of the Indus to the Head of the Persian Gulf

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Architecture: Classic and Early Christian

Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger); Slater, John