History - Ancient

The Institutes of Justinian

The work before you is a legal textbook commissioned by Emperor Justinian himself, intended as a concise…

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

Sir James Elliott

James Sands Elliott’s Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine is a concise scholarly survey that traces the…

The Bronze Age in Ireland

George Coffey

George Coffey’s work is a scholarly synthesis of his own articles, many of which first appeared in the…

History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)

Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp); Birch, Samuel

The work is a scholarly reference on ancient pottery, the second volume of a two‑part series compiled by H.

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, written by the French…

The gods of Mexico

Lewis Spence

Lewis Spence’s The Gods of Mexico is a scholarly survey of the religious beliefs of the ancient Nahua…

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a scholarly history of Athens that seeks to intertwine political events with the city’s literary…

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1

George Grote

George Grote’s third‑edition work is a scholarly survey of early Greek philosophy, organized into four…

Of Medicine, in Eight Books

Aulus Cornelius Celsus

The work is a scholarly edition of Aulus Cornelius Celsus’s medical treatise, presented as eight distinct…

An Account of Egypt

Herodotus

Herodotus’s “An Account of Egypt” is the second book of his monumental nine‑book History, a work that blends…

Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

T. Rice Holmes

Thomas Rice Holmes’s work is a scholarly survey that seeks to trace the whole sweep of British prehistory up…

Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World

active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

This volume presents the seventh part of the 18th‑century French collection “Mémoires concernant l’histoire,…

Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

B. F. Cocker

The work is a theological‑historical treatise that sets out to show how divine reason and innate human…

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

the Elder Pliny

Schools of Hellas An Essay on the Practice and Theory of Ancient Greek Education from 600 to 300 B. C.

Kenneth J. Freeman

Schools of Hellas is a scholarly essay that surveys ancient Greek education from the sixth to the third…

Nero Makers of History Series

Jacob Abbott

This volume is the second in Jacob Abbott’s “Nero Makers of History” series, a scholarly narrative that seeks…

The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of such portions of the Works of these and other Classical Authors as describe Alexander's Campaigns in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia and Karmania

John Watson McCrindle

This volume is a scholarly compilation that brings together the surviving passages of Arrian, Quintus…

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Tuotuo

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

Niccolò Machiavelli

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

Polybius

The work is a continuation of Polybius’ comprehensive survey of Roman and Mediterranean history, focusing on…

The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems

Zelia Nuttall

The work is an expansive scholarly treatise by Zelia Nuttall that sets out to compare the religious,…

A History of Sea Power

Stevens, William Oliver; Westcott, Allan F.

This work is a concise survey of naval history that aims to trace the development and influence of sea power…

Stories from Aulus Gellius Being Selections And Adaptations From The Noctes Atticae

Aulus Gellius

Hic liber est collectio, aliquantulum adaptata, fabulæ breves ex Noctibus Atticis Aulii Gelli, edita a R. G.

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 09: Italy

The ninth volume of The Historians’ History of the World presents a sweeping survey of Italian history,…