History - Ancient

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries

Julius Caesar

The work is a scholarly commentary on Julius Caesar’s own accounts of the Gallic Wars and the subsequent…

Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II

Cornelius Tacitus

Tacitus’s Histories (Volumes I and II) is a Roman historical work that picks up where his Annals left off,…

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

The volume is a scholarly compilation assembled under the auspices of the American Historical Association in…

A day in old Rome: a picture of Roman life

William Stearns Davis

The work is a scholarly survey that treats a single day in Imperial Rome as a lens through which to examine…

History of the Fylde of Lancashire

John Porter

John Porter’s History of the Fylde of Lancashire is a nineteenth‑century regional study that sets out to give…

Proceedings of the expedition to explore the northern coast of Africa, from Tripoly eastward: in MDCCCXXI. and MDCCCXXII., comprehending an account of the Greater Syrtis and Cyrenaica; And of the Ancient Cities Composing the Pentapolis

Beechey, Frederick William; Beechey, H. W.

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific travelogue documenting a British expedition that set out from…

三國志

Shou Chen

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt

James Baikie

James Baikie’s Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt is a popular‑history survey that opens with a sweeping…

The Athenian Constitution

Aristotle

The work is a systematic account of the political institutions of ancient Athens, presented as a…

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino

Sallust

This volume presents Sallust’s two surviving historical monographs, the Bellum Catilinae and the Bellum…

Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

Xenophon

Cyropaedia presents itself as a political romance that dramatizes the upbringing of Cyrus, the legendary…

Nabuco

Ferdinando Fontana

Il volume “Nabuco” di Ferdinando Fontana è un poema drammatico che prende avvio con una narrazione biblica:…

The Greek theater and its drama

Roy C. Flickinger

The work is a scholarly study of ancient Greek theater, written by Roy C.

From Berlin to Bagdad and Babylon

J. A. Zahm

The work is a travel‑essay that blends personal observation with a survey of the ancient Near East’s…

Early Britain—Roman Britain

John William Edward Conybeare

John William Edward Conybeare’s Early Britain, Roman Britain is a concise scholarly overview that seeks to…

Dio's Rome, Volume 5 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form

Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Dio’s Rome, Volume 5 is a continuation of Cassius Dio’s expansive Roman history, composed in Greek during the…

The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World

Ptahhotep; Kagemna

The volume presents the ancient Egyptian wisdom texts known as the Instruction of Ptah‑hotep and the…

The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times

Thomas Wilson

Thomas Wilson’s work is a scholarly survey that treats the swastika as a prehistoric emblem rather than a…

The book of the ancient Greeks An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.

Dorothy Mills

Dorothy Mills’s The Book of the Ancient Greeks is an introductory survey that traces Greek history from the…

Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters

C. H. W. Johns

The work is a scholarly compilation of Babylonian and Assyrian legal texts, contracts and letters, assembled…

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 08: Parthians, Sassanids and Arabs; the Crusades and the Papacy

The eighth volume of The Historians’ History of the World presents a sweeping scholarly survey that begins…

Rambles and Studies in Greece

J. P. Mahaffy

The work is a travel‑study of Greece written by the scholar‑traveller J. P.

Hellenica

Xenophon

Xenophon’s Hellenica is a continuation of Thucydides, picking up the Greek narrative where the famous…

History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II

John Colin Dunlop

John Colin Dunlop’s work is a scholarly survey of Latin literary development from the earliest Roman period…