History - Ancient

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens

Ammianus Marcellinus

Ammianus Marcellinus’ History is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that picks up where Tacitus and…

The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Polybius

The work is a scholarly translation of the surviving books and fragments of Polybius, the ancient Greek…

Schools of Gaul in the last century of the Western Empire: A study of pagan and Christian education in the last century of the Western empire

T. J. Haarhoff

The work is a scholarly study of education in Gaul during the fourth and fifth centuries, examining the shift…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" Volume 12, Slice 5

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5, is a scholarly reference work that gathers a…

Darius the Great Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that treats the rise and reign of Darius I within a…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols

Inman, Thomas; Newton, John, M.R.C.S.E.

This work is a scholarly compendium that pairs finely engraved woodcuts with concise explanations of ancient…

Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory From Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions

Harold Bayley

Harold Bayley’s Archaic England is a scholarly essay that treats the ancient landscape of Britain as a puzzle…

Letters of Pliny

the Younger Pliny

The work is a collection of Latin letters by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known as Pliny the…

Y Gododin: A Poem of the Battle of Cattraeth

Aneirin

Y Gododin is a medieval Welsh poem attributed to the 6th‑century bard Aneirin, son of Caw, lord of the…

A classical dictionary containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

John Lemprière

Lemprière’s Classical Dictionary is a reference work that gathers every proper name found in the Greek and…

Primitive Time-reckoning A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

Martin P. Nilsson

Martin P. Nilsson’s Primitive Time‑reckoning is a scholarly study that seeks to trace the earliest forms of…

The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525

Arthur James Weise

Arthur J. Weise’s The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525 is a scholarly survey of early Atlantic…

The history of England, from the earliest times to the Norman Conquest

Thomas Hodgkin

Thomas Hodgkin’s first volume of a twelve‑part political history of England presents a scholarly overview…

Hannibal Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

The work is a scholarly juvenile history that treats the life and wars of Hannibal as a straight‑forward…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece

This volume is the first in a series that gathers representative passages of prose from the great writers of…

Au bord du lac L'Esclave, le Serf, le Chevrier de Lorraine, l'Apprenti

Émile Souvestre

Ce volume d’Émile Souvestre se présente comme un recueil de nouvelles courtes, chacune consacrée à une figure…

History of the Sabbath and first day of the week

John Nevins Andrews

John Nevins Andrews’ work is a scholarly treatise that sets out to trace the Sabbath from its biblical…

The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes

Strabo

The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) presents the first English translation of the ancient geographer’s…

The North Americans of Antiquity Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization considered

John T. Short

The North Americans of Antiquity is a scholarly survey of the earliest peoples of the United States, Mexico,…

The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World

William W. Sanger

The book is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey of prostitution, begun in 1856 and hurried to press after a…

The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes

Strabo

The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 presents the final third of the ancient Greek geographer’s monumental work,…

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision

This volume presents the complete Douay‑Rheims Bible as revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in the…

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain Second Edition, Revised

John Evans

John Evans’s work is a scholarly catalogue of British stone antiquities, assembled from the collections of…